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The Music Industry Is Forcing Consumers To Choose Between Buying a Lexus And Taking The Bus

Blog post by Mark Mulligan

28 Jan 2016

It has been an eventful few days for the digital music market with developments such as the launch of a whole new breed of unlicensed Spotify clones using the APIs of Spotify and YouTub e, and with Spotify…

Kakao Corp Turns MelOn Into A Full Stack Music Company

Blog post by Mark Mulligan

12 Jan 2016

full stack

Full Stack Music Company

Kakao Corp

Korean messaging app company Kakao Corp has acquired a 76.4% stake in South Korean entertainment company Loen Entertainment for $1.6 billion , valuing the company at $2 billion. Kakao operates the mobile…

MIDiA Data Point Of The Day: Download Buyers

Blog post by Mark Mulligan

16 Dec 2015

adele

Apple

Data Point Of The Day

The standout sales success of Adele over recent week has many permutations, not least of which is the keen reminder that many millions of people still buy downloads and CDs. The streaming transition…

Quick Take: Vevo Buys ShowYou But Will It Seize The Opportunity?

Blog post by Mark Mulligan

8 Dec 2015

Freemium

Music

music streaming

Vevo has acquired video curation/discovery platform ShowYou . There’s a lot of talk about how this could preface a move into subscriptions for Vevo, given that ShowYou launched subscription functionality…

MIDiA Chart Of The Week: How Music Measures Up Against Video

Blog post by Mark Mulligan

23 Nov 2015

Chart Of The Week

Music

music streaming

The music industry has long been viewed as a canary in the mine for how media industries transition into the digital era. In many respects that role has now been outlived. Book publishers quickly realised…

Consumer Spending On Digital Music Fell In 2014 [Yes You Read That Right]

Blog post by Mark Mulligan

17 Nov 2015

Ad Supported

B2b

b2c

Spending money on recorded music has become a lifestyle choice, an honesty box for the conscientious consumer. No one really needs to pay for music anymore. That much is familiar to most, but what…

Quick Take: Facebook Music Stories

Blog post by Karol Severin

6 Nov 2015

Amazon

Apple

digital content

Facebook launched ‘Music Stories’ for iPhone users who use Spotify or Apple Music with more hardware and listening options to follow. Music Stories let’s you share 30 second music snippets from…

MIDiA Data Point Of The Day: Shazam

Blog post by Mark Mulligan

4 Nov 2015

Data Point Of The Day

Mobile content

Music

Shazam has become part of the digital music marketplace furniture but is seeking out a new business model now as there's no money in the affiliate sales model for streams, not that there was ever that…

MIDiA Chart Of The Week: Listening Habits Of Streaming Music Consumers

Blog post by Mark Mulligan

2 Nov 2015

albums

Chart Of The Week

Deezer

Although the relatively early stage of development of the streaming market means that most listening habits are not yet being changed, there are fundamental shifts emerging among streamers and subscribers…

First Take: Electric Jukebox Aims To Take Digital Music To The Mainstream

Blog post by Mark Mulligan

14 Oct 2015

Apple

awakening

awakening the music industry in the digital age

Back in 2009 I wrote a report at Forrester entitled ' Taking Digital Music To The Mainstream: The Music Product Features For The Living Room’ . In it I outlined a vision for a standalone, affordable…

Amazon Prime Music Shows Us Why Catalogue Size Doesn't Matter

Blog post by Mark Mulligan

29 Jul 2015

Amazon

amazon music

Music

This week Amazon launches its streaming music service Amazon Prime Music in the UK. Amazon has long been the sleeping giant of digital music. In the days of CD ecommerce it ruled the roost, the dominant…

Fighting Free With Free: How Youtube Usurped BitTorrent

Blog post by Mark Mulligan

13 May 2015

bittorrent

free music

Freemium

MIDiA Research has published a new report: 'Fighting Free With Free: How YouTube Usurped BitTorrent'. What follows are a few highlights from it. The full report and its accompanying datasets are available…

How Apple Subscriptions Will Change Streaming

Blog post by Mark Mulligan

1 Apr 2015

apple beats

apple music

beats music

All of the talk this week has been of Jay-Z’s TIDAL and how it might change the streaming market. In reality it is another new entrant that will have biggest near term impact: Apple’s forthcoming music…

Music Consumer Segmentation: From Lagging Indicators To Leading Indicators

Blog post by Karol Severin

5 Dec 2014

attitudinal segmentation

behavioural segmentation

consumer attitudes

This week we published our latest report: “Music Consumer Segmentation: From Lagging Indicators To Leading Indicators”. This report explores how music consumer segmentation needs a reboot for the streaming…

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