Posted on 23rd March, 2018 by Mark Mulligan in Spotify, Spotify Dpo, Spotify Ipo, Spotify Metrics, Streaming and Subscriptions
One of the core values that we deliver to our clients at MIDiA Research is finding the ‘third number’— the data point that wasn’t reported by a company but that…
Read morePosted on 4th January, 2018 by Mark Mulligan in Spotify Dpo, Spotify Ipo, Spotify Law Suit, Spotify Listing, Spotify Wixen and Wixen
While many are still recovering from their festive exertions, Spotify hits the news twice –though for two very different reasons: the long-awaited confirmation of its DPO date and, less expected,…
Read morePosted on 1st December, 2017 by Mark Mulligan in China, KuGou, Kuwo, Qq Messenger, QQ Music, Snap, Snap Inc, Snapchat, Spotify, Spotify Ipo, Tencent, Tencent Music and Wechat
News has emerged that Spotify and Tencent Music could be swapping 10% equity in each other’s companies ahead of Spotify’s public listing. There are some obvious implications for both enterprises, as…
Read morePosted on 17th November, 2017 by Mark Mulligan in IPO, Netflix, Netflix Share Price, Pandora, Pandora Stock Price, Sound Trap, Spotify, Spotify As A Label, Spotify Buys Soundtrap, Spotify Direct Listing, Spotify Ipo, Spotify Nasdaq, Spotify Nyse, Spotify Public, Spotify Share Price and Spotify Stock 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…
Read morePosted on 28th July, 2017 by Mark Mulligan in 3 Ages Of Streaming, 3 Eras Of Streaming, 3 Phases Of Streaming, AI, Alexa, Amazon, Amazon Echo, Financial Institutions, Funds, Hedge Funds, Investment, Major Labels, Paid Streaming, Record Labels, Sme, Sony, Sony Corporation, Sony Music, Spotify, Spotify Ipo, Streaming, Streaming Evolution, Streaming Market, Streaming Subscriptions, Subscriptions, The Three Eras Of Streaming, Universal, Universal Music, Vivendi and Voice
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…
Read morePosted on 15th February, 2017 by Mark Mulligan in 1 Billion, 21st Century Fox, Alibaba, Amc Theatres, Baidu, Baidu Music, Beyond Oblivion, Dalian Wanda, Debt, Investment, IPO, News Corp, QQ Music, Snapchat, Softbank, Spotify, Spotify Debt, Spotify Investors, Spotify Ipo, Streaming Music and Tencent
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…
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