scholarly journals Musical NeuroPicks: A consumer-grade BCI for on-demand music streaming services

2018 ◽  
Vol 280 ◽  
pp. 65-75 ◽  
Author(s):  
F.P. Kalaganis ◽  
D.A. Adamos ◽  
N.A. Laskaris
Keyword(s):  
On Demand ◽  
Streaming Services ◽  
Music Streaming

Are You Hooked on Paid Music Streaming?

2018 ◽  
Vol 14 (1) ◽  
pp. 1-20 ◽  
Author(s):  
Charlie C. Chen ◽  
Steven Leon ◽  
Makoto Nakayama
Keyword(s):  
Data Analysis ◽  
Music Industry ◽  
Clear Understanding ◽  
On Demand ◽  
Behavioral Dynamics ◽  
Revenue Sources ◽  
Streaming Services ◽  
Facilitating Conditions ◽  
Communication Control ◽  
Music Streaming

The proliferation of free on-demand music streaming services (e.g., Spotify) is offsetting the traditional revenue sources (e.g., purchases of downloads or CDs) of the music industry. In order to increase revenue and sustain business, the music industry is directing its efforts toward increasing paid subscriptions by converting free listeners into paying subscribers. However, most companies are struggling with these attempts because they lack a clear understanding of the psychological and social purchase motivations of consumers. This study compares and contrasts the two different phases of Millennial generation consumer behaviors: the alluring phase and the hooking phase. A survey was conducted with 73 paying users and 163 non-paying users of on-demand music streaming services. The authors' data analysis shows two separate behavioral dynamics seen between these groups of users. While social influence and attitude are primary drivers for the non-paying users in the alluring phase, facilitating conditions and communication control capacity play critical roles for the paying users in the hooking phase. These results imply that the music industry should apply different approaches to prospective and current customers of music streaming services.

scholarly journals Towards streaming as a dominant mode of media use?

2021 ◽  
Vol 42 (1) ◽  
pp. 35-57
Author(s):  
Marika Lüders ◽  
Vilde Schanke Sundet ◽  
Terje Colbjørnsen
Keyword(s):  
Media Use ◽  
Dominant Mode ◽  
Cross Sectional Survey ◽  
Cross Sectional ◽  
Frequent Users ◽  
On Demand ◽  
Streaming Services ◽  
Music Streaming ◽  
First Mover ◽  
Do So

AbstractMusic and television streaming services present users with abundant catalogues of content available on demand. We investigate whether users respond by narrowing or widening the diversity of content they consume. Further, we examine how the different logics characterising music and television streaming are mirrored in the number of streaming services people use. To do so, we compare non-, sporadic, regular, and frequent users of television and music streaming services. Findings from a cross-sectional survey in Norway show that frequent streamers consume a wider variety of genres and rely on more services. Our results also indicate that streaming has gone from a first-mover activity to a standard consumer mode. This study indicates that we can expect continued growth in television streamers, whereas the music streaming industry seems more consolidated.

scholarly journals On-demand streaming services

Per Musi ◽  
2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Rodrigo Fonseca e Rodrigues ◽  
Astréia Soares Batista
Keyword(s):  
Social Media ◽  
User Interfaces ◽  
Digital Music ◽  
Economic Implications ◽  
Modern Times ◽  
On Demand ◽  
Listening Experience ◽  
Streaming Services ◽  
Music Streaming ◽  
Production Industry

This paper discusses the listening experience provided by on-demand music streaming services and some of its aesthetic, cultural, technological, and economic implications. It also presents the concerns of performers and authors regarding the changes introduced to listening habits since modern times, the coexistence of analog media under the auspices of the content production industry, and the contemporary omnipresence of digital music. On-demand music streaming services stand as the hallmark of this era, by offering convenient access to music collections, customized playlists (scrobbling) integrated with social media, intuitive user interfaces, and, in some instances, the possibility of searching for and posting original content. Nonetheless, implicit constraints such as controlling for and blocking unlicensed files and supposedly restricting amateur musical creations and interventions have been implemented. The convenient, yet heavily mediated, listening experience provided by on-demand music streaming services should be rethought as a potentially creative instance of the “micropolitics of experimentation.”

Market Capture of Music Streaming Services in India

2020 ◽  
pp. 65-67
Keyword(s):  
Country Music ◽  
Internet Services ◽  
Indian Market ◽  
Internet Users ◽  
Streaming Services ◽  
Market Capture ◽  
Streaming Service ◽  
Music Streaming ◽  
Day By Day

India is a very vast market for internet services as it has over 480 million active internet users in the country. Music streaming services in India is emerging day by day. The competition in the market is so high that even two giants Jio Music and Saavn join their hand in 2018 to provide a combine service all across the globe. In, 2019 a global giant Spotify entered into music streaming market in India and affected the each music service in India. Gaana owned by Times Internet have over 150 million active monthly users in the country while JioSaavn reported 100 million active monthly users as per a website. This research is going to study the market capture of various music streaming services in India. Currently, as per the research, Spotify is the most popular streaming service. As per the literature available on various platforms other streaming services were holding the major proportion of the Indian market but after the launch of Spotify, it became most loved streaming service. The research is being done to find out the existing music streaming services are affected by the entrance of Spotify or not

scholarly journals The promise of personalisation: Exploring how music streaming platforms are shaping the performance of class identities and distinction

