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Threats and Opportunities for the Entertainment Industry in 2014
At the start of a new year, what to make of the entertainment sector? It depends where you look. One thing is for certain though; at the close of 2013 that old laggard the music industry upstaged its...
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TV’s bloody disruptions
Last night, Zeitgeist eagerly devoured the first episode of the new season of Netflix‘s House of Cards, a series that has received lavish praise – not least from us – both for its content and its...
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Adjacencies & Disruptions – Amazon, Armani and identifying corollaries
Zeitgeist likes thinking about adjacencies. We’ve written about it before when looking at the art market, but it’s also prevalent in other industry sectors. Think of the UK übergrocer Tesco. The...
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TMT Trends 2015 – Star Wars, Tech Wars & Talent Wars
Our most popular article this year by far was a piece we wrote on trends in the media and entertainment industry for the coming twelve months. That nothing has been written since January that has...
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(R)evolutions in television and film – Peter Pan and The Player
What goes around, comes around… Plus ça change, plus c’est la même chose… TV executives’ concern over changing viewing habits is nothing new. Sports coverage continues to deliver; it’s such thinking...
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Too much content, too many channels, too little time?
We all seem to have less time to ourselves these days. But there seems to be more to watch – on more platforms – than ever before. What trends have led to this, and what’s the result? Much editorial...
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When does Microsoft stop being Microsoft?
An astounding twenty years ago, my father bought Bill Gates’ book, “The Road Ahead”. A business book barely interested me at that age, but it came with a CD-ROM (contents above) that showed an...
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Media Trends 2016
The most enjoyable pieces we pen for this blog are our looks ahead to TMT trends in the next year (they also, coincidentally, happen to be our most popular articles). Do check out our 2015 and 2014...
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Media & Tech firms on corporate governance and shareholder responsibility
In this post we’ll be looking at a variety of firms in the media and tech sector as we examine how their vision impacts on the broader economy. Short-termism and misdirection (Amazon and legacy...
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Mischief, managed – digital disruptors in need of legacy structures
“Move fast and break things”. That is the motto of Facebook, and unofficially many of its contemporaries. While much of the most visible impact of new digital organisations has been on how they respond...
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