MIDiA Blog - Page 71

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.

Why Disney+’s Sky distribution deal is likely to become mainstream among D2C competitors

Cover image for Why Disney+’s Sky distribution deal is likely to become mainstream among D2C competitors

Tim Mulligan

3 Mar 2020

Today the UK’s dominant pay-TV operator, Sky, announced a partnership with media major Disney+ to grow its UK subscriber base prior to its official UK launch on March 24th. Sky currently operates Now TV, its own subscription video on demand (SVOD) service, and is owned by Comcast – which is laun...

min read

Is Video Streaming About to Witness Music’s P2P Trial by Fire?

Cover image for Is Video Streaming About to Witness Music’s P2P Trial by Fire?

Hanna Kahlert

2 Mar 2020

As the direct-to-consumer (D2C) big bang moment continues the slow process of expansion through the attention-saturated digital universe , video service providers are struggling with the existential question of how to compete well enough to survive in the hostile environment of overstimulated, walle...

min read

Beyond Hustle – What Are the New Ideas and Approaches in Music Marketing?

Cover image for Beyond Hustle – What Are the New Ideas and Approaches in Music Marketing?

Keith Jopling

2 Mar 2020

As part of a recent project, MIDiA spoke with a wide range of direct artists and start-up labels about how they get their releases through the vast amounts of content that clutter up the music discovery landscape these days.

min read

NFL's broadcast over-index flatters to deceive

Cover image for NFL's broadcast over-index flatters to deceive

Alistair Taylor

27 Feb 2020

The NFL’s recently released viewing figures provided to CNBC highlighted a 5% increase in viewership as TV audiences grew on average to 16.5 million, up from 15.8 million in 2018. Not only this, but according to Quartz , throughout the season the NFL finished with 41 out of the top 50 broadcasts (...

min read

Welcome to the Age of the Artist

Cover image for Welcome to the Age of the Artist

Mark Mulligan

27 Feb 2020

age of the artist

artist distribution

As it enters the third decade of the millennium, the recorded music business is in rude health. Revenues are about to enter the second half of a decade of annual growth, streaming is booming and investment is pouring in.

min read

The end of the Bob Iger era – what next for Disney?

Tim Mulligan

26 Feb 2020

In February 2020, Disney announced that Bob Iger will step down from the Disney CEO role and become the executive chairman through to December 31st2021, with immediate effect. Bob Chapek, who has served as the chairman of Disney Parks, Experiences and Products, will assume the role of CEO.

min read

Apple TV+ bets on fandom

Cover image for Apple TV+ bets on fandom

Hanna Kahlert

24 Feb 2020

As the D2C streaming wars coalesce, it is worth zeroing in on some of the propositions in play by the various tech majors, which in turn highlight their respective strategies and may provide some insights into the direction content production will go in an already-saturated attention economy.

min read

Could Google eat the e-sports media rights world?

Cover image for Could Google eat the e-sports media rights world?

Karol Severin

21 Feb 2020

Business Strategy

Google entered a media rights partnership with Activision in January, including rights for the Overwatch League, Call of Duty League and HearthStone. Last week The Esports Observer reported on multiple sources which claimed the value of the deal to be $160 million paid over three years, including ri...

min read

Why the BBC finds itself in an existential battle for survival

Tim Mulligan

18 Feb 2020

On February 5thNicky Morgan, the UK Secretary of State for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport,announcedan eight-week public consultation on whether to decriminalise TV licence fee evasion (via Gov.uk ).

min read

The age of the creators

Cover image for The age of the creators

Hanna Kahlert

17 Feb 2020

Content Creators

Creator economy

Audience Insight

Since early 2019, MIDiA has been publishing findings that we are moving progressively into a market dynamic in which creators are being empowered by technology to have greater direct control of their output, from conception to completion to monetisation.

