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How Soundcloud Could Transform Deezer’s Market Narrative

Mark Mulligan

4 Jul 2017

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News has emerged of Deezer being a potential buyer of troubled Soundcloud. This follows on from Spotify’s prolonged but ultimately abortive courting last year . Soundcloud was once a streaming powerhouse, with 175 million Monthly Active Users reported in October 2014.

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Thoughts On Second-Order Effects For Content Discovery in Voice

Zach Fuller

30 Jun 2017

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Second-order effects are rarely considered when new technologies come to the fore and reach critical mass. For example, the realisation of smartphones, the emergence of Apple's app store and the ubiquity of Wi-Fi and cheap, effective data in mature digital markets means a service such as WhatsApp ma...

Facebook Gets Further Into Premium Sports Content

Tim Mulligan

30 Jun 2017

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The UEFA Champions League is coming to Facebook for the 2017-2018 season. Facebook is partnering with Fox Sports to live stream next season’s games starting in September, via the TV network’s Facebook pages.

Guess Who Gen Z Prefers For Music: Spotify Or YouTube?

Mark Mulligan

29 Jun 2017

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It is still common to hear people talk about Millennials as if it is one amorphous group. In actual fact, Millennials are now 2 entirely distinct generations, not 1. In addition to the core Millennials we now have a new generation of younger consumers born on or around 2000.

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Why The Time To Bet On Nostalgia Is Now

Karol Severin

29 Jun 2017

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Nintendo has captured the headlines over the past week with regards to bringing back its SNES consoles. Nintendo is not the only one betting on nostalgia. Within and outside of games, many companies have made similar nostalgia-infused plays.

Dalian Wanda’s Global Ambition Comes Up Against The Cold Logic Of Financial Reality

Tim Mulligan

27 Jun 2017

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Last week Chinese conglomerate Dalian Wanda, which is controlled by China’s second wealthiest individual Wang Jialin, was placed under a regulatory probe by the China Banking Regulatory Commission . The powerful state regulator announced that it was looking into Dalian Wanda, along with Fosun Inte...

Quick Take: Tesla’s Streaming Ambition

Mark Mulligan

23 Jun 2017

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Reports have emerged that Tesla is looking to build its own streaming music service. In practice, this will most likely be a case of Tesla building a streaming service that operates solely for Tesla users, rather than competing head on with Apple and Spotify.

Daily Active Gamers: Diversity Is The Name Of The Game

Karol Severin

22 Jun 2017

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The Daily Active User (DAU) is a common engagement metric, often used in gauging companies’ performance and value. In gaming, DAUs vary markedly across mobile, PC, console and social. The differences are seen in penetration rates, demographics, engagement and spending trends.

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Is TPG’s Investment In Vice Overstating The Millennial Audience?

Zach Fuller

22 Jun 2017

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TPG's investment of $450m in Vice Media this week has valued the company at $5.7bn. CEO Shane Smith described the move as enabling the company he founded initially as a magazine in 90s Montreal to achieve the following: 'Build up the largest millennial video library around the world.

Facebook Gatecrashes VidCon

Tim Mulligan

21 Jun 2017

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Today sees the start of VidCon 2017, an annual event that is synonymous with the YouTubers who have used the world’s largest video platforms to create social talent- driven media businesses unique to the digital space YouTube’s video rival Facebook is now muscling in on proceedings.

Quick Take: Is Spotify Doing A Facebook?

Mark Mulligan

20 Jun 2017

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The Verge has reported that Spotify is trialling sponsored songs , tailored to users’ tastes, that are embedded in users’ playlists. Spotify tests a lot of things on subsets of its user base so this does not mean that this will necessarily be rolled out more widely.

Altice And The Future Of The US Pay-TV Industry

Tim Mulligan

19 Jun 2017

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On Monday last week, Altice, the fourth largest US pay-TV operator, laid out the details of its planned IPO (Initial Public Offering). With a projected initial public stock price offering of $27-$31 per share, the 45.

Spotify Earnings: Growth Comes At A Cost

Mark Mulligan

18 Jun 2017

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Spotify has published its much anticipated 2016 revenues. Because the company is under so much analytical scrutiny, there is little that is particularly surprising but there is still plenty we can learn from the results: Growth maintains momentum: Spotify recorded revenues of €2.

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Quick Take: Amazon’s Whole Foods Acquisition Is A Major Coup For Voice Control Commerce

Zach Fuller

16 Jun 2017

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In the hours following the announcement of Amazon’s $13.7 billion acquisition of American supermarket chain Whole Foods, much of the immediate attention is currently focused on how the e-commerce giant will disrupt the food and grocery brick-and-mortar retail experience.

What Switch’s Games Offering Tells Us About Nintendo’s Strategy

Karol Severin

15 Jun 2017

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Nintendo made a number of game title announcements in recent days and weeks. They include an array of game deployment models: an exclusive release of Arms; the first Pokemon-themed title Pokken Tournament; a Pokemon RPG game for Switch, as well as Nintendo’s own Super Mario Odyssey and third party...

Do Not Assume We Have Arrived At Our Destination

Mark Mulligan

15 Jun 2017

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Forbes has released its annual Celebrity 100, its list of the top earning media stars. The healthy share of music artists hints at the continued ability to build highly successful music careers. The presence of younger, streaming era artists like Drake and the Weeknd goes further, hinting at how str...

MIDiA at Midem 2017

Zach Fuller

11 Jun 2017

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MIDiA Research were one of thousands of delegates who arrived in Cannes this week to attend Midem; the annual conference addressing the latest developments in the music industry. Across 4 days of panels, here are three points we found most insightful: Still no consensus on streaming : Perhaps predic...

The App Store Wants To Become A Mobile Gamer Hangout Spot

Karol Severin

8 Jun 2017

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Apple has introduced a revamp of the App Store as a part of its upcoming iOS11 launch. The announcement reveals an array of changes and upgrades, all of which are ultimately geared towards increasing consumer time and money spent on the App Store.

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Announcing MIDiA’s State Of The Streaming Nation 2 Report

Mark Mulligan

5 Jun 2017

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2016 was the year that streaming turned the recorded music business into a good news story, with revenue growth so strong that it drove nearly a billion dollars of total growth. Leading streaming services spent the year competing with ever more impressive metrics while playlisting and streaming excl...

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The Differentiation Of Nintendo Switch Is A Double-Edged Sword

Karol Severin

1 Jun 2017

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Nintendo is attempting to nearly double its Switch supply, in light of better than expected sales. However, as the Wall Street Journal points out – the request to nearly double production may be met with difficulties, as the supply possibilities of certain components are limited.

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