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Jersey club in Berlin | Behind the scenes and sounds of 2025

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Kriss Thakrar

29 Jan 2025

Audience Insight

Cultural trends

With one of the largest, most sonically-diverse catalogues of sounds and samples, Splice provides the music that makes the music for producers around the world. So trends in what users are searching for...

4 min read

The podcast attention game: How algorithmic discovery may remake podcasting

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Rutger Rosenborg

29 Jan 2025

Audience Insight

Open the YouTube app on your TV and the first category you will see below “Home” is “Podcasts”. According to the YouTube blog , viewers watched more than 400 million hours of podcasts every month...

4 min read

DeepSeek and Rednote signal the dawning era of APAC

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Hanna Kahlert

29 Jan 2025

Business Strategy

The AI race is a tense one. Billions of dollars have been poured into the likes of OpenAI. Meanwhile, the US and UK governments, among others, have pledged to invest heavily in AI development, suggesting...

4 min read

Switch 2 FAQs: Your cheat sheet for understanding Nintendo's upcoming console

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Rhys Elliott

23 Jan 2025

Product Strategy

As we said in our games trends to watch article , 2025 will be the year of the portable. Nintendo kicked that off in earnest, finally lifting the curtain on its Switch 2 console. Here are the basics: The...

8 min read

Background music is a short-term win for DSPs – but it could be a long-term problem

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Olivia Jones

23 Jan 2025

Business Strategy

In this month’s issue of Harper’s Magazine , Liz Pelly published “ The Ghosts in the Machine ”. This hard-hitting article details her years-long investigation into Spotify’s mood playlists, alleging...

5 min read

Sounds of 2025 | MIDiA and Splice name Pluggnb music’s fastest-growing genre

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Tatiana Cirisano

22 Jan 2025

Audience Insight

Cultural trends

With one of the largest, most sonically-diverse catalogues of sounds and samples, Splice provides the music that makes the music for producers around the world. So trends in what users are searching for...

4 min read

Instagram Edits: the CapCut clone targeting TikTok’s turmoil

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Ben Woods

22 Jan 2025

Product Strategy

As TikTok grappled with its blackout on Sunday, Instagram chief Adam Mosseri took the opportunity to up the ante with one of his biggest rivals. Targeting TikTok’s 170 million US users, Mosseri revealed...

5 min read

Ban or no ban, what comes next for TikTok creators?

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Hanna Kahlert

22 Jan 2025

Marketing Strategy

The TikTok ban saga continues. The official date of the ban saw the app go dark in the US and Canada, replaced by a notice that the law had come into effect. However, only a few hours later, the app came...

4 min read

The podcast listener journey reveals a desire for human connection

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Rutger Rosenborg

21 Jan 2025

Audience Insight

As the global podcast industry zeros in on video – especially social video – one overlooked discovery source has never really gone away: word of mouth. Despite a format that was born to be digital,...

3 min read

Are console platforms about to push smartphone-style subscription plans?

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Rhys Elliott

17 Jan 2025

Business Strategy

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Diminishing returns on console generations, cash-strapped consumers, and increasing console prices might just open up a new pricing model for consoles – one in which consoles look increasingly like smartphones....

5 min read

Are creators wise to sell their offcuts to AI companies?

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Ben Woods

17 Jan 2025

Business Strategy

Most will be familiar with the adage: ‘one man’s trash is another man’s treasure’. Despite being a cliché, the saying lives on as it cuts to the heart of how individuals and companies perceive...

5 min read

What got you here won’t get you there: how Spotify built a new business

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Mark Mulligan

17 Jan 2025

Business Strategy

Since its inception, Spotify has been, and continues to be, the streaming music market’s lightning rod. This is due to its continued ability to maintain leading market share and the fact it is the only...

5 min read

The future is podcast scenes: What podcasters can learn from history podcast success

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Rutger Rosenborg

15 Jan 2025

Cultural trends

Whether the result of eschatological anxiety caused by shifting global political alignments or the decline in humanities students in academic institutions, the business of history – especially in audio...

3 min read

Meta pushes for “free speech” as TikTok falls short: a dramatic cultural shift for social

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Hanna Kahlert

15 Jan 2025

Business Strategy

The news cycle leaves no room to draw breath as strategic pivots and Supreme Court hearings come thick and fast. Changes are afoot – and they paint a very different picture of the digital landscape of...

6 min read

How a US TikTok ban could accelerate the rise of the Global South

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Tatiana Cirisano

9 Jan 2025

Amid a flurry of year-end lists released last month, TikTok published a ranking of the platform’s most popular songs. While US music executives have been busy considering how a potential TikTok ban could...

5 min read

New research: What do gamers really think about generative AI in games?

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Rhys Elliott

9 Jan 2025

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New year, new research! We capped off 2024 by asking a representative sample of gamers [n=6,300] how they feel about developers using generative AI to make games (and how it affects purchasing decisions)....

6 min read

Audiobooks enter their entertainment era

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Rutger Rosenborg

8 Jan 2025

It is easy to forget that the audiobook is not a new format. Novels, stories, and poems – much of what the modern world knows best through the written word – all have their origins in the oral traditions...

3 min read

The creator economy is booming, so why are we spending less time creating?

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Ben Woods

8 Jan 2025

Creator Economy

Product Strategy

YouTube’s grip on TV viewership in the West is tightening, reflecting the growing power of the creator economy. Nielsen data from July 2024 shows that YouTube now has the highest TV audience share on...

4 min read

Musk calls UK government ‘tyrannical’ and TikTok could leave the US: is global culture going regional again?

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Hanna Kahlert

7 Jan 2025

A swath of elections in 2024 have paved the way for regulatory changes in the social media sphere, with talk of bans and restrictions meeting the governmental meddling of CEOs like Elon Musk and Mark Zuckerberg....

4 min read

Anti-algorithm, anti-perfection - the rise of a music counter-culture

Mark Mulligan

20 Dec 2024

Today’s music landscape is one defined by abundance and immediacy. In today’s chronically-online world, everything is over-ground, immediately. Scenes have to work really hard to be underground and...

5 min read

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