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Spotify, Pandora And YouTube: In Search Of The Real Value Of Free

Blog post by Mark Mulligan

20 Jun 2016

per stream rates

The music industry remains in a fix over free. The freemium wars in late 2014 almost saw the freemium tier of Spotify turned off in the face of pressure from Apple’s Jimmy Iovine. The majors eventually...

Watch Out Facebook Messenger: Apple’s iMessage Just Got Serious

Blog post by Karol Severin

17 Jun 2016

Apple’s WWDC this week confirmed that company is getting serious about messaging. At its developer conference it announced a major overhaul for iMessage with the upcoming release of iOS10. While iMessage...

Chart Of The Week: Over Half Of App Users Enable Push Notifications

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Blog post by Mark Mulligan

16 Jun 2016

In the increasingly competitive app economy, push notifications and in-app messages are becoming crucial means of driving retention rates and other KPIs. The question is no longer whether to use notifications,...

Soundcloud, Amazon, Tidal: Streaming’s Other Runners

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Blog post by Mark Mulligan

16 Jun 2016

Music Streaming

Apple, Spotify and YouTube have all been grabbing the streaming headlines of late, albeit for different reasons. While these companies will continue to set the pace over the next couple of years (again,...

Has Apple Woken Up To The Power Of Bundled TV?

Blog post by Tim Mulligan

14 Jun 2016

Yesterday’s announcement at Apple’s WWDC event that it was partnering with Sling TV (the Dish Network’s online pay –TV subscription service) to be the first media streaming device to feature the...

What's Really Behind Apple's App Store Revamp

Blog post by Karol Severin

10 Jun 2016

app advertising

This week Apple announced that major changes are coming to the App Store. Firstly, it will allow all app categories to deploy subscription offerings as a part of their revenue models. Furthermore, if publishers...

Decoding the Live Event Consumer

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Blog post by Zach Fuller

9 Jun 2016

The prolonged decline of the recorded music business has often been magnified by the dynamic growth in the live music sector - itself just one part of a booming live event marketplace. Accustomed to an...

Free Report - Cross Border Listening: Borderless Hits And Curated Playlists

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Blog post by Mark Mulligan

7 Jun 2016

On Fridayat Midem we launched our new report ‘Cross Border Listening: Borderless Hits And Curated Playlists’. MIDiA produced this report in conjunction with Midem for the 50th anniversary event and...

Mission Selfie And The Redefining Of Video Production

Blog post by Tim Mulligan

6 Jun 2016

short form video

A London-based start up called the Narrative has just the finished production of a 5 episode short form video series for BBC Worldwide called Mission Selfie. This is the first short form video series commissioned...

Facebook’s DeepText Sees And Learns From Everything You Write

Blog post by Karol Severin

3 Jun 2016

Facebook introduced its DeepText AI this week . It is a deep learning-based text understanding engine, which allows Facebook to sieve through and understand several thousand posts per second across 20...

Chart Of The Week: Online Video Subscriber Penetration By Age

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Blog post by Mark Mulligan

2 Jun 2016

Streaming video subscriptions are now firmly established as a key component of the pay-TV landscape and look set to be an even bigger part of its future. With Netflix leading the way, SVOD is gaining ground...

How Well Is YouTube Red Really Doing?

Blog post by Tim Mulligan

1 Jun 2016

When YouTube Red launched in YouTube’s main market of the US back in October 28th, 2015 there was a lot of excitement mingled in with anticipation. This emanated from the media, analysts, professional...

Guvera's IPO Raises More Questions Than It Answers

Blog post by Mark Mulligan

1 Jun 2016

Australian streaming music service Guvera has announced its long-anticipated IPO on Australia’s ASX exchange in July. Guvera has always been an intriguing component of the digital music landscape. On...

Why Twitter Really Made The Changes Around Its Character Limit

Blog post by Karol Severin

27 May 2016

140 characters limit

content distribution

Twitter announced a number of changes this week, which are geared to extend the expression capabilities of the strict 140-character limit. The platform will no longer count media attachments nor ‘@names’...

The 2 Spotify Charts You Need To See

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Blog post by Mark Mulligan

25 May 2016

Music Streaming

Tuesday’s media scrum around Spotify’s financials illustrate that whatever ground Apple and Tidal may have made in recent months, Spotify clearly remains the poster child / bellwether for streaming....

Is The Future Of Cinema To Be Found Through A Video On Demand Service?

Blog post by Tim Mulligan

24 May 2016

the screening room

In many ways it feels like the late 90’s all over again. A maverick outsider with an innate understanding of the distribution possibilities of an innovative tech platform wants to disrupt a massive and...

The Digital Music Week In Review 20 5 16

Blog post by Mark Mulligan

20 May 2016

This is first in a semi-regular round up of what’s caught our eye in digital music over the last week: Facebook’s Slideshow could kill off Flipagram but I wouldn’t be so so worried if I was Musical.ly,...

Is A New Pay TV Giant Enough To Save An Industry Under Attack From Online Video?

Blog post by Tim Mulligan

19 May 2016

Finally, the seventh largest US pay-TV Operator Charter has completed its protracted takeover of rivals Time Warner Cable and Bright House Networks. This catapults Charter towards the top ranking of the...

YouTube’s New Instant Messaging Feature

Blog post by Karol Severin

16 May 2016

consumer behavior

Last week Wired reported that YouTube introduced a messaging feature to a small group of users, allowing them to send instant messages and share videos within YouTube’s mobile app. Though YouTube is...

Chart Of The Week: Music Aficionados

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Blog post by Mark Mulligan

16 May 2016

Chart Of The Week

consumer segmentation

Music Aficionados are consumers that spend above average time and money with music. They represent just 17% of all consumers but a whopping 61% of all recorded music spending. These consumers shape the...

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