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Why Spotify’s creator strategy needs to pay more attention to fans

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Kriss Thakrar

10 Aug 2021

Spotify’s shift towards becoming an audio platform encompasses a push to become a creator-first business, with a vision of 50 million creators supplying content to a billion users. However, the company’s...

2 min read

MIDiA is recruiting for a Business Development Manager

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Mark Mulligan

9 Aug 2021

Media and Marketing

Building on our continued success in 2021, MIDiA is recruiting for a new Business Development Manager. The successful candidate in this role will lead MIDiA’s commercial activities across video and games,...

1 min read

The record labels are weaning themselves off their Spotify dependency

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Mark Mulligan

6 Aug 2021

The major labels had a spectacular streaming quarter, registering 33% growth on Q2 2020 to reach $3.1 billion. Spotify had a less impressive quarter, growing revenues by just 23%. After being the industry’s...

3 min read

Fandom’s Icarus phenomenon: The hype cycle of the attention economy

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Hanna Kahlert

6 Aug 2021

attention economy peak

attention economy

Fandom is now entrenched as the success determinator of the saturated attention economy. With so much entertainment competing at all times, it is sentiment which draws audiences back for more. Rather than...

5 min read

How Screen iL plans to tackle piracy by taking local content to the Israeli diaspora

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Srishti Das

2 Aug 2021

In an D2C era dominated by established global propositions such as Netflix and heavily backed global content brands such as Disney+, an Israeli start up called Screen iL is coming to market with something...

3 min read

Quick Take: The metaverse – expect goldrush by many, market domination by a few

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Karol Severin

2 Aug 2021

Media and Marketing

After years of pioneering, tinkering and iteration, the concept of metaverses is moving closer to the mainstream in media and entertainment, in particular in games and social media, for example. In the...

4 min read

Labels are going to become more like VCs than they probably want to be

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Mark Mulligan

30 Jul 2021

artist accelerators

When you are in the midst of change it can be hard to actually see it. Right now, the music business is undergoing a consumption paradigm shift that is changing the culture and business of music. Streaming...

5 min read

Music is no longer about consumption, but participation (and women are leading the charge)

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Hanna Kahlert

27 Jul 2021

The mainstream shift to digital-first life in the last year and a half has affected video content production, games sales, and social media habits. It has also (notably) exacerbated the music industry...

5 min read

What is an artist in the age of creators?

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Kriss Thakrar

26 Jul 2021

MIDiA has previously explored what it means to be a superstar in today’s industry. Here we go deeper into the fundamental of what it is to be an artist. YouTuber, boxer and rapper KSI achieved his first...

4 min read

“First day, first show” – Premium video on demand’s potential in India

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Srishti Das

26 Jul 2021

India is home to one of the world’s largest and most successful film industries. However, 2020 was rife with economic setbacks across the entertainment industry due to the pandemic. The film industry...

5 min read

What Steam Deck, Netflix, Zoom, Peloton and Pro Evolution Soccer tell us about the future of games distribution

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Karol Severin

23 Jul 2021

content distribution

Due to some unforeseen circumstances, I had to take some time off in the last two weeks. It is never good to have to step away from the buzz of daily games industry developments, but the silver lining...

5 min read

Spotify and music listening 10 years from now

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Mark Mulligan

23 Jul 2021

music listening

July marks ten years since Spotify’s US launch. Although the tendency among some is to consider this ‘year zero’ for streaming (thus ignoring everything that had happened in prior years both within...

5 min read

Why music underpins the culture of our ‘new normal’

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Hanna Kahlert

22 Jul 2021

Media and Marketing

Audience Insight

The recent UK DCMS committee findings on streaming – namely, that artists should receive a greater share of streaming revenues – is merely one facet of the growing pains of a music industry reshaped...

3 min read

Euro 2020 – a pandemic-driven standout success

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Hanna Kahlert

15 Jul 2021

This last weekend saw the finals of the delayed UEFA Euro 2020, with Italy the winners. Footage of crowds over the preceding week’s semi-finals showed crowds flooding the streets; social media feeds...

3 min read

On the cusp of an AVOD era – takeaways from the MIDiA AVOD webinar

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Tim Mulligan

12 Jul 2021

Last Wednesday’s MIDiA AVOD webinar was full of promise about ad-supported video on demand, and its ability to transition from its current niche user base into a mainstream video streaming proposition....

3 min read

Global music subscriber market shares Q1 2021

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Mark Mulligan

9 Jul 2021

music subscribers

subscriber market shares

The music industry’s growing obsession with declining ARPU will continue to colour the outlook for the global streaming market in revenue terms, but the positive driver of this equation is the rapid...

2 min read

Is 2021 the start of the great content reset?

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Hanna Kahlert

8 Jul 2021

Media and Marketing

The coronavirus pandemic has hastened a shift to digital life, creating unprecedented opportunity for entertainment. Streaming is now the default for video and music consumption for mainstream consumers,...

3 min read

Redefining global sounds through local cultures – the role of homegrown services in emerging markets

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Srishti Das

6 Jul 2021

emerging markets

Music Streaming

In developed music markets, streaming was an outcome of the recorded music industry. Creators and labels released music, and streaming services created a simpler experience for listeners in already mature...

5 min read

How AVOD unlocks the mainstream consumer

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Tim Mulligan

6 Jul 2021

MIDiA Research AVOD Webinar

Now that the direct-to-consumer revolution is now in its second year of being a mainstream proposition, following the D2C Big Bang Moment of 2019 , the TV industry is wrestling with the transition of the...

2 min read

Emerging markets may be about to change the superstar business

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Mark Mulligan

2 Jul 2021

emerging markets

anglo repertoire

The traditional recorded music business was all about selling units, which naturally meant that the most important markets were not the most populous but the wealthiest. Throughout the late 20thcentury...

5 min read

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