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State of the Streaming Nation 3.0: Multi-Paced Growth

Posted on 30th July, 2019 by Mark Mulligan in Consumer Music Behavior, MIDiA Research, Music Forecasts, Music Market Metrics, Music Market Reports, Music Subscriber Market Shares, Streaming Market, Streaming Market Metrics, Streaming Market Shares, Streaming Music Behavior, Streaming Music Market Size, Streaming Music Outlook, Streaming Music Reports, Streaming Music Stats and Streaming Stats

Regular followers of MIDiA will know that one of our flagship releases is our State of the Streaming Nation report. Now into its third year, this report is the definitive…

Music Publishing and the Catalogue Question

Posted on 29th July, 2019 by Zach Fuller in Music Catalogue, Music Publishing, Recorded Music and WMG

“Who controls the past controls the future. Who controls the present controls the past.” Somewhere in a field back in the summer of 2008, Rage Against the Machine used this…

Is YouTube MLB’s Answer to Tap into Younger Audience?

Posted on 29th July, 2019 by Alistair Taylor in Amazon Prime Video, Baseball, Cable Consumption, Channel 4, Concurrent Viewers, Consumer Behaviours, Content Consumption, Cricket, DAZN, Demographic, Digital Content, Digital Ecosystem, Distribution Deal, Diversification, ECB, English Premier League, EPL, Espn, Exclusive Rights, Facebook, Fanbase, Fans, FIFA Women’s World Cup, Finite Resources, Fox, Free To Air, FTA, Google, ICC Cricket World Cup Final, Ive Sports, LA Dodgers, Major League Baseball, MLB, Morning Consult, Multiple Subscriptions, Non-exclusive, OTT, Over-the-top, Pay-TV Subscribers, Peak Attention Economy, Peak Audience, Penetration, Philadelphia Phillies, Premium Rights, Rights Acquisition, Rights Holders, Sky, Sports Fans, Sports Rights, Subscribers, Subscription Retention, TBS, Time Allocation, Wau, Weekly Active Users and Youtube

On July 18th, Google-owned YouTube livestreamed the first of its exclusive Major League Baseball (MLB) matches, acquired through a partnership announced with the MLB at the end of April 2019.…

Thinking the Unthinkable – Netflix As Gatekeeper

Posted on 29th July, 2019 by Tim Mulligan in Ads, Avod, Brands and Svod

Life after Netflix’s disappointing Q2 earnings has been challenging for the iconic global streaming hegemon. Netflix has achieved hegemonic global subscription video on demand (SVOD) status through a smart combination…

What A Post-Peak Netflix Could Look Like

Posted on 25th July, 2019 by Tim Mulligan in Emerging Markets, Netflix and Netflix Q2

Last week was a bumpy ride for Netflix – a company that is used to being on the right side of Wall Street and the consumer. The world’s leading streaming…

Why Sitcoms Are the Leaders in Scripted Shows

Posted on 24th July, 2019 by Amanda Stears in Friends, Scripted Drama, Seinfeld, Sitcoms, The Big Bang Theory and The Office

On May 2004, 52.5 million Americans tuned in to watch the season finale of Friends. 15 years later, it is still one of the most-watched TV shows in history. When…

The Frank Ocean Days May Be Gone, but Streaming Disintermediation Is Just Getting Going

Posted on 24th July, 2019 by Mark Mulligan

Music Business Worldwide recently ran a storyhighlighting that both Spotify and Apple Music were backing independent artist (i.e. independent of record label rather than an indie label artist) Aaron Smith,…

The State of the Music Publishing Nation

Posted on 22nd July, 2019 by Hanna Kahlert in Broadcast, Independent Sector, Music Publishing, State Of The Music Publishing Nation and Streaming Revenue

This blog highlights some key points from MIDiA’s latest flagship report, the State of the Music Publishing Nation. Now that streaming is settling into its role as the de-facto mode…

Sports and Sponsorships: MLB Seeks Revenue Home Run

Posted on 22nd July, 2019 by Alistair Taylor

Major League Baseball (MLB) could finally allow for sponsorship patches appearing on its teams’ uniforms, the league confirmed to the Sports Business Journal. US sports have historically steered clear from…

Music Publishing as an Asset Class – Update

Posted on 19th July, 2019 by Zach Fuller in Amuse, Hipgnosis Song Fund, Music Publishing and Songtradr

Back in February, MIDiA released a report detailing the financial innovation taking place in the recorded music industry and how this was effectively securitising the concept of music publishing rights.…