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Apple Joins The Games Subscription Race With Arcade

Karol Severin

26 Mar 2019

Apple has announced that it will launch a games subscription service called Arcade. For a monthly payment (price point to be determined), the service will feature over 100 original games which users will be able to play across iPhones, iPads and Apple TV and pick up wherever they left off.

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Apple TV+ and The Beginning of Apple the Media Company – #AppleEvent

Tim Mulligan

25 Mar 2019

Apple today announced the launch of its much anticipated video service, Apple TV+, at its #AppleEventin Cupertino, California. It has been a long time in the making for a combination of reasons, not least of which is a concern among TV networks of making Apple too strong a partner that they cannot control.

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AI and the Disruption of the Music Persona

Zach Fuller

22 Mar 2019

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 before. History dictates that shifts in music composition are influenced more by the context in which it is consumed rather than the technology that creates it.

3 min read

Mediapro Offers Eleven Sports a UK Lifeline!

Alistair Taylor

21 Mar 2019

ad-supported model

carriage partnerships

Streaming service Eleven Sports will now have to table a new offer to maintain its UK La Liga rights, as Mediapro (the agency selling La Liga’s international rights) decides to return La Liga to the UK media rights tender market ahead of the 2019/2022 season.

4 min read

Advertising Week Europe: Measuring Success Needs an Overhaul – Lessons From OTT

Georgia Meyer

21 Mar 2019

Advertising Week

Advertising Week Europe

Advertising Week Europe has – unsurprisingly – been brimming with discussions about OTT, programmatic and measurement. What is perhaps more surprising is the fact that OTT advertising is still framed as a new space that has not reached its full potential because it lacks the reach of linear channels.

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Why Facebook Can Be the Future of Social Music, But Isn’t Yet

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Mark Mulligan

21 Mar 2019

Facebook messenger

Facebook recently secured licensing deals with music rightsholders in India , an important step in what has thus far been an underwhelming social music strategy since first inking rights deals in June 2018.

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The BBC Confronts the Reality of Planet (Digital) Earth

Tim Mulligan

20 Mar 2019

Yesterday the chairman of the British Broadcasting Corporation, David Clementi, gave a talk at the Oxford Media Conventionwhich starkly addressed the reality which the world’s oldest and arguably most iconic public service broadcaster (PSB) now finds itself confronting.

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Stadia Begins Tech Majors' Disruption Of Gaming

Karol Severin

19 Mar 2019

Google announced it will launch a games streaming service named Stadia later in 2019 across US, UK, Canada and most of Europe. This much awaited announcement brings gaming a lot closer to a device and platform-agnostic gaming paradigm .

4 min read

Why Snap Inc. Is Launching A Games Platform

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Karol Severin

19 Mar 2019

Snapchat will announce a gaming platform for developers in the upcoming days, according to Cheddar . The hope is to boost engagement as well as revenue growth. Snapchat is still trying to pave its path towards profitability.

4 min read

MIDIA RESEARCH 2018–2026 STREAMING MUSIC FORECASTS

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Mark Mulligan

19 Mar 2019

global music forecasts

midia music forecasts

music forecasts

MIDiA has just published its global music forecasts, with revenue and user numbers projected out to 2026 (a list of data items and countries covered are listed at the bottom of this post). 2017 was the last year of strong streaming revenue growth.

4 min read

SXSW 2019: Streaming, Radio and the Unevenly Distributed Future

Zach Fuller

18 Mar 2019

‘The future is already here, it’s just not evenly distributed’. In many ways, this quote by science fiction writer William Gibson surmises the work we do at MIDiA: cautiously observing new tech developments and remaining aware of the hype cycle that characterises the adoption curve.

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Why Did Facebook’s EPL Rights Deal Collapse?

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Alistair Taylor

15 Mar 2019

The English Premier League (EPL) is now back on the market with its rights for Thailand, Laos, Cambodia and Vietnam following its deal with Facebook collapsing. Back in July 2018 , the social media giant acquired the exclusive rights to stream 380 EPL matches in the Asian territories for $265 million over three seasons, outbidding traditional networks BeIN Sports and Fox Sports Asia in the process.

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Apple Gets Ready for Showtime

Tim Mulligan

15 Mar 2019

Streaming video

Apple fans this week have been speculating about the March 25 th event which the tech major has announced it will be holding at its Cupertino, California headquarters. The tagline for the event is “It’s showtime”, and Apple has been dropping big hints that it will make a significant announcement about its forthcoming video service.

4 min read

Calling all Artists!

Mark Mulligan

14 Mar 2019

In partnership with independent distribution company Amuse, MIDiA Research is undertaking a detailed study of the music artist landscape. We are fielding a survey to the artist community , exploring issues such as: What success looks like to you Career aspirations The importance of signing to a record label Financial wellbeing Maintaining creative control If you are a singer, DJ, producer, performer, or in a band, then we’d love to hear your views.

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Preparing for the Post-Album Music Industry

Keith Jopling

14 Mar 2019

This is a follow-up piece to What’s Next In Playlist Innovation ... Every week I’m excited to check out the latest album releases. They are the gift that keeps on giving. But that gift feels different these days, more like receiving flowers or chocolate and less like anything you might receive as a keepsake.

9 min read

2018 Global Label Market Share: Stream Engine

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Mark Mulligan

13 Mar 2019

Recorded music revenues grew in 2018 for the fourth consecutive year, reaching $18.8 billion, up $2.2 billion from 2017. Streaming was the engine room of growth, up 30% year on year to reach $9.6 billion.

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Here’s How Spotify Can Fix Its Songwriter Woes (Hint: It’s All About Pricing)

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Mark Mulligan

11 Mar 2019

Copyright Royalty Board

music publishers

Songwriter royalties have always been a pain point for streaming, especially in the US where statutory rates determine much of how songwriters get paid. The current debate over Spotify, Amazon, Pandora and Google challenging the Copyright Royalty Board’s proposed 44% increase illustrates just how deeply feelings run.

4 min read

Can the NBA Capture the ‘Cord-Nevers’?

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Alistair Taylor

8 Mar 2019

Audience engagement

cable providers

Clippers CourtVision

NBA commissioner Adam Silver, speaking at the MIT Sloan Sports Analytics conference in Boston last week, explained his vision of the league’s games, which will look “dramatically different” in five years’ time.

4 min read

Music Publishing as an Asset Class Could Be the Recorded Industry’s Next Big Growth Story, But How Will it Impact the Overall Business?

Zach Fuller

7 Mar 2019

‘ Money doesn’t talk, it swears’ – Bob Dylan, 1965 For most of their history, music royalties have operated under a nebulous framework of rights owners and collection societies with staggered payments and general lack of transparency largely attributable to the technology available.

4 min read

Netflix is Now Running Faster to Stand Still

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Tim Mulligan

7 Mar 2019

peak attention economy

streaming peaks

If a week is a long time in politics what must three years be in streaming video? In the case of Netflix, it turns out not a lot…in one key metric- domestic engagement. On other metrics Netflix has been surging ahead.

3 min read

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