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Top Analysts Totally Disagree On The Future Of Spotify
Hypebot reports: "Is Spotify on a path to become the "dominant player" in streaming or one that lacks a path to profitability and "little...
Social Media, Vanity Metrics, and The Push For Quality Over Quantity
VentureBeat reports: "To say that social media is not in the best of places at the moment would be something of an understatement. Trolling,...
Tim Goodman: What If WarnerMedia Got a Redo on the HBO...
Hollywood Reporter reports: "The upcoming streaming service is still confusing. What's on it? How much does it cost? It didn't have to be this...
Quibi Can Succeed Even After It Fails
Forbes reports: "A few weeks ago, the launch date of a new digital streaming platform was announced. Coming early in the second quarter of...
As the Lines Between Film and TV Blur, the Academies Should...
Hollywood Reporter reports: "The barriers that separate the two art forms are coming down, so the barriers that separate their most high-profile institutions must...
Will ‘Digital Linear’ Be The Foundation Of Connected TV?
Forbes reports: "In a bit of digital man bites digital dog story, it turns out that in the all-digital connected TV world, “digital linear”...
Why the Music Industry Is Betting on Biopics and Documentaries For...
Billboard reports: "A few weeks before the November 2018 release of Bohemian Rhapsody, Brian Monaco, president/global chief marketing officer at Sony Music/ATV Music Publishing, sat...
Facebook co-founder calls for breakup of the social network
The Verge reports: "In an op-ed written in The New York Times, one of Facebook’s co-founders has called for the social network to be broken up....
Why Video Game Industry Pushes Cloud-Based Gaming
Variety reports: "Playing video games used to be simple. You bought, borrowed, or rented a cartridge, gave it a good blow to “get the...
Epic Vs. Steam: The Console War Reimagined on the PC
The Verge reports: "There’s a war brewing in the video game industry, and it’s getting uglier by the day. Steam, the longtime leading digital distributor...