Blog: Gen Z - Page 2

Read our latest daily deep dives, hot takes, and exciting updates about the entertainment world. Check out the latest insight from your favourite analyst, or search by coverage areas - music, entertainment and fandom, creator economy and social.

Spotify is courting gen Z, but is it enough?

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Tatiana Cirisano

13 Jul 2022

Music streaming

Spotify just made its first games acquisition by snapping up Heardle , a popular online game where players compete to guess a song by its opening notes. Heardle will remain a standalone website for now, although Spotify says it plans to integrate Heardle “more fully” into its app.

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O’Brien purchase targets millennials, but what about the rest?

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Annie Langston

9 Jun 2022

The audio battle started with major network acquisitions, such as Amazon’s purchase of Wondery and Spotify’s acquisitions of Gimlet , The Ringer and Paracast . Now, SiriusXM is stepping into the ring with its purchase of Conan O’Brien’s network Team Coco.

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From Will Smith to cake: Why memes underpin (the volatility of) success in the creator economy

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Hanna Kahlert

30 Mar 2022

This years’ Oscars were overshadowed by the onstage physical altercation between Will Smith and Chris Rock, with any news of historical awards (Jane Campion was the third woman in history to take home Best Director, for one) largely overshadowed by the digital presence of the Will Smith commentary.

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Fluid audio is here, and music is about to meet its next mp3 moment

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Kriss Thakrar

26 Aug 2021

Kanye West has released the Donda Stem Player, a handheld remixing speaker that can interact with music, as a way to create a personalised experience with his new album. However, this is not just an interactive speaker for consuming Kanye’s new musical project - it is a creator tool to remix any recording, as shown by a video of the device splitting Marvin Gaye’s What’s Going On into distinct parts.

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Music is no longer about consumption, but participation (and women are leading the charge)

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Hanna Kahlert

27 Jul 2021

The mainstream shift to digital-first life in the last year and a half has affected video content production, games sales, and social media habits. It has also (notably) exacerbated the music industry shift to independent artists and music streaming revenue woes – both of which are now raising existential questions as to the future culture of music.

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Why music underpins the culture of our ‘new normal’

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Hanna Kahlert

22 Jul 2021

Media and Marketing

Audience Insight

The recent UK DCMS committee findings on streaming – namely, that artists should receive a greater share of streaming revenues – is merely one facet of the growing pains of a music industry reshaped by streaming and having evolved, willingly or not, into a digital-first proposition.

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The subscription market model has now taken over consumption, but will it reach a saturation point?

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Hanna Kahlert

25 Jun 2021

When the balance of Netflix’s value proposition swung from mail-delivered DVDs to the then-mind-blowing idea of a streaming service, the implications stretched far wider than for the movie and TV industry.

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The reign of the superstar is over

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Hanna Kahlert

13 May 2021

Media and Marketing

Cultural trends

It is growing ever-more difficult to generate a singular ‘big hit’. Awards shows have always had their issues with keeping relevant, but with streaming for both music and video exponentially increasing the amount of content released while simultaneously diluting the social context around big releases, a saturated attention environment makes it increasingly difficult to judge just what is ‘award worthy’ – and who it is that will care.

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Addison Rae will not be owned: The pitfalls of the major label business model

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Kriss Thakrar

25 Mar 2021

Independent artists

TikTok stars are rejecting major labels. It is no secret that major labels are being outpaced by independent artists in the overall market. Addison Rae has a combined following of over 100 million between TikTok and Instagram alone, and she has leveraged her position to independently put together an all-star team for her first release.

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Is gaming the solution to sports’ Gen Z problem?

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Alistair Taylor

8 Mar 2021

It has been well-documented that Gen Z’s and Generation Alpha’s interest in watching live sports has waned . It is important to dispel the notion that the younger cohorts are less likely to engage with sports, but rather to appreciate that they just consume them differently .

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Driving cross-generational appeal in entertainment universes

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Karol Severin

8 Feb 2021

cross-generational

Building and maintaining cross-generational appeal in entertainment is hard. A key challenge is in catering to seemingly wildly different consumer segments with the inherent risk of targeting ‘kind of everybody’ , which may lead to true fandom with nobody.

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Watch Together: BT Sport adapts to lockdown, offering synchronised group streaming

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Alistair Taylor

4 Feb 2021

The pandemic-enforced prohibition of fans in attendance at sporting events has weakened the viewing spectacle, forcing rights holders and operators to experiment with the viewing experience. The NHL pioneered the drive for change in terms of the viewing format, vying to create a ‘ made-for-TV ’ product for its 2020 Stanley Cup Playoffs.

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Football looks to build digital engagement through Fortnite collaboration

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Alistair Taylor

22 Jan 2021

Endeavor-owned IMG, acting as Epic Games’ licensing representative, has brokered deals with 23 football clubs to appear in the publisher’s free-to-play battle royale-style game Fortnite. Looking to capitalise on an increasingly valuable market, with diversifying revenue streams a paramount objective, sport is starting to play its way into the world of micropayments and in-app purchases, turning fandom into revenue .

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Why the NFL is targeting ‘cord-nevers’

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Alistair Taylor

14 Jan 2021

For decades, rights holders have prioritised (and relied upon) exponentially increasing broadcast revenues as a mechanism for sustainability and growth, a legacy approach that is in dire need of a review with ‘ D-day’ for sporting rights upon us in 2021.

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Why Short Form Content Resonates with Younger Generations

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Amanda Stears

2 Oct 2019

digital natives

Digital natives – be they classified as millennials or generation Z – have always had the term “instant gratification” associated with them. This is a reflection of the way technology has shaped and moulded every aspect of their daily lives and interactions.

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NFL Tackles Gen Z through Social Media Platforms

Amanda Stears

17 Sep 2019

5 September marked the kick-off of the 2019 National Football League (NFL) season – its 100th season to-date. This will be particularly relevant for broadcasters and sports rights holders alike, as the CBS broadcast of Super Bowl LIII back in February recorded its TV audience at an all-time low since 2008.

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Guess Who Gen Z Prefers For Music: Spotify Or YouTube?

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Mark Mulligan

29 Jun 2017

It is still common to hear people talk about Millennials as if it is one amorphous group. In actual fact, Millennials are now 2 entirely distinct generations, not 1. In addition to the core Millennials we now have a new generation of younger consumers born on or around 2000.

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