Posted on 16th December, 2019 by Zach Fuller in Amazon, Apple, Big Tech, Facebook, Facebook Music, Financial Institutions, Live Music, Music, Music Finance, Music Industry and The Four
With Hipgnosis continuing to acquire copyright, coupled with Warner Music Group and Providence Equity’s announcement of Tempo Music Investments, the finance industry’s interest in the recorded music business continues to…
Read morePosted on 16th December, 2019 by Tim Mulligan in D2C, Direct-to-consumer, Pay Tv, Paytv, Streaming and Video
It was a long time in coming, but what was always on the horizon has now become a reality as subscription video on demand (SVOD) has finally supplanted pay-TV to…
Read morePosted on 13th December, 2019 by Mark Mulligan in Economic Cycles, Economic Downturn, Financial Cycle, Global Recession, Impact Of Recession On Media Spend, Recession and Recession Impact
Ten years on from the credit crunch, the global economy could be poised to enter another recession. Many of the underlying causes of the credit crunch remain in place, due…
Read morePosted on 12th December, 2019 by Amanda Stears in 21CF, 21st Century Fox, Ad-free, Amazon Prime Video, Avod, Disney, Hotstar, Hotstar VIP, ICC Cricket World Cup, India Watch Report 2019, IPL, Netflix and Star Sports
Yesterday Indian streaming service Hotstar published its 2019 India Watch Report. Hotstar (a fully-owned Disney subsidiary since the 21CF acquisition by Disney back in March of this year) now boldly…
Read morePosted on 11th December, 2019 by Keith Jopling
At Spotify’s last quarterly reporting session, CEO Daniel Ek talked about the company’s creator strategy, as part of the wider development of becoming a “2-sided marketplace”: “The strategy has been…
Read morePosted on 10th December, 2019 by Karol Severin in Cross-entertainment Strategy, Cross-format Entertainment, Cross-platform Entertainment, Disney, Entertainment, Fortnite, Games, Skywalker and Star Wars
It has been revealed that Disney will soon be premiering a scene from its upcoming The Rise of Skywalker film. What makes this a truly newsworthy story is that the…
Read morePosted on 9th December, 2019 by Mark Mulligan in A-pop, Ad Agencies, EPL, Gameloft, Games, Manchester City, Marathonbet, Saatchi And Saatchi, UMG and Universal Music
Go east: Universal Music launched Red Records, an Asian repertoire joint venture label with AirAsia Group.With Western repertoire accounting for around only a third of all streams in Asian markets, UMG needs…
Read morePosted on 9th December, 2019 by Tim Mulligan in Comcast, D2C, Digital Peacocking and Peacock
On January 16th 2020, Comcast will be holding an investor day meeting to provide further clarity around Peacock – its forthcoming ad-supported direct to consumer (D2C) video streaming service. The…
Read morePosted on 9th December, 2019 by Zach Fuller in Attention Economy, Blockchain, Media, Media Economics, Micropayments, Music Streaming, Peak Attention, Post-peak Attention and Video Streaming
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…
Read morePosted on 6th December, 2019 by Tim Mulligan in Baby Yoda, Disney, Midia Index, Netflix, Star Wars, Streaming Video, The Mandalorian, The Mandalorian Ratings and Wikipedia
With 10 million sign ups in its first day, there is no doubt that Disney+ has tapped strong latent demand in what is already a highly saturated US streaming video market.…
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