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Australia bans social media for under-16s: the first domino towards a new digital world?

Hanna Kahlert

3 Dec 2024

regulation

age restriction

australia social media ban

Australia has just approved groundbreaking social media regulation that bans users under 16 from accessing platforms like Snapchat, TikTok, Facebook, and X. This under-16 social media ban is the first...

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The future of AI will orient around datasets… which will put the user in a front-and-centre blind spot

Hanna Kahlert

6 Sep 2023

Blockchain

social

The rise of generative AI has thrown the future of creators (of all industries) into question, with copyright being the key to how it all plays out. Models like ChatGPT have an input-output ‘black-box’...

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Web 3.0 is a lane, not a highway

Mark Mulligan

2 Sep 2022

web 3.0

metaverse

Blockchain

Facebook was not the first web 2.0 company, but it was the one that took it mainstream to a global audience. Consumers’ digital lives would never be the same again. Whereas web 1.0 had enabled them to...

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If Web3 is so forward-thinking, why is it so male dominated?

Tatiana Cirisano

28 Feb 2022

diversity

women in music

gender equality

Strike up a five-minute conversation with someone in the Web3 space, and any combination of the words “forward-thinking”, “revolutionary”, and “equitable” is bound to come up. Many proponents...

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Unpacking music royalty investment NFTs

Tatiana Cirisano

26 Jan 2022

Streaming Music

cryptocurrency

NFTs

Last Thursday, a Royal NFT drop allowing fans to purchase a share in the streaming royalties of two Nas songs sold out within minutes. The drop was delayed by a week after high demand crashed Royal’s...

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What does the NFT hype mean for artists?

Hanna Kahlert

18 Mar 2021

Media and Marketing

NFT

non fungible token

Soon after the #GameStonks event of January 2021 , Elon Musk reined in the increasingly investment-savvy digital sphere back around to cryptocurrency, using his Tesla company to purchase $1.5 billion worth...

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Post-Peak Attention and the Case for Micropayments

Zach Fuller

9 Dec 2019

Blockchain

Innovation

Media

Success in new business paradigms involves wasting what is abundant to capture what is scarce. The Industrial Revolution did this by taking advantage of technologies that used the finite resource of human...

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Libra and the Media: What Does Facebook’s Move into Cryptocurrency Mean for Content Monetisation?

Zach Fuller

20 Jun 2019

Blockchain

content monetisation

ethereum

Zuckbucks have landed, albeit by a different name. The simply named Libra (MIDiA is still holding out for Jeff’s Pesos being Amazon’s official coin) is Facebook’s first venture into the world of...

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Skin in the Game: Prediction Markets and the Future of Media Discourse

Zach Fuller

13 May 2019

Blockchain

predictions markets

twitter

If talk was cheap before, then the laws of supply and demand mean the advent of big data drove that value to zero. So overwhelmed with opinions are we that it is hard to know who means what anymore. This...

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The Next Web 2018 – A New Sense of Tech-Driven Purpose

Georgia Meyer

30 May 2018

Alphabet

Blockchain

Last week, 15,000 people converged in Amsterdam for The Next Web’s annual two-day conference. This year’s event comprised streams covering music, the workplace, sport and social media. AI and blockchain’s...

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MIDiA at Midem 2017

Zach Fuller

11 Jun 2017

7 digital

andy ng

benji rogers

MIDiA Research were one of thousands of delegates who arrived in Cannes this week to attend Midem; the annual conference addressing the latest developments in the music industry. Across 4 days of panels,...

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What Sony Music's Purchase Of Essential Music Says About The Future Of The Music Industry

Mark Mulligan

2 Mar 2016

AWAL

Blockchain

consolidation

Independent label services company Essential Music & Marketing is no longer independent, having just been acquired by Sony Musi c and merged with Sony’s label services division Red to create a new...

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