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Lockdown & Dragons: Fantasy proves the fandom effect

Hanna Kahlert

8 Apr 2021

With vaccine rollouts gaining momentum, the post-COVID attention crunch is looming large for the digital entertainment propositions which have all experienced booms over lockdown. The competition is on – making it more essential than ever to understand the trends behind shifting consumer behaviour...

Is sci-fi about to have its Game of Thrones moment?

Tim Mulligan

11 Feb 2021

Streaming Television SVOD

We are only just into the second month of 2021, and already the TV engagement landscape environment is starting to transform into something distinctly different from 2020. The sci-fi genre, long seen as a category with niche TV appeal (in much the same way fantasy was up until 2010), has suddenly co...

Netflix bewitches the internet

Tim Mulligan

9 Jan 2020

fanbases fantasy Game of Thrones

Netflix, the current subscription video on demand (SVOD) global leader, has topped Wikipedia searches for the second week of 2020 with its new fantasy scripted drama original, The Witcher . The show is based upon a story universe created by Polish author Andrzej Sapkowski, which originated in novel ...