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What Spotify Can Learn From The Roman Slave Trade

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 and across to Armenia, and throughout its dominions, Rome spread its culture, language, administration and military prowess.

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Netflix Is Becoming More Efficient Than Spotify At Revenue Generation

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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 Spotify:both were early adopters of streaming technology as a business, to consumer distribution platform for media content.

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

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 last month.

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Spotify, Netflix And Instagram Make Gains In Q2 2017

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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 trends are evolving quarter-upon-quarter.

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Sonos @ 15

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 subscriptions.

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Is QQ Music Worth $10 Billion?

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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 are involved.

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Quick Take: Spotify And Hulu Partner In The US

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 a good value for money deal – even compared to the standard $4.

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The Three Eras Of Paid Streaming

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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 they should.

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Why Net Neutrality Is Central To The Streaming Economy

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 emerging interconnected world of academics and entrepreneurs has been engaged in an ongoing battle of the underlying principles of the infrastructure underpinning the internet.

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

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 to drive registrations (both freemium and paid) to streaming services, thus engendering the payment behaviours that would ultimately grow the industry.

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How Soundcloud Could Transform Deezer’s Market Narrative

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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, with 175 million Monthly Active Users reported in October 2014.

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Guess Who Gen Z Prefers For Music: Spotify Or YouTube?

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Mark Mulligan

29 Jun 2017

It is still common to hear people talk about Millennials as if it is one amorphous group. In actual fact, Millennials are now 2 entirely distinct generations, not 1. In addition to the core Millennials we now have a new generation of younger consumers born on or around 2000.

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Quick Take: Tesla’s Streaming Ambition

Mark Mulligan

23 Jun 2017

Reports have emerged that Tesla is looking to build its own streaming music service. In practice, this will most likely be a case of Tesla building a streaming service that operates solely for Tesla users, rather than competing head on with Apple and Spotify.

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Quick Take: Is Spotify Doing A Facebook?

Mark Mulligan

20 Jun 2017

sponsored tracks

The Verge has reported that Spotify is trialling sponsored songs , tailored to users’ tastes, that are embedded in users’ playlists. Spotify tests a lot of things on subsets of its user base so this does not mean that this will necessarily be rolled out more widely.

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MIDiA at Midem 2017

Zach Fuller

11 Jun 2017

MIDiA Research were one of thousands of delegates who arrived in Cannes this week to attend Midem; the annual conference addressing the latest developments in the music industry. Across 4 days of panels, here are three points we found most insightful: Still no consensus on streaming : Perhaps predictably, many of the event’s panels with regard to the recorded music business were geared towards streaming.

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Who’s Leading The Streaming Music Pack?

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Mark Mulligan

25 May 2017

Google Play Music All Access

At MIDiA Research we are currently in the final stages of producing the update to our annual landmark report: The State Of The Streaming Nation, a report which compiles every streaming market data point you could possibly need.

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Universal And Spotify’s Deal Is An Even Bigger Deal Than It Looks

Mark Mulligan

4 Apr 2017

music licensing

Universal Music and Spotify have finally agreed on terms for the streaming service’s new licensing deal which reportedly includes better rates tied to growth targets and premium windowing. Check out Tim Ingham’s piece for detail on the deal.

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Drake's More Life is the New Normal in Streaming

Zach Fuller

23 Mar 2017

Released over the weekend after much delay, Drake’s More Life project is setting records across the board on streaming platforms. The Canadian artist described More Life as ‘a body of work bridging the gap between major releases’ and positioned the release as neither a mixtape nor an album, but rather ‘a playlist’.

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Four Companies That Could Buy Spotify

Mark Mulligan

15 Feb 2017

21st Century Fox

For much of 2016 it looked nailed on that Spotify would IPO in 2017 and that the recorded music industry would move onto its next chapter, for better or for worse. The terms of Spotify’s $1 billion debt raise (which mean that Spotify pays an extra 1% on its 5% annual interest payments every six months beyond its previously agreed IPO date) suggest that Spotify was thinking the same way too.

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Why Netflix Can Turn A Profit But Spotify Cannot (Yet)

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Mark Mulligan

19 Jan 2017

Content strategy

Netflix originals

Having just celebrated its 10 th (streaming) birthday, Netflix followed up with a strong earnings release, announcing 5.8 million net new paid subscribers in Q4 , sending its share price up by 9%. This wraps up a stellar year for Netflix, one in which it doubled down on original programming and delivered acclaimed hits such as Stranger Things and The OA, shows that don’t fit the traditional TV mould.

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