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Podcast monetisation and remuneration
Balancing creator and platform needs

Annie Langston

August 2022

Creators

Apple

Spotify

Audio platforms traditionally monetise through advertising and, to a lesser degree, listener subscriptions. However, with the rise of the creator economy and more creators entering the podcast space, platforms must bulk up their offerings for creator monetisation as well.

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Music catalogue acquisition
Picking apart the $5 billion competition for icons

Kriss Thakrar and Tatiana Cirisano

March 2022

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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Sports Consumption
Measuring COVID-19’s Impact

Alistair Taylor

July 2020

Apple

Discovery

Amazon

With the pandemic-enforced postponement of live sports creating an entertainment void for sports fans, understanding COVID-19’s impact on overall sports consumption and where audiences are substituting their finite attention is paramount for sports distributors and rights holders.

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Tencent Tech Investment
Pursuing Aggressive Growth in the West

Alistair Taylor

May 2018

Streaming

Spotify

revenue

Tencent, currently the fifth most valuable public company in the world, saw income from ‘other gains’ increase in Q4 2017 by 800% on Q4 2016 figures, going $149.6 million to $1.2 billion. These other gains comprised one-off gains from IPOs, tax rebates and investment subsidies.

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Tencent Has Outgrown China
Now Comes The Next Phase of Growth

Alistair Taylor

April 2018

Streaming

Spotify

Amazon

Following the release of its fourth quarter earnings, Tencent is the first Chinese company to achieve a market capitalisation of over $500 billion, displacing Facebook as fifth most valuable global company. This growth has been highlighted by the 54% year-on-year (YoY) increase in revenue from $22.

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