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The live versus streaming demographic paradox

Blog post by Hanna Kahlert

5 Jan 2021

As we begin 2021 with a vaccine on the near horizon, live venue businesses are holding on with whitening knuckles through the intermediate stricter lockdowns. However, the world has changed much in the…

Can Roblox get a better value out of its IPO postponement?

Blog post by Karol Severin

16 Dec 2020

Roblox

IPO

cross-entertainment

The Wall Street Journal has reported that Roblox is delaying its IPO to 2021. WSJ states that “…company officials decided that the gravity-defying performance this week of Airbnb and DoorDash made…

DraftKings is making its own strategic bet on the rise of the US sports betting market

Blog post by Alistair Taylor

19 Nov 2020

DraftKings

Sportsbook

betting company

US-based sports betting company DraftKings’ stock value has grown 11% following a strong third-quarter performance in which its revenues increased 98% year on year (YoY) to reach $132.8 million, up from…

WWE Q3 Earnings – An innovative digital strategy helps WWE overcome COVID-19 disruption

Blog post by Alistair Taylor

12 Nov 2020

WWE

World Wrestling Entertainment

covid

WWE’s Q3 2020 results provide a fascinating insight into how a live event-focused entertainment business has successfully navigated a global pandemic. In its financials for the quarter , WWE saw a 19%…

MIDiA expands academia support to gaming community through MetArena partnership

Blog post by Dara Jegede

11 Nov 2020

Games

We are pleased to announce that the University of Kentucky is the first to benefit from a new partnership between MIDiA Research and MetArena, which will see students receive access to the MIDiA platform…

MIDiA podcast launches with post-pandemic programming series

Blog post by Dara Jegede

11 Nov 2020

Video

Music

Games

MIDiA has long said that podcasts are a rising force in the audio entertainment market – and now we’ve put our efforts where our insights are, launching our first podcast series. Our first two episodes…

Why Take-Two Interactive does not need to adopt games subscriptions yet

Blog post by Karol Severin

10 Nov 2020

take two interactive

games subscriptions

Take-Two Interactive (T2) reported quarterly results, with revenue dipping slightly, but profitability improving. On the call, T2 reiterated scepticism over the future of the games subscription models.…

PS5 and Travis Scott partnership illustrate PlayStation’s/Sony’s cross-entertainment future

Blog post by Karol Severin

29 Oct 2020

ps5

PlayStation5

Travis scott

Over the last year we have written a number of times that Sony’s future is cross-entertainment , while Xbox’s future is cross platform . This stems from their respective strengths and weaknesses. Sony…

Turning fandom into revenue: Why UGC is the next big revenue maker for the content industries

Blog post by Keith Jopling

28 Oct 2020

Music

Games

Covid-19

In our recent report The Rising Power of UGC , in association with Audible Magic we identified that the music industry could unlock as much as $6 billion in revenues from UGC by 2022. Such an outcome would…

Blurred lines: UGC is bringing creators and users closer, and blurring promotion with consumption

Blog post by Keith Jopling

21 Oct 2020

Video

Music

Games

Fleetwood Mac’s 1977 hit ‘Dreams’ is the latest ‘legacy hit’ to have also become the latest viral phenomenon, thanks to a skateboarder with a thirst for cranberry juice. In just one week, streams…

More consumers intend to buy PS5 than Xbox Series X, but both companies will be content with their trajectory

Blog post by Karol Severin

16 Oct 2020

xbox

Playstation

games consoles

With both PS5 and Xbox Series X having sold out their pre-order stock, the winter holiday race is heating up. Following Microsoft’s acquisition of ZeniMax Media, we wrote that the acquisition is unlikely…

Microsoft’s Zenimax acquisition is about the future of Games Pass more than console sales

Blog post by Karol Severin

30 Sep 2020

Games

games consoles

Zenimax

With the acquisition of ZeniMax Media, Microsoft is gaining an important content asset for its portfolio – Bethesda’s games. And while the timing of the announcement certainly won’t make Sony too…

Quick Take: Apple One – Recession Buster

Blog post by Mark Mulligan

15 Sep 2020

Video

Music

Games

Apple officially announced its long anticipated all-in-one content bundle: Apple One. $14.95 gets you Apple Music, Arcade, Apple TV+ and 50GB of iCloud storage. A family plan retails at $19.95 and a premier…

Is it time for the music industry to rethink how it wants to participate in the gaming opportunity?

Blog post by Karol Severin

4 Sep 2020

music industry

gaming

cross-entertainment strategy

Music consumption, particularly in the West, is commoditised. Transforming from the economies of ownership to access and the removal of production and distribution barriers led to the devaluation of, not…

Epic Games takes on the media giants in #freefortnite fiasco

Blog post by Karol Severin

21 Aug 2020

Fortnite

Epic Games

Apple

Conflict between the gaming world and the tech giants erupted last Thursday, with Fortnite being removed from the App Store and Play Store, two lawsuits being registered, and a (niche) viral outbreak of…

COVID fallout: BBC no longer considers UK Athletics value for money

Blog post by Alistair Taylor

19 Aug 2020

Covid-19

covid

pandemic

COVID-19 exposed live entertainment as a vulnerable asset class , specifically following the pandemic-enforced postponement of live sports . One of the hardest hit during this hiatus and ensuing uncertainty…

Fortnite’s Party Royale provides sports untapped avenue for reaching digital natives

Blog post by Alistair Taylor

19 Aug 2020

Universal platform

Fortnite

Epic Games

Burgeoning universal platform Fortnite’s ‘ Party Royale ’ is slowly becoming the gateway for rights holders to reach digitally native audiences. Party Royale, Fortnite’s ‘ experimenta l’ game…

Apple to launch subscription bundle – we called it!

Blog post by Mark Mulligan

13 Aug 2020

Video

Music

Games

In MIDiA’s 2020 Predictions report published in December 2019 we predicted that tech majors would start creating subscription bundles, with Apple leading the fray. Lo and behold, news has just come…

Could gaming kill the video star?

Blog post by Karol Severin

12 Aug 2020

Games

venn

games video

The Video Games Entertainment & News Network, or ‘ Venn’ , was launched on the 5th of August – marking another important milestone on entertainment’s journey of intertwining across formats…

The MIDiA Research Podcast: Episode 1 – What Next for Tencent?

Blog post by Mark Mulligan

7 Aug 2020

Video

Music

Media & Marketing

We are excited to announce the first episode of the MIDiA Research podcast: What Next for Tencent? President Trump's executive orders concerning Bytedance and Tencent set the cat among the pigeons. In…

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