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Soundcloud, Amazon, Tidal: Streaming’s Other Runners

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Blog post by Mark Mulligan

16 Jun 2016

Music Streaming

Apple, Spotify and YouTube have all been grabbing the streaming headlines of late, albeit for different reasons. While these companies will continue to set the pace over the next couple of years (again,...

Free Report - Cross Border Listening: Borderless Hits And Curated Playlists

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Blog post by Mark Mulligan

7 Jun 2016

On Fridayat Midem we launched our new report ‘Cross Border Listening: Borderless Hits And Curated Playlists’. MIDiA produced this report in conjunction with Midem for the 50th anniversary event and...

The 2 Spotify Charts You Need To See

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Blog post by Mark Mulligan

25 May 2016

Music Streaming

Tuesday’s media scrum around Spotify’s financials illustrate that whatever ground Apple and Tidal may have made in recent months, Spotify clearly remains the poster child / bellwether for streaming....

The Digital Music Week In Review 20 5 16

Blog post by Mark Mulligan

20 May 2016

This is first in a semi-regular round up of what’s caught our eye in digital music over the last week: Facebook’s Slideshow could kill off Flipagram but I wouldn’t be so so worried if I was Musical.ly,...

A High Tide Rises All Streaming Boats, For Now…

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Blog post by 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,...

State Of The Streaming Nation

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Blog post by 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...

Don't Write Pandora Off Just Yet

Blog post by Mark Mulligan

29 Mar 2016

Pandora has made the news again with founder Tim Westergren stepping up to the role of CEO, replacing Brain McAndrews. These are certainly uncertain times for Pandora, once the stand out success story...

Quick Take: BBC Music App

Blog post by 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...

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...

Why Spotify Is Getting Into Video

Blog post by Tim Mulligan

26 Jan 2016

short form video

This week looks set to herald the launch of video content on Spotify’s Android app with a video enabling update coming to the service’s iOS app coming later. Initially the video viewing functionality...

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

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Blog post by Mark Mulligan

6 Jan 2016

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....

MIDiA Datapoint Of The Day: Mobile Music Piracy

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Blog post by Mark Mulligan

4 Dec 2015

Data Point Of The Day

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...

MIDiA Chart Of The Week: Music Discovery

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Blog post by Mark Mulligan

30 Nov 2015

Chart Of The Week

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...

Quick Take: Apple Music Comes To Android

Blog post by Mark Mulligan

11 Nov 2015

As long anticipated Apple has launched the Android edition of Apple Music. I t is a non-typical move for Apple but not one without precedent, not least of which the Windows edition of iTunes which was...

Quick Take: Facebook Music Stories

Blog post by Karol Severin

6 Nov 2015

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 Spotify...

Pandora’s Serial Deal Shows That Music Alone Is No Longer Enough

Blog post by Mark Mulligan

3 Nov 2015

Pandora this week announced that it signed a deal to become the exclusive streaming partner for hugely successful podcast Serial. The move is interesting on many fronts, not least what impact having near-on-demand...

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

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Blog post by Mark Mulligan

2 Nov 2015

Chart Of The Week

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...

Sonos, Google And The Outlook For Connected Home Audio

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Blog post by Mark Mulligan

29 Sep 2015

Chromecast Audio

connected home audio

There were two big announcements today in the connected home audio space. Sonos announced its new flagship Play5 speaker while Google launched its Chromecast audio , a streaming audio dongle that plugs...

Fighting Free With Free: How Youtube Usurped BitTorrent

Blog post by Mark Mulligan

13 May 2015

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...

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