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Read our latest daily deep dives, hot takes, and exciting updates about the entertainment world. Check out the latest insight from your favourite analyst, or search by coverage areas - music, entertainment and fandom, creator economy and social.

A counterculture music industry is emerging — welcome to the platform era

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Tatiana Cirisano

5 Jul 2022

What do TikTok’s distribution tool , Universal Music Group’s samples marketplace , and Snoop Dogg’s virtual marijuana have in common? On the surface, not much. But beneath, these news headlines are just three more recent reflections of what MIDiA has identified as a new iteration of the music business.

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The ad risk for Netflix

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Tim Mulligan

5 Jul 2022

At Netflix’s inaugural appearance at the Cannes Lions Festival two weeks ago, it was confirmed that it was indeed launching an ad-supported tier to its 221 million strong subscription video on demand service (SVOD).

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Samsung is becoming an important games distribution player, as the ‘gaming TV market’ comes to life

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Karol Severin

4 Jul 2022

Samsung is establishing itself as a serious player in the distribution part of the games industry’s value chain through its ‘Gaming Hub’. Having already partnered with GeForce Now and Stadia games subscriptions, Samsung also recently announced its partnership with Xbox.

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The revolving door of celebrity podcast announcements aims to bring the masses to audio

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Annie Langston

30 Jun 2022

The investment in the digital audio market began with splashy celebrity deals and now even more big names are flocking to the format. One of the first big announcements in celebrity podcasts was that of The Obamas officially announcing their exclusive deal with Audible instead of their original deal with Spotify.

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Music streaming is failing to foster cultural moments – but it does not have to

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Hanna Kahlert

29 Jun 2022

Listening to music is, and has always been, an intrinsically emotional experience. Music does not appeal to rational dialogue or scientific evidence; it directly evokes the feelings beneath. It can be sought after by the listener to evoke an expected response – to be uplifted, calmed, or comforted.

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Why ads are Netflix’s podcast moment

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Tim Mulligan

28 Jun 2022

In the interim between Netflix’s worse than expected Q1 22 results and its looming Q2 22 results, Netflix is now rapidly moving forwards with an ad-supported tier for its previous ad-free subscription video on demand service.

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Roku and Walmart are bringing shoppable ads to TV

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Richard Broadhurst

27 Jun 2022

Roku and Walmart are bringing shoppable ads to TV Roku and Walmart have announced a partnership that will merge e-commerce with TV streaming. Shoppable adds will appear on Roku TV (now the leading smart TV sold in the US).

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Churn in the era of dynamic retention

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Mark Mulligan

24 Jun 2022

Kantar, a survey vendor, has been getting some attention by passing off consumer data as an actual measure of subscribers and suggesting that the music subscriber base actually declined in Q1 2022. It said the same in Q4 2021, but 2021 was a spectacular year for music subscriber growth, with the global base of subscribers growing by 118.

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Can Gamescom retain its appeal going forward?

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Karol Severin

23 Jun 2022

I remember attending my first Gamescom as an analyst in 2017 . The sheer excitement as gaming was eating the world whole, and before brands and just about everybody else woke up to gaming as a mainstream cultural phenomenon.

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Reflections on the music industry at NFT.NYC

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Tatiana Cirisano

23 Jun 2022

At the fourth annual NFT.NYC conference in New York, the sentiment fell somewhere between faint excitement and “so this is still a thing, right?” Unlike this time last year, when the music industry was hooked on crypto, this year’s event arrives at a time when the crypto market, like much of the economy, is in decline.

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Acast and Meta partner up to create podcast communities

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Annie Langston

23 Jun 2022

Following yesterday’s announcement from Meta , detailing its plans to become a more creator focused platform, it debuted a new partnership with leading independent podcast company Acast. Although Facebook’s initial move into podcast content was halted, this new deal does not focus on creating content but rather focuses on aiding a podcaster’s ability to find and develop their fanbases.

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Spotify Investor Day eyes podcast creators and audiobooks — but what about the listeners?

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Annie Langston

21 Jun 2022

Spotify Investor Day revolved around a core message – there is more audio to come. While its audio investments began with major acquisitions in podcast technology and exclusive content deals, focusing on creators will be a crucial step moving forward.

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Why Paramount+ is landing in the UK at an inflection point for video streaming

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Tim Mulligan

21 Jun 2022

Tomorrow Paramount+ will launch in the UK, a market of key importance in the direct-to-consumer (D2C) landscape due to its size, high discretion income, and high levels of TV and video consumption. As the market is so valuable, pre- D2C big bang moment long-term distribution deals have been hindering the likes of HBO Max from being able to launch in the UK, which underlines the success that the Paramount team has been able to pull off by launching in the UK.

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Meta leans in to the creator economy

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Hanna Kahlert

21 Jun 2022

Creator economy

MIDiA has written much on the premise of the emerging ‘creator economy’ ; a dual-sided concept that highlights both the increasing opportunity for creators who already exist, from music to video to social content, as well as the emerging trend of the consumer-as-creator.

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Quick take: Why Xbox All Access could be the ultimate recession winner

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Karol Severin

17 Jun 2022

global recession

Xbox All Access has been around for a while now, though with a limited reach (currently only available in 12 markets). While it was always going to play an integral part in Xbox’s cross-platform (and ultimately console-less) future, its uptake, or even appeal, may have been lost among flashier news around big acquisitions, as well as developments with cloud gaming or Game Pass.

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Why today’s music creators are no longer playing the fame game

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Tatiana Cirisano

16 Jun 2022

Music streaming

Creator economy

Since the music industry’s beginnings, success has been tied to fame and fortune. But as more and more artists grow dissatisfied with the harsh economics of streaming, their strategies are changing — and so are their very definitions of success.

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Why (and how) Apple has now fundamentally disrupted sports

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Tim Mulligan

16 Jun 2022

On Tuesday June 14th, Apple announced that it had secured the exclusive 10-year rights to broadcast the fastest growing football league in the world; the MLS. From 2023 through to 2032, live broadcast MLS matches will only be viewable through a new MLS streaming service, which will be exclusively available on the Apple TV app.

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What Roku brings to an under-pressure Netflix

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Tim Mulligan

15 Jun 2022

Rumours are swirling in the streaming world that under-fire Netflix could be about to acquire Roku. For the world’s leading streaming video on demand (SVOD) service to even consider acquiring a leading independent media player manufacturer shows just how quickly the world of streaming is coming up against the economic reality of 2022.

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The future of entertainment innovation lies in exclusive experiences, not content

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Hanna Kahlert

15 Jun 2022

Media and Marketing

In the age before digital engagement went mainstream, entertainment had clear access channels and multiple price points. Video was able to rely on movie tickets, (expensive) TV sets, and the individual purchases of cable subscriptions, video tapes, DVDs, Blu-rays, and their associated equipment; the closest equivalent to subscriptions were Blockbuster or Netflix DVD rental memberships.

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Audio is the new spinoff

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Annie Langston

14 Jun 2022

Beloved stories can transcend time, not only in their messages or characters but in the format in which they are told. When DC announced its deal with Spotify to develop podcast series, not only did it signal yet another major company venturing into audio but an opportunity to expand classic stories to new generations of listeners, as well as giving old fans a new way to enjoy their favourite stories.

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