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Trump versus TikTok: The future of the social video app… and US media-tech dominance

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Hanna Kahlert

10 Aug 2020

Media and Marketing

The Trump administration’s executive order to effectively ban Bytedance – and therefore the now hugely popular TikTok, as well as a ‘cease and desist’ on transactions with Tencent’s WeChat, with a more immediate impact on the broader entertainment industry , came down with surprising swift...

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Just what is Tencent’s Endgame?

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Mark Mulligan

16 Jun 2020

Tencent’s combined $200 million investment in WMG follows on the heels of its $3.6 billion joint investment in Universal Music. It is hardly Tencent’s first investments in music, having spent $6.2 billion on music investments since 2016.

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To be Silent is to be Complicit – On Which Side of History Will the NFL be Remembered?

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Alistair Taylor

3 Jun 2020

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Yesterday, social media went silent as it observed #BlackOutTuesday . Following George Floyd’s killing by a Minneapolis police officer, athletes and teams have all spoken up in solidarity, demanding justice and change for a system that disproportionately impacts the black population in the United ...

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

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Alistair Taylor

21 May 2020

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 to look like in the coming months.

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Does Virgin Media Plus O2 Equal A New UK Communications Major?

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Tim Mulligan

6 May 2020

Liberty Global which is the parent company of Virgin Media, is in talks with Telefonica subsidiary O2 about combining the two businesses together to create a new UK challenger to BT. Virgin Media is the second largest pay-TV operator in the UK with four million video subscribers and 5.

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Post-Peak Attention and the Case for Micropayments

Zach Fuller

9 Dec 2019

Success in new business paradigms involves wasting what is abundant to capture what is scarce. The Industrial Revolution did this by taking advantage of technologies that used the finite resource of human physical labour (steam, electricity) and made it considerably more efficient, allowing for bigg...

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The Imitation Game: Why First-Mover Advantage Could Lose its Allure in Tech Strategy

Zach Fuller

25 Nov 2019

Media and Marketing

‘Originality is nothing but judicious imitation’ - Voltaire ‘Good artists copy;great artists steal’ – Steve Jobs Being the first is overrated when it means you can instantly be copied. The ‘time profit’ strategy is one of the most widely utilised models in tech-centric business.

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Infostructure and the Barriers to Innovation

Zach Fuller

15 Nov 2019

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...

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Disney FY 2019 Results – The Final Sanity Check Before Everything Changes

Tim Mulligan

8 Nov 2019

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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The Houston Rockets, Hong Kong and the Dangers of Mixing Politics With Profit

Hanna Kahlert

22 Oct 2019

Colin Kaepernick

On 8 October, Houston Rockets general manager Daryl Morey tweeted support for the Hong Kong protests. The NBA had an exclusive partnership with Tencent to stream this season to an estimated 500 million fans in China, a market for which the business is estimated to be worth $4 billion to the NBA.

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Indonesia’s Gojek Rivals Netflix with New Streaming Service GoPlay

Amanda Stears

8 Oct 2019

Indonesia’s leading mobile payment platform and tech unicorn Gojek launched its video-on-demand (VOD) service on 26 September. This comes shortly after its extension into the gaming industry with its gaming platform GoGames.

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Is Apple Preparing for Its First Oscar?

Tim Mulligan

3 Oct 2019

Last week’s story that Apple is getting into the movie business to bolster its premium video positioning – if officially confirmed – would follow on the well-trodden path established by the current direct-to-consumer (D2C) leaders: Netflix and Amazon.

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Prosus – The Prometheus Rising of the Tech Major Era

Tim Mulligan

17 Sep 2019

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Johannesburg Stock Exchange

Post-war western alternative culture was distilled in Robert Anton Wilson’s cult classic Prometheus Rising . First published in 1983, it was considered a guidebook of “how to get from here to there” and described by its author as an “owner’s manual for the human brain”.

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What the Recorded Music Industry Can Learn from the Whaling Industry of the 19th Century

Zach Fuller

15 Sep 2019

A high-risk industry with large upfront costs and no guarantee of return. No, this is not the recorded music industry, nor is it venture capital (VC) – this is the whaling industry of the 19th century.

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Arcade Plays To Apple’s Strengths and Everyone Else’s Weaknesses

Karol Severin

11 Sep 2019

downloadable games

As of yesterday, Apple has revealed more detail about its upcoming Arcade. For $4.99 per month, users will have the ability to download and play 100+ exclusive games across Apple devices. While Apple is positioned as a ‘download and play’ proposition, the reality is it will compete against games...

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The Rationale Behind Apple TV+’s Debut Pricing

Tim Mulligan

11 Sep 2019

Yesterday, (September 10th 2019), Apple announced both a launch date and new pricing for its video subscription service Apple TV+. This follows on from the March Showtime event where Apple rolled out the Apple TV+ brand and the big names it has engaged to build out a premium video content offering.

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Songwriters Aren’t Getting Paid Enough and Here’s Why

Mark Mulligan

10 Sep 2019

Music Business Worldwide recently ran a story on how Apple has proposed a standard streaming rate for songwriters, with Google and Spotify apparently resistant. Of course, Apple can afford to run Apple Music at a loss and has a strategic imperative for making it more difficult for Spotify to be prof...

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Streaming in Southeast Asia: Challenges and Opportunities for International Competitors

Amanda Stears

10 Sep 2019

With a combined population of 371.7 million and a combined GDP of $2.9 trillion, Thailand, Malaysia and Indonesia represent sizeable and fast-growing markets for streaming services. The largest players by subscriptions are Netflix, iflix and Viu, with each competing and differentiating through their...

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How Technology Is Radically Reshaping Politics

Mark Mulligan

6 Sep 2019

alternative facts

As I write this, the UK is in the midst of a potential constitutional crisis following the UK government’s proposed changes to political norms in order to push through Brexit. In some ways this is what you get when a country only has a part-written constitution and never quite got round to phasing...

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Does Disney+ Make Disney Recession-Proof?

Tim Mulligan

5 Sep 2019

Media and Marketing

The storm clouds of recession continue to spread across the world. In the US, the inversion of the treasury bond yield which occurred in March of this year has meant that financial asset allocators are now prepared to pay more for less as they bid up the price of long-term government debt issuance.

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