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Why Kanye West is the modern-day Prince

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Mark Mulligan
Music
Not ‘prince’ in the Machiavelliansense of the term – though there is an argument for that too – but as in the artist formerly known as. Back in 1992, Prince fought his label Warner Bros to get ownership of his rights and more creative control, struggling to get out of a deal he signed when he was 19 and had since decided was unfair and overly restrictive.
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DAZN financials: Growth reliant on premium domestic rights

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Alistair Taylor
DAZN
DAZN Group
Perform
DAZN’s 2018 financials highlighted the difficulty of encouraging a transition to consume live sports digitally with its existing portfolio of rights. DAZN has not yet released its 2019 financials, but MIDiA has constructed a robust and accurate subscriber and revenue model for the sport-centric streaming service which will be published in full as part of our DAZN Financials and Subscriber Deep Dive report.
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Wanda Sports Group’s financials highlight long-term impact of live hiatus

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Alistair Taylor
sports fans
covid
live sports
Wanda Sports Group’s (WSG) Q2 financials highlight a significant decline in revenues on account of “the broad effects of COVID-19 mitigation efforts”. WSG reported a second successive quarter of decreasing revenues , following its disappointing Q1 results which saw a 26% year-on-year (YoY) decline attributed to losses within the Chinese company’s spectator sports and mass participation divisions.
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Does Apple and augmented reality equal Apple TV+ 2.0?

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Tim Mulligan
Bloomberg announced on Wednesday that Apple is planning to integrate augmented reality (AR) into its video subscription service Apple TV+.The new feature will debut next year and allow viewers to access optional AR content – such as characters and objects from Apple TV+ shows – through their iPhones or iPads.
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Who will own the virtual concert space?

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Mark Mulligan
2020 will go down as a rough year for many artists, largely because of the income they lost when live ground to a halt. Unfortunately, the live music sector is still going to be disrupted in 2021 and it may take even longer for the sector to return to ‘normal’.
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The post-peak Twilight Zone: A defining cultural trend of uncertainty

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Hanna Kahlert
It has been eight months since the onset of the global coronavirus pandemic which has created an unprecedented global socio-economic crisis. As Wuhan residents are beginning to attend music festivals once more and UK consumers are incentivised to uplift their local restaurants with the “eat out to help out” scheme, it is beginning to look like the worst may be over and our ‘new normal’ has begun.
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