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Welcome To The Post-DIY Era

Mark Mulligan

20 Mar 2017

ADA Bandcamp BandLab

I recently took part in the True Music Forum in Madrid, an event organized by Boiler Room. I was on a panel that explored whether DIY is now coming of age with a host of high profile artists, most of them urban artists, bypassing or twisting the traditional label model and still achieving stand-out ...

Why Apple Dedicated A Feature Page To Indie Games

Karol Severin

17 Mar 2017

app store Apple appstore

Apple’s App Store introduced a permanent feature page for indie games yesterday. The move is another step in Apple’s ongoing effort to provide more effective discovery tools and thus, drive more value from the long-tail of the app economy.

Snap Inc. As An AR Company

Zach Fuller

17 Mar 2017

ar augmented reality cimagine media

Whilst those uneasy by the company's IPO may feel vindicated by the stock’s falling price, it may not be wise to completely write-off Snap Inc. just yet. Snap Inc. is ‘a camera company’. If we momentarily ignore the questions over monetisation, Snapchat has a hold on youthful demographics that...

Snapchat Hooks Up With Vice To Produce An Original Dating Series

Tim Mulligan

15 Mar 2017

distribution land Messaging apps

Snapchat’s parent company Snap Inc. has followed up on its huge publicity around its recent IPO (Initial Public Offering) to land a significant content deal with Vice Media. Rapper chef Action Bronson (real name Arian Asllani) is set to host an eight episode dating series developed by Vice’s pay...

How Ed Sheeran Broke The Charts

Mark Mulligan

13 Mar 2017

Atlantic Records charts divide

Unless you have been hiding under a stone on Mars this last few weeks you will have struggled not to hear or see some clip of Ed Sheeran one way or another. Atlantic Record’s carpet bombing market campaign has tipped Sheeran into global ubiquity.

Quick Take: Google AMP And The Ongoing Issue Of Inflated Metrics

Zach Fuller

10 Mar 2017

Media and Marketing

Google’s Accelerated Mobile Pages has allegedly been inflating the traffic metrics of its publishing clients. The service was launched last year in a bid to compete with Facebook’s Instant Articles, with both being sold to publishers as a method of increasing content traffic.

MIDiA Exclusive: 7digital Acquires Leading Competitor 24-7

Mark Mulligan

10 Mar 2017

24-7 7 digital 7Digital

UK music services provider 7digital today announced they are currently considering the acquisition of longstanding competitor 24-7 from German retail giant MediaMarktSaturn (MMS). 24-7 is one of the longest standing companies in the entire digital music space, founded in 2000 (MMS took a majority ho...

Facebook’s ‘Disputed News’ Shows Intent But Does Not Solve The Fake News Problem

Karol Severin

7 Mar 2017

disputed news Facebook Fake News

Last week Facebook started to roll out a feature which allows users to flag content as ‘disputed’, in a bid to mitigate the circulation of fake news on the site. Stories flagged by users will then be passed onto Facebook’s partner fact-checking organizations, which are signatories to the Poynt...

BT Pays A Premium For Video Scarcity

Tim Mulligan

6 Mar 2017

BT BT Sports Champions League

Today BT announced the extension of their exclusive UK broadcasting rights deal with UEFA for all Champions League and Europa League matches until the end of the 2020-2021 season. This has cost the UK telco £1.

Snapchat Imitations Are a Red Herring - Tencent Is Who Facebook Truly Want to Emulate

Zach Fuller

2 Mar 2017

Apple bots Evan Spiegel

Snapchat has gone public, yet investors are still cagey on the company's IPO in response to Facebook’s regular copying of the ephemeral image-based app. Such is the extent of this that in response to the S1 filing, there was a popular meme on LinkedIn suggesting Snapchat going public was even more...

YouTube Flicks The On Switch With YouTube TV

Tim Mulligan

2 Mar 2017

ESPN+ Fox Online video

Tuesday, February 28th could be looked back on as the day when everything changed for the pay TV industry in the US. This was the day when one of the tech majors decided to announce to the world that it was getting into streaming pay-TV in a big way.

Twitch Will Start Selling Games And Offer A Cut To Streamers

Karol Severin

1 Mar 2017

content monetisation game streaming game video

Twitch, the game video streaming platform owned by Amazon, announced yesterday that it will start selling games via streamers’ channels. This alone is news-worthy, but what makes the announcement a potential juncture in content monetisation is the revenue share model at place.

Global Recorded Music Revenues Grew By $1.1 Billion In 2016

Mark Mulligan

1 Mar 2017

Media and Marketing

Following on from the global market share numbers we released on Sunday , here are our findings regarding the growth of the overall market. Throughout 2016 as the major label earnings were coming in there was a growing awareness that 2016 was going to be a landmark year for the recorded music busine...

Quick Take: Soundcloud Go Take 2

Mark Mulligan

1 Mar 2017

Major labels Music Subscriptions SoundCloud

Soundcloud Go, Soundcloud’s initial foray into the world of premium subscriptions was never the best of fits for the Berlin based streaming upstart. Soundcloud has achieved something few others have in streaming: it has carved out a unique proposition, user base and catalogue.

Amazon & Netflix Go To The Oscars

Tim Mulligan

27 Feb 2017

Video Music Audio

Yesterday’s 89th Academy Awards made history. For the first time, streaming services were critically recognized by the Academy Of Motion Pictures and Sciences with Netflix and Amazon, the two largest SVOD (Subscription Video On Demand) services, each receiving Oscars for their work.

Global Recorded Market Music Market Shares 2016

Mark Mulligan

26 Feb 2017

Major labels Sony Music Sony/ATV

MIDiA and Music Business Worldwide have been tracking record label and publisher financial releases throughout 2016. In addition MIDIA has conducted market sizing work on the publishing sector and research for the Worldwide Independent Network’s (WIN) indie label market share project.

Shine Pivots From Advertising’s ‘Nuclear Threat’ To Advertising’s Rainbow

Karol Severin

24 Feb 2017

ad tech ad verification Adblock

I have written about the journey of the network-level adblocker Shine numerous times. The company has come into the public eye due to its disruptive effort of offering adblocking at the network level to carriers.

Quick Take: Tilt’s Acquisition By Airbnb Is A Major Coup For Social Commerce

Zach Fuller

23 Feb 2017

airbnb Facebook Gaming

As ad-supported online content becomes the arena for the rise of fake news (and privately turns into a duopoly market between Facebook and Google), social commerce is shaping up to be one of the next big growth stories for both social’s established tech majors such as Facebook and the young preten...

Awesomeness TV And The Premium Online Video Content Challenge

Tim Mulligan

21 Feb 2017

awesomeness tv Mobile content Online video

Despite the hype and the overall direction of travel, creating a premium video offering for mobile audiences remains a huge challenge. Last week Awesomeness TV and Verizon (who bought a 24.5% stake in Awesomeness TV for $159 million) decided to halt the development of their premium mobile content se...

Differentiating Full-Stack Media and Tech Ecosystems

Zach Fuller

20 Feb 2017

Alibaba Amazon full stack media

Two key developments in digital media that MIDiA Research has addressed over the past year are the emergence of both full-stack media and the tech ecosystem. These shifts in the digital life have recently emerged to define many people’s purchasing and social lives online, and whilst they share sim...

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