2021 ◽  
pp. 146144482110278
Author(s):  
Jack Webster
Keyword(s):  
Cultural Capital ◽  
Structured Interviews ◽  
Key Informants ◽  
Social Distinction ◽  
On Demand ◽  
Music Streaming

Not only do music streaming platforms offer on-demand access to vast catalogues of licensed music, they are actively shaping what and how it finds us through personalisation. While existing literature has highlighted how personalisation has the potential to transform the part that music taste and consumption play in the performance of class identities and distinction, little is empirically known about its sociological consequences. Drawing on 42 semi-structured interviews with a combination of key informants and Spotify users, this article demonstrates that personalisation is undermining opportunities to achieve social distinction by taking over the labour of music curation and compressing the time needed to appreciate music for its own sake. It demonstrates that those with cultural capital at stake – in the case of this study, young, (primarily) male cultural omnivores – experience personalisation as a threat, highlighting how particular claims to social distinction are being contested in the platform age.

scholarly journals Rethinking International TV Flows Research in the Age of Netflix

2017 ◽  
Vol 19 (3) ◽  
pp. 241-256 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ramon Lobato
Keyword(s):  
Research Agenda ◽  
Video On Demand ◽  
Global Media ◽  
Critical Questions ◽  
On Demand ◽  
Content Diversity ◽  
Streaming Services ◽  
Media Flows

This article considers how established methodologies for researching television distribution can be adapted for subscription video-on-demand (SVOD) services. Specifically, I identify a number of critical questions—some old, some new—that can be investigated by looking closely at SVOD catalogs in different countries. Using Netflix as an example, and drawing parallels with earlier studies of broadcast and cinema schedules, I ask what Netflix’s international catalogs can tell us about content diversity within streaming services, and how this can be connected to longer traditions of debate about the direction and intensity of global media flows. Finally, I describe what a research agenda around Netflix catalogs might look like, and assess the utility of various kinds of data within such a project (as well as some methodological pitfalls).

scholarly journals Factors Influencing Consumer Intention to Subscribe to the Premium Music Streaming Services in China

2021 ◽  
Vol 29 (6) ◽  
pp. 0-0
Keyword(s):  
Mixed Method ◽  
Online Survey ◽  
Qualitative Data ◽  
Behavioral Control ◽  
Perceived Behavioral Control ◽  
Descriptive Norm ◽  
Injunctive Norm ◽  
Streaming Services ◽  
Streaming Service ◽  
Music Streaming

This study investigates the causes impacting the consumers' intention of the premium music streaming services' subscription in China. An integrated model called the Theory of Streaming Service Acceptance (TSSA) is proposed to explain and predict premium music streaming service subscription behaviors. The TSSA consists of four constructs: attitude, descriptive norm, injunctive norm and perceived behavioral control. The research data was collected in the form of an online survey in China with 120 respondents. Then, interviews were conducted to collect qualitative data from 20 participants. An explanatory sequential mixed method was implemented and the PLS-SEM technique was used to analyze the survey data. The results showed that all constructs in modified research mode, including attitude, injunctive norm and perceived behavioral control except descriptive norm, are indicative predictors for a person’s intention toward premium music streaming services’ subscription. Significant practical inspirations from the perspective of music streaming services providers are also summarized.

scholarly journals Visualization of the Artist Relations Using Twitter User Profiles

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Minoru Yoshida ◽  
Shogo Kohno ◽  
Kazuyuki Matsumoto ◽  
Kenji Kita
Keyword(s):  
User Profile ◽  
Word Embedding ◽  
New Music ◽  
User Profiles ◽  
Music Recommendation ◽  
Recommendation Algorithm ◽  
Twitter User ◽  
Streaming Services ◽  
Music Streaming

We propose a new music artist recommendation algorithm using Twitter profile texts. Today, music recommendation is provided in many music streaming services. In this paper, we propose a new recommendation algorithm for this music recommendation task. Our idea is to use Twitter profile texts to find appropriate artist names to recommend. We obtained word embedding vectors for each artist name by applying word2vec algorithm to the corpus obtained by collecting such user profile texts, resulting in vectors that reflect artist co-occurrence in the profile texts.

scholarly journals Music on-demand: A commentary on the changing relationship between music taste, consumption and class in the streaming age

2019 ◽  
Vol 6 (2) ◽  
pp. 205395171988877 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jack Webster
Keyword(s):  
Cultural Goods ◽  
Class Differences ◽  
Social Distinction ◽  
On Demand ◽  
Class Background ◽  
Class Privilege ◽  
Consumption Practices ◽  
Cultural Taste ◽  
Challenging Question ◽  
Music Streaming

From providing on-demand access to vast catalogues of recorded music at little or no cost to the use of Big Data to personalise the experience of consuming music, music streaming platforms, such as Spotify and Apple Music, have the potential to disrupt the part that music taste plays in the performance of class identities and the reproduction of class privilege in ways not previously encountered. The influential sociologist, Pierre Bourdieu , demonstrated that cultural taste – what and how people consume cultural goods, such as music, food and fashion – is shaped by class background and in doing so serves to mark and reproduce class differences in everyday life. In this commentary, I consider how sociologists might address the important but challenging question of if and how are music streaming platforms shaping the part that music taste plays in the performance of class identities and the cultural reproduction of class privilege. I discuss some ways in which music streaming platforms may be shaping how class identities are performed through how people consume music, drawing attention to consumption practices that have the potential to both involve and resist the use of music streaming platforms in the pursuit of social distinction.

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