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Radio Is Streaming’s Next Frontier
How Streaming Will Disrupt Radio Like It Did Retail

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Mark Mulligan
Streaming
Streaming Music
Apple
Streaming’s first achievement was becoming a long-term successor to retail, now it has its sights set on doing the same to radio. Even though the revenue per user is much smaller, the addressable market is far higher. Streaming’s post-radio strategy has the potential to be much more far reaching and impactful than subscriptions have been in ter...
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State Of The Streaming Nation 2.1 (Mid-Year 2017 Update)
The Definitive Assessment Of The Global Streaming Music Market

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Mark Mulligan
Subscriptions
Streaming
Streaming Music
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 growth. Leading streaming services spent the year competing with ever more impressive metric, while playlisting and streaming exclusives became cornerstones of the wider music mark...
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The Digital News Consumer

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Zach Fuller
YouTube
Facebook
buzzfeed
As the publishing industry’s issues regarding monetisation move front and centre in the political debate over Facebook’s media influence, the way consumers discover and interact with news content stands at a tipping point. With increasing diversity in consumption patterns across geographical markets and age groups, understanding the digital pub...
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Streaming Services Market Shares
Spotify Leads Across Most Markets

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Mark Mulligan
Subscriptions
Streaming
Music Subscriptions
This report includes the key findings of MIDiA’s Global Music Subscriber Market Share Model in which we present the subscribers, revenues and market shares of streaming services in more than 20 different countries. This report contains charts and analysis for 11 countries including consumer survey data, while the complete excel model is posted al...
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Media Company Strategy
How Legacy Format Audiences Can Fund Digital Transition

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Zach Fuller
publishing
physical books
mass media
Media’s well documented struggles of balancing the decline of ad revenue with building digital subscriber bases has resulted in surprising strategic actions by some of its largest entities. As the tech majors take more digital ad revenue form across the digital sphere, publishing, music and online video companies are quietly super-serving legacy ...
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