Tatiana Cirisano

Tatiana is Vice President of Music Strategy at MIDiA. Prior to this, she served as a music business reporter for Billboard, where she wrote award-winning industry analysis as well as cover stories on artists like Tame Impala and Alicia Keys. Throughout her work she is dedicated to publishing fresh perspectives that drive the music industry forward, with an emphasis on fandom and consumer behaviour.

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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.

Could AI generate music’s Instagram moment?

Tatiana Cirisano

31 Jan 2023

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Pop quiz: Is the hit ‘Kill Bill’ sung by SZA or Ariana Grande? The answer is, of course, SZA, but TikTok users could be forgiven for any confusion. An artificial-intelligence-generated version sung in Grande’s voice has been circulating the platform, causing a frenzy.

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What comes next in the music streaming model makeover

Tatiana Cirisano

17 Jan 2023

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The independent music community has been rallying for change to the streaming payment model for years. Now, major labels are joining the chorus. Why? The pro-rata model has long benefited bigger record labels, but their cut of the pie is now diminishing due to a number of factors: The growth of inde...

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Music discovery in 2023 is about the journey, not the moment

Tatiana Cirisano

12 Jan 2023

Music streaming Spotify TikTok

Oversaturation was among the hottest music industry topics of 2022. By now, we have all read — and maybe gasped at — the recent estimate that more than 100,000 new songs hit streaming services daily.

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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 ....

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Nightlife in the new normal
Remote work shifts the entertainment balance

Tatiana Cirisano and Perry Gresham

4 Jan 2023

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Coronavirus pandemic work patterns are now ingrained in the United States, where 42% of consumers work from home and a fifth are hybrid workers. In the ‘new normal’, home workers spend less time on both digital and in-person entertainment compared to those who commute.

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Music discovery snapshot Q3 2022
Fandom under threat

Kriss Thakrar and Tatiana Cirisano

4 Jan 2023

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Despite the hyper-saturated music landscape, music discovery is generally not a problem for most consumers. Gen Z and millennials have similar music discovery habits, but gen Z struggle slightly more with discovery and are more influenced by TikTok, while millennials are perhaps the last generation to see radio as a main source of music discovery.

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YouTube is paving a new music discovery pathway — will it work?

Kriss Thakrar and Tatiana Cirisano

4 Jan 2023

Music

Song discovery ideally kicks off a fandom journey for the consumer, who then goes on to learn about the artist, stream their wider catalogue, become a fan, and buy merchandise and concert tickets. But, too often today, music discovery both starts and ends with the song.

What ChatGPT can do for independent music

Tatiana Cirisano

21 Dec 2022

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Everyone is talking about ChatGPT , the artificial intelligence (AI) chatbot that could potentially change the music industry. While the conversation has mainly focused on how ChatGPT can help with music creation, it is worth considering how it could also assist early-stage artists with marketing an...

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2023 MIDiA predictions
Pivot point

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

20 Dec 2022

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In this report, MIDiA Research analysts present their predictions for what will be the big trends in digital media and tech across music, video, games, marketing, audio and cultural trends in 2023 and beyond. Themes for 2023: Cost-of-living crunch: Entertainment spending will weaken, but some formats will fare better than others Perceived value wil...

Party in the front, business in the back: Why Apple Music Sing is so savvy

Tatiana Cirisano

13 Dec 2022

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Streaming services are increasingly taking steps to diversify their offerings , and the latest example came last week from Apple Music. Just in time for holiday sing-a-longs, the service introduced a new, subscriber-only karaoke feature called Sing, where users can sing along to “tens of millions�...

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How touring pits artists against their own fans

Tatiana Cirisano

6 Dec 2022

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The live music industry is now facing the reckoning we predicted last spring, as it is increasingly clear that touring is not financially sustainable for most artists, while superstars are facing backlash for skyrocketing ticket prices.

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Closing the background gap
Focused versus background audio listening

Kriss Thakrar, Tatiana Cirisano and Annie Langston

30 Nov 2022

Spotify Radio YouTube

The rise of attention inflation means that consumers are maximising their limited time by multitasking between various formats, spurring a rise in background consumption. This creates a “new” space for platforms to compete for consumers’ time. Among entertainment formats, audio is best placed to conquer background listening, but music streami...

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Amazon Music caters to both passive and active listeners

Kriss Thakrar, Tatiana Cirisano and Annie Langston

30 Nov 2022

Critical Developments

Across its numerous tiers, Amazon Music has a relatively older userbase that mainly streams music passively. Amazon Music can play to these habits to differentiate itself from other streaming services, becoming a home for the more casual music listener.

What Elon's Twitter means for music

Tatiana Cirisano

29 Nov 2022

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When we wrote about Elon Musk’s bid to buy Twitter back in April, the idea that it would actually happen seemed far-fetched. Now, of course, Musk really is in charge, and the fate of the social platform, which 24% of consumers use weekly, is unclear.

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A field of all levels
Strategizing music’s attention economy

Tatiana Cirisano

29 Nov 2022

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Over roughly the past decade, each stage in the evolution of the attention economy accelerated the pace of fragmentation and oversaturation in music, unearthing new challenges for each micro-generation of artists. With all these generations now competing in the same playing field, artist strategy depends strongly on the era in which they rose to pr...

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Taylor Swift’s Midnights playbook for sustaining superstardom

Tatiana Cirisano

29 Nov 2022

Music

As an artist whose rise to prominence coincided with the rise of streaming, Taylor Swift was able to build a massive listener base in less congested times, benefitting from all the democratising impacts of streaming before it gave way to over-saturation and hyper-fragmentation.

The record labels’ TikTok opportunity cost

Tatiana Cirisano

22 Nov 2022

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With their short-term music licensing agreements soon to expire, record labels are reportedly pressuring TikTok to sign an ad revenue share agreement, which would see TikTok pay a share of advertising revenue to music rightsholders.

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Why Amazon’s podcast move is even bigger than it looks

Tatiana Cirisano

10 Nov 2022

Audio Podcasts Amazon Music

Last week, Amazon made headlines with its move to expand the catalogue of music available to Prime members from 2 million songs to 100 million. But the announcement also included a major implication for podcast listeners: Prime members can now listen to a large selection of podcasts advertisement-fr...

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