Mark Mulligan

Mark Mulligan is a music analyst and the founder at MIDiA Research. He is a long-term tech analyst and a leading digital thinker with more than 20 years of experience, working with leading global music, entertainment, and tech companies. At MIDiA, Mark focuses on the streaming and creator economies, as well as music business trends and market metrics such as forecasts and market shares.

Apple’s Vision Pro is about a better today rather than a shinier tomorrow

Mark Mulligan

6 Jun 2023

Media and Marketing Business Strategy

Apple’s long anticipated VR move finally saw daylight in the shape of Vision Pro . What is particularly interesting about the launch and its subsequent coverage is that the conversation is more about what Vision Pro enables rather than what it actually is.

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Data briefing
South Korea music market

Mark Mulligan

1 Jun 2023

Business Strategy

This report presents key music market metrics for South Korea. All data is domestic SouthKorean data unless otherwise stated below. The datasets leveraged for this report include: Music company financials and market shares. This data refers to revenue generated by South Korean companies and thus includes both domestic and international revenue MIDi...

AI will unlock creation rather than consumption

Mark Mulligan

25 May 2023

AI AI music artificial intelligence

Unlike most new technology hype cycles, the impact of AI on the world is already surpassing expectations. The current hype around AI far exceeds that of more recent tech, such as VR, NFTs, and 3D printing.

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The global dance music industry grew by 34% in 2022

Mark Mulligan

11 May 2023

IMS dance music electronic music

Last week I was at the International Music Summit in Ibiza, the annual music industry business event. This year MIDiA compiled the annual IMS Music Business Report and I presented the findings at the opening of the event.

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AI and the future of music
The future is already here

Mark Mulligan, Hanna Kahlert and Tatiana Cirisano

2 May 2023

Spotify SoundCloud Netflix

Unlike most new technology hype cycles, the impact that artificial intelligence (AI) has on the world is already surpassing expectations. Within the music industry, AI will largely be an enabler and accelerant of already-existing trends and market shifts: the growth of self-releasing artists, the consumerisation of music-making, and the resulting o...

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An AI-generated Drake and The Weeknd collab is shaking the music industry

Mark Mulligan, Hanna Kahlert and Tatiana Cirisano

2 May 2023

Music

The rapid deployment of musical “deepfakes’’ on social media illustrates just how quickly artificial intelligence (AI) is already reshaping the music industry. Deepfakes are a type of AI that can create convincing replicas of real people, whether in the image, video, or audio format.

AI will transform music; the question is how?

Mark Mulligan

18 Apr 2023

AI music Paid Content Artifical Intelligence

Every new technology goes through a period of being overhyped before the dust settles, and that technology either fades or builds steadily thereafter. Think 3D printing, VR, NFTs. In my 20+ years as a media and tech analyst, only three technologies have had a level of hype that felt like it was goin...

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Music fandom’s problem is TV’s opportunity

Mark Mulligan

30 Mar 2023

Music Marketing Strategy

Music fandom is approaching a crisis point. The good news is that because of streaming, more people are listening to more music than ever and more artists are releasing music than at any time in the past.

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Recorded music market 2022
Reality bites

Mark Mulligan

17 Mar 2023

TuneCore Music streaming Kobalt

Following a spectacular year of growth in 2021, global recorded music revenue growth slowed significantly in 2022, due to the combined impact of global economic headwinds and growth slowdown in mature streaming markets. Context, though, is everything – not many industries can deliver solid growth while the global economy is in turmoil, ad markets...

Recorded music market 2022 | Reality bites

Mark Mulligan

16 Mar 2023

Recorded music market streaming music revenues 2022 music revenues

Following a spectacular year of growth in 2021, global recorded music revenue growth slowed significantly in 2022 due to the combined impact of global economic headwinds and growth slowdown in mature streaming markets.

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Music creators and independent labels – have your voice heard!

