This study reviews the literature to determine how cognitive factors affect consumers’ value perception and video streaming platform subscription intentions. This study analyses 20 Scopus and Web of Science peer-reviewed articles to examine the complex relationship between cognitive factors,...

In cultural industries, the fear of large-country hegemon has been revived with the growth of subscription services (such as Netflix, Spotify or Apple Music) and the concentration of these markets. The aim of this paper is to provide evidence on this issue from music streaming consumption. Using...

This EIQ paper was inspired by the headline 'British artists in a historic clean sweep of 2022's Official Top 10 singles'. British artists accounted for all the Top Ten of the end-of-year singles chart of 2022 - for the first time since the charts were published over 50 years ago. A quick glance...

During the last few decades, the internet and digital technology have fundamentally changed the global music industry. As a consequence, new companies and novel business models have emerged. Spotify, one of the new players in the music industry, has expanded its business activities and grown to...

This study examines how instant online video sharing affects artists' musical streams during the pandemic. On average, the use of the TikTok app significantly increases artists' streams, by approximately 5%. This increase is even higher for male, European and dj Mag 2020 new entry artists.

We study the consequences of the implementation of a new payment system in the music streaming market. Instead of pooling all the subscription revenues and remunerating artists according to their number of streams, which is currently the norm, an alternative payment system adopts a user-centric...

This study examines how instant online video sharing affects artists' musical streams during the pandemic. On average, the use of the TikTok app significantly increases artists' streams, by approximately 5%. This increase is even higher for male, European and dj Mag 2020 new entry artists.

This book uses economic theory to explain how consumers and producers have responded to major changes in the music industry. Byun examines the important role of technology in changing its structure, particularly as new methods of creating and accessing music prove to be a double-edged sword for...

"This volume considers the different implications of the rise of streaming services, and their particular acceleration during the COVID-19 pandemic. Exploring the significant disruption caused to the entertainment industries by the rise of these streaming services, a team of international...

"This volume addresses contemporary debates and trends regarding the production and distribution, content, and audience engagement with the television streaming industry. The book interrogates the economics and structure of the industry, questions the types and diversity of content perpetuated...

"In Streaming Music, Streaming Capital, Eric Drott examines the relationships between music, technology, economy, and culture within the ecosystem of online streaming. Attentive to the way the rise of online platforms has reordered how music is circulated and consumed, Drott offers a Marxist...

Digitization has facilitated the emergence of large distribution platforms downstream from traditionally powerful suppliers. Digital platforms can carry many suppliers' products, test the products' consumer appeal, and choose which products to promote, potentially shifting power from the...

An interview with Lucy Kueng, senior research associate at the Reuters Institute at Oxford University / Conducted by Robert Alan Brookey -- Rethinking orientalism : Squid game, transnationalism and digital streaming / Thomas Nakayama -- The state and streaming services in Iran : legacy and...

Streaming television : an overview / Arienne Ferchaud and Jennifer M. Proffitt -- A critical political economy analysis of the streaming industry's structure / Helena Vanhala -- Responses of incumbent media companies to streaming video / Krishna Jayakar and Euna Park -- NET.TV Indonesia's...

While many online applications have experienced a surge in traffic under the COVID-19 pandemic, the infrastructure requirements to support streaming video entertainment cost significantly more than applications for work, school, and healthcare. These latter applications are socially important,...

Payola—sometimes referred to as “pay-for-play”—is the undisclosed payment, or acceptance of payment, in cash or in kind, for promotion of a song, album, or artist. Some form of pay-for-play has existed in the music industry since the 19th century. Most prominently, the term has been used...

Ziel der vorliegenden Forschungsarbeit ist es, den Einfluss von Persönlichkeit auf nachhaltige Maßnahmen anhand des Streamingkonsums zu eruieren. Der allgemein steigende Streamingkonsum und die damit einhergehenden Umweltschäden einerseits und ein wachsendes gesellschaftliches...

The paper described the challenge of provision of rural broadband provision by examining the economics of 4 fiber to the home networks in different parts of the US. It shows how streaming video entertainment is the largest and growing category of traffic and which puts unique demands on the...

"Dieses Video ist in deinem Land leider nicht verfügbar." Mit diesem Satz befeuerte die Video-Plattform YouTube die jahrelange Auseinandersetzung mit der deutschen Verwertungsgesellschaft GEMA. In zahlreichen Online-Diskussionen ging es um die angemessene Vergütung für das Musikstreaming -...

We present the first objective evidence on how COVID-19 lockdowns affected internet browser usage in Africa, using detailed digital trace data on PC-based and mobile-based browsing patterns of 316 Kenyans who had access to a PC, covering the period before and during Kenya's first national...

Video-on-Demand, auch Streaming genannt, hat in den vergangenen Jahren stark an Beliebtheit gewonnen und ist mittlerweile im Heim-Video-Markt, also dem Kauf oder Verleih von Filmen und Serien in physischer Form oder als Stream, der größte Umsatztreiber. Die Corona-Krise hat diese Entwicklung...