Posted on 23rd September, 2019 by Zach Fuller in Amazon, Amazon Music, Amazon Music Unlimited, Amazon Prime Music, Music Streaming, Music Streaming Strategy, Pono and Tidal
This week, Amazon will launch Amazon Music HD in the US, UK, Germany and Japan, offering 50 million lossless HD songs with a sample rate of 44.1kHz described by Amazon…
Read morePosted on 15th December, 2017 by Mark Mulligan in Amazon, Apple Music, Disney, Facebook, FCC, Fox, Google, Net Neutrality, Netflix, Spotify, Sprint, Tech Majors, Tidal, Universal Music and Verizon
Unless you have been hiding under a rock this last couple of weeks you’ll have heard at least something about the build up to the decision over turning net neutrality…
Read morePosted on 8th December, 2017 by Tim Mulligan in AT&T, FCC, Net Neutrality, Netflix, Spotify and Tidal
On December 14th the US Federal Communications Commission (FCC) will vote on whether or not to end the regulation around net neutrality. New FCC Chairman Ajit Pai believes that net…
Read morePosted on 3rd November, 2017 by Mark Mulligan in 7Digital, Amazon, Amazon Music Unlimited, Amazon Prime Music, América Móvil, Anghami, Apple, Apple Music, AWA, Claro Musica, D Hits, Deezer, EE, France Telecom, Google Play Music, Itunes, Juke, KKBOX, KPN, KuGou, Kuwo, Line Music, Market Share, MediaMarktSaturn, MelOn, MTN Music, Music Streaming, Music Subscriber Market Shares, Music Subscriptions, Napster, Netease, NTT Docomo, Orange, Pandora, QQ Music, Spotify, Streaming, Streaming Market Share, Streaming Market Shares, Streaming Services, Subscribers, Subscription Services, Subscriptions, Telia, Tencent, Tidal, Vivo and Vodafone
As the streaming music market matures, the bar is continually raised for the quality of data required, both in terms of granularity and accuracy. At MIDiA we have worked hard…
Read morePosted on 7th September, 2017 by Mark Mulligan in China, Deezer, IPO, QQ Music, Spotify, Streaming, Streaming Ipo, Streaming Valuations, Tencent, Tidal and Valuations
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…
Read morePosted on 13th July, 2017 by Tim Mulligan in Binge One, Comcast, Net Neutrality, Netflix, Spotify, Sprint, T-mobile and Tidal
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…
Read morePosted on 5th July, 2017 by Zach Fuller in 4:44, Apple Music, Beyonce, Chance The Rapper, Colouring Book, Frank Ocean, Jay Z, Jimmy Iovine, Kanye West, Lemonade, Music Streaming, Spotify, Streaming, Streaming Exclusives, The Life Of Pablo, Tidal, Universal and Windowing
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…
Read morePosted on 4th July, 2017 by Mark Mulligan in Access Industries, Apple Music, Artist Discovery, Bandcamp, BandLab, Deezer, Dj Spooky, Dubsmash, First Access Entertainment, Full Stack, Full Stack Music, Full Stack Music Company, Mixcloud, Musical.ly, Next Gen Label, Next Generation Label, Reverb Nation, Songkick, Soundcloud, Spotify, Streaming, Streaming Market, Streaming Music, Tidal, Tunecore and Youtube
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,…
Read morePosted on 5th June, 2017 by Mark Mulligan in 7Digital, Alibaba, Amazon, Anghami, Apple, Apple Music, Cdiscount, Cstream, CÜR Media, Deezer, Echo, Google, Google Play Music All Acccess, Hitster, IFPI, KKBOX, KuGou, Kuwo, MelOn, Merlin, Midia Streaming, Mixcloud, MTV Trax, Napster, Pandora, QQ Music, Radionomy, Saavn, Slacker, So Music, Société Générale, Sony Music, Soundcloud, State Of The Streaming Nation, State Of The Streaming Nation 2, Streaming, Streaming Forecasts, Streaming Market Share, Streaming Market Value, Streaming Music Market, Streaming Numbers, Streaming Users, Subscribers, Tencent, The Echo Nest, Tidal, TIM Music, Universal Music, Vevo, Vivo Musica, Warner Music, Worldwide Independent Network and Youtube
2016 was the year that streaming turned the recorded music business into a good news story, with revenue growth so strong that it drove nearly a billion dollars of total…
Read morePosted on 25th May, 2017 by Mark Mulligan in Apple Music, Deezer, Google Play Music All Access, Merlin, Sony Music, Soundcloud, Spotify, Tidal, Universal Music, Warner Music and Youtube
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…
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