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MIDiA expands academia support to gaming community through MetArena partnership

Dara Jegede

11 Nov 2020

Games

We are pleased to announce that the University of Kentucky is the first to benefit from a new partnership between MIDiA Research and MetArena, which will see students receive access to the MIDiA platform for 12 months, at no additional cost to the universities or students.

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Catch up with MIDiA's post-pandemic programming podcast series

Dara Jegede

11 Nov 2020

Video Music Games

MIDiA has long said that podcasts are a rising force in the audio entertainment market – and we’ve put our efforts where our insights are, launching our first podcast series. Our episodes are now available to listen to on Spotify , Apple Podcasts and Amazon Music .

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Why Take-Two Interactive does not need to adopt games subscriptions yet

Karol Severin

10 Nov 2020

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Take-Two Interactive (T2) reported quarterly results, with revenue dipping slightly, but profitability improving. On the call, T2 reiterated scepticism over the future of the games subscription models.

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PS5 and Travis Scott partnership illustrate PlayStation’s/Sony’s cross-entertainment future

Karol Severin

29 Oct 2020

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Over the last year we have written a number of times that Sony’s future is cross-entertainment , while Xbox’s future is cross platform . This stems from their respective strengths and weaknesses. Sony would find it, at best, incredibly challenging to compete with Microsoft on cloud, cross-platfo...

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Turning fandom into revenue: Why UGC is the next big revenue maker for the content industries

Keith Jopling

28 Oct 2020

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In our recent report The Rising Power of UGC , in association with Audible Magic we identified that the music industry could unlock as much as $6 billion in revenues from UGC by 2022. Such an outcome would see UGC contributing around 10% of music industry revenues, but this is just the tip of the ic...

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Blurred lines: UGC is bringing creators and users closer, and blurring promotion with consumption

Keith Jopling

21 Oct 2020

Video Music Games

Fleetwood Mac’s 1977 hit ‘Dreams’ is the latest ‘legacy hit’ to have also become the latest viral phenomenon, thanks to a skateboarder with a thirst for cranberry juice. In just one week, streams of the song had increased by eight million on Spotify.

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More consumers intend to buy PS5 than Xbox Series X, but both companies will be content with their trajectory

Karol Severin

16 Oct 2020

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With both PS5 and Xbox Series X having sold out their pre-order stock, the winter holiday race is heating up. Following Microsoft’s acquisition of ZeniMax Media, we wrote that the acquisition is unlikely to have a short-term impact on console sales, and rather play a larger role in the conversion ...

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Microsoft’s Zenimax acquisition is about the future of Games Pass more than console sales

Karol Severin

30 Sep 2020

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With the acquisition of ZeniMax Media, Microsoft is gaining an important content asset for its portfolio – Bethesda’s games. And while the timing of the announcement certainly won’t make Sony too happy as it is about to launch PS5, the key benefits of this acquisition are tied to the future of...

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Quick Take: Apple One – Recession Buster

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 plan includes 1TB storage, News and Apple’s new Fitness+ service.

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

Karol Severin

4 Sep 2020

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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 necessarily ‘the song’, but of ‘ listening to a song’ .

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Epic Games takes on the media giants in #freefortnite fiasco

Karol Severin

21 Aug 2020

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Conflict between the gaming world and the tech giants erupted last Thursday, with Fortnite being removed from the App Store and Play Store, two lawsuits being registered, and a (niche) viral outbreak of Epic Games’ #freefortnite campaign.

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COVID fallout: BBC no longer considers UK Athletics value for money

Alistair Taylor

19 Aug 2020

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COVID-19 exposed live entertainment as a vulnerable asset class , specifically following the pandemic-enforced postponement of live sports . One of the hardest hit during this hiatus and ensuing uncertainty has been athletics, which saw its largest engagement driver and the ‘greatest show on earth...

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Fortnite’s Party Royale provides sports untapped avenue for reaching digital natives

Alistair Taylor

19 Aug 2020

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Burgeoning universal platform Fortnite’s ‘ Party Royale ’ is slowly becoming the gateway for rights holders to reach digitally native audiences. Party Royale, Fortnite’s ‘ experimenta l’ game mode has been a breakthrough for the platform ever since it was released.

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Apple to launch subscription bundle – we called it!

Mark Mulligan

13 Aug 2020

Video Music Games

In MIDiA’s 2020 Predictions report published in December 2019 we predicted that tech majors would start creating subscription bundles, with Apple leading the fray. Lo and behold, news has just come out that Apple is working on ‘ Apple One’ – a multi-genre subscription bundle that will includ...

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Could gaming kill the video star?

Karol Severin

12 Aug 2020

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The Video Games Entertainment & News Network, or ‘ Venn’ , was launched on the 5th of August – marking another important milestone on entertainment’s journey of intertwining across formats and verticals.

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The MIDiA Research Podcast: Episode 1 – What Next for Tencent?

Mark Mulligan

7 Aug 2020

Video Music Media & Marketing

We are excited to announce the first episode of the MIDiA Research podcast: What Next for Tencent? President Trump's executive orders concerning Bytedance and Tencent set the cat among the pigeons. In this podcast we explore what the potential ramifications are for Tencent's bold and disruptive ente...

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

Alistair Taylor

6 Aug 2020

Video Sports Games

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 events, but government restrictions have now been re-imposed to limit the spread of coronavirus...

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Quick take: Xbox’s future is cross-platform, PlayStation’s is cross-entertainment

Karol Severin

30 Jul 2020

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If Fortnite showed us anything, it’s that the future of entertainment is about monetising fandom – not just consumption and access to content. Games are perfectly positioned to help monetise fandom across all entertainment fields.

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TwitchSports: Amazon throws sports into the starting line-up

Alistair Taylor

29 Jul 2020

Video Sports Games

Amazon-owned Twitch is no newcomer to sports. However, in a deliberate move to double down, Amazon has conceded that it needs to improve the discoverability of live sporting events for its platform users – so, as of last Wednesday, ‘Sports’ has become a standalone category with the return of T...

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How games continue to drive a cultural shift

Karol Severin

24 Jul 2020

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The strides gaming has made in recent years regarding its cultural relevance are hard to ignore. Twenty years ago, consumers defined their cultural image through the music they listened to, the clothes they wore and the sports teams they supported.

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