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How YouTube’s Domination of Streaming Clips the Market’s Wings

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Mark Mulligan
Firstly, happy new year to you all. Now on to the first post of 2019. The Article 13 debate that shaped so much of the latter part of 2018 will continue to play an important role throughout 2019 while European and then national legislators deliberate on the provision and the wider Digital Copyright Directive of which it forms a part.
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Facebook Aims to Bring The Fun Back Into Music

Mark Mulligan
Facebook has announced its long mooted move into music. As widely anticipated the service offering focuses on using music to add context to social experiences. The official blog outlines two key use cases: Adding music to videosDoing live stream lip syncs in Facebook Live videos For now the roll out is limited, which will give Facebook the opportunity to hone the service and learn from the behaviour of a relatively narrow user group.
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The Narrative Of Spotify’s Filing Is That The Best Is Yet To Come

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Mark Mulligan
Spotify just filed its F1 for its DPO. The most anticipated business event in the recorded music industry since, well…as long as most can remember, is one big step closer. The filing is a treasure trove of data and metrics, and while there won’t be too many surprisesfor anyone who follows the company closely, there are nonetheless a lot of very interesting findings and themes.
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