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

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Karol Severin

30 Sep 2020

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...

4 min read

Big tech is on the spot as the lines between commercial and political begin to blur

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Hanna Kahlert

28 Sep 2020

Media and Marketing

Two months ago, on July 30th, the CEOs of Apple, Google, Facebook and Amazon testified before US congress in a hearing largely focusing on the implications of antitrust law in their business operations....

4 min read

What Killing Eve tells us about anticipating future series demand

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Tim Mulligan

25 Sep 2020

One of the biggest challenges for show commissioners and the networks who distribute TV content is the challenge of anticipating future demand. Most of the existing data indicators available are lagging...

3 min read

So, how can artists and songwriters can get paid?

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Mark Mulligan

25 Sep 2020

COVID-19’s decimation of the live music business coupled with the coming collapse in performance revenues due to closed shops, restaurants, bars and clubs mean that many (though not all) artists and...

5 min read

European Professional Club Rugby goes OTT, pressing business over the needs of fans

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Alistair Taylor

23 Sep 2020

European Professional Club Rugby

Last Friday , European Professional Club Rugby (EPCR), the Heineken Champions Cup and the European Rugby Challenge Cup’s governing body announced the launch of its global over-the-top (OTT) streaming...

5 min read

Oracle and Walmart re-emerge to take on the future of a US TikTok

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Hanna Kahlert

22 Sep 2020

Since the announced US ban of ByteDance and WeChat in August, the future of the widely popular short-form social video app TikTok has been murky and vaguely chaotic. Two weeks ago, Microsoft and Walmart...

4 min read

Why Kanye West is the modern-day Prince

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Mark Mulligan

18 Sep 2020

Not ‘prince’ in the Machiavelliansense of the term – though there is an argument for that too – but as in the artist formerly known as. Back in 1992, Prince fought his label Warner Bros to get...

5 min read

Quick Take: PS5 pricing unveiled – an important milestone in its cross-entertainment future

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Karol Severin

17 Sep 2020

Sony’s PS5 Showcase event unveiled a number of upcoming titles and pricing for its upcoming console. At $499 and $399 it confirmed expectations. The top range is the same as Xbox Series X, with the PS5...

2 min read

Creating the digital home of hockey - SportsPro Live panel

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Alistair Taylor

17 Sep 2020

Yesterday at SportsPro Live, I had the pleasure of moderating a panel discussing the creation of the digital home of hockey with Thierry Weil, International Hockey Federation (FIH)’s CEO and Jean-Luc...

12 min read

Verizon Media announces platform to ‘evolve’ live streaming experience

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Alistair Taylor

16 Sep 2020

Verizon Media announced a series of new Media Platform improvements in a press release today (16th September), intended to ‘evolve the live streaming experience’. These features are all aimed at increasing...

3 min read

Quick Take: Apple One – Recession Buster

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Mark Mulligan

15 Sep 2020

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...

2 min read

Mulan – a tale of international compromise leaving no one satisfied

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Tim Mulligan

14 Sep 2020

A year unlike any other continues to throw curveballs at media companies with strong digital and international footprints. The live-action remake of the popular 90’s Disney animation Mulan has been 10...

4 min read

DAZN financials: Growth reliant on premium domestic rights

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Alistair Taylor

14 Sep 2020

DAZN’s 2018 financials highlighted the difficulty of encouraging a transition to consume live sports digitally with its existing portfolio of rights. DAZN has not yet released its 2019 financials, but...

3 min read

Zombies and vaporwave: Consumer vibes in 2020

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Hanna Kahlert

12 Sep 2020

News has become culturally vital in 2020. In a year of global health, social and economic disruption, it now possesses a relevant edge to compete vigorously for consumer attention in a saturated content...

4 min read

Why the struggle of small venues will affect the entire music industry

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Mark Mulligan

11 Sep 2020

Prior to the dislocation caused by the pandemic, live music operated with a structure that gave artists a clear sense of where they were in their careers and where they could aim for next. Small clubs...

5 min read

Take part in MIDiA’s electronic music producer survey!

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Mark Mulligan

10 Sep 2020

MIDiA is currently fielding a survey aimed at electronic music producers. It takes about ten minutes to complete and there is a $/€/£50 voucher for every tenth participant. We will also send you a synopsis...

1 min read

Jack Ryan and the trinity of awareness, viewing, and fandom

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Tim Mulligan

10 Sep 2020

In a locked-down world now dominated by home entertainment, the traditional video streaming subscription giants Netflix and Amazon are up against direct-to-consumer (D2C) entrants Disney+, Apple TV+, HBO...

3 min read

Clash of brands: Should Microsoft and Walmart purchase US TikTok?

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Hanna Kahlert

7 Sep 2020

In the wake of US President Trump’s announced impending ban on TikTok parent company ByteDance, the future of the app – and its 100 million US active users – has been the subject of high-stakes speculation....

4 min read

Where did Disney and Live Nation’s missing $10 billion go?

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Mark Mulligan

4 Sep 2020

In both economic and pandemic terms, we are in a relatively quiet period compared to the first half of the year. COVID-19 is at much lower levels in most countries and there are multiple sectors, such...

5 min read

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

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Karol Severin

4 Sep 2020

cross-entertainment strategy

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...

5 min read

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