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Quick Take: Zynga Partners With Ferrari To Delight CSR2 Players

Karol Severin

15 Sep 2017

Zynga’s CSR2 , a leading racing mobile game, has partnered up with Ferrari for a promotional in-game event to celebrate the 70th anniversary of the iconic car brand. A mutually beneficial brand-building partnership Having kicked-off yesterday and running through till February 2018, CSR2 will gradually roll out six special anniversary Ferraris, adding to the 10 Ferraris already available in CSR2 .

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Comcast Feels The Heat As Wall Street Shows Its Concerns Over Cord-Cutting

Tim Mulligan

13 Sep 2017

Wall Street is not renowned for its ability to take the long-term view. A good example is the recent massive sell-off in Comcast stock, which saw $16 billion wiped off its market cap. It followed the announcement last week from Comcast’s residential products chief Matthew Strauss, that the company could lose as many as 150,000 pay-TV subscribers in Q3 2017.

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A View To a Sure Thing: Why Apple and Amazon Want James Bond

Tim Mulligan

12 Sep 2017

Last week the Hollywood Reporter revealed that Apple and Amazon were joining Warner Bros in the bid to win the film distribution rights of James Bond titles from MGM Holdings, the parent company of MGM, which currently owns the video rights for the James Bond film properties.

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Thoughts On WMG's Acquisition of Spinnin Records

Zach Fuller

8 Sep 2017

Warner Music Group has announced they will be acquiring Dutch Dance Label Spinnin Records for $100m. Whilst the label boasts some of the most popular names in Dance Music, such as Martin Garrix and Tiesto, much like the record Neymar transfer we discussed earlier this year , this is as much an investment in digital real-estate as it is for Spinnin’s copyright and management functions.

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Sonos @ 15

Mark Mulligan

8 Sep 2017

Sonos, granddaddy of the connected home audio marketplace, is now 15 years old. Sonos was a pioneer that was so far ahead of its time, it inadvertently found itself as one of the key early drivers of streaming subscriptions.

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Thoughts On Rovio’s IPO – Can The Positive Traction Last?

Karol Severin

7 Sep 2017

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cross-entertainment strategy

Rovio has announced it is preparing for an IPO. It would be listed on Nasdaq Helsinki and it plans to issue €30 million worth of shares. Rovio’s announcement highlighted the recent growth of its monthly unique payers and average revenue per user.

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Is QQ Music Worth $10 Billion?

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Mark Mulligan

7 Sep 2017

Western appetite for the Chinese market has long been based upon accessing the 1.4 billion consumers. This has in turn impacted valuations of Chinese companies, particularly when eager western investors are involved.

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Quick Take: Spotify And Hulu Partner In The US

Mark Mulligan

7 Sep 2017

Spotify just announced it is bundling in the Hulu No Commercials plan into its $4.99 student offering in the US. Given that the Hulu product retails at $7.99 and Spotify at $9.99, this is unmistakably a good value for money deal – even compared to the standard $4.

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Why Facebook Is Getting Serious About Delivering Sports Video To The Next Billion Digital Users

Tim Mulligan

6 Sep 2017

On Monday, September 4th, the Indian Premier League (IPL) held its media rights tender process for the rights to stream Indian Cricket matches for five years from 2018 to 2022. A total of 24 companies participated in the invitation to tender (ITT), to bid for the broadcast and digital rights both in India and globally.

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Apple, The Culver Studios And The Importance Of Content

Tim Mulligan

4 Sep 2017

The Financial Times has reported that Apple is planning to acquire The Culver Studios, a complex of film-making buildings in LA next to where Sony Pictures is based. The Culver Studios has a long history in Hollywood, with the likes of Howard Hughes and Cecil B.

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Quick Take: Why Amazon and Microsoft Are Joining Forces on Voice

Zach Fuller

1 Sep 2017

Amazon and Microsoft have announced they will be collaborating around the Echo by allowing Microsoft’s Cortana service to be accessed through the voice control device. Whilst the move is not a direct merger between the company’s two respective voice assistants, it will now allow users commanding Cortana to open Alexa, meaning you will now be able to launch one of over 18,000 Alexa skills.

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Mayweather, McGregor and the Changing of the Guard In Premium Sports

Tim Mulligan

1 Sep 2017

Saturday August 26th saw the biggest prize fight in combative sports history, with unbeaten world welterweight champion Floyd Mayweather in a boxing match against Ultimate Fighting Championship (UFC) fighter Conor McGregor.

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How E-sports Could Fit Within The Olympic Framework

Karol Severin

1 Sep 2017

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The president of the International Olympic Committee, Thomas Bach, said in an interview that while genres like sport simulators are still in the running to be considered for 2024, the Olympics have no interest in promoting anything to do with violence and killing.

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What’s In A Number: Can Streaming Really Be Worth $28 Billion?

Mark Mulligan

30 Aug 2017

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Goldman Sachs just made some headlines with its assessment that Universal Music is worth $23.5 billion and that the paid streaming market will be worth $28 billion in 2030 (up from $3.5 billion in 2016 and close to double the size of the entire recorded music business in 2016).

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GamesCom Takeaways – Gaming Has Become A Fully Fledged Cultural Movement

Karol Severin

25 Aug 2017

As we descended upon Cologne to attend GamesCom 2017, various expectation scenarios were playing out in my head. It’s safe to say that the reality beat most of them. Having spent three days at this monster rendezvous, it was a real eye-opener to the sheer force that the global gaming industry has become and where it is heading.

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Netflix Acquires Millarworld – The Looming Content Wars

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Tim Mulligan

25 Aug 2017

During the summer recess streaming video reached yet another significant milestone. For the first time, a Streaming Video On Demand (SVOD) service has bought a company for its original content creation capability.

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If Amazon Swallows Retail, Could Facebook Do the Same with Media?

Zach Fuller

25 Aug 2017

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Former President and CEO of Netscape James L. Barksdale once said he knew of two ways to make money, ‘Bundling and Unbundling’. Whilst much of the focus has been on the unbundling factor of media, with consumers increasingly opting for more affordable SVOD services over cumbersome and expensive Pay-TV offerings, we could soon see another re-bundling factor occur.

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Rovio’s ‘Games-First’ Strategy Is Not Just About Games

Karol Severin

17 Aug 2017

cross-entertainment strategy

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Rovio reported its Q2 results this week. Total revenue was €86.2 million, a year-on-year (YoY) increase of 94%. While the majority of Rovio’s revenue was driven by games (€61.3 million, 65% YoY increase), its brand licensing revenue grew the fastest with a 242.

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Elvis Presley and the Two Recorded Music Industries

Zach Fuller

16 Aug 2017

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Today marks 40 years since the passing of Elvis Presley. Whilst ‘The King’s’ emergence has come to represent a cultural year zero for the music industry, his icon status in recent years has taken a hit.

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Why The Creator Of Scandal Has Found A Home In Netflix

Tim Mulligan

15 Aug 2017

How to get Away with Murder

Shonda Rhimes is now a ‘Netflixer’, in the words of Netflix’s chief content officer Ted Sarandos. Rhimes is renowned for being the creator of hit shows such as Grey’s Anatomy and Scandal , which have generated more than $2 billion in licensing for ABC – one of the big three TV broadcast networks in the US.

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