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Apple Just Changed The Rules Of Telco Music Strategy

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 in the western world in having a music offering both for post-pay (Apple Music) and for pre-pay (the MTV Trax Sim ).

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Introducing The Future Music Forum

Mark Mulligan

22 Aug 2016

Future Music Forum

This September MIDiA will be participating in t he Future Music Forum (FMF) in Barcelona . We’ve been involved with the FMF since its inception and we think it’s a great, intimate event that combines forward thinking presentations with informal but highly productive networking.

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Technology Roots: Why Hip-Hop and Dance Leaves Rock Behind in the Streaming Era

Zach Fuller

19 Aug 2016

chance the rapper

The Tidal, Spotify and Apple Music exclusives Cold-War reveals something telling: from Drake, to Chance the Rapper, Frank Ocean and The Weeknd, the quest to garner exclusives has been done almost entirely with R&B, Hip-Hop and Dance artists, with minimal efforts to secure the same deals for Rock musicians.

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Is TV Going To Be The Saviour of Apple?

Tim Mulligan

27 Jul 2016

Yesterday’s quarterly earnings by Apple have met with a mixed reception from Wall Street. The stock price climbed 6.1% as as the tech giant reported that its quarterly earnings revenue were was at $42.

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Why Taylor Swift And Co Are Aiming To Disrupt YouTube

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Tim Mulligan

21 Jun 2016

Media and Marketing

It’s not everyday that a digital native threatens to disrupt the world’s largest video sharing platform. But then Taylor Swift is no ordinary 26 year old. And YouTube is no ordinary platform. Both have come out on opposite sides of the debate about how music artists are compensated for their work being monetized on what is effectively the world’s default jukebox .

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Spotify, Pandora And YouTube: In Search Of The Real Value Of Free

Mark Mulligan

20 Jun 2016

per stream rates

The music industry remains in a fix over free. The freemium wars in late 2014 almost saw the freemium tier of Spotify turned off in the face of pressure from Apple’s Jimmy Iovine. The majors eventually decided to stick with freemium but the free music wound continues to fester, with YouTube the new public enemy number one.

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Guvera's IPO Raises More Questions Than It Answers

Mark Mulligan

1 Jun 2016

Australian streaming music service Guvera has announced its long-anticipated IPO on Australia’s ASX exchange in July. Guvera has always been an intriguing component of the digital music landscape. On the surface it has been pioneering music streaming in emerging markets where the big western services have failed to make inroads.

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YouTube’s New Instant Messaging Feature

Karol Severin

16 May 2016

consumer behavior

Last week Wired reported that YouTube introduced a messaging feature to a small group of users, allowing them to send instant messages and share videos within YouTube’s mobile app. Though YouTube is the number one video consumption ecosystem, its users have been missing a chance to seamlessly chat about and share videos within the platform.

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Chart Of The Week: Music Aficionados

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Mark Mulligan

16 May 2016

Chart Of The Week

consumer segmentation

Music Aficionados are consumers that spend above average time and money with music. They represent just 17% of all consumers but a whopping 61% of all recorded music spending. These consumers shape the fortunes of the music business.

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$500 Million Muscial.ly Shines Harsh Light On Music Licensing Strategy

Mark Mulligan

9 May 2016

Readers of the Music Industry Blog ma y remember a post I wrote there a few months ago on music messenger apps and the 15 second song. We will be writing a MIDiA report on music messaging apps over the next couple of months and in preparation we have been compiling data on all the key players.

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A High Tide Rises All Streaming Boats, For Now…

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Mark Mulligan

27 Apr 2016

Music Subscriptions

Against the backdrop of the first quarterly drop in revenue in 13 years and a sharp decline in China revenue, Apple Music at least had some good news in the shape of continued solid growth for Apple Music, hitting 13 million subscribers.

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State Of The Streaming Nation

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Mark Mulligan

5 Apr 2016

emerging markets

We are proud to announce a landmark MIDiA report: State Of The Streaming Nation: A Comprehensive Assessment Of The Global Streaming Music Market . If you are in any way involved with the streaming music market this report is an absolute must.

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Why YouTube Is Getting Into Live Streaming

Tim Mulligan

24 Mar 2016

Yesterday the news broke on VentureBeat that YouTube has been secretly building a new app for live streaming video. This places the world’s largest video platform into direct competition with Facebook with its Live video broadcasting feature for select A-Listers, and Twitter with its unrestricted Periscope app.

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Chart Of The Week. Playlists 1, Albums 0 – How Streaming Is Changing Music Listening

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Mark Mulligan

21 Mar 2016

Chart Of The Week

Chart Of The Week

The album has been under assault ever since Napster first gave consumers the ability cherry pick their favourite tracks and leave the filler behind. Apple formalised the process with the iTunes Store and in recent years streaming has hammered the nail in the coffin by supercharging the consumption shift towards playlists.

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Bad Data Is The Worm In The Apple For Streaming Music

Mark Mulligan

14 Mar 2016

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 class action suits in the US, against TIDAL , Rhapsody and Spotify , twice .

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Music Piracy Hasn't Gone, It Has Merely Changed Its Spots

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Mark Mulligan

14 Mar 2016

Chart Of The Week

Chart Of The Week

While the music industry slowly got its head around the brave new world of digital in the 2000’s piracy used to be the dominant focus of record labels and their trade associations. Now, with so much momentum and scale among legitimate services that focus has understandably lessened.

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Could Facebook Be About To Get Into Premium Video Content?

Tim Mulligan

9 Mar 2016

Last Thursday Variety reported that Facebook is considering bidding for the NFL streaming rights for Thursday night games. The National Football league is auctioning off the digital rights to stream 18 regular season games on OTT services (Non-Traditional-internet based video streaming services.

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Quick Take: MTV Trax EE SIM Bundle

Mark Mulligan

3 Mar 2016

There are two gaping holes in the digital music landscape: 1) a wide range of products for mass market consumers, 2) telco music bundles for pre-pay mobile customers. MusicQubed has just taken a stab at addressing both with a MTV Trax pre-pay SIM bundle with UK mobile carrier EE.

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

Mark Mulligan

2 Mar 2016

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 entity: Red Essential.

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Quick Take: BBC Music App

Mark Mulligan

1 Mar 2016

The BBC has launched a music app called, well, BBC Music . Available only in the UK, this native music app is one step on a well considered path for the BBC as it tries to carve out a role for itself in streaming era.

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