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Google And The Battle For The TV Set

Blog post by Tim Mulligan

2 Feb 2016

The Future of TV Coalition , a coalition of US Pay-TV companies whose 47 members include Comcast, Time Warner Cable, Charter Communications and Dish Network has reacted strongly to Google’s latest attempt...

Why Apple Will Win The Smartphone Market Maturation

Blog post by Karol Severin

1 Feb 2016

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apple products

apple services

Apple is expecting iPhone sales to drop in the next quarter, for the first time ever. Apple’s stock has plummeted more than 6% since the announcement. The iPhone represents the majority of Apple’s...

Is Apple Poised To Disrupt The Pay-TV Industry By Buying HBO?

Blog post by Tim Mulligan

14 Jan 2016

Apple

HBO

Online video

As opportunities go, it doesn’t get much bigger than this: the opportunity to buy the most lucrative content creator in video. Rumours are running around that ( click here to see the Market Watch Article...

Chart Of The Week: Facebook The Full Stack Internet Company

Blog post by Mark Mulligan

11 Jan 2016

android

Apple

Chart Of The Week

Facebook has 1.4 billion monthly active users, up by 58% since Q3 2013. Quite simply, Facebook is big and is getting bigger. But the metrics only tell part of the story. Since its inception in 2004 as...

MIDiA Data Point Of The Day: Download Buyers

Blog post by Mark Mulligan

16 Dec 2015

adele

Apple

Data Point Of The Day

The standout sales success of Adele over recent week has many permutations, not least of which is the keen reminder that many millions of people still buy downloads and CDs. The streaming transition continues...

MIDiA Datapoint Of The Day: Mobile Music Piracy

Blog post by Mark Mulligan

4 Dec 2015

app stores

Apple

Data Point Of The Day

One thing you'll often hear cited in defence of streaming is that it has helped kill piracy. On the surface that might be seem to be true given that music P2P penetration is down. But all is not as it...

Google Play Slashes Minimum App Prices In Emerging Markets

Blog post by Karol Severin

20 Nov 2015

android

Apple

apps

Google Play announced new minimum app prices equating to approximately 26 cents, just over a quarter of the US and European minimums. The decision includes 17 emerging markets. ( See the complete list...

Quick Take: Apple Music Comes To Android

Blog post by Mark Mulligan

11 Nov 2015

android

Apple

apple music

As long anticipated Apple has launched the Android edition of Apple Music. I t is a non-typical move for Apple but not one without precedent, not least of which the Windows edition of iTunes which was...

Quick Take: Facebook Music Stories

Blog post by Karol Severin

6 Nov 2015

Amazon

Apple

digital content

Facebook launched‘Music Stories’ for iPhone users who use Spotify or Apple Music with more hardware and listening options to follow. Music Stories let’s you share 30 second music snippets from Spotify...

First Take: Electric Jukebox Aims To Take Digital Music To The Mainstream

Blog post by Mark Mulligan

14 Oct 2015

Apple

awakening

awakening the music industry in the digital age

Back in 2009 I wrote a report at Forrester entitled ' Taking Digital Music To The Mainstream: The Music Product Features For The Living Room’ . In it I outlined a vision for a standalone, affordable...

MIDiA Chart Of The Week

Blog post by Mark Mulligan

8 Oct 2015

Apple

apple app store

apps

Piracy used to be the dominant narrative of the music industry in the digital era with companies like Napster and Kazaa becoming the cartoon villains. Many industry execs now pride themselves on having...

Quick Take: Been Choice, Apple Happy To Eat Its Own Lunch With Native App Adblocker

Blog post by Karol Severin

7 Oct 2015

Ad Blocking

Apple

Been Choice

Up until now, the on going ad blocker discussion was confined to the web rather than apps. But now an upcoming VPN based adblocker Been Choice promises to block ads in native apps like Facebook or Apple...

Amazon Underground Challenges Dynamics Of The App Economy

Blog post by Karol Severin

27 Aug 2015

Amazon

Amazon Underground

app charts

Amazon has partnered with developers to make over $10,000 worth of games, apps and in-app items for free. Instead of traditional monetization models, Amazon will pay developers based how long consumers...

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