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European Professional Club Rugby goes OTT, pressing business over the needs of fans

Blog post by Alistair Taylor

23 Sep 2020

Last Friday , European Professional Club Rugby (EPCR), the Heineken Champions Cup and the European Rugby Challenge Cup’s governing body announced the launch of its global over-the-top (OTT) streaming…

Oracle and Walmart re-emerge to take on the future of a US TikTok

Blog post by Hanna Kahlert

22 Sep 2020

Mobile content

Online video

TikTok

Since the announced US ban of ByteDance and WeChat in August, the future of the widely popular short-form social video app TikTok has been murky and vaguely chaotic. Two weeks ago, Microsoft and Walmart…

Why Kanye West is the modern-day Prince

Blog post by Mark Mulligan

18 Sep 2020

Music

Not ‘prince’ in the Machiavellian sense of the term – though there is an argument for that too – but as in the artist formerly known as. Back in 1992, Prince fought his label Warner Bros to…

Quick Take: PS5 pricing unveiled – an important milestone in its cross-entertainment future

Blog post by Karol Severin

17 Sep 2020

Sony’s PS5 Showcase event unveiled a number of upcoming titles and pricing for its upcoming console. At $499 and $399 it confirmed expectations. The top range is the same as Xbox Series X, with the PS5…

Creating the digital home of hockey - SportsPro Live panel

Blog post by Alistair Taylor

17 Sep 2020

Video

Sports

Covid-19

Yesterday at SportsPro Live, I had the pleasure of moderating a panel discussing the creation of the digital home of hockey with Thierry Weil, International Hockey Federation (FIH)’s CEO and Jean-Luc…

Verizon Media announces platform to ‘evolve’ live streaming experience

Blog post by Alistair Taylor

16 Sep 2020

Verizon

Verzion Media

Verizon Fios

Verizon Media announced a series of new Media Platform improvements in a press release today (16th September), intended to ‘evolve the live streaming experience’. These features are all aimed at increasing…

Quick Take: Apple One – Recession Buster

Blog post by Mark Mulligan

15 Sep 2020

Video

Music

Games

Apple officially announced its long anticipated all-in-one content bundle: Apple One. $14.95 gets you Apple Music, Arcade, Apple TV+ and 50GB of iCloud storage. A family plan retails at $19.95 and a premier…

Mulan – a tale of international compromise leaving no one satisfied

Blog post by Tim Mulligan

14 Sep 2020

Online video

Mulan

disney

A year unlike any other continues to throw curveballs at media companies with strong digital and international footprints. The live-action remake of the popular 90’s Disney animation Mulan has been 10…

DAZN financials: Growth reliant on premium domestic rights

Blog post by Alistair Taylor

14 Sep 2020

DAZN

DAZN Group

Perform

DAZN’s 2018 financials highlighted the difficulty of encouraging a transition to consume live sports digitally with its existing portfolio of rights. DAZN has not yet released its 2019 financials, but…

Zombies and vaporwave: Consumer vibes in 2020

Blog post by Hanna Kahlert

12 Sep 2020

Vapourware

synth wave

lofi

News has become culturally vital in 2020. In a year of global health, social and economic disruption, it now possesses a relevant edge to compete vigorously for consumer attention in a saturated content…

Why the struggle of small venues will affect the entire music industry

Blog post by Mark Mulligan

11 Sep 2020

Prior to the dislocation caused by the pandemic, live music operated with a structure that gave artists a clear sense of where they were in their careers and where they could aim for next. Small clubs…

Take part in MIDiA’s electronic music producer survey!

Blog post by Mark Mulligan

10 Sep 2020

MIDiA is currently fielding a survey aimed at electronic music producers. It takes about ten minutes to complete and there is a $/€/£50 voucher for every tenth participant. We will also send you a synopsis…

Jack Ryan and the trinity of awareness, viewing, and fandom

Blog post by Tim Mulligan

10 Sep 2020

In a locked-down world now dominated by home entertainment, the traditional video streaming subscription giants Netflix and Amazon are up against direct-to-consumer (D2C) entrants Disney+, Apple TV+, HBO…

Clash of brands: Should Microsoft and Walmart purchase US TikTok?

Blog post by Hanna Kahlert

7 Sep 2020

In the wake of US President Trump’s announced impending ban on TikTok parent company ByteDance, the future of the app – and its 100 million US active users – has been the subject of high-stakes speculation. …

Where did Disney and Live Nation’s missing $10 billion go?

Blog post by Mark Mulligan

4 Sep 2020

In both economic and pandemic terms, we are in a relatively quiet period compared to the first half of the year. COVID-19 is at much lower levels in most countries and there are multiple sectors, such…

Is it time for the music industry to rethink how it wants to participate in the gaming opportunity?

Blog post by Karol Severin

4 Sep 2020

music industry

gaming

cross-entertainment strategy

Music consumption, particularly in the West, is commoditised. Transforming from the economies of ownership to access and the removal of production and distribution barriers led to the devaluation of, not…

Is HBO Max about to disrupt Netflix domestically with relevant scripted drama?

Blog post by Tim Mulligan

3 Sep 2020

Video

Online video

streaming video

When Warner Media executives commissioned the retro gothic horror original Lovecraft Country for its new flagship streaming service HBO Max, they could not have imagined just how on message the show…

Wanda Sports Group’s financials highlight long-term impact of live hiatus

Blog post by Alistair Taylor

3 Sep 2020

sports fans

covid

live sports

Wanda Sports Group’s (WSG) Q2 financials highlight a significant decline in revenues on account of “the broad effects of COVID-19 mitigation efforts”. WSG reported a second successive quarter of…

Does Apple and augmented reality equal Apple TV+ 2.0?

Blog post by Tim Mulligan

28 Aug 2020

Bloomberg announced on Wednesday that Apple is planning to integrate augmented reality (AR) into its video subscription service Apple TV+. The new feature will debut next year and allow viewers to access…

Who will own the virtual concert space?

Blog post by Mark Mulligan

28 Aug 2020

2020 will go down as a rough year for many artists, largely because of the income they lost when live ground to a halt. Unfortunately, the live music sector is still going to be disrupted in 2021 and it…

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