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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’s ‘daylist’ is coming for radio… but radio still has some aces to play

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Annie Langston

20 Sep 2023

As streaming platforms evolve, radio audiences are steadily declining. Although podcasts and streaming have seemingly replaced radio, there are key differences between the formats. For instance, radio’s ability to program content throughout the day has always been a major pillar that stands out against on-demand content.

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Streaming’s problems will not be fixed by royalties alone

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Mark Mulligan

15 Sep 2023

Streaming Music

Music streaming

Streaming Royalties

UMG and Deezer’s artist-centric royalty proposal got the amount of attention both parties probably wanted , if not necessarily the type of attention they were after. However, the intent was to kick start an industry debate, and that objective was clearly achieved.

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Unity’s pricing is a symptom, not the cause of tougher times ahead for the games industry

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Karol Severin

14 Sep 2023

game developers

Earlier this week, Unity announced that from 2024 it will start charging developers for the number of downloads / installs of their games. Developers unsurprisingly threw their proverbial toys out of the pram following the news.

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Niche is the way forward: DSP’s need function, not features

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Hanna Kahlert

14 Sep 2023

It has never been easier to become a music creator. But, it has arguably never been harder to remain one as a full-time career. There are a whole host of reasons behind this, not least of which is a streaming economy that has upended the role of music in the daily lives of audiences, and a host of creator tools (including generative AI) that lower the barriers to music creation, to the point where nearly anyone can step over them with ease.

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Cannibalisation is inevitable for YouTube as the attention economy bites

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Ben Woods

13 Sep 2023

When YouTube launched Shorts in 2021, the social video platform was knowingly risking de-stabilising its core business. The rationale behind launching a short-form video offer was that the risk of not doing so could mean haemorrhaging thousands, if not millions, of viewers to TikTok.

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How Clubhouse missed its Twitter, erm X, Spaces opportunity

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Annie Langston

13 Sep 2023

The gone and (almost) forgotten live audio app Clubhouse is trying for a revival. Clubhouse kicked off during the Covid-19 lockdowns, closing 2021 with a $4 billion valuation and inspiring major platforms, like Twitter, Spotify and Facebook, to start their own live audio-centric features.

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As Sam Ryder cuts to the chase, the question is do all artists become indie?

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Keith Jopling

7 Sep 2023

Creator economy

Like everyone, I have a basket of core artists I am a dedicated fan of. But there is a wider group of artists I follow and am always intrigued about, both musically and in terms of their career trajectory.

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How to make artist centric artist centric

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Mark Mulligan

6 Sep 2023

Streaming Royalties

Music streaming

Music Royalties

Deezer and UMG announced a major (in both senses of the word) shake up of streaming music royalties. This is arguably the biggest streaming market development in years, as it will set the tone for market-wide change.

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The future of AI will orient around datasets… which will put the user in a front-and-centre blind spot

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Hanna Kahlert

6 Sep 2023

The rise of generative AI has thrown the future of creators (of all industries) into question, with copyright being the key to how it all plays out. Models like ChatGPT have an input-output ‘black-box’ problem, which means that whatever goes into training the models cannot be traced to what comes out.

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BlackPink, superfans and the video game threat to social video and streaming TV

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Ben Woods

1 Sep 2023

Being an entertainment fan in the modern era can be a disjointed experience. Take Star Wars . A fan of the long-standing sci-fi franchise must invest significant amounts of time and money across multiple entertainment platforms if they are to truly indulge in their fandom.

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AI, music rights, and known unknowns

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Mark Mulligan

31 Aug 2023

artificial intelligence

The music industry is approaching a tipping point, with the building blocks of what will be the post-streaming era beginning to fall into place.The streaming era will make way for something new. Innovation, disruption, and change will define the coming years, with AI, fandom, and the creator economy centre stage.

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How Apple Podcasts is helping spur a new era of podcast analytics

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Annie Langston

30 Aug 2023

Podcast analytics have been more or less untouched since the format’s inception. The podcast investment boom was more about major platforms catching up with competitors by integrating traditional analytics, rather than innovating the availability of data itself.

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A new era of ‘fan-made’ music is about to begin

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Kriss Thakrar

30 Aug 2023

Since MIDiA’s comments on TikTok’s music production ambitions more than two years ago, a lot has changed. Consumers have become bolder and more engaged in playing an active role in their music consumption.

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Are social platforms responsible for weird objects being thrown at pop stars?

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Hanna Kahlert

29 Aug 2023

Media and Marketing

People have forgotten how to behave in public. Or at least, so contends a recent Vox article , which highlights recent instances of ‘fans’ throwing objects at pop stars during concerts and people scrolling TikTok in the cinema.

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Up close and personal: when the algorithm goes too far

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Tatiana Cirisano

24 Aug 2023

artificial intelligence

Today’s entertainment world is characterised by hyper-personalisation. Everyone has a unique TikTok feed tailored specifically to their own niches. DSP playlists have names like “For You” and “Made For [username]”.

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Clutter versus curation: The cure to entertainment’s attention saturation woes

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Hanna Kahlert

18 Aug 2023

digital saturatoin

Attention economy

Across digital content –be that music, TV, social video, or just photos on Instagram – algorithms favour a “more is more” approach. More content, more often, means better visibility, better discovery, and better monetisation opportunities.

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Misaligned incentives make the music business a zero-sum game

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Tatiana Cirisano

17 Aug 2023

streaming services

“Pop Stars Aren’t Popping Like They Used To”, Billboard ’s Elias Leight writes in a recent article, in which record label executives stress over the struggle to break new artists. The article (or at least, the headline) stirred up a storm on Twitter — ahem, X — last week, where many users took the opportunity to slam record labels’ misguided focus on virality.

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Alex Cooper’s new podcast network questions her future at Spotify and fuels competition for creators

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Annie Langston

16 Aug 2023

Call Her Daddy’s Alex Cooper has launched her own podcast network. A subsidiary of Trending , the media company Cooper launched earlier this year, The Unwell Network is targeting Gen Z audiences. In addition to producing both scripted and unscripted podcasts, the network will also explore live events.

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For Sony's games division, add-on content is the one to watch

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Karol Severin

16 Aug 2023

in-game monetisation

Sony reported its Q1 FY2023 results last week. The Gaming & Network Services (G&NS) segment was up 27.8% on last year. At the same time, however, operating income was down 6.83%. This segment had been selling more while operating slightly less profitably.

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Don’t be fooled by the streams that it’s got, it’s still hip hop from the block

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Kriss Thakrar

15 Aug 2023

Over its 50 years, hip hop has gone from a block party in the Bronx to a conquering global culture. It now accounts for almost a quarter of Spotify streams , with three-quarters of users listening to hip hop this year.

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