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Artists are Learning How it Feels to be a Songwriter

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Blog post by Mark Mulligan

8 Jun 2020

The ‘broken record’ streaming debate that continues to rage on is a natural consequence of the instantaneous collapse of live music revenue following lockdown. As soon as it was clear that live was...

To be Silent is to be Complicit – On Which Side of History Will the NFL be Remembered?

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Blog post by Alistair Taylor

3 Jun 2020

Blacklivesmatter

blackouttuesday

Yesterday, social media went silent as it observed #BlackOutTuesday . Following George Floyd’s killing by a Minneapolis police officer, athletes and teams have all spoken up in solidarity, demanding...

Recovery Economics | Bounce Forward not Back

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Blog post by Mark Mulligan

28 May 2020

COVID-19 social distancing measures caused unprecedented dislocation to the entertainment economy. With a recession now a question of ‘how bad’ rather than ‘if’, entertainment companies have to...

Move Over Mickey, The NBA is Set to Become Disney World’s Star Attraction

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Blog post by Alistair Taylor

27 May 2020

Australian Rules Football

COVID-19 forced sports leagues to think outside the box for restarting live sports. The UFC wanted to rent a private island , the NRL to ferry players to and from games, and the WWE performed to empty...

Bundesliga Offers Reality Check for What to Expect of Sport Post-COVID-19

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Blog post by Alistair Taylor

21 May 2020

Football (via the Bundesliga) finally returned to screens last weekend, not only serving starved sports fans with content during lockdown, but more importantly demonstrated what we can expect live football...

The Future of Live

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Blog post by Mark Mulligan

20 May 2020

The almost total cessation of live music has sent shockwaves throughout the wider music industry. Though live companies are clearly at the epicentre, labels and streaming services are the in the blast...

The Last Dance – ESPN Raining Threes

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Blog post by Alistair Taylor

18 May 2020

With the pandemic-enforced postponement of live sports creating an entertainment void for sports fans, US broadcaster ESPN played its trump card to capitalise on the thirst for stimulating content during...

Artists – Have Your Voice Heard

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Blog post by Mark Mulligan

12 May 2020

midia artist survey

MIDiA is fielding its third biannual Artist Survey. Our two surveys last year were very successful and got hundreds of artist responses. MIDiA’s artist surveys takes the pulse of the artist community...

‘You’re Not Singing Anymore’ - English Premier League Set to Lose Over $1 Billion

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Blog post by Alistair Taylor

7 May 2020

The English Premier League (EPL) is faced with the very real possibility that it will have to play out the entirety of the 2020/2021 soccer season behind closed doors, starving teams of more than $1 billion...

What is the value of exposure when exposure is all there is?

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Blog post by Mark Mulligan

6 May 2020

There is an existential debate going on at the moment, around whether streaming is paying artists enough. It may feel like a rerun of old debates but it is catalysed by COVID-19 decimating artist income....

How COVID-19 Catalysed Competitiveness Among The Video Majors

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Blog post by Tim Mulligan

5 May 2020

While the previous two months of pandemic disruption has had a dramatic impact upon video streaming, the overall direction of travel for video has remained constant, with video streaming remaining the...

Collapsing Maul: Sport Facing Global Rights Re-valuations

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Blog post by Alistair Taylor

4 May 2020

broadcast rights

The English Gallagher Premiership Rugby provides another case study that demonstrates just how significant COVID-19’s impact on rights holders is likely to be moving forward, as it faces a substantial...

Travis Scott has Only Scratched the Surface of Music Games Tie Ups

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Blog post by Mark Mulligan

1 May 2020

In February 2019 Marshmello caused ripples of almost tidal proportions across the music business when 10.7 million Fortnite fans watched him perform a ‘concert’ in the game. Then in April 2020 Travis...

The ‘Covid Bounce’ In Games Can Cloud Judgement About What Lies Ahead

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Blog post by Karol Severin

1 May 2020

Compared to most, the games industry has benefited from the Covid-19 outbreak and related lockdowns. For a lot of games companies, engagement has increased and so have revenues, albeit just partially....

Spotify Q1 2020: Choppy Waters Ahead

Blog post by Mark Mulligan

29 Apr 2020

Spotify’s first quarter earnings were a mixed bag, with a largely positive picture for Q1 but some warning signs for the remainder of the year: Subscribers: Spotify’s Q1 earnings may not have...

Independents Grew Fastest on Spotify in 2019, But There’s a Twist

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Blog post by Mark Mulligan

28 Apr 2020

independent artists

independent labels

Tomorrow (Wednesday 29 th April) Spotify announces its Q1 2020 results, at which point we will find out whether it had a COVID-bounce like Netflix did ( adding 15.8 million subscribers in Q1 ) or whether...

HBO Max Now Has Its Launch Date-Will This Turn Out To Be Good Or Bad Timing?

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Blog post by Tim Mulligan

24 Apr 2020

On Tuesday, AT&T subsidiary Warner Media announced the launch date for its forthcoming D2C streaming video service HBO Max. On May 27 th HBO Max will launch into a world radically different from the one...

Lockdown Listening and the Independent Artist

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Blog post by Mark Mulligan

24 Apr 2020

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After an initial lockdown lull, streaming levels are – on the surface – beginning to normalise. Underlying the macro-level normalisation, ‘lockdown listening’ is in fact resulting in dramatic shifts...

The Battle Down Under

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Blog post by Alistair Taylor

23 Apr 2020

#playerstogether

additive services

With COVID-19 exposing the vulnerability of pureplay sport streaming services , the importance of building out a robust and downturn-proof offering is fundamental to the viability of these currently additive...

Consumption and Production Impacts on TV and Video Streaming under Lockdown

Blog post by Tim Mulligan

21 Apr 2020

COVID-19 programming

Unsurprisingly the UK government opted to extend lockdown for a further three weeks last week, and today will mark the first full month of lockdown for UK consumers. In the US 95% of the population is...

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