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Demand Creation: What’s the Next Big Growth Curve for Music?

Keith Jopling

11 Dec 2019

At Spotify’s last quarterly reporting session, CEO Daniel Ek talked about the company’s creator strategy, as part of the wider development of becoming a “2-sided marketplace”: “The strategy has been about going from a one-size fits all model to a model that better fits the various types of...

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What Star Wars in Fortnite Tells Us About the Future of Digital Entertainment

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Karol Severin

10 Dec 2019

cross-entertainment strategy

cross-format entertainment

cross-platform entertainment

It has been revealed that Disney will soon be premiering a scene from its upcoming The Rise of Skywalker film. What makes this a truly newsworthy story is that the event will take place inside Fortnite’s Risky Reels digital drive-in theatre, apparently with J.

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Take Five (the big five stories and data you need to know) December 9th 2019

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Mark Mulligan

9 Dec 2019

Go east: Universal Music launched Red Records, an Asian repertoire joint venture label with AirAsia Group. With Western repertoire accounting for around only a third of all streams in Asian markets, UMG needs local bets to benefit from the Asian opportunity.

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Is Comcast’s D2C Move Primarily Digital Peacocking?

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Tim Mulligan

9 Dec 2019

Digital Peacocking

On January 16 th 2020, Comcast will be holding an investor day meeting to provide further clarity around Peacock – its forthcoming ad-supported direct to consumer (D2C) video streaming service. The focus of the meeting will be to address “the overarching strategy for the platform”.

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Post-Peak Attention and the Case for Micropayments

Zach Fuller

9 Dec 2019

Success in new business paradigms involves wasting what is abundant to capture what is scarce. The Industrial Revolution did this by taking advantage of technologies that used the finite resource of human physical labour (steam, electricity) and made it considerably more efficient, allowing for bigg...

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Disney+ Has Tapped the Cultural Zeitgeist with the Mandalorian

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Tim Mulligan

6 Dec 2019

The Mandalorian

With 10 million sign ups in its first day (per The Verge ),there is no doubt that Disney+ has tapped strong latent demand in what is already a highly saturated US streaming video market. What differentiates market insurgent Disney+ from incumbent Netflix is that it is trading on big individual brand...

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Universal Search – The Gaping Hole in Streaming Video

Amanda Stears

5 Dec 2019

The day is done and you are slouched on the sofa, ready for some binge watching. But how often have you found yourself aimlessly scrolling through Netflix, Amazon Prime Video, Now TV etc. not knowing exactly what to watch or where to start? Not quite “feeling” it, you exit Netflix.

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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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