Reports: Business Strategy

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The next challenge for esports
Striking the balance between creators and athletes

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Karol Severin and Samuel Griffin
Call of Duty
Business Strategy
Games industry
Esports organisations are past the initial ‘hype stage’. They are now in a phase where they need to make their business models work commercially. The ongoing adverse macroeconomic climate only exacerbates this. Sustainable long-term growth for esports organisations lies in the wider, gamer-related, entertainment culture – not just in the comp...
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Radio audiences
A window of opportunity

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Mark Mulligan, Keith Jopling, Tatiana Cirisano and Annie Langston
Streaming Music
Spotify
Radio
Streaming claimed radio’s younger, music-focused audiences while podcasts are now beginning to do the same for older, spoken-word audiences. However, it is not yet determined that the impact needs to be as disruptive for radio companies. With radio audience declines slowing, and even experiencing a modest rebound, a window of opportunity exists f...
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Content is king, distribution is queen but retention is revolutionary

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Tim Mulligan and Hanna Kahlert
Free Report
Video
Music
Games
Retention is the new cornerstone of subscription in an era of accelerating disruption. On the 22nd of September, 2022, at 4:30 pm BST, MIDiA's lead video analyst, Tim Mulligan, will be joined by Nada Arnot, SVP of Marketing at BritBox, Nii Mantse Addy, CMO and Head of Marketing at Philo, Nina Laricheva, CEO of Marquee TV, and Hanna Kahlert, Media a...
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Building a fan economy with Fan-Powered Royalties

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Kriss Thakrar, Tatiana Cirisano and Perry Gresham
Free Report
Creators
artist income
Streaming economics
Music streaming has helped the music industry return to growth over the past decade, but many creators feel left behind. The streaming economy has reached a point where the creator remuneration gap can no longer be ignored. It is no secret that many music artists are dissatisfied with the relationship between the consumption of their music on strea...
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The streaming retention revolution
Content is king, distribution is queen, but retention is revolutionary

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Tim Mulligan
smart tvs
SVOD
d2c
With video streaming transitioning into mainstream TV consumption, we have moved into the era of streaming TV. As a result, the early focus on gaining subscribers is making way for the rising challenge of retaining these newly acquired subscribers. Retention is the key metric of the emerging post-growth streaming, with the ratio of weekly active us...
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Music catalogue acquisition
Picking apart the $5 billion competition for icons

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Kriss Thakrar and Tatiana Cirisano
investment
Music streaming
music catalogue
A variety of economic factors and stock market volatility during the coronavirus pandemic helped establish music as an attractive asset class for institutional investors. With labels, publishers, institutional investors, and newly launched funds now competing for the same diminishing pool of evergreen catalogue, competition and prices are high.
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