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Apple’s Subscription Pivot

Mark Mulligan

28 Mar 2019

On Tuesday Apple announced its arrival on the world stage as a media company, using the lion’s share of its product keynote as the platform for a succession of super star actors, directors and other personalities to tell the story of their respective Apple original TV shows.

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Downtown Acquires AVL: Value Chains in a Post-direct Distribution Era

Zach Fuller

28 Mar 2019

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When Spotify announced that it was going to launch direct distribution on its platform, it was clear the various digital distributors that emerged in the post-Napster wave of online music (Tunecore, CD Baby, Ditto etc) would have to do something to counter the impact.

How YouTube’s 1bn+ Club is Changing the Face of Global Music Culture

Mark Mulligan

26 Mar 2019

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Throughout 2018, while locked in a bitter war of words with rightsholders and creators over Article 13, YouTube quietly but dramatically expanded its role as the most powerful platform for creating global superstars.

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Apple Joins The Games Subscription Race With Arcade

Karol Severin

26 Mar 2019

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Apple has announced that it will launch a games subscription service called Arcade. For a monthly payment (price point to be determined), the service will feature over 100 original games which users will be able to play across iPhones, iPads and Apple TV and pick up wherever they left off.

Apple TV+ and The Beginning of Apple the Media Company – #AppleEvent

Tim Mulligan

25 Mar 2019

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Apple today announced the launch of its much anticipated video service, Apple TV+, at its #AppleEventin Cupertino, California. It has been a long time in the making for a combination of reasons, not least of which is a concern among TV networks of making Apple too strong a partner that they cannot c...

AI and the Disruption of the Music Persona

Zach Fuller

22 Mar 2019

Discussions on AI and music continue to grip the music industry, with fears we stand on the precipice of a post-musician world, yet in many ways we have been here before. History dictates that shifts in music composition are influenced more by the context in which it is consumed rather than the tech...

Mediapro Offers Eleven Sports a UK Lifeline!

Alistair Taylor

21 Mar 2019

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Streaming service Eleven Sports will now have to table a new offer to maintain its UK La Liga rights, as Mediapro (the agency selling La Liga’s international rights) decides to return La Liga to the UK media rights tender market ahead of the 2019/2022 season.

Advertising Week Europe: Measuring Success Needs an Overhaul – Lessons From OTT

Georgia Meyer

21 Mar 2019

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Advertising Week Europe has – unsurprisingly – been brimming with discussions about OTT, programmatic and measurement. What is perhaps more surprising is the fact that OTT advertising is still framed as a new space that has not reached its full potential because it lacks the reach of linear chan...

Why Facebook Can Be the Future of Social Music, But Isn’t Yet

Mark Mulligan

21 Mar 2019

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Facebook recently secured licensing deals with music rightsholders in India , an important step in what has thus far been an underwhelming social music strategy since first inking rights deals in June 2018.

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The BBC Confronts the Reality of Planet (Digital) Earth

Tim Mulligan

20 Mar 2019

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Yesterday the chairman of the British Broadcasting Corporation, David Clementi, gave a talk at the Oxford Media Conventionwhich starkly addressed the reality which the world’s oldest and arguably most iconic public service broadcaster (PSB) now finds itself confronting.

Stadia Begins Tech Majors' Disruption Of Gaming

Karol Severin

19 Mar 2019

Google announced it will launch a games streaming service named Stadia later in 2019 across US, UK, Canada and most of Europe. This much awaited announcement brings gaming a lot closer to a device and platform-agnostic gaming paradigm .

Why Snap Inc. Is Launching A Games Platform

Karol Severin

19 Mar 2019

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Snapchat will announce a gaming platform for developers in the upcoming days, according to Cheddar . The hope is to boost engagement as well as revenue growth. Snapchat is still trying to pave its path towards profitability.

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MIDIA RESEARCH 2018–2026 STREAMING MUSIC FORECASTS

Mark Mulligan

19 Mar 2019

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MIDiA has just published its global music forecasts, with revenue and user numbers projected out to 2026 (a list of data items and countries covered are listed at the bottom of this post). 2017 was the last year of strong streaming revenue growth.

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SXSW 2019: Streaming, Radio and the Unevenly Distributed Future

Zach Fuller

18 Mar 2019

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‘The future is already here, it’s just not evenly distributed’. In many ways, this quote by science fiction writer William Gibson surmises the work we do at MIDiA: cautiously observing new tech developments and remaining aware of the hype cycle that characterises the adoption curve.

Why Did Facebook’s EPL Rights Deal Collapse?

Alistair Taylor

15 Mar 2019

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The English Premier League (EPL) is now back on the market with its rights for Thailand, Laos, Cambodia and Vietnam following its deal with Facebook collapsing. Back in July 2018 , the social media giant acquired the exclusive rights to stream 380 EPL matches in the Asian territories for $265 millio...

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Apple Gets Ready for Showtime

Tim Mulligan

15 Mar 2019

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Apple fans this week have been speculating about the March 25 th event which the tech major has announced it will be holding at its Cupertino, California headquarters. The tagline for the event is “It’s showtime”, and Apple has been dropping big hints that it will make a significant...

Calling all Artists!

Mark Mulligan

14 Mar 2019

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In partnership with independent distribution company Amuse, MIDiA Research is undertaking a detailed study of the music artist landscape. We are fielding a survey to the artist community , exploring issues such as: What success looks like to you Career aspirations The importance of signing to a reco...

Preparing for the Post-Album Music Industry

Keith Jopling

14 Mar 2019

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This is a follow-up piece to What’s Next In Playlist Innovation ... Every week I’m excited to check out the latest album releases. They are the gift that keeps on giving. But that gift feels different these days, more like receiving flowers or chocolate and less like anything you might receive a...

2018 Global Label Market Share: Stream Engine

Mark Mulligan

13 Mar 2019

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Recorded music revenues grew in 2018 for the fourth consecutive year, reaching $18.8 billion, up $2.2 billion from 2017. Streaming was the engine room of growth, up 30% year on year to reach $9.6 billion.

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Here’s How Spotify Can Fix Its Songwriter Woes (Hint: It’s All About Pricing)

Mark Mulligan

11 Mar 2019

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Songwriter royalties have always been a pain point for streaming, especially in the US where statutory rates determine much of how songwriters get paid. The current debate over Spotify, Amazon, Pandora and Google challenging the Copyright Royalty Board’s proposed 44% increase illustrates jus...

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