Blog: media strategy

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

Hanna Kahlert

11 Mar 2020

coronavirus

market crash

market impact

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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Bertelsmann and Penguin Random House: A Strategy Based on Extremes

Zach Fuller

24 Jul 2017

Bertelsmann

BMG

harper collins

Having created a next-gen music publisher in BMG, German media giant Bertlesmann are applying a similar strategy to their publishing division. Consistent with BMG’s tactic of investing heavily in legacy...

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Differentiating Full-Stack Media and Tech Ecosystems

Zach Fuller

20 Feb 2017

Alibaba

Amazon

full stack media

Two key developments in digital media that MIDiA Research has addressed over the past year are the emergence of both full-stack media and the tech ecosystem. These shifts in the digital life have recently...

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Facebook Is Finally Ready To Become A Media Company

Mark Mulligan

10 Nov 2016

esports

Facebook

Innovation

Facebook beat estimates with its latest earnings but announced that ad revenues would likely slow in 2017 as the digital ad market feels the pinch of advertiser budgets lagging the shift in user behaviour....

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