RAIN published our annual Predictions feature in the first week of January. It’s an awesome collection of thought leadership for which we received 189 forecasts from 53 contributors in three continents. In addition to those forecasts we invited participants to make three numeric predictions:
2019 U.S. percentage of music revenue from streaming (%)
From the RIAA 2019 report of U.S. recorded music revenue.
2019 U.S. monthly podcast listening (%)
Edison/Triton Infinite Dial 2020 due March 19, 2020.
2019 U.S. podcast revenue ($)
IAB/PwC Podcast Revenue Report, due June 2020.
The RIAA 2019 report was released last week, and the percentage of U.S. music recording revenue from streaming in 2019 was 79.5%.
The two winners (who receive nothing but bragging rights) are Steve Pratt (Partner, Pacific Content) and Alexis van de Wyer (CEO of AdsWizz). They each guessed 79%.
Congratulations to both for their epic psychic prediction skills!