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Global Digital Music Services Benchmark
The Digital Music Marketplace

Mark Mulligan

5 Sep 2014

The global digital music industry may only be growing steadily (5% in 2013) but beneath the headline number is a richly varied picture of different services, diverse regional growth rates and competing business models. To better understand this marketplace, MIDiA Research conducted a Global Music Services Tracker.

Content Connectors: How The Coming Digital Content Revolution Will Change Everything

Mark Mulligan

4 Aug 2014

Mobile content Music Online video

Approximately 35 million Content Connector devices have already been sold globally and according to a MIDiA Research consumer survey 10% of adult consumers now own one across the US, UK and Brazil. The US is the leading market with 13% penetration.

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Global Music Forecasts 2014 to 2019
The Shift To The Consumption Era

Mark Mulligan

16 Jul 2014

Subscriptions Music revenue Streaming

2013 was the recorded music industry’s 14th successive year of revenue decline. The prolonged death rattle of the CD continues to drag the global market down with it and things just got worse with the paid download entering its own tailspin. Streaming and Subscriptions are the great hope and are growing at unprecedented rates.

Media, Technology And The Innovator Hegemony

Mark Mulligan

1 Jul 2014

Media and Marketing

We are at critical juncture in the evolution of digital content. Digital consumption of content, spurred by accelerating adoption of smartphones and tablets, is crashing towards the mainstream, while traditional revenues and business models continue to buckle under the strain.

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The Superstar Artist Economy
Artist Income and the Top 1%

Mark Mulligan

12 Jul 2014

Music revenue live music live

Since the advent of piracy artists have been told that they need not worry about declining music sales because their core business is making money from live and merchandise. At a headline level, macro music industry revenues appear to support the argument, but those numbers give little indication of the income that actually flows back to the artist...

MIDIA RESEARCH GLOBAL MUSIC FORECASTS

Mark Mulligan

8 Jul 2014

Music

Today we published our global music forecasts. MIDiA Research clients can get immediate access to the report, entire data set and full presentation. To find out more about how to become a MIDiA Research client click here.

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The Digitally Native Music Consumer
A Digital Native Music Behaviour Deep Dive

Mark Mulligan

4 Jul 2014

Consumer behaviour Streaming Streaming Music

Natives and Immigrants demarcate the digital world. While Digital Immigrants bear the baggage of their analogue era past, Digital Natives have only ever know ubiquitous connectivity and content availability. Consequently the digital music behaviour of Digital Natives evolves at a dramatic pace and markedly over indexes against the Digital Immigrant...

What 10 Million Spotify Subscribers Actually Means

Mark Mulligan

29 May 2014

Music

Spotify today announced that it had hit its much anticipated milestone of 10 million premium subscribers. Make no mistake this is a highly significant achievement for Spotify itself and for the broader digital marketplace.

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Decoding the Digital Consumer
An Analysis of the Digital Music Behaviour of UK Consumers

Mark Mulligan

17 Dec 2013

Consumer behaviour Music consumers Subscriptions

10 years after the launch of the iTunes Store and 5 years after the launch of Spotify, digital music remains a largely niche sector, with the notable exception of YouTube. Despite a decade of contraction the CD remains the most pervasive music product while radio is the dominant consumption platform.