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Let me put this in the mix.

Given Spotify's current valuation of 23.5 Billion USD with 83M paying users, that gives a value of $300 USD per paying user.

Would an MVR paying subscriber be worth more, or less, than a Spotify paying subscriber - I think more.

Even taking Spotify's user value as a benchmark for MVR;

30,000 user MACP = $9,000,000 USD
300,000 users MCAP = $90,000,000 USD

Hit the million user mark and MCAP = $300M (a tad above where MCAP stands at the moment)

Don't forget Spotify got to 1M paying users in less than a year.

For info - number of paying subscribers on Spotify since 2010

07/10 0.5M
06/11 1.5M
06/12 3.5M
06/13 7M
05/14 10M
06/15 20M
06/17 57M
06/18 83M

thechancers - I think you will find that they have recruited some of the best from the industry.

So whilst the CEO might not be 60 years old, grizzled and scarred from boardroom fights, with all the attendant prejudices and limitations that experience brings, the Captains and Lieutenants that work for the CEO most certainly have what it takes.

Some good news on headsets sales.
Link may already have been posted.

https://www.vrfocus.com/2018/12/vr-industry-sees-positive-growth-as-q3-headset-sales-hit-1-9-million/

There will certainly be plenty of customers for the live stream.

If you back track on MVR tweets using the hashtags such #musicmonday #newmusicfriday you find Stevie Nicks, Iron Maiden and Def Leppard.

Only Def Leppard are touring at the moment, and whilst not the power house band in the UK that they ince were, they still sell out arenas in America, they are however not what you might say "current" and don't fit with the bands that have mostly been trailed by MVR.

I, however, will be keeping an eye out for MVR's cameras when I see them in a couple of weeks time.

If FB buy MVR I don't think they would rebrand it, they would just make it part of Venues and MVR would vanish as a separate identity.

For the live event, if you consider that the Coldplay live VR event back in August was announced less than 2 weeks before it took place, you might consider that a Christmas concert is still possible.

Statistically speaking with 31 RNS's already issued this year we are due an RNS !

Instead of "slow march" perhaps "inexorable" would be more appropriate.

The Occulus Go and the forthcoming Quest are going to sell in their millions

List of Facebook aquisitions

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_mergers_and_acquisitions_by_Facebook

They buy nascent businesses where there is some unique tech, as well as established businesses.

Mark Zuckerberg has been quoted as saying that he likes to see that a business will work before he buys it.

With regards to MVR the only real hurdle they have yet to pass that shows that the business will work is the "live stream", to prove the proposition.

After that it is just, and I don't say this lightly, getting feet through the door, so to speak.

I don't see the sp as a problem for the management for a year or so.

There are some options that the holders have to exercise before the middle of 2019, which are basically free money for the holders with the sp at anything above 2p. Yes, those holders might rue the opportunity of not cashing in at the higher sp's that have been seen, but they can't complain too much.

At the placing in mid 2018 they said that it gave them 2 years of money, this has since been repeated.
So I would expect a placing at 18 months, so around December 2019, maybe as the sp rises in expectation of sales for that Christmas.

By this time "The Management" need to have the sp up somewhere in the teens to avoid seriously annoying those holders with higher value options.

For me, I will forgive "The Management" if they get sp up somewhere around 50p

Many programmes on commercial TV don't get anywhere near a 500,000 audience.

Suggest you consider/look at Elton John, or dear departed George Michael, and their live videos, they get 10's of millions of views on YouTube.

Ok, nothing doing for Melody with George, but Elton.............

It wont take many multi-million views to fill Melody's coffers

Albi - my understanding is that MVR has signed deals that give exclusive rights to record live in VR for the record labels mentioned in the RNS's, in the live venues mentioned in the RNS's, and then exclusively distribute those recordings in the territories, again mentioned in the various RNS's, via whatever channel they choose, such as YouTube, or their own App.

The exact number of live venues that they have sewn up is not known, but includes such venues as the O2 and 70 something festival venues, plus any non regulated venues such as they may agree with the artist/record company.

The distribution channels are currently their App, or third party channels such as YouTube.

So, for example, if you see a VR recording of artist that is signed to Universal Records performing at the London O2, then you ARE watching a MelodyVR recording and whoever is showing you that performance IS paying a licence fee to Melody.

If you are watching on an Occulus device using the Melody App, then they will also get a proportion of the revenue from any adverts that Occulus show in association with their recording, this can be up to 45% of the revenue.

We have all seen the growth of adverts being pushed into our YouTube videos, and Facebook, Occulus and Melody's App will be no different for VR - this is a huge source of revenue and enables all the "free" stuff that we see on YouTube and the like.

TheWave are one, of what I believe will be countless, visual video art providers that work in the VR field to provide VR experiences.

The best visual artists will be paid a fortune, either as independents or by companies such as TheWave and MelodyVR, to produce their visual experiences.

A good question is which medium will turnout more lucrative.

If anyone is bored tomorrow may I suggest a visit to your local Argos where you can spend some time setting all the screens to show the Occulus Go, before getting kicked out.

BTW the Go (32GB and 64GB versions) receives a rating of 4 6 out of 5 from Argos reviewers

Occulus Go listed as one of the top 50 gifts for Christmas with Melody VR the only App mentioned by name.

http://www.realclearlife.com/luxury/gifts-guide-for-you/#1

A good example of Melody being marketed by Occulus.
Now why would they do that ?

Answers on a post card to;
Aquisition Management Ltd
Buyout Lane
MultiBag
Poundsville

Dell Technologies dont see pessimistic
MVR gets an honourable memtion

https://www.delltechnologies.com/en-us/perspectives/how-vr-is-poised-to-transform-the-music-industry/

I dont think FB are pessimistic.
Yet another vote for the Occulus Go being best tech product for 2018

https://www.popsci.com/best-gadgets-2018?src=SOC&dom=tw

If they look good, then MVR will look good.

Is it me or is the/has the performances section of the site been revamped.
There seems to be some names there that I have not noticed before.

See
https://melodyvr.com/performances/

Perhaps it is just late and am happy that my team won tonight !

Others might be able to advise better, but I have heard of websites going down because too many people have been downloading content/files and the bandwidth that has been paid for in the deal with the ISP runs out.

This would most often happen at the end of a month.

The Melody link on the Occulus Go page is not working !

https://www.oculus.com/experiences/go/1168045643267750

This link goes from the Melody Panel on the Occulus Go page to another Occulus page.

Not sure why it would not work unless it was trying to grab something from Melody's website that isn't there.......yet