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How Will Finance’s Interest in Music Impact the Industry Compared to Big Tech?

Zach Fuller

16 Dec 2019

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With Hipgnosis continuing to acquire copyright, coupled with Warner Music Group and Providence Equity’s announcement of Tempo Music Investments, the finance industry’s interest in the recorded music business continues to gather momentum.

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Why Facebook Can Be the Future of Social Music, But Isn’t Yet

Mark Mulligan

21 Mar 2019

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Facebook recently secured licensing deals with music rightsholders in India , an important step in what has thus far been an underwhelming social music strategy since first inking rights deals in June 2018.

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Facebook Aims to Bring The Fun Back Into Music

Mark Mulligan

5 Jun 2018

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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...

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Facebook Has Got An Instagram Problem

Mark Mulligan

1 Feb 2018

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Mark Zuckerberg dropped a bit of bombshell during the Q4 2017 earnings call. He announced that Facebook daily active users (DAUs) have fallen across some key markets, including the US. COO Sheryl Sandberg elaborated: “In the US and Canada, these changes contributed to a DAU decline of 700,000 comp...

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Facebook The Media Company: If It Looks Like A Duck

Mark Mulligan

22 Dec 2016

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Yesterday Facebook's CEO Mark Zuckerberg finally confirmed that Facebook is a media company , not a traditional one, but a media company nonetheless. This is something we've been thinking about a lot at MIDiA, so much so in fact that we have just publishedan entire report on the subject: "Facebook T...

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