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Why Kanye West is the modern-day Prince

Mark Mulligan

18 Sep 2020

Music

Not ‘prince’ in the Machiavelliansense of the term – though there is an argument for that too – but as in the artist formerly known as. Back in 1992, Prince fought his label Warner Bros to get ownership of his rights and more creative control, struggling to get out of a deal he signed when h...

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Quick Take: PS5 pricing unveiled – an important milestone in its cross-entertainment future

Karol Severin

17 Sep 2020

Sony’s PS5 Showcase event unveiled a number of upcoming titles and pricing for its upcoming console. At $499 and $399 it confirmed expectations. The top range is the same as Xbox Series X, with the PS5 disc-less version being $100 more expensive.

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Creating the digital home of hockey - SportsPro Live panel

Alistair Taylor

17 Sep 2020

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Yesterday at SportsPro Live, I had the pleasure of moderating a panel discussing the creation of the digital home of hockey with Thierry Weil, International Hockey Federation (FIH)’s CEO and Jean-Luc Jezouin, SVP, Business Development at Nagra .

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Verizon Media announces platform to ‘evolve’ live streaming experience

Alistair Taylor

16 Sep 2020

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Verizon Media announced a series of new Media Platform improvements in a press release today (16th September), intended to ‘evolve the live streaming experience’. These features are all aimed at increasing fan engagement following COVID-19’s detrimental impact on the overall viewing spectacle ...

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Quick Take: Apple One – Recession Buster

Mark Mulligan

15 Sep 2020

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Apple officially announced its long anticipated all-in-one content bundle: Apple One. $14.95 gets you Apple Music, Arcade, Apple TV+ and 50GB of iCloud storage. A family plan retails at $19.95 and a premier plan includes 1TB storage, News and Apple’s new Fitness+ service.

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Mulan – a tale of international compromise leaving no one satisfied

Tim Mulligan

14 Sep 2020

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A year unlike any other continues to throw curveballs at media companies with strong digital and international footprints. The live-action remake of the popular 90’s Disney animation Mulan has been 10 years in the making.

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DAZN financials: Growth reliant on premium domestic rights

Alistair Taylor

14 Sep 2020

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DAZN’s 2018 financials highlighted the difficulty of encouraging a transition to consume live sports digitally with its existing portfolio of rights. DAZN has not yet released its 2019 financials, but MIDiA has constructed a robust and accurate subscriber and revenue model for the sport-centric st...

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Zombies and vaporwave: Consumer vibes in 2020

Hanna Kahlert

12 Sep 2020

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News has become culturally vital in 2020. In a year of global health, social and economic disruption, it now possesses a relevant edge to compete vigorously for consumer attention in a saturated content marketplace.

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Why the struggle of small venues will affect the entire music industry

Mark Mulligan

11 Sep 2020

Prior to the dislocation caused by the pandemic, live music operated with a structure that gave artists a clear sense of where they were in their careers and where they could aim for next. Small clubs represented the starting point, before moving up a ladder of venue sizes to theatres, arenas and st...

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Take part in MIDiA’s electronic music producer survey!

Mark Mulligan

10 Sep 2020

MIDiA is currently fielding a survey aimed at electronic music producers. It takes about ten minutes to complete and there is a $/€/£50 voucher for every tenth participant. We will also send you a synopsis of the results.

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Jack Ryan and the trinity of awareness, viewing, and fandom

Tim Mulligan

10 Sep 2020

In a locked-down world now dominated by home entertainment, the traditional video streaming subscription giants Netflix and Amazon are up against direct-to-consumer (D2C) entrants Disney+, Apple TV+, HBO Max and Peacock domestically.

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Clash of brands: Should Microsoft and Walmart purchase US TikTok?

Hanna Kahlert

7 Sep 2020

In the wake of US President Trump’s announced impending ban on TikTok parent company ByteDance, the future of the app – and its 100 million US active users – has been the subject of high-stakes speculation.

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Where did Disney and Live Nation’s missing $10 billion go?

Mark Mulligan

4 Sep 2020

In both economic and pandemic terms, we are in a relatively quiet period compared to the first half of the year. COVID-19 is at much lower levels in most countries and there are multiple sectors, such as housing and auto, that are reporting booms.

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Is it time for the music industry to rethink how it wants to participate in the gaming opportunity?

Karol Severin

4 Sep 2020

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Music consumption, particularly in the West, is commoditised. Transforming from the economies of ownership to access and the removal of production and distribution barriers led to the devaluation of, not necessarily ‘the song’, but of ‘ listening to a song’ .

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Is HBO Max about to disrupt Netflix domestically with relevant scripted drama?

Tim Mulligan

3 Sep 2020

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When Warner Media executives commissioned the retro gothic horror original Lovecraft Country for its new flagship streaming service HBO Max, they could not have imagined just how on message the show would prove to be.

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Wanda Sports Group’s financials highlight long-term impact of live hiatus

Alistair Taylor

3 Sep 2020

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Wanda Sports Group’s (WSG) Q2 financials highlight a significant decline in revenues on account of “the broad effects of COVID-19 mitigation efforts”. WSG reported a second successive quarter of decreasing revenues , following its disappointing Q1 results which saw a 26% year-on-year (YoY) dec...

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Does Apple and augmented reality equal Apple TV+ 2.0?

Tim Mulligan

28 Aug 2020

Bloomberg announced on Wednesday that Apple is planning to integrate augmented reality (AR) into its video subscription service Apple TV+.The new feature will debut next year and allow viewers to access optional AR content – such as characters and objects from Apple TV+ shows – through their iPh...

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Who will own the virtual concert space?

Mark Mulligan

28 Aug 2020

2020 will go down as a rough year for many artists, largely because of the income they lost when live ground to a halt. Unfortunately, the live music sector is still going to be disrupted in 2021 and it may take even longer for the sector to return to ‘normal’.

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Can LiveScore learn valuable lessons from Eleven Sports’ UK failings?

Alistair Taylor

24 Aug 2020

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Streaming insurgent LiveScore launched its first ever over-the-top (OTT), ad-supported direct-to-consumer (D2C) streaming proposition in the UK back in June, harbouring a similar rights portfolio to that of Eleven Sports’ failed proposition back in 2018 .

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The post-peak Twilight Zone: A defining cultural trend of uncertainty

Hanna Kahlert

24 Aug 2020

It has been eight months since the onset of the global coronavirus pandemic which has created an unprecedented global socio-economic crisis. As Wuhan residents are beginning to attend music festivals once more and UK consumers are incentivised to uplift their local restaurants with the “eat out to...

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