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Clubhouse session: Is attention killing culture?

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Mark Mulligan
Media and Marketing
Cultural trends
Join myself, Hanna Kahlert and Karol Severin Thursday 25that 5pm GMT / noon EST / 9am PT on Clubhouse for discussion of the Attention Economy’s second order effects on culture and creativity. In this session we will be exploring how the focus on capturing audiences’ time and attention at all costs is resulting in a dumbing down of culture and a predominance of caution over bravery.
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Last call for the global independent label survey

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Mark Mulligan
Independent label survey
label survey
Independent labels
With 2020 now comfortably behind us and public companies in their earnings cycle, a clear picture is starting to emerge of how the global recorded music market performed. MIDiA is midway through fielding the global independent label survey that will help create the definitive view of how the independent sector fared in 2020 and its contribution to the global market.
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Three trends that will shape the rest of 2021, and beyond

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Mark Mulligan
the immersive web
entertainment internets
Insurgents
Late last year, MIDiA published its latest predictions report (clients can read the entire report here). The central theme was the Immersive Web, which we summarised as follows: “The immersive web is characterised by environments in which we do not simply conduct extensions of in-real-life activity (e-commerce, video calls) but ones that create behaviours and relationships that only, and can only, exist within these environments.
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TV advertising vs. lockdown hiatus: Welcome to the Super Bowl LV

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Tim Mulligan
Online video
Sports
advertising
This coming Sunday will see the most financially important domestic sports event on the planet take place when the Super Bowl LV is hosted in the Florida city of Tampa. The Raymond James Stadium will see defending champions Kansas City Chiefs taking on the Tampa Bay Buccaneers (which is the first time in history a team will play a Super Bowl hosted in their own stadium) in the culmination of the American Football season.
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Equitable remuneration, artist income and unintended consequences

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Mark Mulligan
Streaming economy
streaming inquiry
equitable remuneration
The UK Parliament’s inquiry on the economics of streaming appears to be building a case for equitable remuneration (ER). There are many iterations of what ER can mean, but a simplified description of what is in play here is: a share of streaming revenue being paid directly by the DSPs to an entity which then distributes directly to artists, thus bypassing the whole ‘do labels pay artists enough’ debate.
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Women making music

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Hanna Kahlert
Music
Women
diversity
Even taking into account the impact of the pandemic, it has never been a better time for independent creators in the music business. The various 2020 lockdowns may have prevented artists from earning vital touring income and disrupted release and promotion cycles, but for many it also pushed new creativity, with nearly 70% of independent artists choosing to use the time to write or make new music.
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