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Film Studios Pause Production; Is This the New Era of Anime?

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Hanna Kahlert
animated content
animated film
Anime
With national lockdowns becoming the norm and the majority of nonessential workers being sent to work remotely, the video industry is set for some interesting changes over the next few months. As recently published in MIDiA Research’s report, COVID-19 | Entertainment and Leisure Industry Impact Assessment (a free, redacted version available for download here ), the new landscape will be a mixed bag for video content.
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Olympics Postponement: The Sports Media Landscape of COVID-19

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Alistair Taylor
Advertising Revenue
broadcasters
business model
The global COVID-19 pandemic is increasing pressure on the viability of emerging and legacy media business models, and is already having an unprecedented impact on the sports industry. An unprecedented swathe of cancelled sports events has left rights holders unable to monetise their existing broadcasting of rights within tightly-scheduled windows.
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Disney+ Launches in the UK on the First Day of a National Lockdown

Tim Mulligan
coronavirus
Covid-19
Covid-19
The last two weeks have been dramatic for public companies in the wake of extreme investor reactions to the still unknown long-term economic impacts of the global coronavirus pandemic. However, media major Disney is in the fortunate position of launching its family-centric Disney+ streaming service in the UK on the first day of a UK national lockdown, with kids now being home-schooled and parents nervous about their financial futures particularly disposed towards the competitive pricing deals being offered for year-long subscription discounts.
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COVID-19’s Impact on Streaming: It’s Complicated

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Mark Mulligan
Covid-19
One of the logical conclusions to draw about the impact of COVID-19 (also known as the coronavirus) is that the extra time people are spending at home will result in a boom for home entertainment. There are already strong signals that this is happening, with TV ratings up , TV news viewing up and Netflix doing so well that it has had to agree to reduce streams in Europe from HD to SD to reduce strain on the broadband networks.
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Entertainment Unleashed in an Era of Universal Basic Income

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Tim Mulligan
Andrew Yang
Innovation
Universal Basic Income
As the abnormal becomes the new normal following the official confirmation that the world has entered into a global pandemic event, the looming potential recession and enforced home entertainment experiment provides a glimpse into how the future might look in a decade-plus when universal basic income (UBI) could well make entertainment the most valuable economic activity on the planet.
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Altered Carbon: Tracking Fandom into the Future

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Hanna Kahlert
Altered Carbon
baby yoda
Chart Of The Week
In the digital era, anything can generate metrics – to the point where no matter how good the numbers look, actual success can sometimes be unconnected. Logged ‘views’ of an advertisement don’t hold up to scrutiny when 29% of consumers “normally stop paying attention” when ads come on during a TV show, 31% “usually skip video ads online” and 11% block online ads on their desktop and/or laptop (source: MIDiA Research Main Consumer Survey Q1 2019).
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Why Disney+’s Sky Distribution Deal Is Likely to Become Mainstream Among D2C Competitors

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Tim Mulligan
Comcast
Disney
Sky
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 24 th . Sky currently operates Now TV, its own subscription video on demand (SVOD) service, and is owned by Comcast – which is launching its own direct-to-consumer (D2C) service Peacock next month.
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