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Niche is mainstream. So… what next?

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Hanna Kahlert

29 Feb 2024

Entertainment industries today are navigating two contrasting pressures. On the one side is the demand for niche personalisation: algorithms drive hyper-targeted content to just the right audiences, who identify strongly with it and form small, powerful communities, which can allow those propositions to carve out durable success.

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Paramount is on the right track but does it have enough time?

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Tim Mulligan

29 Feb 2024

Yesterday, Paramount announced its full year 2023 financial results. The numbers were stark, with revenues down 2% to $29.7 billion and an operating loss of $451 million. The stock price declined at the end of the day by 1.

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Quick take: The games industry health check

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Karol Severin

27 Feb 2024

In recent weeks and months, a growing number of people have been asking: “What is going on with the games industry?”, “Is the games industry doomed now?”, “Is it done growing?”, “If neither a new Switch or GTA 6 are getting released this year, is the games industry going to have a weak year?”, or some other typically sceptical permutation thereof.

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What indie book publishers can gain from audiobooks

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Rutger Rosenborg

22 Feb 2024

Music streaming

In the music industry, three major labels generate the lion’s share of revenue: Universal, Sony, and Warner. In the book publishing industry, the “big five” publishers dominate: Penguin Random House, Hachette, Macmillan, Simon & Schuster, and HarperCollins.

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Could YouTube be the music-first social platform the industry needs?

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Tatiana Cirisano

22 Feb 2024

In December, we mused on what could happen if artists collectively stepped off the content treadmill. With Universal Music Group (UMG) removing its catalogue from TikTok, that thought experiment came startlingly close to fruition.

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Social is the new streaming… but the cracks are already showing

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Hanna Kahlert

22 Feb 2024

When streaming first overtook music, it did so by force. Audiences quickly latched on to the freedoms of digital life and the accessibility of music on the internet. Piracy was on the rise and downloading music via Napster and LimeWire became a shared memory for millennials.

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Music creators – take our survey!

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Mark Mulligan

21 Feb 2024

Cultural trends

MIDiA is fielding its annual music creator survey and if you are a music creator we would like you to take part. Whether you are a songwriter, artist, producer, engineer, vocalist, DJ, instrumentalist, soundtrack composer, or whatever you may be, we want to hear from you.

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Expect Warner Bros. Discovery’s forthcoming full year 2023 results to open up vital strategic choices

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Tim Mulligan

20 Feb 2024

Warner Bros. Discovery

On Friday, Warner Bros. Discovery (WBD) will announce its full year 2023 financial results to investors in its fourth quarter 2023 earnings call . It is going to make for hard reading by both investors and WBD senior management alike.

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Are Prime Gaming subscriptions the drug that Twitch cannot live without?

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Ben Woods

19 Feb 2024

Twitch chief executive Dan Clancy has been quick to reshape the livestreaming platform since taking charge just shy of a year ago. Clancy has cooled competition with YouTube and Kick and taken the wind out of exclusive deals by backing multi-streaming.

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Why the Xbox announcement is an important and strategically smart nod to developers

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Karol Severin

16 Feb 2024

Xbox announcement

Xbox announced on its podcast with Phil Spencer, Sarah Bond and Matt Booty, that it is bringing four of its titles to other consoles. While no specific titles were named, it ruled out Starfield and Indiana Jones, and mentioned that two of the games are community driven and the remainder are smaller games that may have reached a plateau on Xbox.

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Is embracing RSS a smart move for YouTube?

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Rutger Rosenborg

15 Feb 2024

2023 saw YouTube bring podcasts to YouTube Music, but it did so without one of the podcast industry’s fundamental building blocks: RSS. However, just months later, YouTube has announced in a video posted to their Creator Insider channel that they are opening up RSS feed distribution.

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The context behind Disney’s investment into Epic Games

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Karol Severin

15 Feb 2024

Disney announced it is investing $1.5 billion into Epic Games. The same announcement talks about a creation of an “ expansive and open games and entertainment universe connected to Fortnite ”. This move makes sense for Disney on several levels and is perhaps one of the most impactful games-related moves for Disney’s overall cultural relevance, engagement, monetisation capabilities, and profitability.

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Was 2024 the year of peak ad revenues for Paramount and the Super Bowl?

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Tim Mulligan

13 Feb 2024

Sunday saw the Super Bowl LVIII broadcast on CBS, Paramount+, and Nickelodeon, providing a bumper advertising windfall estimated at between $650-$700 million for parent company Paramount. The media majors’ entire business model is under intense scrutiny from investors made nervous by its losses (-$855 million for 2023 as of Q3 2023), and the overall share price being down 40% year-to-date.

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Why Disney’s Epic Games investment challenges YouTube

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Ben Woods

9 Feb 2024

YouTube’s chief executive, Neil Mohan's, latest open letter was full of confidence . A little over a week since YouTube recorded a 16% jump in advertising revenue to $9.2 billion for Q4 2023 , he outlined four big bets to advance the business this year.

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Music subscriber market shares 2023: New momentum

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Mark Mulligan

8 Feb 2024

music subscriber market shares

Streaming market share

With UMG leading the charge to reshape the music industry into a more label-friendly form, 2023 may, with hindsight, go down as the year before everything changed . Whatever lies ahead though, new models will take time to deliver benefits.

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Why Spotify’s podcast exclusivity era is coming to an end

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Rutger Rosenborg

7 Feb 2024

spotify podcasts

In July 2021, Spotify paid Alex Cooper more than $60 million for the exclusive rights to host her hit podcast, Call Her Daddy . On January 31st, six months short of the end of that deal term, Spotify announced that Call Her Daddy will be available on all platforms .

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What the launch of the “Hulu for sports” platform means for Disney and for sports TV

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Tim Mulligan

7 Feb 2024

Hulu for sports

Today, ESPN (a Disney subsidiary), Fox, and Warner Bros Discovery announced : “...an understanding on principal terms to form a new joint venture (JV) to build an innovative new platform to house a compelling streaming sports service.

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How the smartphone ‘Swiss Army knife’ will unlock shoppable TV

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Ben Woods

2 Feb 2024

MIDiA has predicted that streaming TV services will make big strides with shoppable TV in 2024 . Key to that success will be the smartphone. An attempt by the likes of Amazon Prime, YouTube, and Disney to integrate an online shopping browser directly into their SVOD operating systems would be a misstep.

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Audiobooks’ Latin explosion — a new front in the streaming wars?

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Rutger Rosenborg

2 Feb 2024

As streaming and demographic shifts bring a second Latin explosion to the music industry, audiobooks are gearing up to follow suit. In a January 2024 press release , popular subscription-based audio platform Podimo announced a new strategic alliance with Mexico media hub Troop.

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What is at stake in the TikTok-UMG showdown

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Tatiana Cirisano

1 Feb 2024

Music streaming

Universal Music Group

Music’s biggest on-again, off-again relationship just took a turn for the ugly, as Universal Music Group is pulling its music off TikTok. We have seen this movie before: Every time the music industry negotiates licenses with social platforms, the battle boils down to a question of who needs the other more.

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