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Lessons from Netflix and Twitter’s live streaming fails
Live streaming at scale is hard. What to do when it all goes Pete Tong?
May 25
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How will generative AI impact the creative industries?
Some early predictions
May 5
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April 2023
Why we’re unlikely to see a Western superapp anytime soon
In the run up to his purchase of Twitter last October, Elon Musk tweeted that buying it would be “an accelerant to creating X, the everything app…
Apr 13
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March 2023
Some thoughts on the way forward for the BBC on impartiality
Impartiality is a practice, perceived bias is inevitable and viewpoints should be treated equitably not equally
Mar 16
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All the World’s a Feed
Some thoughts on Spotify’s new vertical scroll Home feeds
Mar 13
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Disney Dollars: What’s Generating Profit in the House of Mouse?
A conversation about Disney yesterday reminded me of the below gem of an illustration. Drawn in 1957, it shows just how far ahead of the game Disney…
Mar 1
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February 2023
The UK SVOD race 2014-2022
Another week, another bar chart race. This one prompted by Barb’s release of its Establishment Survey data for Q4 2022, which includes UK uptake of SVOD…
Feb 23
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Charting the UK’s Most Popular Radio Stations 2013-2022
The publication of Q4 2022’s RAJAR results a couple of weeks ago, expertly analysed (as always) by Adam Bowie and Matt Deegan, but devoid of any big…
Feb 17
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Map of the Internet 2023
I was after a simple visualisation of the most popular online properties (websites *and* apps), showing their relative reach. I couldn’t find one. So I…
Feb 2
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January 2023
Beware the trend line
Trends are seductive. Not just the fashion kind, but the line-going-up-or-down kind too. We see a line on a chart going up or down and we tend to a…
Jan 25
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10 Media Predictions for 2023
“Trying to predict the future is like trying to drive down a country road at night with no lights while looking out the back window.” An evocative…
Jan 10
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November 2022
Reincentivising interconnectness
How ad-supported social platforms have taken the web out of the World Wide Web (and reasons to believe it might return)
Nov 30, 2022
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