Quick Take: Tesla’s Streaming Ambition

Blog post by Mark Mulligan

23 Jun 2017

auto

electric cars

elon musk

Reports have emerged that Tesla is looking to build its own streaming music service. In practice, this will most likely be a case of Tesla building a streaming service that operates solely for Tesla users,...

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The Internet’s Adolescence: The Real World Catches Up Eventually

Blog post by Mark Mulligan

19 May 2017

AOL

Apple

facebook

I started my career as an internet analyst back in the period of the dot-com bubble. They were heady days in which anything seemed possible. The world was changing in unprecedented ways and the possibilities...

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Will Amazon’s Lex Platform Be the New App-Store?

Blog post by Zach Fuller

21 Apr 2017

Alexa

Amazon

amazon prime video

Swiftly following the success of the Echo, Amazon have announced their Lex platform is now open to 3rd party developers, allowing them to create and monetise chat-bots, further embellishing the device....

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Quick Take: Baidu Acquires xPerception as Competition in Sensory Computing Heats Up

Blog post by Zach Fuller

14 Apr 2017

Alibaba

Amazon Echo

Apple

Chinese tech giant Baidu announced today they will be acquiring xPerception, in what can be interpreted as a strategic play for the Augmented Reality market. At face value, xPerception covers much of 2017...

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A Tale Of Two Technologies: The Narrative And The Numbers For VR And Voice

Blog post by Zach Fuller

1 Feb 2017

Alexa

Amazon

Amazon Echo

In the tradition of effective storytelling, the technology industry’s romantic narrative often involves two basic troupes: a garage and a dream. This alluring chronology is so embedded in start-up folklore...

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Quick Take: Can Pokemon Go Help Boost The Smartwatch Market?

Blog post by Karol Severin

23 Dec 2016

Apple Watch

Innovation

Mobile content

Pokemon Go launched for Apple Watch with an Android version coming soon. The smartwatch version will undoubtedly provide better experience to Pokemon Go players, but will the mobile gaming phenomenon prove...

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Experience Should Be Everything In 2017

Blog post by Mark Mulligan

16 Dec 2016

apple music

Deezer

design

2017 is going to be a big year for streaming. Spotify will likely IPO, paid subscribers will pass the 100 million mark in Q1, playlists will boom. 2017will build upon an upbeat 2016 in which the major...

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Black Friday Offer: Free MIDiA VR Report

Blog post by Mark Mulligan

25 Nov 2016

Free MIDiA Report

free report

Free VR Report

Shamelessly jumping on the Black Friday bandwagon we have a great offer for you: sign up to the MIDiA weekly research briefing newslettertoday and get a free 18 page VR report: 'The State Of The VR Nation'....

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Why Only Now Are eSports Taking Off?

Blog post by Zach Fuller

18 Nov 2016

esports

facebook

Innovation

Although organised competitions featuring video gamers have existed since the medium’s rise throughout the 70s, it is only recently that the concept of lucrative E-Sports Leagues has become a mainstream...

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How Snapchat’s Year of Living Dangerously Could End with a Major Win

Blog post by Zach Fuller

11 Nov 2016

augmented reality

facebook

flash

Despite an audience both of huge scale and engagement (150m Daily Active Users), this is an uncertain time for Snap Inc. Though they have impressively manoeuvred away from their original incarnation as...

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Facebook Is Finally Ready To Become A Media Company

Blog post by Mark Mulligan

10 Nov 2016

esports

facebook

Innovation

Facebook beat estimates with its latest earnings but announced that ad revenues would likely slow in 2017 as the digital ad market feels the pinch of advertiser budgets lagging the shift in user behaviour....

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Has Snapchat Learned From Twitter’s IPO?

Blog post by Zach Fuller

14 Oct 2016

Amazon

augmented reality

echo

Snap Inc, the parent company of messaging app Snapchat, have hired Goldman Sachs and Morgan Stanley for a seemingly imminent IPO. In addition to being one of the first app generation unicorns (alongside...

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Watch Out Access, Liberty Media Is Building A Full Stack Music Company

Blog post by Mark Mulligan

7 Sep 2016

Access Industries

BMG

Deezer

Access Industries’ full stack music company has, ahem, company: Liberty Media. With a combined market market cap of $37 billion, John Malone’s Liberty group of companies is by anyone’s standards...

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Full-Stack Media and Smart TV: Why LeEco’s Acquisition of Vizio Has Big Implications for Apple and Pay TV Giants

Blog post by Zach Fuller

4 Aug 2016

Alibaba

Apple

Innovation

LeEco’s (formerly LeTV) $2 Billion acquisition of flat screen makers Vizio is a bold step in the development of full-stack media offerings for Smart TV. The deal essentially buys LeEco directly into...

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SupaPass Joins The Artist Subscription Fray

Blog post by Mark Mulligan

8 Jul 2016

artist apps

artist subscriptions

Disciple Media

Back in 2009, when I was at Forrester Research, I laid out the vision for the future of the album , an interactive artist subscription app that contained audio, video, exclusive content, social, lyrics,...

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Quick Take: Why Twitter Is Moving Into The Increasingly Congested VR Space

Blog post by Zach Fuller

29 Jun 2016

augmented reality

Innovation

journalism

Twitter have hired former Apple designer Alessandro Sabatelli to oversee the company’s Virtual and Augmented Reality teams, a position Sabatelli claims is to ‘empower us all in the spatial computing...

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Yonder Music Unlocks The Emerging Market Opportunity

Blog post by Mark Mulligan

27 Jun 2016

Axiata

Beyond Oblivion

celcom

One of the high profile digital music casualties of recent years was the failed ‘next generation’ service provider Beyond Oblivion. There were numerous factors behind Beyond Oblivion’s failure but...

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Bad Data Is The Worm In The Apple For Streaming Music

Blog post by Mark Mulligan

14 Mar 2016

7Digital

Bad Data

data

2016 is proving to be tricky year for streaming rights. No sooner did it start to look like artists and labels were beginning to feel comfortable with streaming then along come a veritable flood of songwriter...

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What Sony Music's Purchase Of Essential Music Says About The Future Of The Music Industry

Blog post by Mark Mulligan

2 Mar 2016

AWAL

Blockchain

consolidation

Independent label services company Essential Music & Marketing is no longer independent, having just been acquired by Sony Musi c and merged with Sony’s label services division Red to create a new...

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How Free Is Defining Digital Content Strategy

Blog post by Mark Mulligan

24 Feb 2016

Add Revenue

buzzfeed

free

The internet’s ‘gift’ to media companies was free. And it’s the gift that just keeps giving. Record labels, newspapers, online publishers, TV companies, games publishers continue to grapple with...

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