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Music Catalogue and Streaming

Zach Fuller

18 May 2018

music catalogue

rhino entertainment

When it comes to the music industry’s transition towards streaming, how the model has worked in the past requires a reconsideration of perspective. This is because throughout the business’s entire history, catalogue and copyright accounted for the majority of revenue, as breaking new artists was, and remains, an expensive endeavour very much in the VC model of investment, with a few large payoffs accounting for the overall cost.

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Disney Q2 Earnings: The Warnings Lights Are Flashing

Tim Mulligan

9 May 2018

Yesterday’s Q2 Earning Results from the Walt Disney Company pleased Wall Street by beating earnings estimates. However, a closer look at the financials reveals why Disney’s much heralded pivot to subscription video on demand (SVOD) is a strategic imperative for the longevity of the media conglomerate.

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Q1 Snapshot: Advertising and Media in Big Tech

Zach Fuller

4 May 2018

amazon media group

The past three months saw big tech’s advertising and media practices thrust into the spotlight, with the very public Cambridge Analytica controversy swiftly following the EU’s introduction of GDPR.

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Does Tencent Hold The Key To The Future Of Media Distribution?

Tim Mulligan

3 May 2018

The digital foundations of premium video are undergoing profound transformation. Firstly, traditional TV programming and feature films are becoming decoupled from their original distribution technologies and repositioned as premium video content for digital services.

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Spotify Q1 2018 Results: Full Stream Ahead

Mark Mulligan

2 May 2018

Spotify earnings

spotify earnings q1 2018

Spotify released its first ever quarterly earnings results today. The results reflect strong performance in its first public quarter with growth in subscribers, total users, revenue and also gross profit.

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New Media's YouTube Strategy

Zach Fuller

27 Apr 2018

New media’s video strategy came to the fore in the last year. With instant articles on Facebook and Google meaning Vice, BuzzFeed and Vox’s core platforms lost significant amounts of traffic, video became the key source of revenue, while native advertising and branded content articles lost their cachet with advertisers.

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CBS Launches International SVOD Foray with All Access in Canada

Tim Mulligan

25 Apr 2018

Amazon Prime Video

Yesterday, April 24, CBS launched CBS All Access in Canada. This the first international market for the US network’s subscription video on demand (SVOD) service and represents a clear statement of intent by CBS to compete internationally with its own brand content offerings for non-US digital audiences.

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Free Report: Digital Music Is Streaming Forward

Dara Jegede

16 Apr 2018

Amazon Prime Music

MIDiA is proud to partner with DiMA on its inaugural Streaming Forward Report. Digital distribution, andstreaming in particular, has been transforming music business in recent years. Although digital business models had already transformed content marketplaces prior to the rise of streaming, it is the rise of streaming services that really flicked the switch on this radical transformation.

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TV Connect: Where Video Distribution Meets IP

Dara Jegede

16 Apr 2018

Media and Marketing

TV Connect returns to Olympia London next month. Have you booked your free visitor pass yet? On 9– 10 May, senior industry execs will meet to network, discover future-proof tech and focusonthe changing face of video distribution, content delivery and media technology.

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Facebook Might Just Have Done YouTube a Massive Favour

Mark Mulligan

13 Apr 2018

The word on the street is that the deals labels have struck with Facebook for its forthcoming music service have been done on a blanket license basis (i.e. a flat fee) with no reporting. This was reported by Music Business Worldwide and has been confirmed to me by various well-placed third parties: “One controversial element of these agreements is, we hear, that these are ‘blind’ checks: effectively, advances that are not tied to any kind of usage reports from Facebook.

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Spotify D(PO)-Day

Mark Mulligan

3 Apr 2018

Arguably the most anticipated day in the history of digital music is upon us. By the end of it we will have the first hint at whether Spotify is going to fall at the Snap Inc. or Facebook end of the spectrum of promising tech IPO, or DPO in the case of Spotify.

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Quick Take: Have We Witnessed Peak Silicon Valley?

Zach Fuller

30 Mar 2018

fairchild semiconductors

In light of Facebook’s controversial handling of the Cambridge Analytica scandal, it seems a pertinent time to ask if the world is falling out of love with Silicon Valley, the West Coast powerhouse that birthed many of the world’s eminent technology companies.

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Quick Take: Frustrate and Destroy – YouTube’s Frontloaded Strategy

Zach Fuller

23 Mar 2018

Listen to any music streaming debate and it will not be long before you the value gap discussion regarding YouTube is brought up. It is a point MIDiA has discussed at length through distinguishing Spotify and YouTube’s business models (that of all streams created equal vs share of ad revenue), but YouTube Head of Music Lyor Cohen is looking to change that.

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Why Exclusive Live Sports Coverage Matters To Facebook

Tim Mulligan

14 Mar 2018

Facebook’s decision to acquire the exclusive digital streaming rights to Major League Baseball is another clear push by the social media giant into the traditional world of TV content. The agreement which was publicised on March 9th, allows Facebook to stream 25 live games in 2018 through the MLB Live show Page , making Facebook the MLB’s exclusive digital distribution partner outside of the MLB Network , which is the MLB’s authenticated channel app service (an app which can also be viewed on desktops where you have to provide pay-TV partner login details in order to access the service).

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Could Magic Leap’s Future End Up More B2B than B2C?

Karol Severin

13 Mar 2018

magic leap funding

Magic Leap announced last week that it has raised $461 million from the Saudi Arabia’s Public Investment Fund. This brings its latest fundraising round (D) to $963 million, which makes a total of $2.

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SVOD and the Emerging Video Content Bubble

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Tim Mulligan

5 Mar 2018

Media and Marketing

Another week, another inflated data point around the expanding content offerings on premium video services. Netflix CEO David Wells announced on Tuesday, 27th February, that not only will Netflix spend $8 billion on content in 2018, but it will be commissioning up to 700 original series this year.

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Why Comcast is bidding for Sky

Mark Mulligan

27 Feb 2018

In a dramatic development Tuesday, US telco giant Comcast announced it is bidding £22.1 billion ($31 billion) for UK pay-TV operator Sky. This is a 16% premium to the existing takeover bid currently undergoing regulatory review from 21st Century Fox.

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The Digital Advertising Contest Between Google And Facebook Is Intensifying

Zach Fuller

14 Feb 2018

digital advertising

Brace yourselves for a stats-centric blog. Having gone through this week’s annual reports from big tech, there have been some important developments in the digital advertising space. These of course hold significant implications for content monetisation, as whilst subscriptions remain the core driver of growth, ad-supported content is a vital component of overall revenue.

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Quick Take: Is Pandora Too Big to Fail for the US Streaming Economy?

Zach Fuller

5 Feb 2018

A quick appraisal of the US music streaming space reveals some surprising distinctions in the market, particularly when compared to global trends. The US Streaming market is disproportionately ad-supported: The United States is still the world’s largest music market, despite its dominance being challenged by Japan’s robust physical market (the country even briefly overtook the US as the world’s largest music market in 2010).

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Why Chinese Tech & US Film Production Need Each Other

Tim Mulligan

30 Jan 2018

Media and Marketing

Thursday’s (January25th) announcement that Tencent was acquiring 10% of movie and TV production company Skydance Media, revealed the latest front in the content war being fought between tech and media, and increasingly between US companies and their Chinese competitors.

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