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Apple to launch subscription bundle – we called it!

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Mark Mulligan

13 Aug 2020

In MIDiA’s 2020 Predictions report published in December 2019 we predicted that tech majors would start creating subscription bundles, with Apple leading the fray. Lo and behold, news has just come out that Apple is working on ‘ Apple One’ – a multi-genre subscription bundle that will includeApple Music, Apple TV+, Apple Arcade and Apple News+.

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Could gaming kill the video star?

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Karol Severin

12 Aug 2020

The Video Games Entertainment & News Network, or ‘ Venn’ , was launched on the 5th of August – marking another important milestone on entertainment’s journey of intertwining across formats and verticals.

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Streaming’s remuneration model cannot be ‘fixed’

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Mark Mulligan

12 Aug 2020

The #brokenrecord debate continues to build momentum and new models such as user-centric are getting increased attention, including at governmental level in the UK. But as Mat Dryhurst correctly observes , there is a risk of the market falling into streaming fatalism; that the obsession with trying to fix a model that might not be fixable distracts us from focusing on trying to build alternative futures.

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Trump versus TikTok: The future of the social video app… and US media-tech dominance

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Hanna Kahlert

10 Aug 2020

Media and Marketing

The Trump administration’s executive order to effectively ban Bytedance – and therefore the now hugely popular TikTok, as well as a ‘cease and desist’ on transactions with Tencent’s WeChat, with a more immediate impact on the broader entertainment industry , came down with surprising swiftness.

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Newsflash: UMG, WMG and Spotify may have a problem with Tencent

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Mark Mulligan

7 Aug 2020

Tencent Music Entertainment

UPDATE: A White House official confirmed to the LA Times that the announcement, at this stage, will not affect Tencent shareholdings of companies and clarified that the order only refers to transactions 'related to' WeChat.

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The MIDiA Research Podcast: Episode 1 – What Next for Tencent?

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Mark Mulligan

7 Aug 2020

Media & Marketing

We are excited to announce the first episode of the MIDiA Research podcast: What Next for Tencent? President Trump's executive orders concerning Bytedance and Tencent set the cat among the pigeons. In this podcast we explore what the potential ramifications are for Tencent's bold and disruptive entertainment business strategy in the West.

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Return of the fan: COVID-19 thwarts fan pilot sporting events amid regional spikes in cases

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Alistair Taylor

6 Aug 2020

Just when sports fans thought it was safe to go back into the water, COVID reared its ugly head once more. UK fan pilot sporting events were all set to start allowing fans back into arenas and attend live events, but government restrictions have now been re-imposed to limit the spread of coronavirus, crippling any chances of normality resuming in the near-term.

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A brutal Q2 pressures Disney to erode the theatrical release window

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Tim Mulligan

6 Aug 2020

A tough financial Q1 2020 was followed by an awful financial Q2 for Disney, with the media major reporting its first quarterly loss since 2001. With 35% of the entertainment conglomerate’s revenues originating from its theme parks business in 2019, the COVID-19-imposed cessation of live entertainment was always going to hit Disney disproportionately heavily.

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COVID-19 hit major labels much harder than it did Spotify

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Mark Mulligan

5 Aug 2020

Streaming revenue

major label streaming revenue

COVID-19 was always going to have a significant impact on the music business, and with the Q2 results for all of the major music companies now in we can start to look at just how big that impact has been so far.

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We are at a turning point for social music

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Mark Mulligan

4 Aug 2020

In recent days we have seen three major developments that, collectively, are a potential pivot point for social music: 1. TikTok close to a US-entity buyout by Microsoft to avoid potential sanctions, following hot on the heels of an India blackout 2.

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Q2 success and congressional hearings: Facebook, Apple, Amazon and Google on the spot

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Hanna Kahlert

3 Aug 2020

As the global coronavirus pandemic descended, MIDiA predicted that while tough times were ahead some winners were bound to emerge. With increased time on their hands and few alternatives to digital entertainment, consumers were bound to turn to their home tech ecosystems to cope with a new normal in lockdown.

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Has live streaming suddenly become music's primary format (and artist revenue stream)?

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Keith Jopling

31 Jul 2020

It seems like the longer Covid 19 hangs around, the more desperate the live music business starts to sound. In a telling recent interview with Bob Lefsetz, Marc Geiger made his view clear that not next year but 2022 will be the year the live music business can truly come back to life ‘as normal’ (and, given pent-up demand by then, possibly bigger than ever for the venues and promoters still on the scene).

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Quick take: Xbox’s future is cross-platform, PlayStation’s is cross-entertainment

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Karol Severin

30 Jul 2020

playstation now

If Fortnite showed us anything, it’s that the future of entertainment is about monetising fandom – not just consumption and access to content. Games are perfectly positioned to help monetise fandom across all entertainment fields.

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TwitchSports: Amazon throws sports into the starting line-up

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Alistair Taylor

29 Jul 2020

Amazon-owned Twitch is no newcomer to sports. However, in a deliberate move to double down, Amazon has conceded that it needs to improve the discoverability of live sporting events for its platform users – so, as of last Wednesday, ‘Sports’ has become a standalone category with the return of Twitch.

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The end of the pay-TV era: AT&T gets behind HBO Max

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Tim Mulligan

28 Jul 2020

The Q2 2020 AT&T financial results were not pretty. Net income for the company was down 61% year-on-year (YoY). While operating expenses were down marginally by 0.1%, the real cost to the communications major came from two fronts – its massive corporate debt pile and its imploding video subscriber base.

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DAZN’s belated UK launch: Can it avoid Eleven Sports’ 'mistake’?

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Alistair Taylor

24 Jul 2020

Media & Marketing

DAZN, the anointed ‘Netflix of Sport’, has announced plans to resume launching its services globally via a beta service covering boxing bouts In July and August, for users who have registered their interest, free of charge, ahead of DAZN’s revamped imminent global rollout.

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How games continue to drive a cultural shift

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Karol Severin

24 Jul 2020

cultural insight

The strides gaming has made in recent years regarding its cultural relevance are hard to ignore. Twenty years ago, consumers defined their cultural image through the music they listened to, the clothes they wore and the sports teams they supported.

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Reach for the win: BT Sport to air UEFA Champions League final on YouTube

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Alistair Taylor

23 Jul 2020

Media & Marketing

UK pay-TV incumbent BT Sport has announced it will air this year’s (COVID-delayed) UEFA Champions League (UCL) final free-to-air (FTA) on Google-owned YouTube. YouTube’s head of sport in EMEA, Tomos Grace confirmed the move with SportsPro Media :“BT Sport have been amazing partners for YouTube and we’re very privileged to be working with them.

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Recovery Economics: What the post-lockdown world looks like for TV

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Tim Mulligan

22 Jul 2020

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recovery economics

As the quarter of the world that experienced the COVID-19 lockdowns start to fitfully open up again, the realisation that the world has irrevocably changed is starting to settle in. With the highly contagious virus still causing secondary waves of infection in multiple countries, the need to plan for a COVID-compliant future in TV production is now becoming paramount.

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The hidden value of esports audiences

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Karol Severin

20 Jul 2020

Esports video viewers are becoming more interesting to brands and media companies. Increasingly more focus is now put on accurately valuing esports audiences. Gamers (and even more so, esports viewers) are valuable segments in terms of money and time spent across the attention economy.

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