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Social media propositions are competing by homogenising?

Blog post by Hanna Kahlert

24 Nov 2020

‘Tis the season for new social media layouts, it seems. Recently, Instagram has introduced a new layout featuring a combined Reels/Stories tab and a shopping tab; Twitter has rolled out its own form…

Snapchat buys Voisey to enter the music market

Blog post by Mark Mulligan

20 Nov 2020

Snapchat parent company Snap Inc is reported to have acquired music collaboration tool Voisey . Voisey is a relatively new start-up, having raised its first major round mid-2019 and launching later the…

Why TikTok’s regulatory countdown has been extended yet again

Blog post by Tim Mulligan

20 Nov 2020

Online video

Media

Video

One of the many knock-on effects of this month’s US Presidential election has been the temporary reprieve granted to social video app TikTok. The app is owned and operated by ByteDance, the Beijing-based…

DraftKings is making its own strategic bet on the rise of the US sports betting market

Blog post by Alistair Taylor

19 Nov 2020

DraftKings

Sportsbook

betting company

US-based sports betting company DraftKings’ stock value has grown 11% following a strong third-quarter performance in which its revenues increased 98% year on year (YoY) to reach $132.8 million, up from…

YouTube at two billion: Still much more music opportunity to be had

Blog post by Mark Mulligan

17 Nov 2020

YouTube just announced its milestone of reaching two billion music users on the platform . YouTube has long been the largest music service on the planet, and it has just extended that lead. In 2019, its…

Virtual Reality: The flying cars of the 21st century

Blog post by Hanna Kahlert

16 Nov 2020

Virtual reality – or “VR” – has been described as a potentially media transforming technology for years now . Desperate trend seekers have long harked its “potential”, certain that this little-understood,…

Are rights holders missing the point with Twitch?

Blog post by Mark Mulligan

13 Nov 2020

Twitch has apologised to its users for the growing volume of rights holder takedown notices for music used in Twitch videos . Twitch is in an awkward transitionary phase with music rights holders, not…

Post-pandemic programming webinar replay

Blog post by Dara Jegede

12 Nov 2020

If you missed the Post-Pandemic Programming webinar on Tuesday, November 10, you can relive the discussions in the video below. To ensure you don't miss another MIDiA event, register here to stay in touch…

WWE Q3 Earnings – An innovative digital strategy helps WWE overcome COVID-19 disruption

Blog post by Alistair Taylor

12 Nov 2020

WWE

World Wrestling Entertainment

covid

WWE’s Q3 2020 results provide a fascinating insight into how a live event-focused entertainment business has successfully navigated a global pandemic. In its financials for the quarter , WWE saw a 19%…

MIDiA expands academia support to gaming community through MetArena partnership

Blog post by 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…

MIDiA podcast launches with post-pandemic programming series

Blog post by Dara Jegede

11 Nov 2020

Video

Music

Games

MIDiA has long said that podcasts are a rising force in the audio entertainment market – and now we’ve put our efforts where our insights are, launching our first podcast series. Our first two episodes…

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

Blog post by Karol Severin

10 Nov 2020

take two interactive

games subscriptions

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.…

Disney+, one year on…

Blog post by Tim Mulligan

10 Nov 2020

Video

On Thursday 12 November, Disney will announce its Q4 (Calendar Q3) earnings. The date is particularly poignant, as it is exactly one year since Disney launched its direct-to-consumer (D2C) service Disney+…

Why the sports broadcast model is now under threat

Blog post by Alistair Taylor

6 Nov 2020

Sinclair Broadcast Group

Sinclair

sports broadcast

The Sinclair Broadcast Group reported its Q3 2020 results earlier this week, which highlighted the detrimental impact sporting investments had on its balance sheet. A 37% year-on-year (YoY) increase in…

The video streaming shift from sports to news

Blog post by Tim Mulligan

5 Nov 2020

news

Video

streaming

Yesterday the Sinclair Broadcast Group reported its Q3 2020 results . A 37% increase in consolidated revenues was undone by a $4.2 billion impairment on the local sports segment due to the COVID-19 disruption…

Discovery Mode: Understanding how Spotify thinks

Blog post by Mark Mulligan

4 Nov 2020

Spotify’s Discovery Mode announcement looked at the very best a poorly timed announcement, coming at a time when artists and songwriters are more concerned about their income than at any other since…

We’re hiring!

Blog post by Mark Mulligan

2 Nov 2020

MIDiA Research is hiring for a consultant to join our fast growing consulting division. Want to be a part of exciting strategic projects, helping some of the world’s biggest entertainment companies solve…

Live streaming centre stage for 2021

Blog post by Keith Jopling

2 Nov 2020

live streaming

live music

Live music industry

The longer the pandemic continues, the harder it gets for the live music business (and other cultural sectors built around live performance) to sustain hope of a ‘return to normal’. I hate saying it,…

Among Us: What brands can learn from gamer communities

Blog post by Hanna Kahlert

2 Nov 2020

Last Tuesday, 27 October, a new record was set for the third-largest games stream in Twitch history , with an audience of between 300,000 and 400,000 over three and a half hours. It was not driven by a…

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

Blog post by Karol Severin

29 Oct 2020

ps5

PlayStation5

Travis scott

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…

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