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Understanding creators to harness the monetisation opportunities

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Ben Woods

30 Aug 2024

Business Strategy

Videos are now the de facto mode of communication. To reach and engage audiences, all creators are now expected to deliver high quality video content that entertains. This has always been a prerequisite...

2 min read

‘Brat’ summer and the dilemmas of going mainstream

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Tatiana Cirisano

29 Aug 2024

music marketing

It has become a rule of thumb that the moment corporate America begins capitalising on a trend, that trend begins to die. Cultural fragmentation has helped niches and scenes flourish, but it has also left...

4 min read

Apple’s podcast accessibility play — too little, too late?

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Rutger Rosenborg

28 Aug 2024

On Aug. 22, Bloomberg ’s Ashley Carman described how Apple lost its lead in podcasts , pointing to the platform’s lack of video adoption as the likely culprit. YouTube, meanwhile, has climbed to the...

4 min read

Who wins the social spiral? Consumers’ relationship with social platforms is changing

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Hanna Kahlert

28 Aug 2024

There is no shortage of takes on the role of social platforms in our daily lives, from former influencers lamenting the end of Twitter’s golden era to researchers studying social media’s impact on...

4 min read

Is it time to retire the ‘AI’ brand to bolster adoption among video creators?

Ben Woods

23 Aug 2024

Marketing Strategy

AI tools have put the video creator economy in sharp focus over recent months. AI video generators like Runway and OpenAI’s Sora have provided a tangible example of not just AI’s capability in video,...

5 min read

‘Song of the summer’ may be dead, but 2024 was the summer of song

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Tatiana Cirisano

22 Aug 2024

fragmented fandom

Music streaming

Over the past few years, MIDiA has often remarked at the lack of a “song of the summer” . There was once a singular undeniable hit each summer, one that everyone could agree on, like ‘One Dance’...

3 min read

As Spotify cuts back on podcast creation, opportunities arise for competitors in Latin America

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Rutger Rosenborg

21 Aug 2024

Business Strategy

In an early 2024 editorial for media and marketing publication Campaign, we declared, “ It is time for the podcast industry to think global and act local ”. Geared towards helping advertisers better...

3 min read

How CapCut is challenging Adobe Premiere Pro’s dominance of the video editing market

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Ben Woods

15 Aug 2024

Adobe Premiere Pro

Social platforms have brought a significant number of new creators into the market. With this has come a whole host of creator tools companies looking to capitalise on the opportunity. While their features...

6 min read

What Drake got wrong — and right — with 100 Gigs

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Tatiana Cirisano

15 Aug 2024

fragmented fandom

bifurcation theory

On August 6th , with no prior announcement, Drake unloaded 100 gigabytes’ worth of content, including songs and video clips, to a personal website and directed fans there via his Instagram burner account....

3 min read

Music publishing forecasts: strong growth and more to come

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Mark Mulligan

15 Aug 2024

music publishing

publishing forecasts

Following hot on the heels of our future of songwriting report , MIDiA is pleased to announce the release of our latest music publishing forecasts report . Here are some highlights. Thus far, the 2020s...

4 min read

Podcast unbundling: How Amazon Music’s Topics may accelerate the trend

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Rutger Rosenborg

14 Aug 2024

Every podcast platform has a search function. Type “conspiracy” into most and you will probably see a list of podcast titles with the word conspiracy in it, but there may be hundreds of episodes related...

3 min read

Instagram and the download-delete cycle: a cultural shift for social platforms

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Hanna Kahlert

13 Aug 2024

analogue revival

Forget the tech-centric sci-fi future promised by the early 2000’s; the new aspiration is going offline. Analogue is the new ‘cool’, and it is not just about nostalgia. Audiences are searching for...

4 min read

HYBE 2.0 diverges from the major-label blueprint in 4 key ways — will it work?

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Tatiana Cirisano

8 Aug 2024

HYBE kicked off the month with new leadership and a new plan to bring the Korean entertainment company into its next era of growth. In a letter to shareholders , outgoing CEO Jiwon Park and new chief Jason...

5 min read

The future of AI-generated audiobooks is here

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Rutger Rosenborg

7 Aug 2024

Cultural trends

In March, on the heels of a Danish man becoming the first person convicted of streaming fraud, MIDiA explained how AI could soon enable a golden age of audio piracy . Coupled with the fact that book publishers...

3 min read

Algorithms, AI, truth, and trust: why social platforms should be worried about the riots

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Hanna Kahlert

6 Aug 2024

Cultural trends

Social platforms have had a rocky history with misinformation, from US election cycles to social unrest . Over time, platforms have alleged new restrictions and guidelines intended to help reduce the risks....

4 min read

What Audible’s new royalty model means for its audiobook battle with Spotify

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Rutger Rosenborg

1 Aug 2024

Business Strategy

In early July, Audible’s blog broke the news that the company was introducing a new royalty model for audiobooks. Previously, according to Bloomberg’s Ashley Carman , Audible would do a “buyout”,...

4 min read

Marketers, don't miss out on GTA 6

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Rhys Elliott

31 Jul 2024

grand theft auto

Grand Theft Auto VI ( GTA 6 ) is due to launch in autumn 2026. It will be one of the century's biggest entertainment launches, and its impact will ripple through culture for years to come. Remember how...

4 min read

Songwriters take the stage: a new playbook for a new era

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Tatiana Cirisano

31 Jul 2024

songwriting income

music publishing

In the 2021 report, “ Rebalancing the song economy ”, MIDiA introduced the idea of songs as mini industries. In the streaming era, songs are constantly revived and reimagined — and so long as you...

3 min read

The video creator economy’s challenge: not all creators want to pay for editing tools

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Ben Woods

25 Jul 2024

Video creator tools

Adobe Premiere Pro

Video creation has never been more accessible. More and more entertainment consumers are shifting from passive to lean-through consumption by creating their own content. However, those creators have different...

4 min read

Consumers prefer to be alone with audio, but social opportunities abound

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Rutger Rosenborg

25 Jul 2024

Audience Insight

Gone are the days when families huddled in the living room to listen to a radio broadcast. Cars and mobile phones — the latter to a much larger extent — have enabled and encouraged solitary audio consumption....

3 min read

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