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Women creators: This is also our business

Srishti Das

22 Mar 2021

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MIDiA, in conjunction with TuneCore and Believe, is about to publish the findings of a global survey on the experiences of 401 female creators in the music industry: artists, songwriters, producers, DJs and creator managers, asking them to tell their own stories as the foundation for greater industr...

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Roblox, piracy and the future of music in UGC 2.0

Kriss Thakrar

19 Mar 2021

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A community of Roblox users are losing a battle against moderation as the platform cracks down on music piracy, due to the platform’s newly public status bringing with it a new level of responsibility.

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What does the NFT hype mean for artists?

Hanna Kahlert

18 Mar 2021

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Soon after the #GameStonks event of January 2021 , Elon Musk reined in the increasingly investment-savvy digital sphere back around to cryptocurrency, using his Tesla company to purchase $1.5 billion worth of Bitcoin, and announcing that it planned to accept Bitcoin as payment.

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Why Roblox is well set to withstand the COVID bounce effect

Karol Severin

15 Mar 2021

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Roblox has launched an initial public offering (IPO) this week. Timing-wise, the twice-delayed IPO aligns with the world getting closer to opening up, and out-of-home competitive pressures returning. This invites questions around how much of the current valuation is aided by a temporary, artificial ...

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Recorded music revenues hit $23.1 billion in 2020, with artists direct the winners – again

Mark Mulligan

15 Mar 2021

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The global pandemic caused widespread disruption to the music business, in particular decimating the live business and impacting publisher public performance royalties. Although the recorded music business experienced a dip in the earlier months of the pandemic, the remainder of the year saw industr...

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Streaming censorship: The threat to India’s growing importance in the global marketplace

Srishti Das

12 Mar 2021

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Video streaming services like Netflix, Amazon Prime Video and Disney+ Hotstar have been fortunate to experience minimum restrictions on content from Indian regulators as they established themselves. However, this is all now changing.

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Native Instruments and iZotope: creator tools major in the making

Mark Mulligan

11 Mar 2021

Music Business Strategy

At the start of the year private equity firm Francisco Partners acquired a majority stake in creator tools stalwart Native Instruments. It always looked like it was going to be the start of something big and today we saw the next step on Native’s new journey, with leading audio plugin company iZot...

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Disney+ at 100 million: The second shockwave of the D2C big bang moment has begun

Tim Mulligan

10 Mar 2021

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At its annual shareholder meeting yesterday, Disney announced that Disney+ had reached the 100 million subscriber mark in the 16 months since it first launched. For comparison, global subscription video on demand (SVOD) leader Netflix has taken 14 years to reach 203 million subscribers.

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Is gaming the solution to sports’ Gen Z problem?

Alistair Taylor

8 Mar 2021

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It has been well-documented that Gen Z’s and Generation Alpha’s interest in watching live sports has waned . It is important to dispel the notion that the younger cohorts are less likely to engage with sports, but rather to appreciate that they just consume them differently .

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Women making music: The COVID impact

Hanna Kahlert

8 Mar 2021

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The last 12 months have been marked mostly by the coronavirus pandemic, which has pushed much of life to the digital world. 70% of independent artists overall spent much of the time over lockdowns creating more music, many taking more autonomy over their own marketing and production.

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The music business in 2021: Joining the dots

Mark Mulligan

4 Mar 2021

Music Cultural trends

It has been one of those weeks, with impactful music business announcements coming thick and fast. As is often the case, a succession of apparently unrelated events actually have a connecting thread. In this instance there are three: 1.

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Fans come first in the attention recession

Hanna Kahlert

2 Mar 2021

Media and Marketing Fandom Media

As vaccine rollouts gain momentum, the clock is ticking on the attention boom enabled by lockdowns over the last 12 months. The 12% of additional time spent on entertainment is going to contract sharply as consumers are freed to spend time outside of their homes on pre-pandemic activities and compel...

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Smaller independents and artists direct grew fastest in 2020

Mark Mulligan

1 Mar 2021

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Last year we identified a small but crucial metric from Spotify’s annual report: the share of all streams accounted for by majors and independent licensing body Merlin. It was crucial because it enabled us to segment the streaming market in detail, when combined with market data from majors and in...

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Reach over revenue: India’s lesson for developed sports markets

Srishti Das

26 Feb 2021

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India is growing as a sporting nation, with athletes performing across different international sports outside of cricket like kabaddi, motorsports, basketball, and chess. The majority of media consumption in India’s sports industry, however, comes from the Indian Premier League (IPL).

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Paramount + gets ready to compete outside the traditional video streaming lane

Tim Mulligan

25 Feb 2021

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Yesterday was a big day for ViacomCBS. The year of integration and uncertainty following the merger of Viacom and CBS in December 2019 has finally ended. The core rationale behind both key constituents of the National Amusements media empire to join together is now coming to fruition.

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Clubhouse session: Is attention killing culture?

Mark Mulligan

24 Feb 2021

Media and Marketing Cultural trends

Join myself, Hanna Kahlert and Karol Severin Thursday 25that 5pm GMT / noon EST / 9am PT on Clubhouse for discussion of the Attention Economy’s second order effects on culture and creativity. In this session we will be exploring how the focus on capturing audiences’ time and attention at all cos...

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Clubhouse and the next evolution of audio

Hanna Kahlert

23 Feb 2021

Music Media and Marketing

Audio has seen an overall boom during the last year , with audiobooks alone significantly gaining consumer attention time and attracting audience over from radio. Podcasts have also grown in the lockdown periods, as background audio surges into the space left behind by contextual ambiance.

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Esports’ critical mass challenge: Solutions are beyond games

Karol Severin

19 Feb 2021

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Esports have been receiving much coverage in recent years – from sold-out arenas, through to record-breaking live streaming events, right up to the formation of news outlets which solely cover esports.

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The COVID bounce and the coming attention recession

Mark Mulligan

19 Feb 2021

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2020 was by any measure a unique year in modern times. While the societal impact of the pandemic was, and continues to be, horrific, for the entertainment industries it was a year of plenty. At the start of the pandemic, MIDiA Research estimated that there would be an extra 15% of consumption time f...

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Last call for the global independent label survey

Mark Mulligan

18 Feb 2021

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With 2020 now comfortably behind us and public companies in their earnings cycle, a clear picture is starting to emerge of how the global recorded music market performed. MIDiA is midway through fielding the global independent label survey that will help create the definitive view of how the indepen...

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