Business Strategy

Gamer consumer deep dive Q3 2021

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Karol Severin
This report presents a deep dive into gamers across five areas: Gamer segments Console owners Services and apps Games behaviours Entertainment behaviours Including more than fifty slides of data and analysis, as well as detailed Excel files, the topics covered include: mobile gamers, console gamers, computer gamers, Xbox, PlayStation, Nintendo, Discord, YouTube, Twitch, Stadia, Arcade, games videos, gamer overlaps, gamer demographics, games genres, games titles, in-games spending, NFTs, cross-entertainment behaviours, and much more.
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What BandLab and Bruce Springsteen tell us about the music business at the end of 2021

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Mark Mulligan
2021 was another year in which capital continued to flow into the music business at pace. Two deals that got over the line before year end have shone an interesting light on the differing strategies that are underpinning this investment: Bruce Springsteen sold his catalogue to Sony Music for between $500-550 million ,while BandLab raised $53 million against a valuation of $303 million.
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Why DAZN needs to use its new LaLiga rights to invest in global sports fandom

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Tim Mulligan
Yesterday saw OTT sports service DAZN announce that it had been awarded the local broadcast rights to LaLiga matches over the next five seasons, from 2022 to 2027. The deal, which is worth €4.95 billion over the five-year period, has been jointly secured with Spanish pay-TV operator Movistar (which has carried the DAZN linear channels since January 2021).
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Music market shares: independent labels and artists are even bigger than you thought

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Mark Mulligan
It has been a long time since the music industry has been in such good shape. So long, in fact, that there are not too many executives left who worked through the pre-crash days. 2021 was the year in which the major label groups capitalised on the momentum, with Universal and Warner going public, and Sony going on a spending spree.
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Why Amazon is now poised to disrupt the Indian sports broadcast landscape

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Srishti Das
The 2023-2028 Indian Premier League (IPL) broadcast rights auction in December has created intense activity in the Indian video streaming space, as incumbent holder Star India (now a Disney subsidiary) faces competition from an unlikely nascent content distribution partnership between Amazon and Sony Picture Networks India (SPN).
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