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Goodbye DVDs, hello streaming economics rationalisation

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Blog post by Tim Mulligan

4 Oct 2023

streeaming economics

Last Friday saw the end of 25 years of Netflix’s DVDs subscription business, drawing to a close the pre-streaming model of home entertainment for the largest international subscription video on demand...

Why YouTube should disrupt streaming TV’s love affair with TikTok

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Blog post by Ben Woods

28 Sep 2023

It has become a tried and tested tactic for streaming TV services: Take the exclusive show you want to promote, drop the first episode on social media for free, and hope it motivates audiences enough to...

How the creator allegations against Kast Media expose an outdated podcast metric

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Blog post by Annie Langston

28 Sep 2023

Podcast creator deals are due for a major wake up call. Podcast advertising is a cornerstone of the industry, as it largely funds minimum guarantees for creators. Minimum guarantees are a set amount of...

Regulatory decisions around AI will shape the future of digital ecosystems

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Blog post by Hanna Kahlert

27 Sep 2023

Looking back, the Francis Haugen testimony spelled a turning point for social platforms. It represents a moment where they, and tech more generally, went from being able to ‘build fast and break things’...

Why investing in IRL entertainment is so important for Disney’s streaming future

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Blog post by Tim Mulligan

26 Sep 2023

It appears that investors are losing confidence in Disney as the transition from linear TV to streaming TV moves into its final chapter. Last week, Disney saw its stock price fall after announcing that...

Why Netflix should become a channel distributor for its streaming rivals

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Blog post by Ben Woods

21 Sep 2023

Long-running legal drama Suits has become a bittersweet tale for NBCUniversal. The show that gave Meghan Markle her pre-royalty taste of stardom was already considered a commercial success after its final...

Murdoch versus Iger | Why Fox’s focus on live programming has a key role in streaming TV

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Blog post by Tim Mulligan

21 Sep 2023

Rupert Murdoch’s decision to step down as chairman of Fox News and Fox Corporation is the culminating act in a 70-year media career spanning print to TV. It comes four years after Murdoch clinched the...

Spotify’s ‘daylist’ is coming for radio… but radio still has some aces to play

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Blog post by Annie Langston

20 Sep 2023

As streaming platforms evolve, radio audiences are steadily declining. Although podcasts and streaming have seemingly replaced radio, there are key differences between the formats. For instance, radio’s...

Streaming’s problems will not be fixed by royalties alone

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Blog post by Mark Mulligan

15 Sep 2023

Streaming Music

Music Streaming

Streaming Royalties

UMG and Deezer’s artist-centric royalty proposal got the amount of attention both parties probably wanted , if not necessarily the type of attention they were after. However, the intent was to kick start...

Unity’s pricing is a symptom, not the cause of tougher times ahead for the games industry

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Blog post by Karol Severin

14 Sep 2023

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Earlier this week, Unity announced that from 2024 it will start charging developers for the number of downloads / installs of their games. Developers unsurprisingly threw their proverbial toys out of the...

Niche is the way forward: DSP’s need function, not features

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Blog post by Hanna Kahlert

14 Sep 2023

It has never been easier to become a music creator. But, it has arguably never been harder to remain one as a full-time career. There are a whole host of reasons behind this, not least of which is a streaming...

Cannibalisation is inevitable for YouTube as the attention economy bites

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Blog post by Ben Woods

13 Sep 2023

When YouTube launched Shorts in 2021, the social video platform was knowingly risking de-stabilising its core business. The rationale behind launching a short-form video offer was that the risk of not...

How Clubhouse missed its Twitter, erm X, Spaces opportunity

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Blog post by Annie Langston

13 Sep 2023

The gone and (almost) forgotten live audio app Clubhouse is trying for a revival. Clubhouse kicked off during the Covid-19 lockdowns, closing 2021 with a $4 billion valuation and inspiring major platforms,...

As Sam Ryder cuts to the chase, the question is do all artists become indie?

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Blog post by Keith Jopling

7 Sep 2023

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Like everyone, I have a basket of core artists I am a dedicated fan of. But there is a wider group of artists I follow and am always intrigued about, both musically and in terms of their career trajectory....

How to make artist centric artist centric

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Blog post by Mark Mulligan

6 Sep 2023

Streaming Royalties

Music Streaming

Music Royalties

Deezer and UMG announced a major (in both senses of the word) shake up of streaming music royalties. This is arguably the biggest streaming market development in years, as it will set the tone for market-wide...

The future of AI will orient around datasets… which will put the user in a front-and-centre blind spot

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Blog post by Hanna Kahlert

6 Sep 2023

The rise of generative AI has thrown the future of creators (of all industries) into question, with copyright being the key to how it all plays out. Models like ChatGPT have an input-output ‘black-box’...

BlackPink, superfans and the video game threat to social video and streaming TV

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Blog post by Ben Woods

1 Sep 2023

Being an entertainment fan in the modern era can be a disjointed experience. Take Star Wars . A fan of the long-standing sci-fi franchise must invest significant amounts of time and money across multiple...

AI, music rights, and known unknowns

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Blog post by Mark Mulligan

31 Aug 2023

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The music industry is approaching a tipping point, with the building blocks of what will be the post-streaming era beginning to fall into place.The streaming era will make way for something new. Innovation,...

How Apple Podcasts is helping spur a new era of podcast analytics

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Blog post by Annie Langston

30 Aug 2023

Podcast analytics have been more or less untouched since the format’s inception. The podcast investment boom was more about major platforms catching up with competitors by integrating traditional analytics,...

A new era of ‘fan-made’ music is about to begin

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Blog post by Kriss Thakrar

30 Aug 2023

Since MIDiA’s comments on TikTok’s music production ambitions more than two years ago, a lot has changed. Consumers have become bolder and more engaged in playing an active role in their music consumption....

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