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What do Fortnite, Netflix, Spotify, The Economist and TikTok have in common?

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Dara Jegede

21 Oct 2019

The peaking attention economy has fully transformed competitive dynamics in the media and entertainment landscape. Consumers have maxed out on their available down-time, which originally provided organic...

2 min read

The NFL and Pizza Hut: Future-Proofing with E-Sports

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Alistair Taylor

18 Oct 2019

ad responsiveness

addressable audience

advert experimentation

While sharing pizza has already become synonymous with watching sports, e-sports could be about to leverage that same instilled behaviour. Restaurant chain Pizza Hut made history this July when it became...

5 min read

Streaming Video Metrics Go Mainstream

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Tim Mulligan

18 Oct 2019

After a week engaging with streaming professionals on both sides of the Atlantic at MIPCOM in Cannes and the NAB New York Streaming Summit, two key themes have emerged. MIPCOM – D2C Big Bang Reflection...

3 min read

BBC Kids to LADbible: Video Providers Expand Their Reach

Amanda Stears

18 Oct 2019

In the streaming era, having international reach is just as important as being an established local brand. This week (October 14) sees TV players Tubi, Facebook Watch and Youku each expanding content reach...

3 min read

What Should Label Playlist Strategies Be in 2020?

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Keith Jopling

15 Oct 2019

MIDiA’s ‘ Playlist Revolution ’ report recently highlighted that, although playlists have become valuable commercial music real estate in their current form, there is plenty of scope for further...

4 min read

Fortnite’s Black Hole: A Fandom Play for Peak Attention

Hanna Kahlert

14 Oct 2019

One would think that, in a highly competitive market where every entertainment proposition is now increasingly struggling to maintain engaged audience share, the ideal strategy would not be to obliterate...

3 min read

Take Five (the big five stories and data you need to know) October 14th 2019

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Mark Mulligan

14 Oct 2019

fortnite blackhole

Fortnite black hole: In what may be the most audacious global games marketing stunt ever, Epic Games killed off Fortnite in Sunday’s end-of-season event , which one million people viewed...

2 min read

How Music Publishers Are Driving a Full Stack Revolution

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Mark Mulligan

14 Oct 2019

Music publishing catalogues are gaining momentum fast as an asset class for institutional investments, with transactions ranging from large catalogue mergers and acquisitions (M&A) through to investment...

4 min read

Why the D2C Era Is About to Begin in Earnest

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Tim Mulligan

11 Oct 2019

direct-to-consumer

Next month Apple TV+ and Disney+ will launch, followed by Warner Media’s HBO Max in Q1 2020 and NBCUniversal’s Peacock in April – making the next six months pivotal in the evolution of direct-to-consumer...

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Indonesia’s Gojek Rivals Netflix with New Streaming Service GoPlay

Amanda Stears

8 Oct 2019

Indonesia’s leading mobile payment platform and tech unicorn Gojek launched its video-on-demand (VOD) service on 26 September. This comes shortly after its extension into the gaming industry with its...

3 min read

Take Five (the big five stories and data you need to know) October 7th 2019

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Mark Mulligan

7 Oct 2019

Streaming pricing, emerging questions: Music Business Worldwide raised the question of why streaming is discounted in emerging markets when BMWs and Amazon Echoes are not. There are many layers to...

2 min read

Abbey Road 50 Years On: The Two Worlds of Music Listening

Mark Mulligan

7 Oct 2019

artist audiences

artist fanbases

Half a century after it first after it first topped the charts, the Beatles’ Abbey Road is back at the summit of the UK charts. With the anniversary editions retailing for between $20 and $100, the impact...

5 min read

Vice Media Acquires Refinery29 as Digital Media Reaches Its Consolidation Phase

Zach Fuller

4 Oct 2019

It does not feel like long ago that Vice was the darling of digital media, attracting investment from Walt Disney, 21st Century Fox and TPG with valuations reaching as high as $5.7 billion. As the financial...

3 min read

Is Apple Preparing for Its First Oscar?

Tim Mulligan

3 Oct 2019

Last week’s story that Apple is getting into the movie business to bolster its premium video positioning – if officially confirmed – would follow on the well-trodden path established by the current...

4 min read

Why PlayStation Now’s Price Cut Alone Is Not Enough To Compete

Karol Severin

2 Oct 2019

games streaming

Despite a price cut, PlayStation remains the most expensive gaming experience: PlayStation has announced a 50% price cut to its games streaming service, PlayStation Now. Though slicing a streaming service...

4 min read

Five Trends Changing Music Marketing

Keith Jopling

2 Oct 2019

Marketing music has never been straightforward. That’s why back in the day, label executives would use the single as the shortcut to finding an audience on which to propel the artist, and even more importantly,...

5 min read

Why Short Form Content Resonates with Younger Generations

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Amanda Stears

2 Oct 2019

digital natives

Digital natives – be they classified as millennials or generation Z – have always had the term “instant gratification” associated with them. This is a reflection of the way technology has shaped...

4 min read

Take Five (the big five stories and data you need to know) September 27th 2019

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Mark Mulligan

30 Sep 2019

Music licensing hubs: Monokromelaunched its Rights Hub , contractual rights and file management platform for rightsholders, while Soundfeed put its label sub-licensing platform into open beta....

2 min read

Have We Reached Peak Tech?

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Mark Mulligan

27 Sep 2019

In last week’s Take Five I highlighted a Vox story which reported that over the last year the number of companies using terms like ‘tech’ or technology’ in their documents is down 12%. This is...

5 min read

Welcome to the Post-Peak Emmys

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Tim Mulligan

27 Sep 2019

Digital audiences

Sunday night saw the 71 st Emmy Awards broadcast live on Fox. Traditionally the Emmys have been the cornerstone of TV production credibility alongside the BAFTAs. However, the Oscars of the TV industry...

3 min read

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