MIDiA Blog - Page 63

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.

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

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

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...

min read

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

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

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...

min read

TwitchSports: Amazon throws sports into the starting line-up

Cover image for TwitchSports: Amazon throws sports into the starting line-up

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...

min read

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

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

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...

min read

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

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

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...

min read

How games continue to drive a cultural shift

Cover image for How games continue to drive a cultural shift

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...

min read

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

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

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...

min read

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

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

Tim Mulligan

22 Jul 2020

brave new world

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...

min read

The hidden value of esports audiences

Cover image for The hidden value of esports audiences

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)...

min read

Netflix Q2 2020 earnings: Lockdown revenue windfall but performance expected to fall

Cover image for Netflix Q2 2020 earnings: Lockdown revenue windfall but performance expected to fall

Tim Mulligan

17 Jul 2020

H1 2020 has been particularly good for Netflix. Q1 2020 saw record subscriber growth of 27.8 million net additions and its original content has dominated viewer interest over the previous six months. The...

min read

Why Spotify needs Russia

Cover image for Why Spotify needs Russia

Mark Mulligan

16 Jul 2020

Spotify’s delayed Russia launch finally happened this week . While it did not drive a stock price growth like the Josh Rogan deal did (the stock closed just 1 cent higher than the previous day’s close)...

min read

NBCUniversal hopes to draw level with Premier League move

Cover image for NBCUniversal hopes to draw level with Premier League move

Alistair Taylor

15 Jul 2020

With Comcast’s NBCUniversal-owned Peacock launching today (July 15th), sports fans will be excited ahead of NBCU’s repositioning of its English Premier League (EPL) rights, giving paying subscribers...

min read

Sony buys stake in Epic Games: Small equity, large impact

Cover image for Sony buys stake in Epic Games: Small equity, large impact

Karol Severin

13 Jul 2020

Sony has made a strategic investment of $250 million to acquire a minority stake in Epic Games. According to Venture Beat , Sony will own 1.4% of the company, valuing Epic Games at $17.86 billion. While...

min read

How the DNA of a hit has changed over 20 years

Cover image for How the DNA of a hit has changed over 20 years

Mark Mulligan

13 Jul 2020

the song economy

Updated on 13/03/2025: Five years is a long time in the fast-changing music industry. To see how the DNA of a hit has evolved since this blog was published, check out our latest post by MIDiA's music researcher,...

min read

Welcome to the world of digital autarky

Cover image for Welcome to the world of digital autarky

Tim Mulligan

8 Jul 2020

2020 has thus far proved to be a year of unexpected disruption across business and the geo-political landscape as the international order adapts to the global pandemics and rising nationalism.The post...

min read

Quick Take: Amazon’s pull-back of Crucible is a setback, but don’t sign it off just yet

Cover image for Quick Take: Amazon’s pull-back of Crucible is a setback, but don’t sign it off just yet

Karol Severin

6 Jul 2020

Amazon has decided to pull the release of its game, Crucible, back to beta following feedback from early users. Much of the games community is taking jabs at Amazon about its lack of gaming DNA and deeming...

min read

Time to stop playing the velocity game

Cover image for Time to stop playing the velocity game

Mark Mulligan

3 Jul 2020

music marketing

We all know that streaming has transformed consumption and business models alike, but this is not a ‘now-completed’ process. Instead, it is one that continues to evolve at pace, and the dynamic of...

min read

FuboTV adds key sporting rights to portfolio following Disney deal

Cover image for FuboTV adds key sporting rights to portfolio following Disney deal

Alistair Taylor

2 Jul 2020

Sporting rights

FuboTV, the US over-the-top (OTT) internet-delivered TV service launched back in January 2015 as a soccer-centric proposition. In that time it has established itself as a niche distributor of live streams...

min read

Netflix $17 billion budget staves off Disney and HBO Max competition

Cover image for Netflix $17 billion budget staves off Disney and HBO Max competition

Tim Mulligan

30 Jun 2020

As Netflix increases its annual content budget from the $13.9 billion in 2019 to an estimated $17 billion in 2020, the global video streaming leader is responding to the competitive threat posed by its...

min read

Device sales key to Apple TV+ ROI

Cover image for Device sales key to Apple TV+ ROI

Tim Mulligan

25 Jun 2020

During its WWDC 2020 event on Monday, Apple reminded the world that Apple TV+ reachesone billion screens. This is an officialrestatement of Apple Originals contributor Oprah Winfrey at last year’s Showtime...

min read

‹
1
2
...
60
61
62
63
64
65
66
...
120
121
›

Showing 1241 to 1260 of 2410 results.