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Guvera's IPO Raises More Questions Than It Answers

Blog post by Mark Mulligan

1 Jun 2016

Australian streaming music service Guvera has announced its long-anticipated IPO on Australia’s ASX exchange in July. Guvera has always been an intriguing component of the digital music landscape. On...

Why Twitter Really Made The Changes Around Its Character Limit

Blog post by Karol Severin

27 May 2016

140 characters limit

content distribution

Mobile content

Twitter announced a number of changes this week, which are geared to extend the expression capabilities of the strict 140-character limit. The platform will no longer count media attachments nor ‘@names’...

The 2 Spotify Charts You Need To See

Blog post by Mark Mulligan

25 May 2016

Major labels

music rights

music streaming

Tuesday’s media scrum around Spotify’s financials illustrate that whatever ground Apple and Tidal may have made in recent months, Spotify clearly remains the poster child / bellwether for streaming....

Is The Future Of Cinema To Be Found Through A Video On Demand Service?

Blog post by Tim Mulligan

24 May 2016

film industry

Online video

the screening room

In many ways it feels like the late 90’s all over again. A maverick outsider with an innate understanding of the distribution possibilities of an innovative tech platform wants to disrupt a massive and...

The Digital Music Week In Review 20 5 16

Blog post by Mark Mulligan

20 May 2016

adele

BPI

digital music

This is first in a semi-regular round up of what’s caught our eye in digital music over the last week: Facebook’s Slideshow could kill off Flipagram but I wouldn’t be so so worried if I was Musical.ly,...

Is A New Pay TV Giant Enough To Save An Industry Under Attack From Online Video?

Blog post by Tim Mulligan

19 May 2016

Charter

Online video

Finally, the seventh largest US pay-TV Operator Charter has completed its protracted takeover of rivals Time Warner Cable and Bright House Networks. This catapults Charter towards the top ranking of...

YouTube’s New Instant Messaging Feature

Blog post by Karol Severin

16 May 2016

consumer behavior

facebook

google

Last week Wired reported that YouTube introduced a messaging feature to a small group of users, allowing them to send instant messages and share videos within YouTube’s mobile app. Though YouTube is...

Chart Of The Week: Music Aficionados

Blog post by Mark Mulligan

16 May 2016

Chart Of The Week

consumer segmentation

Music

Music Aficionados are consumers that spend above average time and money with music. They represent just 17% of all consumers but a whopping 61% of all recorded music spending. These consumers shape the...

Virtual Reality And Scripted Drama

Blog post by Tim Mulligan

13 May 2016

canal+

exzeb

gaming

At the start of 2016 the tech hype machine was going into overdrive over the potential for Virtual Reality to finally break through to the mainstream. January’s CES in Las Vegas featured the launch of...

Chelsea: The First Global Talk Show & Netflix’s Pivot To The Mainstream

Blog post by Tim Mulligan

11 May 2016

Today, Netflix launches its new thrice-weekly talk show simply entitled “Chelsea” after its host Chelsea Handler. In doing so, Netflix is going after those mainstream broadcast TV viewers who see online...

Chart Of The Week: Mobile App Discovery

Blog post by Mark Mulligan

10 May 2016

app funnel

app marketing

Chart Of The Week

Mobile apps are the defining characteristic of the smartphone era and revenue and adoption both continue to boom. A growing marketplace of companies is evolving to help mobile app companies manage the...

$500 Million Muscial.ly Shines Harsh Light On Music Licensing Strategy

Blog post by Mark Mulligan

9 May 2016

Readers of the Music Industry Blog ma y remember a post I wrote there a few months ago on music messenger apps and the 15 second song. We will be writing a MIDiA report on music messaging apps over the...

Profiling The Mobile Messaging User Segment

Blog post by Karol Severin

6 May 2016

consumer segmentation

Mobile content

Mobile messaging

54% of iOS consumers and 52% of Android consumers now use messaging apps monthly, according to the multinational consumer survey from March 2016 conducted by MIDiA research. Though its proof of popularity...

The YouTube Evolution

Blog post by Tim Mulligan

5 May 2016

music artists

Native Content Creators

Online video

As YouTube moves into its second decade, the world’s largest video sharing site is undergoing significant changes. From the launch of YouTube Red, it’s paid ad-free subscription service complete...

Chart Of The Week: Video P2P

Blog post by Mark Mulligan

2 May 2016

Amazon

Chart Of The Week

hulu

It has long been well understood that what is popular on TV is popular on P2P. The list of the top 10 most downloaded TV shows in 2015 thus holds few surprises. All of these shows are either available...

Publishers Are Finally Uniting Against Adblocking Users, But It Won’t Solve The Adblocking Problem

Blog post by Karol Severin

29 Apr 2016

adblocker user attitude

adblocker user behavior

adblocking

As I highlighted in a blogpost in October 2015 – uniting fragmented defence tactics against the already united adblocking consumers is a critical move to mitigate publishers revenue losses. Now half...

A High Tide Rises All Streaming Boats, For Now…

Blog post by Mark Mulligan

27 Apr 2016

apple music

Music

music subscriptions

Against the backdrop of the first quarterly drop in revenue in 13 years and a sharp decline in China revenue, Apple Music at least had some good news in the shape of continued solid growth for Apple Music,...

Viacom, Dish Networks And The Content Carriage Squeeze

Blog post by Tim Mulligan

26 Apr 2016

Amazon

dish networks

netflix

The last minute renewal of the carriage agreement between TV Network giant Viacom and Dish Networks, the third biggest pay TV operator in the US, revealed just how much the balance of power is shifting...

MIDiA Chart Of The Week: 9.99 Subscriptions At Saturation Point?

Blog post by Mark Mulligan

18 Apr 2016

Streaming music had a good year in 2015, growing by 45%. Nonetheless when the IFPI announced the numbers much of the record labels’ attention focused on the role of free and especially that of YouTube...

Amazon Ups The Stakes For Netflix

Blog post by Tim Mulligan

18 Apr 2016

Amazon

Amazon Prime

amazon video

Next Monday Amazon will roll out its standalone SVOD (Subscription Video On Demand) service which will for the first time enable consumers to access its video services without being Prime customers. Prime...

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