Mark Mulligan

23 Feb 2023

Music Business Strategy

MIDiA is currently fielding two separate surveys that will help us create the definitive view of the contribution from music creators and independent labels to the global music market. We are exploring what it means to be a label and a creator in today’s fast-changing and challenge-strewn music bu...

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Filling music streaming’s Disney+-shaped hole

Mark Mulligan

21 Feb 2023

Music Business Strategy

Back when Disney+ started its meteoric rise, there was a lot of thinking around what lessons the music streaming market could learn. Three years on from the launch of the subscription video on demand platform, the shine has come off it a little, registering its first ever subscriber loss , but not b...

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Year of change
Themes that will shape entertainment in 2023

Mark Mulligan, Tim Mulligan, Karol Severin, Hanna Kahlert, Kriss Thakrar, Ashleigh Millar, Tatiana Cirisano, Annie Langston, Perry Gresham, Samuel Griffin, Ben Woods and Srishti Das

15 Feb 2023

Spotify YouTube Amazon

This report deep dives into the themes identified in MIDiA’s 2023 predictions report. These themes will drive innovation in the digital entertainment landscape in 2023 across music, video, games, audio, cultural trends, and the creator economy. Expect 2023 to be a of period significant disruption and innovation forced upon the digital entertainme...

Independent labels and distributors: take our survey!

Mark Mulligan

13 Feb 2023

Independent labels independent record labels Independent label survey

Measuring the actual contribution of the independent sector to the global recorded music market is an important but difficult task. The traditional way of thinking about independent market share is to take the total market and remove the majors’ revenues from that.

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Everyone hurts – the problem with ‘fixing’ streaming

Mark Mulligan

6 Feb 2023

Streaming Royalties Streaming economics Streaming Music

Everyone hurts – the problem with ‘fixing’ streaming Apple’s Q4 2022 revenue fall was further illustration that the global economic environment is affecting everyone. During such times, companies look for ways to avoid the worst of the impacts, partially through ‘efficiencies’ but also t...

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Kill the campaign
Music marketing needs branding, not direct response

Mark Mulligan and Tatiana Cirisano

1 Feb 2023

Streaming Spotify Marketing

The debate over a new streaming royalties regime is capturing attention, but economics will not fix the underlying paradigm shifts that are the true cause for streaming’s problems: there is not enough money to go around for the ballooning amount of music on streaming services, and passive consumption is the new norm.

How brand building freed Fred again.. from the song economy

Mark Mulligan and Tatiana Cirisano

1 Feb 2023

H ow brand building freed Fred again.. from the song economy The ruthlessly competitive, track-focused music streaming landscape has pressured music marketers to focus on song campaigns above all else. Meanwhile, in part driven by these same dynamics, music consumption has become increasingly passive.

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MIDiA Research video subscription forecasts 2023-2030
APAC to the fore

Mark Mulligan, Tim Mulligan, Perry Gresham and Ben Woods

15 Jan 2023

Online video SVOD Marketing Strategy

This report presents the key figures, trends, and drivers of MIDiA’s video streaming subscription forecast model. The revenue figures presented in this report are in billions of US dollars unless otherwise stated. An Excel file posted alongside this report provides complete region and country-level data, as well as a detailed methodology statemen...

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Pivot point
MIDiA 2023 predictions

Mark Mulligan, Tim Mulligan, Karol Severin, Hanna Kahlert, Kriss Thakrar, Ashleigh Millar, Tatiana Cirisano, Annie Langston and Ben Woods

12 Jan 2023

Free Report

Business Strategy

MIDiA analysts dive into our 2023 predictions, and why we believe it will be the ' pivot point '. Watch the webinareither on YouTube or LinkedIn ....

Has the streaming slowdown arrived?

Mark Mulligan

10 Jan 2023

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ERA, The UK trade association for entertainment retailers released its annual estimates for the UK entertainment market, showing strong growth for video but less impressive increases for music and games.

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