Hanna Kahlert

Hanna is one of our expert analysts, helping drive MIDiA’s research into the future of digital entertainment. Her key areas of interest are cross-entertainment audience behaviour, the creator economy, and social platforms.

The X rebrand is Twitter’s Meta moment… but there’s already a Meta

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Hanna Kahlert

26 Jul 2023

Meta’s launch of Threads has been the biggest challenger to Twitter’s social standing to date, with record-breaking uptake in its first weekend. However, Twitter still had an edge: an online culture that would be hard to regrow or replicate; existing creators and content ‘style’, and a brand reputation linked with critical cultural moments that the app played host to, from the US Trump election cycle to the theorising around Tiger King.

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Barbenheimer, the Hollywood strikes, and AI: Is film at a cultural turning point?

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Hanna Kahlert

20 Jul 2023

After an exciting boom period in film and TV productions made for digital-first streaming platforms, the downsides seem to be catching up. The Writers Guild of America (WGA) has been on strike since May 2nd (2023), signalling the biggest disruption to TV and film production since Covid-19.

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The future is interoperability: Why Threads could beat Twitter through the Fediverse

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Hanna Kahlert

12 Jul 2023

While Elon Musk has been posturing public beef with Mark Zuckerberg (challenging him to a cage match, practicing with former MMA champions, public callouts on Twitter, requesting very personal measurements), Zuckerberg has responded in a more traditional way (aside from his own training pictures) with the launch of Threads, Twitter’s biggest competitor to-date.

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Less is more, but it’s already all ‘too much’: The rise of digital disengagement

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Hanna Kahlert

5 Jul 2023

A new Europol report has predicted that as much as 90% of all content on the internet could be ‘synthetically generated’ (made or modified by AI) by 2026. That is a two-and-a-half-year window and closing, with the end result being only a small minority of online content having been conceived of, much less created by, actual humans.

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Not all social entertainment behaviour is created equal
Audience deep dive

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Hanna Kahlert

July 2023

Spotify

YouTube

Xbox

Social is an integral part of entertainment consumption This report presents key data and insights about the advanced overlaps between social behaviour (both on digital platforms and in real life) and entertainment consumption. It looks at data from nine markets, featuring segments of social platform users and the audiences of different forms of entertainment, as well as fandom behaviours and monetisation opportunities.

Social platforms are going niche: the end of copycat features

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Hanna Kahlert

28 Jun 2023

It has long been a recurring strategy for social platforms to borrow one another’s successful features – to the benefit of the incumbents, and the difficulty of new players trying to break through.

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Apple’s Vision Pro may (finally) be VR’s turning point, but where is it going?

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Hanna Kahlert

7 Jun 2023

Virtual Reality has been ‘just around the corner’ for more than a decade. Any day now, it would seem, it must finally have its moment. So far it has been held back by high cost, little to offer on the headsets, and somewhat janky lag and resolution tendencies.

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Fandom and identity
For fans, entertainment goes beyond enjoyment of content

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Hanna Kahlert

June 2023

YouTube

Instagram

Snapchat

Across entertainment, fandom is used to judge, predict, and generate successful commissioning and distribution strategies. Fandom indicates reliable audiences who will spend money on propositions and come back for more at the next instalment. It shows who will buy merchandise, attend shows and events, or purchase in-game cosmetics.

Taylor Swift and the art of building a fanbase

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Hanna Kahlert

June 2023

Audience Insight

Media and Marketing

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Are we approaching the age of digital disengagement?

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Hanna Kahlert

1 Jun 2023

Media and Marketing

Cultural trends

Digital entertainment, despite its mild correction from the lockdown-boom period, is still at record levels of engagement. More content is being created than ever before, more efficiently and cost-effectively, across games, music, and video.

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Social media regulation is imminent; here is how it will shape the future of entertainment

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Hanna Kahlert

24 May 2023

Media and Marketing

Critical Developments

Last week, the US state of Montana banned (new downloads of) TikTok within its borders. This week, the US surgeon general has issued an official advisory about the negative mental health impacts of social media on young people.

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TikTok has been banned in Montana: an early blow in a larger battle

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Hanna Kahlert

18 May 2023

Media and Marketing

The TikTok ban in Montana does not come as a huge surprise, with the state having threatened to do so in the wake of the recent hearings of the company before congress. It also cannot do much; users who already have the app can continue to use it, and in a state of a roughly 1.

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Social content platforms are set to compete with everything in entertainment

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Hanna Kahlert

17 May 2023

Or at least, they will try to. TikTok is already a hub of creativity and consumption to match the changing preferences of a digital-native (and increasingly mobile-first) generation who have spent much of their entertainment lives in an environment of attention saturation.

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The new need for scarcity, and why the next big leap in entertainment has not happened yet

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Hanna Kahlert

11 May 2023

AI has dominated discourse in the entertainment industry and beyond for most of this year. As a tool it poses opportunities for some and threats for others. As a dynamic shift it will usher in a content boom that will make the previous few years of streaming dilution and attention saturation seem small by comparison.

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Web 3.0 is here
Navigating the new culture of digital entertainment

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Hanna Kahlert

May 2023

Spotify

YouTube

Netflix

AI has already hit entertainment at the industry level – and the impacts on audience culture will not be far behind. A variety of AI tools are now readily available on ‘fremium’ tiers at a consumer level. Companies may be looking towards what the new world of web 3.

Covers.ai and why Universal Music Group’s call to keep AI away from streaming platforms may be too little, too late

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Hanna Kahlert

May 2023

Media and Marketing

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AI and the future of music
The future is already here

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Mark Mulligan, Hanna Kahlert and Tatiana Cirisano

May 2023

Spotify

SoundCloud

Netflix

Unlike most new technology hype cycles, the impact that artificial intelligence (AI) has on the world is already surpassing expectations. Within the music industry, AI will largely be an enabler and accelerant of already-existing trends and market shifts: the growth of self-releasing artists, the consumerisation of music-making, and the resulting oversaturation and hyper-fragmentation of the market.

An AI-generated Drake and The Weeknd collab is shaking the music industry

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Mark Mulligan, Hanna Kahlert and Tatiana Cirisano

May 2023

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The future of entertainment lies in collaborating with audiences themselves

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Hanna Kahlert

26 Apr 2023

After two years of the Covid boom, the tide that buoyed tech and digital entertainment companies has begun to recede. The likes of Meta, Netflix, and even Apple and Alphabet have all seen stock dips, largely due to inflation and market uncertainty.

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Solving the problems of AI require defining what it is… and these lines are tricky to draw

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Hanna Kahlert

20 Apr 2023

Media and Marketing

Universal Music Group has released a statement asking streaming platforms like Spotify and Apple Music to stop allowing AI’s to train on their datasets, and to remove AI music (largely in the wake of the viral AI-generated hit ‘Heart On My Sleeve’, made in the style of The Weeknd and Drake).

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