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Historical and Crime Dramas Are Dominating Lockdown Viewing

Tim Mulligan

29 Apr 2020

crime drama

Defending Jacob

historical drama

As a quarter of the world goes into a second month of lockdown some interesting trends are starting to emerge. First of all was the spike in TV and video consumption with linear viewing challenging the...

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Kingdom: Global Events Correlate with Show Awareness

Hanna Kahlert

19 Mar 2020

Awareness

Chart Of The Week

coronavirus

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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Disney+ Has Tapped the Cultural Zeitgeist with the Mandalorian

Tim Mulligan

6 Dec 2019

baby yoda

Disney

midia index

With 10 million sign ups in its first day, there is no doubt that Disney+ has tapped strong latent demand in what is already a highly saturated US streaming video market. What differentiates market...

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WikiTribune Is a Start, But It Misses The Core Issue On Fake News

Zach Fuller

27 Apr 2017

alternative facts

Fake News

jimmy wales

Having created Wikipedia, one of the most widely read sites in the history of the World Wide Web, Jimmy Wales is aware of the complexities and pitfalls when it comes to managing the authenticity of information....

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