FICCI-KPMG-Report-13-FRAMES
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The power of a billion: Realizing the Indian dream 141<br />
Luckily, non-physical music revenue is growing and<br />
is the only kind of revenue that can support a vibrant<br />
sustainable music business over the long term. The<br />
industry needs to be bullish on the following for long<br />
term gains:<br />
• Music synchronization license revenue is still a<br />
neglected child and needs a little pampering by<br />
music labels.<br />
• Advertising-revenue sharing with video search<br />
platforms such as YouTube and Vevo generating<br />
growing revenue with others like Dailymotion joining<br />
the party.<br />
• Music cloud lockers such as iTunes Match, Amazon<br />
Cloud Drive, Google Music downloads, Xbox Music<br />
and Samsung Music Hub are yet another potential<br />
revenue for the music business but each one has its’<br />
own pros and cons.<br />
• Music performance revenues is still a very under<br />
rated vertical in Indian and needs to be nurtured for<br />
long term gains.<br />
• RBT subscriptions and streaming services remained<br />
the master of the digital economy but downloads<br />
revenues are clearly important pieces of the revenue<br />
pie going forward.<br />
• Music streaming subscription revenues are going to<br />
be another major growth area in the future.<br />
Proliferation of legitimate internet platforms such as<br />
iTunes, Hungama.com, Flipkart, T-Series.com and<br />
Ovi etc., which started offering licensed content for<br />
downloads to the consumers, is playing an important<br />
role in seeding the paid music eco-system. Other music<br />
streaming services namely Saavn, Dhingana, Gaana,<br />
in.com etc, although licensed by the music industry, are<br />
offering free legitimate music to the consumers but are<br />
solely dependent on ad supported revenue models and<br />
sustainability of such a model over the long term is a big<br />
question mark. Although combined music-streaming<br />
services in India may only have 3 to 4 million music<br />
subscribers today, 30 to 50 million are clearly possible<br />
in next 8 to 10 years. At 40 million subscribers at USD2/<br />
month (considering currency depreciation and inflation<br />
in next 8-10 years), the industry can nearly achieve<br />
USD1 billion in gross revenues (Approximately USD 400<br />
million in net revenues after taxes and revenue splits<br />
with service providers) from online music subscription<br />
services alone. However, in order to sustain revenue<br />
growth in the streaming vertical, industry will eventually<br />
have to shift towards a subscription based eco-system<br />
in a planned and sustained manner as free music is a<br />
very dangerous thing and we would not like our children<br />
grow up believing music is for free.<br />
Globally there are only an estimated 300 million music<br />
buyers in a world of 7 billion people. There are 6 billion<br />
active cell phones and 1.2 billion smart phones 80 . 50<br />
million new cars hit the roads every year. How can<br />
music subscriptions be bundled into as many of these<br />
80. http://mobithinking.com/mobile-marketing-tools/latest-mobile-stats/a#subscribers<br />
subscriptions as possible? Just an average monthly<br />
subscription of only USD2 bundled into 3 billion devices<br />
would take global music revenues to more than USD70<br />
billion from current USD23 billion and if Indian music<br />
can garner even 1 percent share of this global market in<br />
next 8-10 years, we are home.<br />
Before we embark upon this journey to achieve our<br />
dream of increasing pie size, a number of challenges<br />
need to be overcome. It will take an organized effort<br />
by the music industry and our technology, device<br />
and mobile service providers to make this dream a<br />
reality. All the music stakeholders from music labels,<br />
film producers, musicians and authors to singers,<br />
publishers, digital content aggregators and VAS service<br />
providers must organize now to build the business we<br />
all want.<br />
For example, T-Series has spent last year in setting<br />
the right foundation in terms of content digitization<br />
and meta tags, training the existing teams, getting<br />
the right people on board as partners, and putting the<br />
distribution pipes in place for seamless delivery in the<br />
future. Moving ahead, some of the priorities we will<br />
be concentrating on in coming years would be what<br />
you can do once you have everything connected,<br />
every license in place: solve the problem of discovery,<br />
micro payments and what people are going to be<br />
listening to next, and making sure that they can get that<br />
social signal in a way that is meaningful, exciting, and<br />
engaging and help increase the pie size. Integration<br />
of Social Media (Facebook, Twitter) and Video Search<br />
platforms (Youtube, Daily Motion etc) with download<br />
recommendations is going to play a pivotal role in<br />
nurturing the paid eco-system in the near future and<br />
today we are at the threshold of this metamorphosis.<br />
Building the correct and comprehensive metadata for<br />
better search and discovery is going to play the most<br />
important role for individual content owners and is the<br />
first stepping stone for the future success.<br />
Under reporting and complete reliance on platforms<br />
for revenue data is another challenge and unless<br />
the industry adopts a more robust B2C Content<br />
Delivery Network under direct control of the content<br />
owners likethe one designed by French technology<br />
platform ‘Digiplug’ for a major label in the West.<br />
Until then music industry will continue following the<br />
streaming / download platforms with a beggar’s bowl<br />
or alternatively demanding huge upfront guarantees<br />
which in turn may make survival of these services<br />
questionable leading the industry back into the rut.<br />
The Producers and Studios also need to rationalize<br />
the current unsustainable price for music rights which<br />
will help the music industry mitigate its risks and<br />
instead focus on increasing the pie size by channelizing<br />
investments in new technology platforms. The steep<br />
hike in music acquisition cost in recent times is only<br />
killing the goose which may lay golden eggs later.<br />
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