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Music Subscriber Market Shares H1 2019

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Mark Mulligan

5 Dec 2019

The global streaming market continues to grow at pace. At the end of June 2019 there were 304.9 million music subscribers globally. That was up 34 million on the end of 2018, while the June 2018 to June 2019 growth was 69 million – exactly the same rate of additions as one year earlier.

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Streaming Is Finally Beginning to Turn the German Market

Zach Fuller

4 Dec 2019

german music market

Still the fourth-largest market by revenue after the US, UK and Japan, Germany has been comparatively slow to make the digital transition while remaining a key territory for record labels due to its scale, spending power and robust physical market.

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Take Five (the big five stories and data you need to know) December 2nd 2019

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Mark Mulligan

2 Dec 2019

first order music

Bytedance / TikTok split: Bytedance appears to be getting nervy about the impact of Chinese censorship regulation on TikTok, to the extent that it is reportedly mulling spinning off the app as a separate company.

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The Era of Peak Attention? Try Peak Distraction – Event Rundown

Hanna Kahlert

26 Nov 2019

attention economy peak

attention saturation

British gaming institute

This past Wednesday, November 20 th , MIDiA brought together media heavyweights from the Economist, Spotify, and the British Gaming Institute to talk about changing aspects of consumer behaviour and demand in a climate of attention saturation.

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Roku Aims for TV Market Share with European Expansion

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Amanda Stears

26 Nov 2019

Roku has partnered with manufacturer Hisense to release its first Roku TV in the UK this coming Black Friday at Argos. Announced September 7th at the IFA 2019 a.k.a Berlin Radio Show, these smart TVs are powered by the Roku OS.

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Take Five (the big five stories and data you need to know) November 25th 2019

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Mark Mulligan

25 Nov 2019

Colin Kaepernick

Disney tidies its streaming stats: Disney is tidying up its streaming subscriber numbers in preparation for reporting the performance so far of Disney+. In the shake-up, ESPN falls from 3.4 million to three million while Hulu goes from a 28.

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The Imitation Game: Why First-Mover Advantage Could Lose its Allure in Tech Strategy

Zach Fuller

25 Nov 2019

Media and Marketing

‘Originality is nothing but judicious imitation’ - Voltaire ‘Good artists copy;great artists steal’ – Steve Jobs Being the first is overrated when it means you can instantly be copied. The ‘time profit’ strategy is one of the most widely utilised models in tech-centric business.

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BT Sport’s Key Ingredient for Competing in an Increasingly Saturated Landscape

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Alistair Taylor

22 Nov 2019

American football

broadcast audience

The strategic dilemma as to whether rights holders should seek revenue over reach when allocating domestic rights is inevitably impacted by how dependent services are on premium rights for securing subscriber revenue.

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Why Apple Wants The Father of Dragons On Board

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Tim Mulligan

20 Nov 2019

Game of Thrones

The November 1 st launch of Apple TV+ has thrust the world’s leading personal device company into the increasingly frenetic world of TV. While the TV networks have long battled for supremacy over ratings and talent, leading SVOD service Netflix aggravated the market by aggressively bidding f...

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Take Five (the big five stories and data you need to know) November 18th 2019

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Mark Mulligan

18 Nov 2019

Bytedance subscription: Bytedance, parent of TikTok, is reportedlyclose to launching a music subscription service, initially focused on emerging markets. The big question is whether Bytedance will get the deals to launch something genuinely new, built on TikTok’s foundation, or just end up l...

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Why the Music Industry Needs Bytedance to Disrupt It

Mark Mulligan

18 Nov 2019

Back in September 2018 I suggested that Spotify faced a Tencent risk, with the potential of Tencent launching a competitive offering in markets that Spotify is not yet in. This would effectively divide the world between Spotify in Europe, Americas and some of Asia, and Tencent potentially everywhere...

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Infostructure and the Barriers to Innovation

Zach Fuller

15 Nov 2019

Or, Why the United States Never Built High-Speed Connecting Railways Disruption is never simple, and what is often logically more efficient rarely wins out in the game of adoption. This process has a storied history in consumer tech: Betamax and VHS, DVD and Blue-Ray – but its roots go back even f...

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Disney+ Recovers From Initial Blunder to Surpass 10 Million Sign Ups on Debut!

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Alistair Taylor

14 Nov 2019

21st Century Fox

all-encompassing offering

AppleTV+. Market saturation

Disney claims unexpected traffic on its newly-launched service was at fault for the buffering and technical issues of Disney+’s launch Tuesday . The issues highlight just how difficult it is transitioning from a media company to a tech player, with technical glitches an enormous issue for digital-...

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Meet the Speakers – The Economist, BGI, Spotify #Postpeak

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Dara Jegede

12 Nov 2019

If you're in London next Wednesday (November 20th) , come along to our free-to-attend attention economy event . There will also be a live stream (for those not based in London), which you will be able to find here at 7pm GMT.

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The Attention Economy Has Peaked. Now What?

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Mark Mulligan

12 Nov 2019

Regular followers of MIDiA will know that we’ve been writing about the attention economy for a number of years now. Throughout 2019 we have been building the concept that we have arrived at peak in the attention economy – that all of the addressable free time has been addressed.

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We’re Hiring: Business Development Manager

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Mark Mulligan

11 Nov 2019

midia is hiring

midia job vacancy

MIDiA is hiring for a new position: a Business Development Manager focused on the TV/video space. Over the last year we have been fast building our capabilities and profile in the TV and video space, including delivering the opening keynote at Mipcom and launching our next ge...

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Take Five (the big five stories and data you need to know) November 11th 2019

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Mark Mulligan

11 Nov 2019

BTS, fandom 3.0: The management of BTS’s distributor was trying to work out who had green-lit an unauthorized billboard campaign for the South Korean boy band . When it turned out that the fans had paid, it pulled back the veil on a whole new fandom paradigm.

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Why BritBox Is the Switzerland of the D2C Era

Tim Mulligan

11 Nov 2019

Last Thursday marked the official UK launch of BritBox –the British broadcasting industry’s answer to the D2C services currently redefining how viewers consume TV shows. Britbox launched in 2017 and built up a subscriber base of 650,000 in the US and Canada on the back of being able to position ...

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Disney FY 2019 Results – The Final Sanity Check Before Everything Changes

Tim Mulligan

8 Nov 2019

We are now less than a week away from possibly the most important day in Disney’s 21stcentury history, as November 12this when its direct to consumer (D2C) service Disney+ goes live. While we will not have meaningful numbers come through until the end of the first calendar quarter of 2020, the wei...

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Three Supply-Side Indicators that Signal the New Music Industry Has Arrived

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Keith Jopling

7 Nov 2019

The CD brought unprecedented growth in music-as-product. Then Napster came along as the first real digital disruptor and burst that bubble very effectively. iTunes then disrupted Napster (partly alongside industry anti-piracy efforts) by legally unbundling and re-aggregating music in digital librari...

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