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Disney, Netflix and the Squeezed Middle: The Real Story Behind Net Neutrality

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Blog post by Mark Mulligan

15 Dec 2017

Unless you have been hiding under a rock this last couple of weeks you’ll have heard at least something about the build up to the decision over turning net neutrality in the US, a decision that was confirmed...

The FCC Repeals Net Neutrality: This Changes Everything

Blog post by Zach Fuller

15 Dec 2017

cable companies

Anticipated for months, the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) voted yesterday to repeal the Obama-era ‘Open Internet Order’ enacted in 2015. Despite public outcry across social media over the...

Shazam Is Apple’s Echo Nest

Blog post by Mark Mulligan

11 Dec 2017

Shazam finally found a buyer: Apple. Ever since its affiliate sales revenue model crumbled with the onset of streaming (there’s no business in an affiliate fee on a $0.01 stream), Shazam has been trying...

What The End Of The Net Neutrality Could Mean For Streaming Businesses

Blog post by Tim Mulligan

8 Dec 2017

On December 14th the US Federal Communications Commission (FCC) will vote on whether or not to end the regulation around net neutrality. New FCC Chairman Ajit Pai believes that net neutrality issues are...

Majors Get The Tracks But Not The Longevity On Today’s Top Hits

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Blog post by Mark Mulligan

27 Nov 2017

A post by Chartmetric’s Sung Cho diving into Spotify playlist metrics caught my attention, and one aspect in particular: how the major labels dominate the flagship Spotify playlist Today’s Top Hits....

This Is What Post-IPO Life Will Look Like For Spotify

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Blog post by Mark Mulligan

17 Nov 2017

Netflix share price

With a fair wind, Spotify’s long-anticipated public offering should happen before the end of Q2 2018 (and yes, probably a direct listing rather than an IPO but 'IPO' worked better in the title!) . The...

Is Hip Hop Keeping Female Artists Out Of The Charts?

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Blog post by Mark Mulligan

12 Nov 2017

females in streaming

There is a gender divide in the upper echelons of popular music. In the US, Taylor Swift is the first woman to top the Hot 100 in 2017, with hits by women accounting for just 14% of all top 10 hits throughout...

Pandora’s Loss Is Sirius XM’s Gain

Blog post by Mark Mulligan

9 Nov 2017

interactive radio

liberty acquisition

Pandora is in trouble, as explained by the consistently excellent Tim Ingham at Music Business Worldwide , after losing a billion dollars over the last four years and monthly active users (MAU) fell to...

Announcing MIDiA’s Streaming Services Market Shares Report

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Blog post by Mark Mulligan

3 Nov 2017

amazon music unlimited

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,...

What Spotify Can Learn From The Roman Slave Trade

Blog post by Mark Mulligan

13 Oct 2017

age of enlightenment

Believe Digital

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...

Netflix Is Becoming More Efficient Than Spotify At Revenue Generation

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Blog post by Tim Mulligan

11 Oct 2017

In the streaming wars, there are two standoutsthat grab all the attention and, in many ways, capture the popular zeitgeist around the transformative power of streaming. The two companies are Netflix and...

Bodak Yellow: The Moment Streaming and Social Overtook Radio in Music Discovery

Blog post by Zach Fuller

6 Oct 2017

Renowned for its natural diversity (at certain points of the year you can hike in the desert, ski and surf on the same day), there was one thing that unified the state of California on my recent visit...

Spotify, Netflix And Instagram Make Gains In Q2 2017

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Blog post by Mark Mulligan

19 Sep 2017

candy crush saga

Since Q4 2016 MIDiA Research has been fielding a quarterly tracker survey across the US, UK, Canada and Australia to build a proprietary dataset that provides a unique insight into how digital consumer...

Sonos @ 15

Blog post by Mark Mulligan

8 Sep 2017

Sonos, granddaddy of the connected home audio marketplace, is now 15 years old. Sonos was a pioneer that was so far ahead of its time, it inadvertently found itself as one of the key early drivers of streaming...

Is QQ Music Worth $10 Billion?

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Blog post by Mark Mulligan

7 Sep 2017

Western appetite for the Chinese market has long been based upon accessing the 1.4 billion consumers. This has in turn impacted valuations of Chinese companies, particularly when eager western investors...

Quick Take: Spotify And Hulu Partner In The US

Blog post by Mark Mulligan

7 Sep 2017

Spotify just announced it is bundling in the Hulu No Commercials plan into its $4.99 student offering in the US. Given that the Hulu product retails at $7.99 and Spotify at $9.99, this is unmistakably...

The Three Eras Of Paid Streaming

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Blog post by Mark Mulligan

28 Jul 2017

3 ages of streaming

3 eras of streaming

3 phases of streaming

Streaming has driven such a revenue renaissance within the major record labels that the financial markets are now falling over themselves to work out where they can invest in the market, and indeed whether...

Why Net Neutrality Is Central To The Streaming Economy

Blog post by Tim Mulligan

13 Jul 2017

The existential question of the digital era is net neutrality. Since the utopian days of 1989 when World Wide Web pioneer Tim Berners-Lee first connected his colleagues via computers at CERN in Switzerland,...

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...

How Soundcloud Could Transform Deezer’s Market Narrative

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Blog post by Mark Mulligan

4 Jul 2017

Access Industries

artist discovery

News has emerged of Deezer being a potential buyer of troubled Soundcloud. This follows on from Spotify’s prolonged but ultimately abortive courting last year . Soundcloud was once a streaming powerhouse,...

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