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Quick Take: YouTube Acquires BandPage

Mark Mulligan

12 Feb 2016

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Direct to fan platform BandPage today announced that it is being acquired by YouTube. BandPage already integrates with a number of streaming services to sell merchandise, tickets and more for artists directly to fans on streaming platforms.

MIDiA Chart Of The Week: The Steady Decline Of The CD Buyer

Mark Mulligan

8 Feb 2016

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As much as we may be in the era of streaming, nearly half of recorded music revenue globally is still derived from physical sales, with the CD making up the vast majority of that. So, for all the understandable focus on how YouTube, Spotify, Soundcloud & co are shaping the future of the music bu...

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YouTube Just Broke The Chart’s Back

Mark Mulligan

3 Feb 2016

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Or rather the music industry just broke the chart’s back with YouTube, although it doesn’t realise it yet. And here’s why… It is normal when switching between old and new worlds to use equivalents, deutschmarks to euros, inches to centimetres, circulation numbers to unique visitors etc.

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Full Stack Or Media-Tech Conglomerate? Just What Kind Of Empire Is Access Industries Building?

Mark Mulligan

21 Jan 2016

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Deezer announced yesterday that it had closed a further €100 million investment round led by existing investors Access Industries and French telco Orange. There is no doubt Deezer needs the growth capital to re-establish momentum in a market where Apple Music has almost instantly shunted it into t...

Kakao Corp Turns MelOn Into A Full Stack Music Company

Mark Mulligan

12 Jan 2016

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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 messaging app Kakao Talk which has around 50 million users, 39 million of which are in South Kor...

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Why P2P Is Still The Big Deal For TV That It Used To Be For Music

Mark Mulligan

6 Jan 2016

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Piracy tracking website Torrent Freak released the chart of the 10 most downloaded TV shows on BitTorrent in 2015 . There are few surprises. The most successful TVs shows are also the most pirated TV shows.

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MIDiA Predictions 2016: Video Eats The World

Mark Mulligan

18 Dec 2015

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With 2015 rapidly drawing to a close we have taken the opportunity to present the big trends that MIDiA Research believes will shape digital content and media in 2016. The entire findings are available exclusivelyto MIDiA subscribers in the report: “MIDiA Research Predictions, 2016: Video Eats The...

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MIDiA Data Point Of The Day: Download Buyers

Mark Mulligan

16 Dec 2015

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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 continues to gather pace yet it has many years yet to run.

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Quick Take: Taylor Swift, Apple Music And The Search For Exclusives

Mark Mulligan

14 Dec 2015

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Taylor Swift just announced that Apple Music will be the exclusive streaming partner of her latest live film ‘The 1989 World Tour Live’ which includes alongside footage of the performances, back stage and behind the scenes footage.

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

Mark Mulligan

8 Dec 2015

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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 back in October 2014, and that’s probably right but there’s not too much about the company...

MIDiA Datapoint Of The Day: Mobile Music Piracy

Mark Mulligan

4 Dec 2015

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One thing you'll often hear cited in defence of streaming is that it has helped kill piracy. On the surface that might be seem to be true given that music P2P penetration is down. But all is not as it seems.

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Quick Take: Believe Digital Licenses QQ Music

Mark Mulligan

3 Dec 2015

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Following hot on the heals of last week’s Yonder Celcom deal in Malaysia , indie label distributor Believe Digital announced a licensing deal with Chinese telco Tencent’s QQ Music service. Although QQ’s offering is not strictly directly comparable with western AYCE services it nonetheless has ...

MIDiA Chart Of The Week: Music Discovery

Mark Mulligan

30 Nov 2015

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When YouTube first starting rising to prominence streaming music was still in its infancy. Thus even though royalty payments were far form setting the world alight, there was a clear case for YouTube views driving discovery which then led to sales.

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Yonder And The Next 100 Million

Mark Mulligan

25 Nov 2015

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Yonder’s partnershipwith Celcom Axciata in Malayisa is a deal that you might have missed . But you should pay attention because it points to the huge emerging market opportunity for music that is largely going unmet.

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

Mark Mulligan

23 Nov 2015

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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 that after a few short years they had moved beyond where the labels had got to in 10.

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

Mark Mulligan

17 Nov 2015

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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 is new is that it is now manifesting itself in a new worrying way.

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Quick Take: Facebook Music Stories

Karol Severin

6 Nov 2015

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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 Spotify and Apple Music.

MIDiA Data Point Of The Day: Shazam

Mark Mulligan

4 Nov 2015

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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 much in the download sales affiliate model either.

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

Mark Mulligan

2 Nov 2015

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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 that point to the future of music consumption: Subscribers are fickle listeners: 58% of subscri...

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Will Adele Be The Last Hurrah Of The Album Era?

Mark Mulligan

23 Oct 2015

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The much anticipated Adele album ‘25’ will go on sale on November 20th and its lead single ‘Hello’ hit the airwaves and Vevo today , with Adele doing an impressive number of near-simultaneous radio interviews in support.

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