Mark Mulligan

State Of The Streaming Nation
A Comprehensive Assessment Of The Global Streaming Music Market

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Report by Mark Mulligan

29 Jan 2016

The 20,000 Foot View 2015 was the year in which streaming music came of age, with robust growth from market leader Spotify and the rapid ascent into second place of new entrant Apple Music. Though questions…

Paid Content Analyst: MIDiA Research Is Hiring

Blog post by Mark Mulligan

29 Jan 2016

We’re looking for a Paid Content Analyst to join our small but quickly growing team. The position will be based in our London Tileyard office. The analyst will provide analysis on digital content monetization…

The Music Industry Is Forcing Consumers To Choose Between Buying a Lexus And Taking The Bus

Blog post by Mark Mulligan

28 Jan 2016

It has been an eventful few days for the digital music market with developments such as the launch of a whole new breed of unlicensed Spotify clones using the APIs of Spotify and YouTub e, and with Spotify…

MIDiA Chart Of The Week: Mobile App Buyers

Blog post by Mark Mulligan

25 Jan 2016

The global mobile app market was worth $35 billion in 2015 with revenue market share virtually split down the middle between Apple and Google. A host of big mobile app publishers such as King.com, Supercell…

Full Stack Or Media-Tech Conglomerate? Just What Kind Of Empire Is Access Industries Building?

Blog post by Mark Mulligan

21 Jan 2016

Deezer announced yesterday that it had closed a further €100 million investment round led by existing investors Access Industries and French telco Orange. There is no doubt Deezer needs the growth capital…

MIDiA Chart Of The Week: YouTube Subscribers

Blog post by Mark Mulligan

18 Jan 2016

Video is eating the world and as it does so YouTube’s role is evolving in a subtle but crucial way. YouTube used to be the undisputed home of short form video but that role is now challenged by Facebook…

Kakao Corp Turns MelOn Into A Full Stack Music Company

Blog post by Mark Mulligan

12 Jan 2016

Korean messaging app company Kakao Corp has acquired a 76.4% stake in South Korean entertainment company Loen Entertainment for $1.6 billion , valuing the company at $2 billion. Kakao operates the mobile…

Chart Of The Week: Facebook The Full Stack Internet Company

Blog post by Mark Mulligan

11 Jan 2016

Facebook has 1.4 billion monthly active users, up by 58% since Q3 2013. Quite simply, Facebook is big and is getting bigger. But the metrics only tell part of the story. Since its inception in 2004 as…

Why P2P Is Still The Big Deal For TV That It Used To Be For Music

Blog post by Mark Mulligan

6 Jan 2016

Piracy tracking website Torrent Freak released the chart of the 10 most downloaded TV shows on BitTorrent in 2015 . There are few surprises. The most successful TVs shows are also the most pirated TV shows.…

MIDiA Chart Of The Week: Netflix Leads Format Innovation

Blog post by Mark Mulligan

22 Dec 2015

The advent of Video On Demand transformed the business models of the broadcast and pay-TV industries. Now it is set to have an equally disruptive impact on the nature of video content itself as the old…

MIDiA Predictions 2016: Video Eats The World

Blog post by Mark Mulligan

18 Dec 2015

With 2015 rapidly drawing to a close we have taken the opportunity to present the big trends that MIDiA Research believes will shape digital content and media in 2016. The entire findings are available…

MIDiA Data Point Of The Day: Download Buyers

Blog post by Mark Mulligan

16 Dec 2015

The standout sales success of Adele over recent week has many permutations, not least of which is the keen reminder that many millions of people still buy downloads and CDs. The streaming transition…

MIDiA Research Predictions, 2016
Video Eats The World

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Report by Karol Severin, Mark Mulligan and Tim Mulligan

15 Dec 2015

The 20,000 Foot View This decade has been defined by accelerating innovation and disruption. With the majority of consumers now digitally connected in one way or another, new technologies have the ability…

MIDiA Chart Of The Week: The Mobile App Funnel

Blog post by Mark Mulligan

14 Dec 2015

App companies lose users and revenue right across the user acquisition and retention process. Thus as the global app market grows the amount of lost revenue accelerates also. MIDiA’s app funnel…

Quick Take: Taylor Swift, Apple Music And The Search For Exclusives

Blog post by Mark Mulligan

14 Dec 2015

Taylor Swift just announced that Apple Music will be the exclusive streaming partner of her latest live film ‘The 1989 World Tour Live’ which includes alongside footage of the performances, back stage…

Quick Take: Vevo Buys ShowYou But Will It Seize The Opportunity?

Blog post by Mark Mulligan

8 Dec 2015

Vevo has acquired video curation/discovery platform ShowYou . There’s a lot of talk about how this could preface a move into subscriptions for Vevo, given that ShowYou launched subscription functionality…

MIDiA Chart Of The Week: User Generated Broadcast

Blog post by Mark Mulligan

7 Dec 2015

The early adopter buzz around the launches of the live video streaming apps Meerkat and Twitter-acquired Persicope have so far failed to translate into meaningful real world adoption. But these User Generated…

MIDiA Datapoint Of The Day: Mobile Music Piracy

Blog post by Mark Mulligan

4 Dec 2015

One thing you'll often hear cited in defence of streaming is that it has helped kill piracy. On the surface that might be seem to be true given that music P2P penetration is down. But all is not as it…

The Are 4.8 Billion Mobile Messenger App Users

Blog post by Mark Mulligan

3 Dec 2015

In just a few short years mobile messaging apps have become home to the largest group of digital audiences on the planet and now number 4.8 billion cumulative monthly active users. For context, the global…

Quick Take: Believe Digital Licenses QQ Music

Blog post by Mark Mulligan

3 Dec 2015

Following hot on the heals of last week’s Yonder Celcom deal in Malaysia , indie label distributor Believe Digital announced a licensing deal with Chinese telco Tencent’s QQ Music service. Although…