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Spotify Takes A Step Towards Making Music The API
So somewhat expectedly Spotify announced their app platform. Spotify’s announcement didn’t happen in isolation though. We are moving to the next stage of the evolution of the Internet, the age of the...
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The Digital Music Year That Was: 2011 in Review and 2012 Predictions
Following the disappointment of 2010, 2011 was always going to need to pack more punch. In some ways it did, and other ways it continued to underwhelm. On balance though the stage is set for an...
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Release Windows, the Cure for the Access vs Ownership Debate?
Back in early 2009 when I was at Forrester Research I wrote a report proposing that the Music Industry should adopt release windows. It seemed to many something of an anachronistic concept, written...
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We Need To Talk About Streaming (again)
Last night I participated in a Music Tank seminar on streaming music. It was a vibrant and valuable debate with a healthy diversity of opinion. Below are brief highlights of my opening keynote,...
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Spotify Play Button: Digital Music’ Largest Marketing Funnel Just Got Bigger
A quick one…. Spotify today announced its new ‘Spotify Play Button’ feature. As Giga Om Pro’s David Card Tweeted, it is ‘Spotify’s 1st baby step towards 2-way platform syndication’. In a nutshell the...
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Spotify Hits 20 Million Monthly Users and Could be on Track for 8 Million...
When Facebook flicked the switch on stage two of its Socially Optimized Web Strategy at f8 it was clear that the social network had just found an effective means of embedding itself further into all of...
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Spotify Artist Apps and the Road to Relevance
Spotify yesterday announced the launch of Artist apps for four artists, namely Quincy Jones, Tiësto, Rancid and Disturbed. This is another important step in Spotify’s music strategy, and one that is...
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Guest Post: What’s the Future for Ad-Funded Music Services?
Today we have the first in a short series of guest posts by leading music industry consultant Keith Jopling. Keith is also one of the panel of judges for the Music Industry Blog Start Up Showcase and...
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Streaming Goes Global: Analysing Global Streaming Music With EMI Insight Data
This July EMI’s Insight division launched an unprecedented initiative to share data from their 850,000 interview Global Consumer Insight data. This dataset covers 25 countries and over 7,400 artists,...
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Making an Impact: Assessing Streaming’s Role in the Digital Music Market
The streaming audio market is beginning to take the perturbingly familiar shape of the download market, with one big player stealing all of the momentum and scale. And the debate about what streaming...
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Why Losing Free Customers is a Good Thing for Spotify’s Business Model
In my Future Music Forum keynote last week I discussed some Spotify metrics which were picked up by Paid Content and have stirred up a bit of a debate. Here is a little more context to those numbers....
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Deezer, Spotify and the Streaming Gold Rush
The music streaming world is one full of contrasts and inconsistencies. At one end We7 and MOG sell for peanuts; in the middle Rhapsody, Sony, Rdio, Wimp, Rara and others continue to steadily build a...
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Streaming Music Apps – Three’s Not A Crowd
You wait months for a streaming music app announcement and then three come along on the same day….buses come to mind. Deezer App Studio Deezer have just announced the launch of a Spotify-like app...
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Spotify’s Bold New Transition from Streaming Music Service to Music Platform
Spotify today gave an update on the year to date and announced a host of new features. 5 Million Paying Subscribers As expected Spotify has managed to hit the 5 million paying subscriber mark which is...
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View From the Top: 10 Streaming CEOs on 2012 and 2013
A special feature for the end of what has a been a big and often controversial year for streaming. Here are the views of 10 CEO’s of of the top streaming services and of the leading multi-room...
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The Challenges of Becoming a Subscription Business
Subscriptions are still only a small share of the music market but their time is coming. That time is long over due (I and my former Jupiter colleagues David Card and Aram Sinnreich first started...
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Making Streaming Work (Fixing Playlists and Churn)
UPDATED 28/3/13 (see sections labelled ‘UPDATED’ During my SXSW panel I presented a slide that showed the distribution of paid, active free, and inactive users of the two big streaming services Spotify...
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iTunes @ 10
On Sunday 28th April Apple’s iTunes Store will celebrate its 10th birthday. It is arguably the single most important milestone in the digital music market to date. In these days of cloud and...
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Streaming’s Dirty Dozen
Atoms for Peace’s Thom Yorke and Nigel Goodrich’s much publicized decision to withdraw their music from Spotify added to a small but growing band of streaming hold-outs. Rather than add to the surplus...
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It’s Windowing Jim, But Not As We Know It
Back in 2009 I wrote a report for Forrester Research entitled ‘Music Release Windows: The Product Innovation That The Music Industry Can’t Do Without’ (you can read the summary blog post here, and the...
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