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Podcasts are fuelling TV hits — will this help audio listenership?

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Blog post by Annie Langston

1 Jun 2022

While podcasts continue to find a seat at the mainstream entertainment table, it is becoming the content behind the curtain of some of the biggest television shows. Some of the most popular shows of this...

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

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Blog post by 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...

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

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Blog post by 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...

Altered Carbon: Tracking Fandom into the Future

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Blog post by Hanna Kahlert

6 Mar 2020

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In the digital era, anything can generate metrics – to the point where no matter how good the numbers look, actual success can sometimes be unconnected. Logged ‘views’ of an advertisement don’t...

Here’s Why Apple Just Killed Off iTunes

Blog post by Mark Mulligan

4 Jun 2019

Apple CEO Tim Cook speaks during Apple's annual Worldwide Developers Conference in San Jose, California, U.S. June 3, 2019. REUTERS/Mason Trinca Apple has announced that it is closing iTunes and replacing...

Television Performance Measurement Is Falling Short

Blog post by Hanna Kahlert

20 May 2019

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When the television first entered homes around the world, it was a safe assumption that if it was on it was the centre of attention in a room. Whatever was broadcast to the screen for that evening would...

Amazon’s Ad Supported Strategy Goes Way Beyond Music

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Blog post by Mark Mulligan

17 Apr 2019

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Amazon is reportedly close to launching an ad supported streaming music offering . Spotify’s stock price took an instant tumble. But the real story here is much bigger than the knee-jerk reactions...

2019—The Year The Traditional TV Ratings System Finally Crumbles

Blog post by Tim Mulligan

2 Jan 2019

2019 has only just begun andalready the traditional world ofthe TV ratings has sustained a heavy blow with US TV Network CBS not renewing its Nielsen contract into 2019. This is a significant blow in both...

Is YouTube The Digital Successor To Free-To-View TV?

Blog post by Tim Mulligan

24 Oct 2017

On October 17th, YouTube made another significant step towards supplanting the TV industry with the free-to-view ad-supported release of a YouTube original documentary on music artist Demi Lovato, entitled...

Apple, The Culver Studios And The Importance Of Content

Blog post by Tim Mulligan

4 Sep 2017

The Financial Times has reported that Apple is planning to acquire The Culver Studios, a complex of film-making buildings in LA next to where Sony Pictures is based. The Culver Studios has a long history...

Virtual Reality And Scripted Drama

Blog post by Tim Mulligan

13 May 2016

At the start of 2016 the tech hype machine was going into overdrive over the potential for Virtual Reality to finally break through to the mainstream. January’s CES in Las Vegas featured the launch of...

MIDiA Chart Of The Week: Netflix Leads Format Innovation

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Blog post by Mark Mulligan

22 Dec 2015

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The advent of Video On Demand transformed the business models of the broadcast and pay-TV industries. Now it is set to have an equally disruptive impact on the nature of video content itself as the old...

Netflix Gets Ready To Disrupt TV Commissioning In 2016

Blog post by Tim Mulligan

10 Dec 2015

This week, Ted Sarandos, Netflix’s head of content revealed the company’s 2016 originals pipeline. Netflix will nearly double its roster of original series from this year’s 16 to 31 in 2016. It will...

Why The Novel Is A Key Component Of The Multi Media Landscape

Blog post by Tim Mulligan

16 Oct 2015

Perhaps the most revealing comment at MIPCOM 2015 was the one made by Nick North, the BBC Director of Audiences. He stated, that he was more concerned about losing the attention of young viewers distracted...

Quick Take: Too Much Demand And Not Enough Television Talent

Blog post by Mark Mulligan

7 Oct 2015

So The Hollywood Reporter runs with a story about the tumultuous Fall Season for the American TV production community . It wasn’t meant to be this way, it was meant to be the scripted drama renaissance....