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Majors Get The Tracks But Not The Longevity On Today’s Top Hits

Mark Mulligan

27 Nov 2017

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A post by Chartmetric’s Sung Cho diving into Spotify playlist metrics caught my attention, and one aspect in particular: how the major labels dominate the flagship Spotify playlist Today’s Top Hits.

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With Amazon's Black Friday in Full Swing, What Would Marshall McLuhan Think of Voice Control?

Zach Fuller

24 Nov 2017

Media and Marketing

AsBlack Friday kicks into gear throughout the US, Amazon has been quick to adopt the occasion as an opportune event for getting more Echo devices into Prime customer households. MIDiA has been writing a lot the past year on implications of voice technology, and it got me thinking about what one of t...

With interest in Fox’s video content business, is 2017 the beginning of the end for traditional TV and film companies?

Tim Mulligan

21 Nov 2017

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Last Friday, media stocks in the US rose on the back of news that 21st Century Fox had been approached by Comcast, Walt Disney Co, Sony and Verizon over the possible sale of its film and international TV assets.

This Is What Post-IPO Life Will Look Like For Spotify

Mark Mulligan

17 Nov 2017

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With a fair wind, Spotify’s long-anticipated public offering should happen before the end of Q2 2018 (and yes, probably a direct listing rather than an IPO but 'IPO' worked better in the title!) . The music industry will be watching with keen interest as it is going to be the bellwether for the st...

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How Much Money Is Tencent Really Making From Games?

Karol Severin

17 Nov 2017

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Tencent reported its third quarter results this week, surpassing analyst expectations. It is hardly news that Tencent is going from strength to strength in terms of its games-related revenues. However, the way it reports financials still underestimates just how important games are to its money-makin...

Quick Take: YouTube Moves Into Social E-commerce With Ticketmaster Partnership

Zach Fuller

15 Nov 2017

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YouTube has announced a partnership with Ticketmaster that will allow its video property to connect users directly with concert tickets. The deal is non-exclusive and similar to a previous coalition between Ticketmaster and Spotify.

Has The SVOD Killer Arrived?

Tim Mulligan

14 Nov 2017

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In 2014 ESPN had 95 million subscribers and its $10.8 billion in revenues accounted for 25.7% of Walt Disney Co’s $40.2 billion revenue. In 2015, ESPN lost three million subscribers and this 3% decline in subscriptions and the historic operating margins of 40-45% for cable and satellite, underpinn...

Is Hip Hop Keeping Female Artists Out Of The Charts?

Mark Mulligan

12 Nov 2017

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There is a gender divide in the upper echelons of popular music. In the US, Taylor Swift is the first woman to top the Hot 100 in 2017, with hits by women accounting for just 14% of all top 10 hits throughout the course of the year.

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Despicable Me 3 and Hollywood’s Shift Towards International Film Franchises

Tim Mulligan

10 Nov 2017

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The forthcoming digital release of Despicable Me 3, timed to coincide with the Thanksgiving holiday is a reminder of the tectonic plates currently underway in the movie industry. Long used to a US-centric view of the world, Hollywood has, in recent years, become increasingly aware of the revenue opp...

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Tencent Can’t Lose With Its 12% Stake Purchase in Snap Inc

Zach Fuller

10 Nov 2017

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As tech’s big players continued to rollout their Q3 earnings reports, one of the most startling revelations was quietly embedded within Snap Inc’s stock ownership. The section read: In November 2017, Tencent Holdings Limited notified us that it, together with its affiliates, acquired 145,778,246...

Musical.ly Sells For $800 Million But Peaked By Being Too Silicon Valley

Mark Mulligan

10 Nov 2017

Music

News has just emerged that lip synching app Musical.ly is to be sold for between $800 million and $1 billion to Chinese companyJinri Toutiao, which also bought Musical.ly predecessor Flipagram. I’ve long held the belief that Musical.

Pandora’s Loss Is Sirius XM’s Gain

Mark Mulligan

9 Nov 2017

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Pandora is in trouble, as explained by the consistently excellent Tim Ingham at Music Business Worldwide , after losing a billion dollars over the last four years and monthly active users (MAU) fell to 73.

Quick Take: Zynga’s Q3 results and acquisition of Peak Games’s Card Game Studio

Karol Severin

8 Nov 2017

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In August, we wrote about Zynga swinging back to profit and its plans to focus further on branding and ‘forever franchises’ (games it believes will remain long-term successes), to maintain its positive momentum.

Brand Awareness Is The Other Side Of Fandom

Tim Mulligan

7 Nov 2017

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One of the many metrics we track in our new trends and insights offering, Video Trends by MIDiA , is the level of awareness audiences have of a TV show in a market. TV show awareness among consumers is the flipside of fandom.

Quick Take: Big Tech’s Q3 Earnings Have Big Implications for Media

Zach Fuller

3 Nov 2017

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With US listed public companies’ quarterly earnings currently being drip-fed to Wall Street, here are two of the implications for Media and Advertising entities from Tech’s Big Four Q3 earnings: Amazon’s Media Presence is Continuing to Grow: While Amazon did not break out its specific numbers ...

Announcing MIDiA’s Streaming Services Market Shares Report

Mark Mulligan

3 Nov 2017

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As the streaming music market matures, the bar is continually raised for the quality of data required, both in terms of granularity and accuracy. At MIDiA we have worked hard to earn a reputation for high-quality, reliable datasets that go far beyond what is available elsewhere.

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Quick Take: Will PlayStation’s growing VR games catalogue move the needle for its VR hardware?

Karol Severin

1 Nov 2017

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We have written on the potential of VR in the past , specifically about our concern that gaming VR headsets will not take off en masse, until there is content mix compelling enough to justify device price points.

TV Fandom And The Power Of Social Apps

Tim Mulligan

1 Nov 2017

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In the fast-moving digital world of 2017 the TV show is facing an existential challenge. On the one hand, TV shows have never been more popular, with scripted drama leading a renaissance in video as a distinct art form and shaping our contemporary cultural worldview.

Game of Thrones Is Not The Most Popular TV Show

Tim Mulligan

27 Oct 2017

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The TV industry is currently undergoing a period of disruption as profound as what the music industry experienced in the first decade of this millennium, and it has all been led by the streaming revolution.

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Is YouTube The Digital Successor To Free-To-View TV?

Tim Mulligan

24 Oct 2017

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On October 17th, YouTube made another significant step towards supplanting the TV industry with the free-to-view ad-supported release of a YouTube original documentary on music artist Demi Lovato, entitled Demi Lovato: Simply Complicated - Official Documentary .

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