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Creators are focusing on the wrong metrics. Here is why:

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Samuel Griffin

6 Feb 2023

For most creators, there is a demand for greater remuneration for their efforts. However, one key consideration is missing from this equation – platforms are also for-profit revenue generators. The growing demand by creators for greater remuneration is something of an uphill battle and as creators have been searching for multiple revenue streams, there has been a migration of content across platforms as a form of security and discoverability.

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Everyone hurts – the problem with ‘fixing’ streaming

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Mark Mulligan

6 Feb 2023

Streaming Royalties

Streaming economics

Streaming Music

Everyone hurts – the problem with ‘fixing’ streaming Apple’s Q4 2022 revenue fall was further illustration that the global economic environment is affecting everyone. During such times, companies look for ways to avoid the worst of the impacts, partially through ‘efficiencies’ but also through growth, by exploring new income streams and improving deal terms.

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Why the paid sharing push by Netflix is a sign of weakness

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Tim Mulligan

27 Jan 2023

InNetflix’s Q4 2022 earnings, the world’s pre-eminent subscription video on demand (SVOD) service painted a bullish picture of a company having navigated a difficult 2022. In its own words : “2022 was a tough year, with a bumpy start but a brighter finish.

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Why HBO Max being back on Amazon Prime highlights the growing risk of piracy

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Hanna Kahlert

8 Dec 2022

Warner Bros. Discovery and Amazon have announced that HBO Max will become available on Prime Video channels in the US, with users able to subscribe through the Amazon platform. HBO Max was previously withdrawn from Amazon Channels in 2021 due to a dispute over data sharing (Amazon Channels provides less user data than an equivalent Fire TV app would do for Warner Bros.

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Artists and managers: Help shape the future of artist services

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Kriss Thakrar

7 Nov 2022

Independent artists

It has arguably never been harder for artists to break through on social media, streaming, and in the real world. We repeatedly hear how artists and their teams are overextended, burned out and overwhelmed by the demands of the modern music industry.

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Podcast creators: Your chance to help shape the future of streaming services

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Annie Langston

26 Oct 2022

Podcasts have earned new attention and investment in the entertainment market and are becoming increasingly integrated into major streaming platforms. As podcasts battle for listeners amid the attention recession and help fuel the creator economy, podcast creators are navigating uncharted territory.

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User-centric versus feature-centric: the future of social platforms

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Hanna Kahlert

12 Oct 2022

attention inflation

TikTok shook the social world two years ago by introducing its classic user-generated content (UGC) video feed and a suite of creator tools, thereby becoming a runaway success. Since then, innovation has slowed.

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WMG is moving beyond superstars – and that is a good thing

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Mark Mulligan

16 Sep 2022

fragmented fandom

Warner Music Group’s ( WMG’s) Steve Cooper recently stated that the major is no longer financially dependent on superstars – which is, of course, quite a different thing from not being culturally dependent on them, but we’ll get to that.

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Winter is coming, and Amazon is ready: why the multi-service major is raising its prices

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Hanna Kahlert

27 Jul 2022

cost-of-living crisis

Subscription fatigue is already threatening the Covid-driven entertainment boom as post-pandemic behaviours compete for time, money, and attention with the digital subscriptions that thrived under lockdown measures.

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Are we headed towards subscription fatigue?

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Hanna Kahlert

21 Jul 2022

When streaming first made headway in the entertainment world, it shifted the very dynamic of consumption. Ownership became a status symbol of yester-year; access to everything, at all times , was the new value driver.

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Music streaming is failing to foster cultural moments – but it does not have to

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Hanna Kahlert

29 Jun 2022

Listening to music is, and has always been, an intrinsically emotional experience. Music does not appeal to rational dialogue or scientific evidence; it directly evokes the feelings beneath. It can be sought after by the listener to evoke an expected response – to be uplifted, calmed, or comforted.

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Roku and Walmart are bringing shoppable ads to TV

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Richard Broadhurst

27 Jun 2022

Roku and Walmart are bringing shoppable ads to TV Roku and Walmart have announced a partnership that will merge e-commerce with TV streaming. Shoppable adds will appear on Roku TV (now the leading smart TV sold in the US).

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The Kate Bush resurgence shows that music consumption has no time stamp

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Keith Jopling

13 Jun 2022

There are not many good news stories at the moment. It has brightened up my summer a little, though, to see music legend Kate Bush (or ‘our Kate’ if you happen to be British) acknowledge that her song, ‘Running Up That Hill’ , has been “given a whole new lease of life” thanks to the recent sync on the Netflix series Stranger Things.

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Burning out and fading away: the exhausting job of marketing new music

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Keith Jopling

31 May 2022

The recent protests by music artists about the pressures of keeping up a constant presence on social media are disconcerting in an age when many artists are struggling with mental health issues and wellbeing.

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Why games could be the winning entertainment sector as disposable income tightens

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Karol Severin

28 Apr 2022

attention recession

Inflation, as well as macroeconomic and geopolitical developments (from Brexit, through chasing Covid-induced debt, right up to Russia’s invasion of Ukraine) will likely drive disposable income (and therefore entertainment spending) down in the near future.

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Forget peak Netflix, this is the attention recession

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Mark Mulligan

20 Apr 2022

peak attention economy

Attention economy

Forget peak Netflix, this is the attention recession Netflix’s Q1 2022 results caused a stir, with subscriber numbers down by 0.2 million from one quarter earlier. Some are calling this ‘peak Netflix’, but this is not a Netflix-specific issue.

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Warner Bros. Discovery is real – now comes the hard part

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Tim Mulligan

12 Apr 2022

Warner Bros. Discovery

On Friday, Discovery, Inc . and AT&T Inc . announced that they have concluded their transaction to combine the WarnerMedia business with Discovery. This combination finally completes a process that began last May and creates a new major standalone global media and entertainment company, Warner Bros.

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The future of music consumption is (re)creation

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Kriss Thakrar

4 Apr 2022

Creator economy

The music industry has grown at a record rate , led by streaming and boosted by an influx of an increasingly relevant revenue source: non-DSP streaming (via platforms such as TikTok and Twitch). This growth is an indicator of a major shift in music that will define it going forward, both culturally and as a business.

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The metaverse hype will need to account for screen fatigue in an increasingly digital world

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Hanna Kahlert

24 Mar 2022

Media and Marketing

Cultural trends

The last two years have completely reoriented the dynamic between digital-first and in-person life. Digital entertainment has boomed under successive lockdowns, streaming has dominated consumption formats, and creation has been shifted from big studios to at-home DIY – in music, video, art, and even games.

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Spotify’s Car Thing has radio listening in its sights

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Annie Langston

10 Mar 2022

The adoption of streaming into our audio experiences has created an industry-disrupting practice that broke away from physical forms of consumption. The hardware we once relied on has been seamlessly replaced by streaming platforms.

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