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How COVID-19 Will Affect the Media Industries

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Mark Mulligan

23 Mar 2020

coronavirus impact

coronavirus impact on media

The spread of COVID-19, and the responses of industry and governments alike, is unprecedented. It is, however, the restrictions on movement of people along with the response of consumers and investors that is causing the biggest disruption and will have the most impact on entertainment businesses.

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Kingdom: Global events correlate with show awareness

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Hanna Kahlert

19 Mar 2020

From George Romero’s 1968 Night of the Living Dead to the more recent Walking Dead , zombies have been a cultural zeitgeist metaphorically teasing at our inner fears about humanity at large for decades.

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Why Games Could Benefit from Coronavirus

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Karol Severin

17 Mar 2020

Yes, it’s another coronavirus-related one, but this time hopefully a more cheerful story than what we’ve been reading and hearing over the last few weeks – at least for gamers and the games industry.

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How Coronavirus Will Affect the Entertainment Industries

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Mark Mulligan

12 Mar 2020

coronavirus going out

coronavirus recession

The coronavirus is a global pandemic . Regardless of what its actual infection and mortality rates might be, it is already having seismic impacts on stock markets and consumer behaviour – the result of which might be to tip the global economy into recession.

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Marketplace pandemic: How will media companies fare in a recession?

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Hanna Kahlert

11 Mar 2020

With the 9th of March dubbed by market analysts as “Black Monday” after S&P and Nasdaq suffered the worst share falls since the 2008 financial crisis (via BBC ), seeing trading briefly suspended before resuming with all three major stock markets down over 6%, the market is clearly in a volatile place.

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Six Nations Behind a Paywall: Can Rugby Afford to Bench Free-To-Air?

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Alistair Taylor

6 Mar 2020

consumption habits

Six Nations organisers are reportedly considering awarding the exclusive distribution rights for its annual competition to pay-TV operator Sky, in an unprecedented £300 ($384) million deal. Organisers have said they ‘would not rule anything out’ as the Rugby Paper reported the championship would go behind a paywall on Sky .

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Apple TV+ bets on fandom

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Hanna Kahlert

24 Feb 2020

As the D2C streaming wars coalesce, it is worth zeroing in on some of the propositions in play by the various tech majors, which in turn highlight their respective strategies and may provide some insights into the direction content production will go in an already-saturated attention economy.

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The Age of the Creators

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Hanna Kahlert

17 Feb 2020

artist streaming income

Chart Of The Week

For the meek shall inherit the earth… Since early 2019, MIDiA has been publishing findings that we are moving progressively into a market dynamic in which creators are being empowered by technology to have greater direct control of their output, from conception to completion to monetisation.

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Tale of the Tape: UFC or Bundle Driving ESPN+ Adoption?

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Alistair Taylor

11 Feb 2020

Walt Disney’s pureplay sports streaming service ESPN+, which launched back in April 2018, has surpassed 7.6 million paid subscribers, Disney’s chief executive Bog Iger reported during last week’s earnings call .

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The Politics of Twitter: Brands, News, and Freedom of Speech

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Hanna Kahlert

10 Feb 2020

With the president of the United States being Donald Trump, whose proclivity for social media usage is renowned, it comes as no surprise that Twitter has a hearty presence in news reporting in 2020. The role of social media in our digital lives is profound, and the impact on news has turned truth into more of a product than a standard – as we covered in our media report last year.

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Keeping with the Times: Sports Plays Catch-Up with Younger Digital Audiences

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Alistair Taylor

27 Jan 2020

digital natives

Sports as a product is feeling the squeeze of the peak attention economy. Sports fans in the traditional sense are ageing, and appealing to a younger digitally-native audience is a fundamental issue that rights holders can no longer ignore.

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Peacock Goes for Gold

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Alistair Taylor

23 Jan 2020

On the 16 th of January , Comcast (owner of NBCUniversal) unveiled further details of its direct to consumer (D2C) proposition, Peacock. Peacock is set to debut on the 15 th of April exclusively for Comcast’s Xfinity X1 and Flex customers, before being rolled out nationally across the US on July 15 th .

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YouTube and the Fan Monetisation Model

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Hanna Kahlert

21 Jan 2020

Fan monetisation

How to describe YouTube? The now-15-year old video platform does not fit into a single box, but rather ticks all of them. Its positioning between consumer and business is a fascinating one, replicated in reach and capacity by no other platform.

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Just What Is a Podcast, Anyway?

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Mark Mulligan

17 Jan 2020

The podcast market – as with all media – is going through dramatic change, stretching the very meaning of what podcasts even are. To understand this fast-changing market, it is important to think outside of the constraints of traditional lenses as they can obscure the bigger picture.

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MIDiA’s Podcast Research – A Response

Mark Mulligan

15 Jan 2020

midia podcast data

midia podcast tracker

Last week we published a blog post highlighting some initial findings from our inaugural quarterly podcast tracking data. The results show Spotify in a leading position as a standalone platform, Apple Podcasts second and national broadcaster apps doing well.

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Spotify AND Apple Lead Podcasts – It’s All Down to How You Measure It

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Mark Mulligan

10 Jan 2020

midia podcast data

midia podcast tracker

The podcast platform data from MIDiA’s Q4 tracker is in. These are the high-level findings (you can read more about our methodology here ): Apple still leads overall: A recent report showed that Spotify has become the leading podcast platform in the US.

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The Meta Trends that Will Shape the 2020s

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Mark Mulligan

10 Jan 2020

2020 predictions

abundance paradox

attention saturation

CES, the big annual consumer tech show, is underway in Las Vegas. Unlike in most previous years, there has been little in the way of big new announcements. This is in large part because we are reaching a degree of maturity in the consumer landscape, with big new developments being replaced by smaller, sustaining innovations.

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‘If You Ain’t First, You’re Last’: Revenue-Over-Reach Argument Not Refuted for F1

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Alistair Taylor

9 Jan 2020

audience viewership

2019 audience figures for Formula One (F1) provide the latest example of a rights holder opting for short-term revenue optimisation over long-term strategic growth, to the detriment of its viewing audience.

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The Tech Major Ecosystem Wars Are Here with Aggressive, Loss-Led On-Boarding

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Hanna Kahlert

7 Jan 2020

Amazon Echo Dot

Soon we will probably all have home speakers, whether we like them or not. They are starting to appear almost out of the ether, much like the classic double-sized Sports Direct mugs everyone had in their student flats but no one remembered ever acquiring.

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Can BT Lay the Smackdown on Its Rivals?

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Alistair Taylor

3 Jan 2020

addressable audience

This Saturday at 1am GMT BT will debut its live broadcast for WWE Smackdown, having acquired the exclusive rights from long-term UK broadcaster Sky in June 2019 . This signalled the end of Sky’s tenure as the home of WWE content, which first began broadcasting wrestling coverage to fans back in the 1980s with WWF.

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