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The cultural pendulum swing is coming back around

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Tatiana Cirisano

11 Apr 2024

Music streaming

Across culture, there is an eerie sense of things coming full circle. After spending the past decade building an industry around ad-free streaming TV, Netflix has ads and feels increasingly like cable...

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The techification of entertainment (and why it needs to reverse)

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Hanna Kahlert

10 Apr 2024

Entertainment today is almost inseparable from streaming – for better and for worse. The tech infrastructure that underpins today’s entertainment industry has had a huge impact not only on how content...

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Fan economy: expanded rights are worth $3.5 billion, now what?

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Mark Mulligan

3 Apr 2024

expanded rights

MIDiA recently, and exclusively, revealed that expanded rights now represent 10% of the recorded music market with revenues of $3.5 billion. These revenues, derived principally from monetising the brand...

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Reddit’s IPO is a nail in the coffin for the centralised internet

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Hanna Kahlert

28 Mar 2024

centralised internet

Last week, Reddit, the 19 year old social(ish) platform and long-time backbone of the internet, went up for IPO. The news is not exactly a surprise; the company has been hinting at it for years now, and...

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Gender inequality in music mirrors the challenges of streaming… as do its opportunities for change

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Hanna Kahlert

20 Mar 2024

It has never been easier to become a music artist, but it has never been harder to turn that into a long-term career. A hyper-saturated content environment means record levels of competition and decreasing...

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What would a post-TikTok (US) future look like?

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Hanna Kahlert

14 Mar 2024

The US House of Representatives has just passed a bill, with bipartisan support, which would make TikTok break with parent company Bytedance or be banned from app stores. Based on current discourse, it...

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Music has a gender problem — why do women bear the burden of fixing it?

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Tatiana Cirisano

13 Mar 2024

gender equality

On International Womens’ Day, MIDiA published the fourth annual edition of BE THE CHANGE: Gender equity in music , in collaboration with TuneCore and Believe. We surveyed more than 4,100 music creators...

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Music creators – take our survey!

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Mark Mulligan

21 Feb 2024

Cultural trends

MIDiA is fielding its annual music creator survey and if you are a music creator we would like you to take part. Whether you are a songwriter, artist, producer, engineer, vocalist, DJ, instrumentalist,...

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Format versus context: Can a YouTuber make it on TV?

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Hanna Kahlert

1 Feb 2024

Media and Marketing

Cultural trends

YouTube star MrBeast is making recent headlines for his video upload experiment with X , and now a potential partnership with Amazon Prime Video for a new reality series. The competition to turn the popular...

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One stream’s trash, another stream’s treasure – if everything’s niche, what success can you measure?

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Hanna Kahlert

24 Jan 2024

At this point, we are all on the same page, or at least should be, that ‘niche is the new mainstream’. Thanks to the (sometimes brutal) accuracy of social algorithms, pretty much any artist can find...

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Instagram is becoming Facebook. So where do all the people go?

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Hanna Kahlert

18 Jan 2024

Facebook is the most used social media platform in Western markets (not including YouTube, which may host user-generated content but is not typically considered in the same category). Yet, the broad consensus,...

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Are we approaching an analogue revival?

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Hanna Kahlert

11 Jan 2024

It is now 2024 (yikes), and New Year’s resolutions are making the rounds. Anecdotally, at least seven of us at MIDiA have resolved to go more analogue this year. More broadly, many people, alongside...

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Despite its hyper-futurism, 2023 was a return to the past

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Tatiana Cirisano

21 Dec 2023

From politics to tech to entertainment, the past few years can best be described as unprecedented. In 2023, daily life felt especially futuristic and surreal, with artificial intelligence dominating the...

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2024 will be a year of change (as if there has not been enough already)

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Hanna Kahlert

19 Dec 2023

Four years ago today, the Covid-19 pandemic was but a rumour on the wind. Since then, it would be an understatement to say that much has changed. Digital entertainment consumption boomed and rapidly overwhelmed...

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MIDiA’s 2024 predictions: The algorithm is not listening

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Mark Mulligan

18 Dec 2023

midia predictions

2024 predictions

tech predictions

November is one of my favourite times of year, as an analyst anyways. Why? Because it is when the MIDiA team pool their collective brainpower to formulate our end-of-year predictions. What gives our predictions...

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AI copyright lawsuits beg the bigger question: How valuable is digital content?

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Hanna Kahlert

10 Nov 2023

The future of artificial intelligence (AI) is currently caught between earth-shaking promise on one side, and a tangle of ongoing litigation on the other. This week’s OpenAI keynote painted an exciting...

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Does culture become a commodity, or do commodities become culture?

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Hanna Kahlert

5 Oct 2023

Cultural trends

More than three fourths of audiences believe that the music they listen to reflects who they are. This rises to more than four fifths of people aged 25-44. Music listening is also incredibly personal –roughly...

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The future of AI will orient around datasets… which will put the user in a front-and-centre blind spot

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Hanna Kahlert

6 Sep 2023

The rise of generative AI has thrown the future of creators (of all industries) into question, with copyright being the key to how it all plays out. Models like ChatGPT have an input-output ‘black-box’...

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AI, music rights, and known unknowns

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Mark Mulligan

31 Aug 2023

artificial intelligence

The music industry is approaching a tipping point, with the building blocks of what will be the post-streaming era beginning to fall into place.The streaming era will make way for something new. Innovation,...

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Up close and personal: when the algorithm goes too far

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Tatiana Cirisano

24 Aug 2023

artificial intelligence

Today’s entertainment world is characterised by hyper-personalisation. Everyone has a unique TikTok feed tailored specifically to their own niches. DSP playlists have names like “For You” and “Made...

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