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AI cannot replace creators… and the proof, surprisingly, is books

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Hanna Kahlert

17 Apr 2024

Creator Economy

The asset-class-ification of entertainment has tended to reduce art to content made only to ensnare views, which lends itself to generative AI uptake. However, in a digital economy increasingly looking...

6 min read

Litigation versus innovation-treading the IP tightrope in the AI era

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Tim Mulligan

17 Apr 2024

The year so far has been largely shaped by AI and perception of just how much it is poised to transform consumer lives. The primary focus has been on the technology and how it may be applied. However,...

3 min read

Can’t cross the moat? Walk around it

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Mark Mulligan

12 Apr 2024

Creator Economy

consumer creation

The music business is bifurcating. On one side, a new AI, fandom, and creation centred business is coalescing. On the other, the traditional business is pulling the draw bridge over its moat by pushing...

5 min read

Single-player game budgets and scopes have spiralled out of control – it’s time to shrink the scope

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Rhys Elliott

11 Apr 2024

PlayStation Productions

AAA game development budgets and timelines for single-player games are getting out of hand. This was not always the case, but there has been an insidious creep over the past 20 years. While the cost of...

5 min read

What podcast slowdown? 1.2 billion people will be listening by 2030

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Rutger Rosenborg

11 Apr 2024

spotify podcasts

Is podcasting slowing or growing? Both, as it turns out. With marketing and advertising budget cuts contributing to layoffs and cancellations at major podcasting players like Spotify and NPR, 2023 was...

3 min read

Ideas are king in the land of AI video creation

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Ben Woods

11 Apr 2024

video creator tools

Creator Economy

Those with doubts about the impact of AI on video creation should watch Air Head . The surrealist short film about a man with a balloon for a head was pieced together using OpenAI’s Sora , the text-to-video...

4 min read

The cultural pendulum swing is coming back around

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Tatiana Cirisano

11 Apr 2024

Music Streaming

Across culture, there is an eerie sense of things coming full circle. After spending the past decade building an industry around ad-free streaming TV, Netflix has ads and feels increasingly like cable...

5 min read

The rise of the IP bank

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Tim Mulligan

10 Apr 2024

Post-lockdown saw the rise of media fusion into mainstream media formats, with games titles such as The Last of Us being made into episodic TV series. This followed the metaverse V1 experiences of live...

3 min read

The techification of entertainment (and why it needs to reverse)

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Hanna Kahlert

10 Apr 2024

Entertainment today is almost inseparable from streaming – for better and for worse. The tech infrastructure that underpins today’s entertainment industry has had a huge impact not only on how content...

5 min read

Steam is the unlikely winner of the modern console wars – for now

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Rhys Elliott

4 Apr 2024

Thanks to console manufacturers and third-party publishers moving content to Steam, Valve now boasts one of the most diverse AAA offerings on the market, benefitting from new strategies adopted by Xbox...

6 min read

Forget TikTok trends; the scene is TikTok itself

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Hanna Kahlert

4 Apr 2024

Much of marketing today focuses on chasing the latest TikTok trend. Catching the ‘next big thing’ just as it is taking off, then watching the cultural clout dissolve as the trend disappears as quickly...

5 min read

Spotify wants to make podcasts a marketing driver for music

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Rutger Rosenborg

4 Apr 2024

Music Streaming

Last summer, Variety published an article about the effect Alex Cooper’s Call Her Daddy podcast has on boosting the streams of her musician guests . According to Spotify, Anitta’s streams increased...

3 min read

Disney’s IP bank is its ultimate superpower which it needs to double down on investing in hybrid IRL success

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Tim Mulligan

4 Apr 2024

Disney’s annual shareholder meeting has confirmed that its management team, led by streaming and IP visionary Bob Iger, remains firmly in control of the media major’s destiny by thwarting Nelson Peltz’s...

3 min read

Fan economy: expanded rights are worth $3.5 billion, now what?

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Mark Mulligan

3 Apr 2024

expanded rights

MIDiA recently, and exclusively, revealed that expanded rights now represent 10% of the recorded music market with revenues of $3.5 billion. These revenues, derived principally from monetising the brand...

4 min read

Take-Two acquires Gearbox as cross entertainment synergies ramp up

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Karol Severin

28 Mar 2024

take two interactive

We have barely made it to the end of the first calendar quarter of 2024 and MIDiA’s prediction about a $100 million+ acquisition in the games industry has panned out. Take-Two Interactive (Take-Two)...

3 min read

Artist subscriptions and the myth of a silver bullet

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Tatiana Cirisano

28 Mar 2024

artist subscriptions

monetizing fandom

Artist subscriptions are back in the music industry discourse and the takes are piping hot. James Blake lit up X with his announcement of subscription platform Vault, Warner Music Group is building its...

5 min read

AI could enable a golden age of audio piracy

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Rutger Rosenborg

28 Mar 2024

Everyone knows the story: In the early 2000s, peer-to-peer (P2P) file-sharing platforms like Napster, Kazaa, and LimeWire helped digital music piracy proliferate, ultimately decimating recorded music revenue...

3 min read

Reddit’s IPO is a nail in the coffin for the centralised internet

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Hanna Kahlert

28 Mar 2024

centralised internet

Last week, Reddit, the 19 year old social(ish) platform and long-time backbone of the internet, went up for IPO. The news is not exactly a surprise; the company has been hinting at it for years now, and...

6 min read

Why Prime Video's Mr Beast gamble can fuel Amazon's advertising business

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Ben Woods

25 Mar 2024

Amazon Prime Video has embarked on a big bet that could reshape the relationship between streaming TV and content creators. Long rumoured, the deal between YouTube superstar Mr Beast and Prime Video was...

5 min read

As Spotify corners audiobooks, Audible eyes functional audio

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Rutger Rosenborg

22 Mar 2024

Over the course of 30 years, Audible’s catalogue has grown to include more than 470,000 audiobooks, at least according to their own ads . In less than a year, Spotify’s catalogue has grown to include...

3 min read

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