Blog: coronavirus

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Staggered vaccine rollouts will prime entertainment for (further, faster) innovation

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Hanna Kahlert

4 May 2021

Media and Marketing

The ‘light at the end of the tunnel’ of COVID-19 is theoretically drawing closer. Yet, as we blogged about last week , staggered vaccine rollouts mean that the ‘new normal’ will begin for some...

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Live streaming and the role of music artist empowerment in the digital era

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Hanna Kahlert

19 Oct 2020

Music streaming

As the coronavirus lockdowns have forced venues to close and people indoors, artists have been unevenly impacted across the music industry. While many bigger studios were forced to cease operations, and...

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Zombies and vaporwave: Consumer vibes in 2020

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Hanna Kahlert

12 Sep 2020

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...

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Return of the fan: COVID-19 thwarts fan pilot sporting events amid regional spikes in cases

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Alistair Taylor

6 Aug 2020

Just when sports fans thought it was safe to go back into the water, COVID reared its ugly head once more. UK fan pilot sporting events were all set to start allowing fans back into arenas and attend live...

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New Webinar on What Comes After Lockdown

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Mark Mulligan

9 Jun 2020

Want to know what happens in the post-Lockdown era? Join us for our free-to-attend Recovery Economics webinar tomorrow (Wednesday 10thJune) at 4pm BST / 11am EST / 8am PT for insight on music, radio,...

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Travis Scott has Only Scratched the Surface of Music Games Tie Ups

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Mark Mulligan

1 May 2020

In February 2019 Marshmello caused ripples of almost tidal proportions across the music business when 10.7 million Fortnite fans watched him perform a ‘concert’ in the game. Then in April 2020 Travis...

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Spotify Q1 2020: Choppy Waters Ahead

Mark Mulligan

29 Apr 2020

Spotify’s first quarter earnings were a mixed bag, with a largely positive picture for Q1 but some warning signs for the remainder of the year: Subscribers: Spotify’s Q1 earnings may not have...

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Lockdown Listening and the Independent Artist

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Mark Mulligan

24 Apr 2020

coronavirus covid-19

After an initial lockdown lull, streaming levels are – on the surface – beginning to normalise. Underlying the macro-level normalisation, ‘lockdown listening’ is in fact resulting in dramatic shifts...

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Streaming Services Are Going to Have to Change Their MO

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Mark Mulligan

17 Apr 2020

New music is the fuel in the streaming engine, creating a virtuous circle of increased label and artist output to meet DSP-stimulated user demand. Now though, with COVID-19 disrupting the production of...

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The COVID Bounce: Part II

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Mark Mulligan

2 Apr 2020

coronavirus consumer behaviour

In their early stages, COVID-19 self-isolation measures have quickly created new consumer behaviour patterns, oriented around four key axes: Communication Entertainment Information/news Education (for...

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The COVID Bounce: How COVID-19 is Reshaping Entertainment Demand

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Mark Mulligan

27 Mar 2020

The economic disruption and social dislocation caused by the COVID-19 pandemic is not evenly distributed. Some business face catastrophe, while others thrive. Across the entertainment industries the same...

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Film Studios Pause Production; Is This the New Era of Anime?

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Hanna Kahlert

26 Mar 2020

animated content

With national lockdowns becoming the norm and the majority of nonessential workers being sent to work remotely, the video industry is set for some interesting changes over the next few months. As recently...

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Disney+ Launches in the UK on the First Day of a National Lockdown

Tim Mulligan

24 Mar 2020

The last two weeks have been dramatic for public companies in the wake of extreme investor reactions to the still unknown long-term economic impacts of the global coronavirus pandemic. However, media major...

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How COVID-19 Will Affect the Media Industries

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Mark Mulligan

23 Mar 2020

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coronavirus impact on media

The spread of COVID-19, and the responses of industry and governments alike, is unprecedented. It is, however, the restrictions on movement of people along with the response of consumers and investors...

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Kingdom: Global Events Correlate with Show Awareness

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Hanna Kahlert

19 Mar 2020

Chart Of The Week

From George Romero’s 1968 Night of the Living Dead to the more recent Walking Dead, to even Game of Thrones’ whitewalkers, zombies have been a cultural zeitgeist metaphorically teasing at our inner...

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Why Games Could Benefit from Coronavirus

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Karol Severin

17 Mar 2020

Yes, it’s another coronavirus-related one, but this time hopefully a more cheerful story than what we’ve been reading and hearing over the last few weeks – at least for gamers and the games industry....

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How Coronavirus Will Affect the Entertainment Industries

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Mark Mulligan

12 Mar 2020

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coronavirus recession

The coronavirus is a global pandemic . Regardless of what its actual infection and mortality rates might be, it is already having seismic impacts on stock markets and consumer behaviour – the result...

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Marketplace Pandemic: How Will Media Companies Fare in a Recession?

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Hanna Kahlert

11 Mar 2020

With the 9 th of March dubbed by market analysts as “Black Monday” after S&P and Nasdaq suffered the worst share falls since the 2008 financial crisis, seeing trading briefly suspended before resuming...

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