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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.

Why the music industry needs ByteDance to disrupt it

Mark Mulligan

18 Nov 2019

Innovation Music bytedance

Back in September 2018 I suggested that Spotify faced a Tencent risk ,with the potential of Tencent launching a competitive offering in markets that Spotify is not yet in. This would effectively divide the world between Spotify in Europe, Americas and some of Asia, and Tencent potentially everywhere...

Infostructure and the barriers to innovation

Zach Fuller

15 Nov 2019

infostructure Innovation media tech

Or, Why the United States Never Built High-Speed Connecting Railways Disruption is never simple, and what is often logically more efficient rarely wins out in the game of adoption. This process has a storied history in consumer tech: Betamax and VHS, DVD and Blue-Ray – but its roots go back even f...

Disney+ recovers from initial blunder to surpass 10 million sign-ups on debut!

Alistair Taylor

14 Nov 2019

21st Century Fox Disney Disney Plus

Disney claims unexpected traffic on its newly-launched service was at fault for the buffering and technical issues of Disney+’s launch. The issues highlight just how difficult it is transitioning from a media company to a tech player, with technical glitches an enormous issue for digital-native su...

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Meet the Speakers – The Economist, BGI, Spotify #Postpeak

Dara Jegede

12 Nov 2019

Business Strategy

If you're in London next Wednesday (November 20th) , come along to our free-to-attend attention economy event . There will also be a live stream (for those not based in London), which you will be able to find here at 7pm GMT.

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The attention economy has peaked. Now what?

Mark Mulligan

12 Nov 2019

Attention economy Business Strategy

Regular followers of MIDiA will know that we’ve been writing about the attention economy for a number of years now. Throughout 2019 we have been building the concept that we have arrived at peak in the attention economy – that all of the addressable free time has been addressed.

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Take Five (the big five stories and data you need to know) November 11th 2019

Mark Mulligan

11 Nov 2019

Take Five Business Strategy

BTS, fandom 3.0: The management of BTS’s distributor was trying to work out who had green-lit an unauthorized billboard campaign for the South Korean boy band . When it turned out that the fans had paid, it pulled back the veil on a whole new fandom paradigm.

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Why BritBox is the Switzerland of the D2C era

Tim Mulligan

11 Nov 2019

BritBox d2c DTC

Last Thursday marked the official UK launch of BritBox –the British broadcasting industry’s answer to the D2C services currently redefining how viewers consume TV shows. Britbox launched in 2017 and built up a subscriber base of 650,000 in the US and Canada on the back of being able to position ...

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Disney FY 2019 results – The final sanity check before everything changes

Tim Mulligan

8 Nov 2019

d2c Disney HBO Max

We are now less than a week away from possibly the most important day in Disney’s 21stcentury history, as November 12this when its direct to consumer (D2C) service Disney+ goes live. While we will not have meaningful numbers come through until the end of the first calendar quarter of 2020, the wei...

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Three supply-side indicators that signal the new music industry has arrived

Keith Jopling

7 Nov 2019

Media Strategy Music

The CD brought unprecedented growth in music-as-product. Then Napster came along as the first real digital disruptor and burst that bubble very effectively. iTunes then disrupted Napster (partly alongside industry anti-piracy efforts) by legally unbundling and re-aggregating music in digital librari...

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Seven developments in recorded music in the 2010s (and the songs that defined them)

Zach Fuller

6 Nov 2019

Music Charts Music streaming Recorded music

Decade retrospectives are almost doomed to fail. Assess the '60s in 1969 and you would have likely overweighed the influence of Grand Funk Railroad compared to The Velvet Underground. When it comes to the '70s, proto hip-hop pioneers such as Grandmaster Flash or the post-punk of Joy Division would h...

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The dnduring role of niche VOD services and targeted short-form content

Amanda Stears

6 Nov 2019

linear tv short form content short form video

On September 19 Viacom Media Networks launched BET+, an over-the-top (OTT) service focusing on African American culture. The $9.99 a month subscription video on demand (SVOD) service is joint venture between Viacom and Tyler Perry Studios, and features over 1,000 hours of original movies and TV seri...

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Why music streaming needs a Disney+

Mark Mulligan

5 Nov 2019

Disney Innovation Streaming video

The music and video streaming markets have long been best understood by their differences rather than similarities, but the flurry of video subscription announcements in recent months have upped the ante even further.

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NFL adding music to its playbook

Alistair Taylor

4 Nov 2019

Fandom NFL Sports

The NFL continues expanding its reach with the news that it is providing both video and audio content to global streaming services Spotify and Tidal (via Musically ). This follows the NFL’s recently-announced partnerships with social platforms TikTok, Reddit, Facebook and YouTube.

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Creators versus distributors: What happens when brands can no longer rely on their content?

Hanna Kahlert

4 Nov 2019

monetisation Strategy Business Strategy

At the risk of sounding like a broken record, technology is completely altering the relationship between ‘creators’ and distributors – and it is doing so in a way which is empowering the independent agency of creators, while leaving those companies that focus upon the distribution of their wor...

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Take Five (the big five stories and data you need to know) November 4th 2019

Mark Mulligan

4 Nov 2019

Take Five Business Strategy

Music manager shift: A new ‘Managing Expectations’ report from the MMF indicates the role of music managers is transforming. Headline: music managers are doing an ever wider and more complex range of tasks.

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How the D2C revolution might accelerate an impending recession

Tim Mulligan

30 Oct 2019

d2c Peak Attention peak attention economy

Recessions are notoriously difficult to accurately predict, and the next global recession is still hovering on the edge of reality. The macro-economic view is increasingly gloomy, with the ongoing Brexit process in Europe being exacerbated by increasingly fraught trade disputes between the US and Ch...

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Spotify podcasts Q3 2019: Solid start

Mark Mulligan

29 Oct 2019

Media podcast market Podcasts

Word count is always a useful guide for how important something is to a company’s ambitions. It is therefore no small detail that Spotify’s Q3 2019 earnings release mentioned the word ‘podcast’ thirteen times.

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Netflix launches mobile-only plan in Malaysia

Amanda Stears

29 Oct 2019

AVOD Malaysia Media

Netflix unveiled its RM17 ($4) mobile-only subscription plan for Malaysia last week on October 24th. The official announcement marks the end of Netflix’s test launch since end of last year, trialling a cheaper mobile-only plan against its basic subscription price of RM33 ($8).

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Consumers spend 4.5 hours per day on digital entertainment

Dara Jegede

28 Oct 2019

Peak Attention Audience Insight Cultural trends

The average consumer now spends an estimated 30.73 hours per week on digital entertainment. This works out to approximately 4.5 hours per day. Allocating eight hours of work and seven hours of sleep, consumers then have about 4.

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Take Five (the big five stories and data you need to know) October 28th 2019

Mark Mulligan

28 Oct 2019

Take Five Business Strategy

SiriusXM, podcast marvel: SiriusXM has struck a multiyear deal with Marvel to create exclusive podcasts , illustrating that traditional radio companies still have the potential to be the major players in podcasts.

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