Posted on 28th March, 2019 by Mark Mulligan in Amazon, Amazon Prime, Apple, Apple Arcade, Apple Content Revenue, Apple Music, Apple Services Revenue, Apple Subscriptions, Apple Tv and TV
On Tuesday Apple announced its arrival on the world stage as a media company, using the lion’s share of its product keynote as the platform for a succession of super…
Read morePosted on 28th March, 2019 by Zach Fuller in Avl, Cd Baby Music Distribution and Downtown
When Spotify announced that it was going to launch direct distribution on its platform, it was clear the various digital distributors that emerged in the post-Napster wave of online music…
Read morePosted on 26th March, 2019 by Karol Severin in Apple Arcade, Arcade, Attention Economy, Freemium, Games, Games Subscriptions, Gaming and Mobile Gaming
Apple has announced that it will launch a games subscription service called Arcade. For a monthly payment (price point to be determined), the service will feature over 100 original games…
Read morePosted on 26th March, 2019 by Mark Mulligan in Latin America, Latin Music, Latin Music Videos, Music Video, Ozuna, Vevo, Youtube, Youtube Music Stars and Youtube One Billion Views
Throughout 2018, while locked in a bitter war of words with rightsholders and creators over Article 13, YouTube quietly but dramatically expanded its role as the most powerful platform for…
Read morePosted on 25th March, 2019 by Tim Mulligan in Apple, Apple Tv and Apple Video
Apple today announced the launch of its much anticipated video service, Apple TV+, at its #AppleEvent in Cupertino, California. It has been a long time in the making for a combination…
Read morePosted on 22nd March, 2019 by Zach Fuller in AI, Artificial Intelligence and Music Industry
Discussions on AI and music continue to grip the music industry, with fears we stand on the precipice of a post-musician world, yet in many ways we have been here…
Read morePosted on 21st March, 2019 by Alistair Taylor in Ad-supported Model, BT Sport, Carriage Partnerships, Chinese Super League, Consumer Engagement, Disruptors, Eleven Sports, English Premier League, EPL, Eredivisie, Espn, IMG, ITV, La Liga, Mediapro, NFB, Premier Sports, Premium Sports Rights, Revenue Streams, Rights Tender, Serie A, Set Top Boxes, Sky, Sky Sports, Sports Rights Landscape, Subscriber Acquisitions, Subscription Video On Demand, Svod, Traditional Broadcasters, Virgin Media and Weekly Active Usage
Streaming service Eleven Sports will now have to table a new offer to maintain its UK La Liga rights, as Mediapro (the agency selling La Liga’s international rights) decides to…
Read morePosted on 21st March, 2019 by Georgia Meyer in Advertising Week, Advertising Week Europe, Aurelia Noel, Broadcast, Broadcast Advertising, Carat, Dallas Lawrence, Dave Castell, Engagement Metrics, Linear Tv, Pluto TV, Programmatic and Reach
Advertising Week Europe has – unsurprisingly – been brimming with discussions about OTT, programmatic and measurement. What is perhaps more surprising is the fact that OTT advertising is still framed…
Read morePosted on 21st March, 2019 by Mark Mulligan in Facebook, Facebook Messenger, Facebook Music, Instagram, Kugo, Kuwou, Messenger, Music Messaging Apps, Music Messenger Apps, Musically, Social Music, Social Music Apps, Soundcloud, Tencent, Tencent Music Entertainment, Tiktok, TME, Vertigo, Wesing and Youtube
Facebook recently secured licensing deals with music rightsholders in India, an important step in what has thus far been an underwhelming social music strategy since first inking rights deals in…
Read morePosted on 20th March, 2019 by Tim Mulligan in BBC, British TV, Global TV, PSB, Video and VOD
Yesterday the chairman of the British Broadcasting Corporation, David Clementi, gave a talk at the Oxford Media Convention which starkly addressed the reality which the world’s oldest and arguably most iconic public…
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