Posted on 21st January, 2020 by Hanna Kahlert in Brands, Creator Pay, Creators, Fan Monetisation, Fanbase, Fandom, Fans, Influencer Marketing, Micro-influencer, Music Industry, Strategy, Vloggers, Youtube, YouTube Channels and YouTubers
How to describe YouTube? The now-15-year old video platform does not fit into a single box, but rather ticks all of them. Its positioning between consumer and business is a…
Read morePosted on 14th January, 2020 by Hanna Kahlert in Attention Economy, Attention Saturation, Consumer Engagement, Engagement Metrics, Fandom, Fandom Insight, Music Industry, Music Streaming, Music Subscribers, Music Subscriptions, Post-peak Attention and Spotify
Q3 2019 was a quarter of mixed fortunes for Spotify, with its subscriber base displaying consistent growth, podcasts making a solid early showing, emerging markets demonstrating promise but ad revenue…
Read morePosted on 19th December, 2019 by Zach Fuller in Music Industry, Music Streaming, Post-peak Attention and Recorded Music Market
Applying economics to music often invites groans from music fans, but here goes…. The recorded music market is currently worth $18.8 billion dollars a year, and thanks to streaming that…
Read morePosted on 16th December, 2019 by Zach Fuller in Amazon, Apple, Big Tech, Facebook, Facebook Music, Financial Institutions, Live Music, Music, Music Finance, Music Industry and The Four
With Hipgnosis continuing to acquire copyright, coupled with Warner Music Group and Providence Equity’s announcement of Tempo Music Investments, the finance industry’s interest in the recorded music business continues to…
Read morePosted on 15th September, 2019 by Zach Fuller in 23 Capital, Amuse, Apple Music, Music Industry, Music Industry Finance, Music Investment, Patreon, Spotify, Streaming and Whaling
A high-risk industry with large upfront costs and no guarantee of return. No, this is not the recorded music industry, nor is it venture capital (VC) – this is the…
Read morePosted on 12th July, 2019 by Zach Fuller in Amazon, American Malls, Live Music Industry, Live Nation, Music Industry, Quibi and Scott Galloway
My first experience of the United States was not the NYC, LA or Florida usually encountered by those visiting the new world for the first time. I was five years…
Read morePosted on 3rd April, 2019 by Mark Mulligan in 23 Capital, Albums, Amazon, Amuse, Apple, CDBaby, China, Emerging Markets, India, Laas, Labels As A Services, Latin America, Music Business, Music Business Trends, Music Industry, Netflix, Playlists, Podcasts, Post-album Economics, Radio, Record Labels, Social Music, Splice, Spotify, Streaming Pricing, Tech Major Bundles and Tech Majors
The IFPI has reported that global recorded music revenues have hit $19.1 billion, which means that MIDiA’s own estimates published in March were within 1.6% of the actual results. This revenue growth story is strong…
Read morePosted on 22nd March, 2019 by Zach Fuller in AI, Artificial Intelligence and Music Industry
Discussions on AI and music continue to grip the music industry, with fears we stand on the precipice of a post-musician world, yet in many ways we have been here…
Read morePosted on 23rd January, 2019 by Zach Fuller in Innovation, Music Business, Music Business History, Music Industry, Music Tech, Phongraph, Radio, Recorded Music, Song Composition, Technology and Thomas Edison
Recent discussions over how music will look in the app economy, with services such as TikTok effectively ‘meme-ing’ the concept of music and emphasising its social context, has led me…
Read morePosted on 20th January, 2019 by Zach Fuller in Apple, Apple Newton, Bells Law, Hardware Paradigms, IPhone, Ipod, Music Industry, Self-driving Cars, Steve Jobs, Steve Wozniak, Tech Strategy and Tim Cook
Apple’s announcement of smartphone slowdown a few weeks back sent waves through the tech-centric investment landscape. Various requiems seem to suggest that with the stock price dropping 12%, the darkest…
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