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The future of entertainment innovation lies in exclusive experiences, not content

Blog post by Hanna Kahlert

15 Jun 2022

In the age before digital engagement went mainstream, entertainment had clear access channels and multiple price points. Video was able to rely on movie tickets, (expensive) TV sets, and the individual...

How relevant are awards in the age of Spotify Wrapped?

Blog post by Keith Jopling

12 Jan 2022

streaming

netflix

Spotify

Are awards ceremonies relevant in today's entertainment landscape? The widespread boycott by major movie stars of this year’s Golden Globes is more than a temporary protest and will lead to a major period...

Content proliferation is remaking entertainment categories and giving rise to experiential consumption

Blog post by Hanna Kahlert

23 Sep 2021

Media and Marketing

Fandom

Digital

The attention economy reaching saturation was a disruptive force in entertainment long before the coronavirus pandemic. Too much competition for too little time meant that audience engagement was increasingly...

Facebook just got into social music; the industry should take note

Blog post by Hanna Kahlert

12 Aug 2021

social music

social music app

facebook

Facebook has just rolled out a new option to share clips of music videos to its Stories , which will be fully available to users by August 16th. The move has two main sets of implications. On the music...

Why DAZN is adapting to German consumer nuances with linear and digital bets

Blog post by Alistair Taylor

22 Oct 2020

AZN

sport-centric

SVOD

DAZN’s recently-established position as the ‘Netflix of sport’ has been a hard fought one, requiring extensive rights investment in order to carve out a compelling proposition. In the markets where...

Verizon Media announces platform to ‘evolve’ live streaming experience

Blog post by Alistair Taylor

16 Sep 2020

Verizon

Verzion Media

Verizon Fios

Verizon Media announced a series of new Media Platform improvements in a press release today (16th September), intended to ‘evolve the live streaming experience’. These features are all aimed at increasing...

Wanda Sports Group’s financials highlight long-term impact of live hiatus

Blog post by Alistair Taylor

3 Sep 2020

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...

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...

Return of the fan: COVID-19 thwarts fan pilot sporting events amid regional spikes in cases

Blog post by Alistair Taylor

6 Aug 2020

Video

Sports

Games

Just when sports fans thought it was safe to go back into the water, COVID reared its ugly head once more. UK fan pilot sporting events were all set to start allowing fans back into arenas and attend live...

Innovation via Free-to-air Highlights Missed Opportunity to date for the EPL

Blog post by Alistair Taylor

24 Jun 2020

Sports

live sport

Sporting rights

Following live sports’ hiatus due to the coronavirus pandemic, the English Premier League (EPL) saw two of the top three most-watched matches in league history occur last weekend. The previous record...

Music Streaming Needs a New Future

Blog post by Mark Mulligan

12 Jun 2020

Alibaba

China

Fandom

While doing some research on the Chinese streaming market I came across this fantastic UX tear down of Xiami Music . I recommend you read it in full. The day before I found this–also must-read–article...

MIDiA's Recovery Economics principles for competing effectively post lockdown

Blog post by Dara Jegede

11 Jun 2020

Covid-19

covid-19 impact

If you missed our webinar on how media and entertainment will evolve post lockdown and how companies should adapt, the recording is available below. MIDiA analysts present in this webinar how the entertainment...

Premier League Acknowledges Priorities Have Changed During Lockdown

Blog post by Alistair Taylor

11 Jun 2020

artificial crowd noise

attention

BBC One

The English Premier League (EPL) is set to return to screens next Wednesday, over three months since the last fixture graced our screens. Considering the pandemic enforced-postponement has deprived sports...

The Music Industry’s Next Five Growth Drivers

Blog post by Mark Mulligan

22 May 2020

creator tools

Fandom

fitness

The risk with trying to imagine what the future might look like is to simply think it is going to be a brighter, shinier version of today. At this precise moment in time, this has perhaps never been truer. ...

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

Blog post by Alistair Taylor

21 May 2020

AFL

AGF Aarhus

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 Last Dance – ESPN Raining Threes

Blog post by Alistair Taylor

18 May 2020

Adam Silver

bundle

Chicago Bulls

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...

Collapsing Maul: Sport Facing Global Rights Re-valuations

Blog post by Alistair Taylor

4 May 2020

All Blacks

All or Nothing

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...

Play for the World – EA Aims to Fill Void via FIFA Stay and Play Cup

Blog post by Alistair Taylor

16 Apr 2020

activity gap

broadcast

Brondby

In 2003, FIFA updated its primary logo to include the words ‘For the Game. For the World.’ Fast forward 17 years and governments around the world are instructing their citizens to stay inside. Now...

Forget Virtual – UFC and NRL going Remote

Blog post by Alistair Taylor

10 Apr 2020

Associated Press

broadcaster

With fans currently starved of sports entertainment during lockdown, rights holders are jumping out of the gate to be the first to put on live sports to serve any form of quick fix to see a jump in engagement....

Self-Isolation: DAZN Concedes to COVID-19

Blog post by Alistair Taylor

6 Apr 2020

additive services

all-encompassing offering

asset class

Sports streaming insurgent DAZN has announced last week it plans to inform rights holders of its intent to defer its payments of rights fees for any content not yet delivered (i.e. postponed / cancelled...

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