min read

What UMG’s IPO Means for the Business of Music

Mark Mulligan

14 Feb 2020

Access Industries

music as an asset class

Finishing 2019 on $6.4 billion, Universal Music is to go to IPO hot on the heels of Warner Music’s announcement to do the same. This of course also follows the Tencent-led agreement to acquire 10% of UMG for $3 billion with an option to acquire another 10%.

min read

Joining the D2C streaming wars is a do-or-die moment for ViacomCBS

Cover image for Joining the D2C streaming wars is a do-or-die moment for ViacomCBS

Tim Mulligan

12 Feb 2020

Last Thursday CNBC reportedthat the newly-merged ViacomCBS is planning to launch its own direct-to-consumer (D2C) service, with a formal announcement to be made during the company’s forthcoming fourth quarter earnings conference call on February 20th.

min read

Tale of the tape: UFC or bundle driving ESPN+ adoption?

Cover image for Tale of the tape: UFC or bundle driving ESPN+ adoption?

Alistair Taylor

11 Feb 2020

Walt Disney’s pureplay sports streaming service ESPN+, which launched back in April 2018, has surpassed 7.6 million paid subscribers, Disney ’s chief executive Bog Iger reported during last week’s earnings call.

min read

The politics of Twitter: Brands, news, and freedom of speech

Cover image for The politics of Twitter: Brands, news, and freedom of speech

Hanna Kahlert

10 Feb 2020

Business Strategy

With the president of the United States being Donald Trump, whose proclivity for social media usage is renowned, it comes as no surprise that Twitter has a hearty presence in news reporting in 2020. The role of social media in our digital lives is profound, and the impact on news has turned truth in...

min read

WMG to IPO: Here’s what you need to know

Cover image for WMG to IPO: Here’s what you need to know

Mark Mulligan

7 Feb 2020

Access Industries

downtown music holdings

Throughout the last decade, more than $10 billion has been invested into music catalogues. UMG bookended the merger and acquisition (M&A) boom with the Tencent-led $3 billion stake in its business, but was exceptional in that the majority of the investment was otherwise going into the independen...

min read

Spotify Q4 2019: First signs of the new Spotify

Cover image for Spotify Q4 2019: First signs of the new Spotify

Mark Mulligan

5 Feb 2020

spotify creator tools

Spotify’s Q4 2019 results reflect another strong quarter and a good year for Spotify. Look a bit deeper, however, and there are the first signs of the new company that Spotify is building – and they point to a very different and much bolder future.

min read

20 million is the magic number for Disney today

Cover image for 20 million is the magic number for Disney today

Tim Mulligan

4 Feb 2020

Business Strategy

Today Disney announces its Q1 2020 numbers, with Wall Street expected to laser-focus upon the first available numbers for Disney+ since its launch on November 12th of 2019. Disney+ is the key direct-to-consumer (D2C) service underpinning Disney’s pivot into streaming, which it formally announced a...

min read

Gaming Is now equally distributed between males and females – the supply side needs to catch up

Karol Severin

4 Feb 2020

Product Strategy

Gaming has been travelling towards a more gender-equal distribution in 2019. While mobile gaming has traditionally been well-represented among females, PC and console gaming have historically skewed male.

min read

Schubert Music Is the latest publisher to push into recordings

Cover image for Schubert Music Is the latest publisher to push into recordings

Mark Mulligan

30 Jan 2020

music publishers

music publishing M+A

Schubert Music Europe, the holding company of Schubert Music Publishing, today announced a deal with Sony’s independent label distribution division The Orchard. Under the deal, Schubert will distribute ten new record labels.

min read

A view to a sure thing (part two)

Tim Mulligan

29 Jan 2020

Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer

Long-term readers of theMIDiA Research Blogmay remember a post fromSeptember 2017outlining the appeal to tech majors Apple and Amazon of acquiring the rights to the James Bond franchise . Fast forward to the 26thof January 2020, CNBC identified the James Bond film franchise distribution owner Metro-...

min read

‹
1
2
...
68
69
70
71
72
73
74
...
123
124
›

Showing 1401 to 1420 of 2462 results.