The Calm Before The Storm: MIDiA’s Mark Mulligan on the Future of Music
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The Calm Before The Storm: MIDiA’s Mark Mulligan on the Future of Music
Speaker: Mark Mulligan (Founder & Managing Director, MIDiA Research)
We’re living in the quiet before the next storm. The financial, technological, and cultural systems that have shaped today’s music industry are starting to shift — fast. AI may dominate the headlines, but it’s just the surface ripple of a much deeper transformation. From the collapse of scale-at-all-costs thinking to the analogue revival driven by a digitally fatigued Gen Z, change is coming — and it’s coming from all sides. This session connects the dots between global shifts and what they mean for the music business. What do we need to leave behind, what’s breaking, and what could emerge in its place?
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