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Is QQ Music Worth $10 Billion?

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Blog post by Mark Mulligan

7 Sep 2017

Western appetite for the Chinese market has long been based upon accessing the 1.4 billion consumers. This has in turn impacted valuations of Chinese companies, particularly when eager western investors...

Quick Take: Spotify And Hulu Partner In The US

Blog post by Mark Mulligan

7 Sep 2017

Spotify just announced it is bundling in the Hulu No Commercials plan into its $4.99 student offering in the US. Given that the Hulu product retails at $7.99 and Spotify at $9.99, this is unmistakably...

Apple, The Culver Studios And The Importance Of Content

Blog post by Tim Mulligan

4 Sep 2017

The Financial Times has reported that Apple is planning to acquire The Culver Studios, a complex of film-making buildings in LA next to where Sony Pictures is based. The Culver Studios has a long history...

What’s In A Number: Can Streaming Really Be Worth $28 Billion?

Blog post by Mark Mulligan

30 Aug 2017

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Goldman Sachs just made some headlines with its assessment that Universal Music is worth $23.5 billion and that the paid streaming market will be worth $28 billion in 2030 (up from $3.5 billion in 2016...

Elvis Presley and the Two Recorded Music Industries

Blog post by Zach Fuller

16 Aug 2017

music subscribers

Today marks 40 years since the passing of Elvis Presley. Whilst ‘The King’s’ emergence has come to represent a cultural year zero for the music industry, his icon status in recent years has taken...

The Three Eras Of Paid Streaming

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Blog post by Mark Mulligan

28 Jul 2017

3 ages of streaming

3 eras of streaming

3 phases of streaming

Streaming has driven such a revenue renaissance within the major record labels that the financial markets are now falling over themselves to work out where they can invest in the market, and indeed whether...

YouTube And Latin America Are Taking Over The World

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Blog post by Mark Mulligan

20 Jul 2017

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2 billion streams

Unless you have been on Mars for the last couple of days you will have seen the news that Luis Fonsi’s ‘Despacito’ has become the most streamed track in history with 4.6 billion streams. The figure...

The Art of Windowing: Why 4:44 is a Different Kind of Exclusive

Blog post by Zach Fuller

5 Jul 2017

For a brief moment last year, windowing seemed like the future of music streaming. Already common practice in the film-industry, the strategy was being touted as a way of utilising artist fan engagement...

How Soundcloud Could Transform Deezer’s Market Narrative

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Blog post by Mark Mulligan

4 Jul 2017

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News has emerged of Deezer being a potential buyer of troubled Soundcloud. This follows on from Spotify’s prolonged but ultimately abortive courting last year . Soundcloud was once a streaming powerhouse,...

Thoughts On Second-Order Effects For Content Discovery in Voice

Blog post by Zach Fuller

30 Jun 2017

Second-order effects are rarely considered when new technologies come to the fore and reach critical mass. For example, the realisation of smartphones, the emergence of Apple's app store and the ubiquity...

Quick Take: Tesla’s Streaming Ambition

Blog post by Mark Mulligan

23 Jun 2017

Reports have emerged that Tesla is looking to build its own streaming music service. In practice, this will most likely be a case of Tesla building a streaming service that operates solely for Tesla users,...

Quick Take: Is Spotify Doing A Facebook?

Blog post by Mark Mulligan

20 Jun 2017

sponsored tracks

The Verge has reported that Spotify is trialling sponsored songs , tailored to users’ tastes, that are embedded in users’ playlists. Spotify tests a lot of things on subsets of its user base so this...

Spotify Earnings: Growth Comes At A Cost

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Blog post by Mark Mulligan

18 Jun 2017

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Spotify financials

Spotify has published its much anticipated 2016 revenues. Because the company is under so much analytical scrutiny, there is little that is particularly surprising but there is still plenty we can learn...

Do Not Assume We Have Arrived At Our Destination

Blog post by Mark Mulligan

15 Jun 2017

Forbes has released its annual Celebrity 100, its list of the top earning media stars. The healthy share of music artists hints at the continued ability to build highly successful music careers. The presence...

MIDiA at Midem 2017

Blog post by Zach Fuller

11 Jun 2017

MIDiA Research were one of thousands of delegates who arrived in Cannes this week to attend Midem; the annual conference addressing the latest developments in the music industry. Across 4 days of panels,...

Announcing MIDiA’s State Of The Streaming Nation 2 Report

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Blog post by Mark Mulligan

5 Jun 2017

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...

Quick Take: IFPI Revenue Numbers

Blog post by Mark Mulligan

25 Apr 2017

global music sales

Today the IFPI published their annual assessment of the global recorded music business. The key theme is the first serious year of growth since Napster kicked off a decade and a half of decline, with streaming...

Exclusive: Deezer Is Exploring User Centric Licensing

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Blog post by Mark Mulligan

19 Apr 2017

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Music Streaming

One of the great, though less heralded, successes of streaming in 2016 was keeping the lid on artist angst. Previous years had been defined by seemingly endless complaints from worried and angry artists...

Drake's More Life is the New Normal in Streaming

Blog post by Zach Fuller

23 Mar 2017

Released over the weekend after much delay, Drake’s More Life project is setting records across the board on streaming platforms. The Canadian artist described More Life as ‘a body of work bridging...

How Ed Sheeran Broke The Charts

Blog post by Mark Mulligan

13 Mar 2017

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Unless you have been hiding under a stone on Mars this last few weeks you will have struggled not to hear or see some clip of Ed Sheeran one way or another. Atlantic Record’s carpet bombing market campaign...

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