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Why Spotify’s creator strategy needs to pay more attention to fans

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Kriss Thakrar

10 Aug 2021

Spotify’s shift towards becoming an audio platform encompasses a push to become a creator-first business, with a vision of 50 million creators supplying content to a billion users. However, the company’s focus on creators and users may be coming at the expense of artists and fans.

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The record labels are weaning themselves off their Spotify dependency

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Mark Mulligan

6 Aug 2021

The major labels had a spectacular streaming quarter, registering 33% growth on Q2 2020 to reach $3.1 billion. Spotify had a less impressive quarter, growing revenues by just 23%. After being the industry’s byword for streaming for so long, Spotify’s dominant role is beginning to lessen.

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Quick Take: The metaverse – expect goldrush by many, market domination by a few

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Karol Severin

2 Aug 2021

Media and Marketing

After years of pioneering, tinkering and iteration, the concept of metaverses is moving closer to the mainstream in media and entertainment, in particular in games and social media, for example. In the words of Bill Gates, people tend to overestimate the short-term impact and underestimate the long-term impacts.

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Labels are going to become more like VCs than they probably want to be

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Mark Mulligan

30 Jul 2021

artist accelerators

When you are in the midst of change it can be hard to actually see it. Right now, the music business is undergoing a consumption paradigm shift that is changing the culture and business of music. Streaming may be well established and maturing in many markets but the market impact will continue to accelerate as behaviours continue to evolve and bed in.

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“First day, first show” – Premium video on demand’s potential in India

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Srishti Das

26 Jul 2021

India is home to one of the world’s largest and most successful film industries. However, 2020 was rife with economic setbacks across the entertainment industry due to the pandemic. The film industry was expected to perform poorly as lockdown measures restricted the operations of movie theatres.

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What Steam Deck, Netflix, Zoom, Peloton and Pro Evolution Soccer tell us about the future of games distribution

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Karol Severin

23 Jul 2021

content distribution

Due to some unforeseen circumstances, I had to take some time off in the last two weeks. It is never good to have to step away from the buzz of daily games industry developments, but the silver lining is that the brief pause enabled me to look at seemingly unrelated games news of the last two weeks in one chunk; a true , as we call it at MIDiA.

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On the cusp of an AVOD era – takeaways from the MIDiA AVOD webinar

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Tim Mulligan

12 Jul 2021

Last Wednesday’s MIDiA AVOD webinar was full of promise about ad-supported video on demand, and its ability to transition from its current niche user base into a mainstream video streaming proposition.

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Global music subscriber market shares Q1 2021

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Mark Mulligan

9 Jul 2021

music subscribers

subscriber market shares

The music industry’s growing obsession with declining ARPU will continue to colour the outlook for the global streaming market in revenue terms, but the positive driver of this equation is the rapid growth of music subscribers.

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Emerging markets may be about to change the superstar business

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Mark Mulligan

2 Jul 2021

emerging markets

anglo repertoire

The traditional recorded music business was all about selling units, which naturally meant that the most important markets were not the most populous but the wealthiest. Throughout the late 20thcentury this created a ‘global’ market that was dominated by North America, Europe and a few others.

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How Bandcamp could really fix the music business

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Mark Mulligan

25 Jun 2021

Independent artists

Streaming Music

“A thought: has streaming become the place to address consumers and the likes of Bandcamp the places to engage fans? i.e., fans and fandom inherently matter less on streaming because it/they are a minority.

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Pluto TV, Rakuten TV & XUMO to discuss how AVOD unlocks the mainstream consumer - July 7

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Dara Jegede

23 Jun 2021

Digital audiences

AVOD was well positioned to benefit from the uplift in home entertainment time due to lockdowns imposed to stem the spread COVID-19. However, engagement growth was modest in 2020, remaining below 10% for the leading four AVOD services in Q3 2020.

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The new chair of the FTC and antitrust 2.0

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Tim Mulligan

22 Jun 2021

The appointment of Lina Khan on June 15th to chair of the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) is poised to be a transformational one in the history of the world wide web. Khan came to prominence with an article in the Yale Law Journal, Amazon’s Antitrust Paradox , which identified the paradox of hegemonic tech service providers which bypass the US’ strict competition laws by offering lower prices to the end consumer.

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The games industry has changed; E3 needs to do the same if it is to remain relevant

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Karol Severin

21 Jun 2021

This year’s E3 has experienced mixed reviews, with the consensus largely being that some interesting announcements were made, but they no longer provide an all-encompassing view of what’s going on in the games industry and what to get excited about for the rest of the year.

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The opportunity behind the Roblox lawsuit

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Kriss Thakrar

14 Jun 2021

Three months ago, MIDiA reported on the role of the Boombox in Roblox and the potential of the unique (and unlicensed) behaviour that was emerging around it. Subsequently, the National Music Publishers Association has filed a $200 million lawsuit against the platform, directly citing the copyright infringement facilitated by the in-game product.

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Games video creators can help attract new audiences to esports, if rights holders empower them to

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Karol Severin

14 Jun 2021

Those who have been following MIDiA’s games coverage for a while will have seen our posts about the growth problem of esports and suggestions around putting focus on the entertainment angle , rather than just on the sports angle, in order to most effectively capitalise on the opportunity.

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We’re Hiring (again)

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Mark Mulligan

11 Jun 2021

Streaming Music

Business Strategy

The pandemic rewrote the rules of digital entertainment, creating new opportunities and threats at an unprecedented rate while also intensifying competition for consumer attention. Never before has the interconnected nature of the digital entertainment landscape been more important, which also means that never before has MIDiA’s holistic, cross-industry view been more important.

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From network to Bulletin: Is this the future of Facebook?

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Hanna Kahlert

10 Jun 2021

Due to generational shifts, the passage of time, and pure competition from other entertainment alternatives, social media is changing . Younger users are flocking to fast-paced, original content-driven TikTok .

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Netflix versus Amazon Prime Video – depth versus breadth

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Tim Mulligan

10 Jun 2021

The first half of 2021 has been a year of continued change and disruption for subscription video. The global incumbent subscription video on demand (SVOD) leaders, Netflix and Amazon Prime Video, have been busy signalling to the financial markets how they intend to entrench their market dominance in light of the ongoing market acquisition pushes unleashed by the D2C disruptors following the D2C ‘big bang’ moment of Q4 2019 – Q2 2021.

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The productisation of music rights

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Mark Mulligan

4 Jun 2021

music catalogues

music catalogue acquisitions

News that New York-based Pershing Square Tontine Holdings is planning to acquire 10% of UMG is the latest in a wave of financial transactions in the music rights space. Alongside this, Believe’s impending IPO has the potential to be one of the biggest things to happen to the independent music sector in some time, and comes as part of a wave of IPOs (e.

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Music and podcasts are competing for the same time

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Mark Mulligan

28 May 2021

Streaming Music

media consumption

The pandemic changed media consumption. Consumers acquired an extra 12% of entertainment time and though everything was up, some categories grew much faster than others. One of the biggest gainers was spoken word audio, with podcasts and audiobooks seeing dramatic rises and while music hours grew too, the increase was below 12%, which means that music lost share.

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