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Quick Take: Spotify Expands Premium Duo into Latin America

Blog post by Zach Fuller

5 Sep 2019

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Spotify has announced that its Premium Duo plan will be expanding to another 17 countries, 14 of which are in Latin America. The plan, which is effectively a mini version of its popular family offering,...

Why Stormzy as a Glastonbury Headliner Makes Sense Post-Streaming

Blog post by Zach Fuller

27 Jun 2019

Live music industry

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On the eve of Stormzy becoming the first Grime artist to headline Glastonbury, it is worth considering what this represents in terms of the link between the new streaming economy and live music. The South...

The Limitations of Music Streaming’s Globalising of Revenue

Blog post by Zach Fuller

12 Apr 2019

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One of music streaming’s great promises is that it creates a more globalised industry. In many ways it is delivering: revenues are rising in markets previously deemed problematic to conduct business...

Quick Take: Spotify’s Throwback Hub and the Future of the Album

Blog post by Zach Fuller

4 Apr 2019

Music Streaming

Throwback Thursday, one of Spotify’s most popular features, has been expanded into a new Throwback hub. Launching initially with 30 playlists and described by Austin Daboh, Head of Music Culture &...

Sirius XM Acquires Pandora: Greater Than The Sum Of Their Parts?

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Blog post by Zach Fuller

24 Sep 2018

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In the latest example of media acquisitions, though one less likely to flood the headlines as Comcast’s purchase of Sky, Sirius XM has announced it will be purchasing streaming service Pandora for $3.5...

Spotify’s Tencent Risk

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Blog post by Mark Mulligan

21 Sep 2018

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NOTE: a previous version of this post referred to a non-compete clause with Spotify detailed in this SEC filing. I have been advised that the scope of this clause is narrower than I had originally interpreted....

Mid-Year 2018 Streaming Market Shares

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Blog post by Mark Mulligan

13 Sep 2018

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Amazon Prime Music

Music subscribers grew by 16% in the first half of 2018 to reach 229.5 million, up from 198.6 million at the end of 2017. Year-on-year the global subscriber base increased by 38%, adding 62.8 million subscribers....

Podcasts: Monetising Behind Streaming Paywalls

Blog post by Georgia Meyer

31 Aug 2018

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Spotify’s exclusive deal with The Joe Budden podcast, as well as upping the output from a weekly to a bi-weekly show, is demonstrative of the opportunity that music streaming services perceive podcasts...

Audio Advertising: The New Critical Interface to Reach Premium Consumers

Blog post by Georgia Meyer

11 Jul 2018

A key way MIDiA Research defines premium consumers is the extent to which they fall into the early adopter and early follower consumer categories. An early adopter is characterised by a propensity to be...

Midem 2018 – Definitive Disruption: Streaming Opportunities in Africa

Blog post by Georgia Meyer

13 Jun 2018

The Africa focus at this year’s Midem began in April, with four local forums in South Africa, Nigeria, Ivory Coast and Congo. This culminated in a focused set of talks, seminars and a keynote on the...

Do Playlists Make the Power Law in Music Even More Extreme?

Blog post by Zach Fuller

31 May 2018

Music Streaming

Music has always been a superstar economy. Data going back to the 50s shows that, like many other areas of life and business, a disproportionate amount of the results come from a small number of factors....

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

Blog post by 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...

Announcing MIDiA’s Streaming Services Market Shares Report

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Blog post by Mark Mulligan

3 Nov 2017

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As the streaming music market matures, the bar is continually raised for the quality of data required, both in terms of granularity and accuracy. At MIDiA we have worked hard to earn a reputation for high-quality,...

Amazon Music: The Dark Horse Comes Out Of The Shadows

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Blog post by Mark Mulligan

20 Oct 2017

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Amazon Prime Music

MIDiA has just published a new report that analyses Amazon’s streaming music strategy and how this fits within the wider competitive landscape. Here are some highlights: Back in the days when online...

What Spotify Can Learn From The Roman Slave Trade

Blog post by Mark Mulligan

13 Oct 2017

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OK, you’re going to have to bearwith me on this one, but let me take you back to 2nd century Rome… The Roman Empire was at the peak of its powers. Its borders stretched from Scotland down to Syria...

The Art of Windowing: Why 4:44 is a Different Kind of Exclusive

Blog post by Zach Fuller

5 Jul 2017

For a brief moment last year, windowing seemed like the future of music streaming. Already common practice in the film-industry, the strategy was being touted as a way of utilising artist fan engagement...

Exclusive: Deezer Is Exploring User Centric Licensing

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Blog post by Mark Mulligan

19 Apr 2017

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One of the great, though less heralded, successes of streaming in 2016 was keeping the lid on artist angst. Previous years had been defined by seemingly endless complaints from worried and angry artists...

Introducing MIDiA's Streaming Music Health Check

Blog post by Mark Mulligan

10 Jan 2017

2nd quarter 2016

We are pleased to announce the arrival of the following MIDiA report on our report store: 'Streaming Music Health Check: Streaming’s Watershed Moment'. You can purchase the report here. MIDiA Research...

Music Subscriptions Passed 100 Million In December. Has The World Changed?

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Blog post by Mark Mulligan

6 Jan 2017

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In streaming’s earlier years, when doubts prevailed across the artist, songwriter and label communities, one of the arguments put forward by enthusiasts was that when streaming reached scale everything...

Apple Just Changed The Rules Of Telco Music Strategy

Blog post by Mark Mulligan

26 Aug 2016

Apple today made an announcement that has in an instant turned the tables in the streaming marketplace: it has launched a 6 month Apple Music bundle with mobile carrier EE in the UK . EE is now unique...

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