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Vinyl now matters more to the music industry

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Keith Jopling

11 Oct 2022

Streaming Music

It is the final quarter of 2022 and almost time for Spotify Wrapped – that thrilling rush of data that knows more about your music listening habits than you do yourself. However, my Wrapped will be redundant this year, since at least half of my listening time has migrated to playing vinyl records on the turntable.

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Why Samsung is pushing Tizen across the smart TV ecosystem

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Tim Mulligan

11 Oct 2022

Yesterday the world’s largest smart-TV manufacturer by market share announced partnerships with international original development manufacturing (ODM) companies to license its smart-TV operating system, Tizen.

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The fall of Stadia

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Perry Gresham

7 Oct 2022

games streaming

games subscriptions

Google’s game streaming service Stadia is shutting down in January 2023, just over three years into its life. What went wrong for such a promising technology with the backing of one of the largest corporations in the world? What does this mean for the future of cloud gaming? Popularity contest The key reason Stadia is being scrapped? User numbers.

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How can entertainment reintroduce scarcity in a time of attention over-saturation?

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Hanna Kahlert

5 Oct 2022

Spoiler alert, to the disappointment of some: it is not going to be NFTs. Scarcity, real or artificial, is what drives value. The diamond industry is perhaps the most obvious example of managed scarcity driving high-margin revenues .

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How podcast platforms are setting their sights on global expansion

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Annie Langston

5 Oct 2022

The growth of podcast audiences requires a global effort. And while the market is primarily dominated by mostly Western platforms, such as Spotify and Apple, there are opportunities for new players to compete in the digital audio market by tapping into international audiences.

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Why Sky remains focused on Formula 1 as streaming TV remakes sports fandom

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Tim Mulligan

4 Oct 2022

Last Friday, Comcast-owned Sky announced that it had renewed its exclusive UK and Ireland coverage of Formula 1 (F1) until the end of 2029. Included in this deal are additional rights for Sky Italia and Sky Deutschland Germany, Austria, and Switzerland.

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Time to jump off the algorithm highway

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Mark Mulligan

30 Sep 2022

Cultural trends

Marketing Strategy

Life is perpetual change, so it is perhaps overdoing it to suggest that the music business is at a cultural pivot point. Yet, what comes next has the potential to be looked at, years from now, as a dividing line between before and after.

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What happens when the “relentless toll” of the music industry meets the creator economy in a cost-of-living crisis?

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Hanna Kahlert

29 Sep 2022

The music industry is in a cultural crisis. It is more demanding than ever to be a successful artist, with the work required to meet the demands of social algorithms and to cut through the clutter being more competitive than ever, in addition to touring being hit hugely by the pandemic lockdown and now by a cost-of-living crisis limiting fans’ ability to attend real-life concerts.

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Quick take: Are Netflix’s games efforts still in line with the consumer needs of today?

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Karol Severin

29 Sep 2022

It has been a year since Netflix announced its first games studio acquisition. Two days ago, it announced the launch of its own in-house gaming studio based in Finland, bringing a fourth gaming studio into its arsenal.

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Amazon touches down with a new streaming era for NFL and a boost to Prime membership

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Tim Mulligan

27 Sep 2022

Thursday Night Football

On September 15th, Amazon Prime Video aired its first Thursday Night Football ( TNF ) match under its new$1 billion-per-yeardomestic broadcast rights deal . Amazon’s decision to become the exclusive broadcaster (via Prime Video and Twitch) has meant that all NFL fans outside of the local markets of the playing teams (which Amazon syndicates out to local broadcast-TV stations as part of the terms of the deal) must have a Prime subscription in order to watch the TNF games.

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Grand Theft IP

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Perry Gresham

23 Sep 2022

grand theft auto

intellectual property

This week gaming entered leak season, with large amounts of content unexpectedly released for two major upcoming titles: Grand Theft Auto VI (GTA) and Diablo IV. GTA developer Rockstar Games confirmed : “We recently suffered a network intrusion in which an unauthorised third party illegally accessed and downloaded confidential information from our systems, including early development footage for the next Grand Theft Auto”.

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Spotify launches audiobooks in the US – but you have to buy them

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Annie Langston

22 Sep 2022

Spotify has officially launched its audiobook vertical for US listeners. Spotify previewed this vertical at its Investor Day in June, in addition to announcing its purchase of Findaway , an audiobook distributor.

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The cost-of-living crisis will give rise to a new and powerful underground scene

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Hanna Kahlert

21 Sep 2022

cost-of-living crisis

At this point, everyone – in entertainment and beyond – should be planning for a difficult financial winter. According to the Financial Times , an emergency government scheme capping energy bills has just been launched in the UK, which ministers “hope will prevent a wave of corporate collapse”.

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Fox brings its FIFA World Cup 2022 coverage into the streaming era

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Tim Mulligan

20 Sep 2022

FIFA World Cup 2022

Last week, Fox subsidiary Tubi launched a dedicated linear channel for the FIFA World Cup Qatar 2022 tournament. Alongside using Fox’s US broadcast rights to live stream all tournament matches and highlights, the free ad-supported streaming TV (FAST) channel will provide series and films focusing on previous world cups.

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WMG is moving beyond superstars – and that is a good thing

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Mark Mulligan

16 Sep 2022

fragmented fandom

Warner Music Group’s ( WMG’s) Steve Cooper recently stated that the major is no longer financially dependent on superstars – which is, of course, quite a different thing from not being culturally dependent on them, but we’ll get to that.

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The future of marketing and A&R is all about scenes

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Tatiana Cirisano

15 Sep 2022

Music streaming

fragmented fandom

Today’s era of hyper-fragmentation raises all sorts of questions for the music industry, in particular marketing and A&R departments. In a landscape where it is harder than ever to have a mainstream impact, how do you drive culture? How do you break artists and build superstars? What will peak success for the next generation of artists even look like? The framework we need may have been here all along.

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What Gamescom and PAX West tell us about games’ cultural relevance in the 2020s

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Karol Severin

15 Sep 2022

cultural insight

Over the last few weeks, I had the opportunity to present at both Gamescom in Cologne, and PAX West in Seattle. It has been a few years since I visited Gamescom. Back then, I wrote about how gaming has fully established itself as a cultural phenomenon and was edging towards the mainstream.

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What the comedian lawsuits against Pandora could mean for podcasts

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Annie Langston

14 Sep 2022

The mountain of comedians who are suing Pandora over copyright infringement continues to grow. In February, the estates of both Robin Williams and George Carlin filed lawsuits against Pandora, claiming that the company is streaming their audio content without the proper licenses.

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Why Netflix is doubling down on strengthening its media fusion IP moat

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Tim Mulligan

14 Sep 2022

Assassins Creed

It has been a difficult year for Netflix so far. 2022 has brought some home truths to a growth strategy that had become complacent in the wake of the streaming service’s Covid bounce, and where Netflix’s mainstream brand recognition allowed it to capitalise on the 12% increase in home entertainment time made available during lockdown.

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C.R.E.A.T.E. An entertainment manifesto

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Mark Mulligan

12 Sep 2022

Media and Marketing

Business Strategy

When we first formed MIDiA eight years ago, we saw the new entertainment world was going to require a new joined up approach for entertainment businesses. With the start of the ascent of the smartphone we made an intellectual bet that everything was going to become more interconnected, inter-dependent and inter-competitive.

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