Tatiana Cirisano | MIDiA Research

Music is not a level playing field — it is a field of all levels

Blog post by Tatiana Cirisano

18 Aug 2022

We have heard it (and said it) many times before: the music industry has never been as competitive as it is today. But the challenge is not just that today’s landscape is ultra-competitive, it is also...

Re-creating the creator economy

Report by Mark Mulligan, Tim Mulligan, Karol Severin, Hanna Kahlert, Srishti Das, Kriss Thakrar, Ashleigh Millar, Tatiana Cirisano, Annie Langston and Richard Broadhurst

18 Aug 2022

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Media and Marketing

Cultural Trends

Acast

Streaming first democratised the means of consumption, then distribution, and now production. Though the promise of the long tail may not have materialised quite as expected, long-tail and mid-tail creators...

What happens when every platform has different top artists? Hint: it may be a good thing

Blog post by Tatiana Cirisano

10 Aug 2022

fragmented fandom

Consumer Behaviour

music marketing

Fragmentation is on full display in Chartmetric’s H1 2022 trends report , which lists the top 10 “breakthrough artists” between January and June for each of eight different platforms. It is immediately...

Beyoncé raises the question: what does commercial success mean in 2022?

Blog post by Tatiana Cirisano

4 Aug 2022

monetizing fandom

fragmented fandom

Consumer Behaviour

It is hard to believe that six years have elapsed between Beyoncé’s last solo album, Lemonade , and her newest, Renaissance . So much has changed in those six years about how listeners consume music,...

With Meta’s revenue share program, can rights holders and platforms finally agree?

Blog post by Tatiana Cirisano

28 Jul 2022

Streaming Music

user generated content

Content Creators

Over the last week, Meta made headlines three times in relation to music on its platforms (Instagram and Facebook). First, royalty-free music provider Epidemic Sound sued Meta for allegedly allowing users...

Music sync market forecast
Production libraries raise the pitch

Cover image for Music sync market forecast

Report by Kriss Thakrar and Tatiana Cirisano

27 Jul 2022

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Music

Business Strategy

Adobe

Amid fragmenting fandom and the attention recession, sync is more important than ever as a tool for both revenue generation and marketing. There are also dozens of emerging use cases for sync, from creator...

Beatport’s LabelRadar acquisition is the latest sign of the platforms era

Blog post by Tatiana Cirisano

22 Jul 2022

Beatport

record labels

music industry

This week, online music marketplace Beatport acquired LabelRadar, a service that streamlines the demo submission process for artists and labels. Following previous strategic acquisitions, the deal represents...

Spotify is courting gen Z, but is it enough?

Blog post by Tatiana Cirisano

13 Jul 2022

Music Streaming

Spotify

Fandom

Spotify just made its first games acquisition by snapping up Heardle , a popular online game where players compete to guess a song by its opening notes. Heardle will remain a standalone website for now,...

Building a fan economy with Fan-Powered Royalties

Report by Kriss Thakrar, Tatiana Cirisano and Perry Gresham

12 Jul 2022

Free Report

Superfans

creators

Streaming economics

Music streaming has helped the music industry return to growth over the past decade, but many creators feel left behind. The streaming economy has reached a point where the creator remuneration gap can...

A counterculture music industry is emerging — welcome to the platform era

Blog post by Tatiana Cirisano

5 Jul 2022

music industry

Major labels

record labels

What do TikTok’s distribution tool , Universal Music Group’s samples marketplace , and Snoop Dogg’s virtual marijuana have in common? On the surface, not much. But beneath, these news headlines are...

The future of music
The rise of a counterculture industry

Report by Mark Mulligan, Kriss Thakrar and Tatiana Cirisano

30 Jun 2022

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music industry

Music Streaming

Fandom

Music streaming and the attention recession have turned music into a background activity. Artists en masse are struggling to cut through the noise, realising that streaming is neither a place to build...

Reflections on the music industry at NFT.NYC

Blog post by Tatiana Cirisano

23 Jun 2022

cryptocurrency

NFT

record labels

At the fourth annual NFT.NYC conference in New York, the sentiment fell somewhere between faint excitement and “so this is still a thing, right?” Unlike this time last year, when the music industry...

Why today’s music creators are no longer playing the fame game

Blog post by Tatiana Cirisano

16 Jun 2022

Music Streaming

Music creators

creator economy

Since the music industry’s beginnings, success has been tied to fame and fortune. But as more and more artists grow dissatisfied with the harsh economics of streaming, their strategies are changing —...

Music creator survey, Q4 2021
Redefining success

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Report by Tatiana Cirisano

31 May 2022

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artiphon

Bandcamp

bytedance

As the barriers to music creation continue to lower, more creators enter the field, yet it is becoming harder than ever to earn a living through music, with a finite amount of revenue being split ever...

The Attention Recession
How inflation and the pandemic are reshaping entertainment

Report by Mark Mulligan, Tim Mulligan, Karol Severin, Hanna Kahlert, Tatiana Cirisano and Annie Langston

27 May 2022

Free Report

Video

Music

Games

With the recent announcement of the 0.2 million subscriber drop in Netflix’s Q1 2022 figures, and Spotify seeing slower paid user growth, MIDiA’s predicted attention recession has come into fruition....

The record label addiction to virality is about the attention recession, too

Blog post by Tatiana Cirisano

26 May 2022

social media

Content Creators

creator economy

In a painfully-of-the-moment twist of irony, Halsey went viral on TikTok this week for speaking out about the pressure to do just that. “Basically I have a song that I love that I wanna release ASAP,...

Is TikTok becoming a record label? The question misses the point

Blog post by Tatiana Cirisano

18 May 2022

Music Streaming

music industry

Fandom

Every time TikTok does anything that seems to hedge on record label territory, someone inevitably asks the question: is TikTok turning into a record label? Cue the eye-rolls from the music industry. No...

What Snapchat is getting right about the future (and why music should pay attention)

Blog post by Tatiana Cirisano

6 May 2022

music industry

social media

snapchat

The music industry has spent the last few years studying the ins and outs of new platforms like TikTok and Twitch, with good reason. But the decade-old Snapchat increasingly appears to be social media’s...

Women In Music 2022
Deutsch, Español, Français, Italiano, Nederlands, Português

Report by Hanna Kahlert, Srishti Das and Tatiana Cirisano

5 May 2022

Free Report

Music

BE THE CHANGE – Women In Music 2022. The report and executive summary are here available to download in French, and the executive summary is further available to download in German, Dutch, Spanish, Portuguese,...

BE THE CHANGE – Women In Music 2022

Report by Hanna Kahlert, Srishti Das and Tatiana Cirisano

4 May 2022

Free Report

Music

The last two years of pandemic-driven disruption in the music industry may just have created a window of opportunity for real change in the fight for gender equality. The next generation of women music...