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Spotify is courting gen Z, but is it enough?

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Tatiana Cirisano

13 Jul 2022

Music streaming

Spotify just made its first games acquisition by snapping up Heardle , a popular online game where players compete to guess a song by its opening notes. Heardle will remain a standalone website for now, although Spotify says it plans to integrate Heardle “more fully” into its app.

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Changing streaming’s royalty model will unlock a new music economy

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Kriss Thakrar

12 Jul 2022

Music streaming

Streaming Royalties

It has been an excellent year for the music industry as it enters a new era of growth . While streaming has been at the heart of this growth, there is an underlying tension between platforms and the artists that they depend on.

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Minions versus Lightyear: a tale of two contrasting fandoms

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Ashleigh Millar

12 Jul 2022

The new Universal / Illumination film, Minions: The Rise of Gru , has broken records for an Independence Day release to theatres – it grossed $123.1 million over the long weekend, beating the previous record-holder, Transformers: Dark of the Moon , which grossed $115.

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Why Top Gun: Maverick defines peak film in the streaming era

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Tim Mulligan

12 Jul 2022

The film industry could be forgiven for thinking that the COVID induced disruption of the previous two years could be written off as an aberration in the long-term dominance of the live theatrical view experience.

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The average gamer plays more than one hour per day, as time spent takes centre stage

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Karol Severin

8 Jul 2022

games consumption

gamer engagement

Over the last two decades, the business models of video games have progressively shifted from unit-sales-led towards engagement-led. This is due to a combination of factors; including the rise of in-game spending, subscription services, and interactive digital worlds that have become venues for experiences way beyond just gameplay in its traditional sense.

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How (and why) Billie Eilish won Glastonbury

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Mark Mulligan

6 Jul 2022

fragmented fandom

Glastonbury returned to great fanfare after the pandemic-enforced break, which meant it was the first one since 2019. The music world has changed a lot since then, with streaming getting bigger than ever and TikTok now established as a cornerstone of the music business.

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Spotify shines RADAR spotlight on podcast creators

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Annie Langston

6 Jul 2022

Discoverability remains a core challenge for podcast creators in the audio market. We previously discussed the responsibility of audience platforms to amplify independent voices, with editorial spaces increasingly dominated by exclusives and celebrity titles.

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A counterculture music industry is emerging — welcome to the platform era

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Tatiana Cirisano

5 Jul 2022

What do TikTok’s distribution tool , Universal Music Group’s samples marketplace , and Snoop Dogg’s virtual marijuana have in common? On the surface, not much. But beneath, these news headlines are just three more recent reflections of what MIDiA has identified as a new iteration of the music business.

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The ad risk for Netflix

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Tim Mulligan

5 Jul 2022

At Netflix’s inaugural appearance at the Cannes Lions Festival two weeks ago, it was confirmed that it was indeed launching an ad-supported tier to its 221 million strong subscription video on demand service (SVOD).

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Samsung is becoming an important games distribution player, as the ‘gaming TV market’ comes to life

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Karol Severin

4 Jul 2022

Samsung is establishing itself as a serious player in the distribution part of the games industry’s value chain through its ‘Gaming Hub’. Having already partnered with GeForce Now and Stadia games subscriptions, Samsung also recently announced its partnership with Xbox.

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The revolving door of celebrity podcast announcements aims to bring the masses to audio

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Annie Langston

30 Jun 2022

The investment in the digital audio market began with splashy celebrity deals and now even more big names are flocking to the format. One of the first big announcements in celebrity podcasts was that of The Obamas officially announcing their exclusive deal with Audible instead of their original deal with Spotify.

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Music streaming is failing to foster cultural moments – but it does not have to

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Hanna Kahlert

29 Jun 2022

Listening to music is, and has always been, an intrinsically emotional experience. Music does not appeal to rational dialogue or scientific evidence; it directly evokes the feelings beneath. It can be sought after by the listener to evoke an expected response – to be uplifted, calmed, or comforted.

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Why ads are Netflix’s podcast moment

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Tim Mulligan

28 Jun 2022

In the interim between Netflix’s worse than expected Q1 22 results and its looming Q2 22 results, Netflix is now rapidly moving forwards with an ad-supported tier for its previous ad-free subscription video on demand service.

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Roku and Walmart are bringing shoppable ads to TV

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Richard Broadhurst

27 Jun 2022

Roku and Walmart are bringing shoppable ads to TV Roku and Walmart have announced a partnership that will merge e-commerce with TV streaming. Shoppable adds will appear on Roku TV (now the leading smart TV sold in the US).

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Churn in the era of dynamic retention

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Mark Mulligan

24 Jun 2022

Kantar, a survey vendor, has been getting some attention by passing off consumer data as an actual measure of subscribers and suggesting that the music subscriber base actually declined in Q1 2022. It said the same in Q4 2021, but 2021 was a spectacular year for music subscriber growth, with the global base of subscribers growing by 118.

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Can Gamescom retain its appeal going forward?

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Karol Severin

23 Jun 2022

I remember attending my first Gamescom as an analyst in 2017 . The sheer excitement as gaming was eating the world whole, and before brands and just about everybody else woke up to gaming as a mainstream cultural phenomenon.

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Reflections on the music industry at NFT.NYC

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Tatiana Cirisano

23 Jun 2022

At the fourth annual NFT.NYC conference in New York, the sentiment fell somewhere between faint excitement and “so this is still a thing, right?” Unlike this time last year, when the music industry was hooked on crypto, this year’s event arrives at a time when the crypto market, like much of the economy, is in decline.

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Acast and Meta partner up to create podcast communities

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Annie Langston

23 Jun 2022

Following yesterday’s announcement from Meta , detailing its plans to become a more creator focused platform, it debuted a new partnership with leading independent podcast company Acast. Although Facebook’s initial move into podcast content was halted, this new deal does not focus on creating content but rather focuses on aiding a podcaster’s ability to find and develop their fanbases.

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Spotify Investor Day eyes podcast creators and audiobooks — but what about the listeners?

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Annie Langston

21 Jun 2022

Spotify Investor Day revolved around a core message – there is more audio to come. While its audio investments began with major acquisitions in podcast technology and exclusive content deals, focusing on creators will be a crucial step moving forward.

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Why Paramount+ is landing in the UK at an inflection point for video streaming

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Tim Mulligan

21 Jun 2022

Tomorrow Paramount+ will launch in the UK, a market of key importance in the direct-to-consumer (D2C) landscape due to its size, high discretion income, and high levels of TV and video consumption. As the market is so valuable, pre- D2C big bang moment long-term distribution deals have been hindering the likes of HBO Max from being able to launch in the UK, which underlines the success that the Paramount team has been able to pull off by launching in the UK.

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