Executive Views

Conde Nast Finds A Fit For Films Beyond The Page

LAS VEGAS — Can a magazine make a movie? That’s what is happening at Conde Nast, the ...

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Executive Views
Advertisers Fueling $1bn Content Piracy Scourge: GroupM’s Montgomery
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Analyst Views
Sports Is Catching Up With Hollywood In IPTV: Diffusion’s Espelien
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Executive Views
ZEFR’s BrandID Helps Brands See ‘Enormous Magnitude’ Of YouTube Fan Uploads
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Company strategy
In China video wars, giants battle, upstart rides Android to homes
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Company strategy
Domino’s aims to eat in to Netflix with its own VOD offering
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Amazon Introduces New Tablet At News Conference In New York
Company strategy
Lovefilm’s Kindle inclusion helps Amazon’s global content ambitions
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Company strategy
UK will spend £50 million to digitise classic films
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Company strategy
Japanese music pirates face jail, big fines
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Company strategy
Megaupload arrest tactics deemed unlawful as Kim Dotcom vows to ride again
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Market indicators
Piracy may be commonplace, but music’s outlook is improving
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Company strategy
Rdio, Vdio tag-team for Skype founders’ music, movie combo
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Funding analysis
Ivi.ru is Hollywood’s route to Russian VOD
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Company strategy

China’s largest e-tailer agrees to stop movie pirates

Hollywood has won a healthy but incremental victory in its efforts to create a legal ...

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Company strategy
Doctor Who goes back in time to beat TV pirates
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Company strategy
Grocers’ digital dreams: Sainsbury’s launching VOD, Tesco ending MP3
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Company strategy
Netflix will need deep pockets to raid BSkyB’s movie locker
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Company strategy
Netflix chasing down Amazon’s Lovefilm to Scandinavia
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Insights
Four years jail for man who linked to TV streams
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Company strategy
Sony-Disney’s FilmFlex plans new launch amid Netflix challenge
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Earnings analysis
HMV’s next digital idea: click-to-collect plastic music
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Company strategy
France will cut funding to its piracy police
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Company strategy
Netflix is already a huge threat to Amazon’s Lovefilm
By Robert Andrews  
Amazon Introduces New Tablet At News Conference In New York
Company strategy
Amazon’s new London development house points to global content roll-out
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Company strategy
European parliament advised to reject global anti-piracy agreement
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Company strategy
Netflix gives itself a year to out-bid Sky for top UK movies
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M&A analysis

Pinterest investor Rakuten buys its way in to European VOD

It seems the world has a new digital media M&A power player. Fresh from buying Pl...

By Robert Andrews  
Company strategy
Russia’s state piracy monitor could empower copyright owners
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Company strategy
The world’s hottest digital markets: a music map
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Company strategy
Another nail: UK ISPs must block Pirate Bay
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Company strategy
Netflix plans further Euro expansion in Q4
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Digital Music Now Pays Artists More Than Pubs
Market indicators
Digital Music Now Pays Artists More Than Pubs
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Company strategy
Game’s Not Over For Game, Now The Industry Wants It To Go Digital
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Company strategy
Facebook’s Big Freemium Funnel Helps Spotify Et Al Find The Pay In Free
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Interviews
Interview: Rdio Prepares To Take On Spotify, Deezer Et Al In Europe
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Market indicators
France Claims ‘Three-Strikes’ Has Reduced Piracy, But Has It Really?
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Market indicators
Suddenly, Spotify Is Ad Buyers’ Favourite Thing
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Company strategy
Updated: Pandora Says Rates Still Too Costly For UK Re-Entry
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Company strategy
How Game Group Blew It: Digital Strategy Was Not Adopted Sooner
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Market indicators

Music Industry Can See The Light After ‘Least Negative’ Sales Since 2004

The music industry enjoyed its best sales performance for eight years in 2011, as CDs...

By Robert Andrews  
Company strategy
Ireland’s Largest ISP Wants Country-Wide Three-Strikes Piracy Response
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Company strategy
Music Wars: Spotify Heading For Ireland And Oz As Rdio Gears Up In Europe
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Conference reports
Video: Vevo To Launch In Six More Countries, CEO Caraeff Says
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Company strategy
BBC Overcomes Xbox Hurdles To Launch iPlayer With Kinect Control
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Company strategy
Chinese Writers’ Apple Book Piracy Claims Grow Louder
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Company strategy
Man Utd Wants Its Crest Stripped From Google Play
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Company strategy
How Netflix’s Hastings Could Get BSkyB Off An Anti-Trust Charge
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Market indicators
Music Streams Join Downloads In U.S. Charts, UK Waits
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Company strategy
Music’s Celestial Jukeboxes Square Off In Germany; Next Stop Asia-Pac
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Company strategy
Another Atoms-To-Bits Moment: Game Group Retailer On Brink Of Collapse
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Interviews
Interview: Omnifone CEO Eyes Investments As Music Access Takes Off
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Funding analysis
Roku Needs To Raise $50 Million To Go Global
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Conference reports

Yahoo’s Next Strategy: There’s Gold In That There E-Commerce

New Yahoo (NSDQ: YHOO) CEO Scott Thompson’s upcoming turnaround may centre on mining ...

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Company strategy
UK ISPs Must Write Letters To Pirates, Other Measures Some Way Off
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Company strategy
Google Aims To Convince Mobile Game Makers On In-App Payments
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Earnings analysis
Call Of Duty Subscriptions Helped Fuel Vivendi
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IPO analysis
What Happens Next If Spotify Goes Public?
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Company strategy
When Will Music’s Celestial Jukebox Go Mainstream?
By Robert Andrews  
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Company strategy
Labels And Spotify Still Struggle To Convince Some Artists On Stream Rates
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Insights
The End Of CDs: Russian Retailer Latest To Take Music Off Shelves
By Robert Andrews  
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Company strategy
YouTube’s Missing Monetization Makes Its Internet TV Prospects Patchy
By Robert Andrews  
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M&A analysis
Online Game Developer Shanda Gets $2.3 Billion Buy-Out
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Funding analysis
Flaregames And Tusjuegos Take Funds To Build And Sell Games
By Robert Andrews  
First Look: BBC Sport Site’s Long-Overdue Reboot Ahead Of Olympics
Company strategy
First Look: BBC Sport Site’s Long-Overdue Reboot Ahead Of Olympics
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Company strategy
The Times And Spotify: Why Pay When Everything’s Free?
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Company strategy

Netflix Sees Overseas Losses Doubling To $118 Million This Quarter

Netflix (NSDQ: NFLX) expects overseas losses to double in just three months, as it sp...

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Industry moves
British Film Institute Adds A New Digital Head
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Company strategy
Spotify Not Throttling Americans, Subs Hit Three Million
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Company strategy
Rhapsody Goes To Europe As New Music Services Compete, News Corp’s Fails
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Company strategy
7digital Intros Streaming Web Player
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Market indicators
Digital Music Growth Re-Accelerated In 2011 Thanks To New Services
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Company strategy
Europe Says It Won’t Adopt ‘Bad’ Digital Policy Like SOPA
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Company strategy
YouTube Fails To Convince Ad Regulator The Web Safeguards Kids Like TV Does
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Company strategy
Illegal Books Available For Free On Google’s Android Market
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Industry moves
Manchester City Has Got A New Head Of Digital
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Company strategy
TV Piracy Links Site Host Faces Extradition To U.S.
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Sky to create 1,000 jobs
Company strategy
Hollywood Lambasts Sky Movies Ruling, But Open Access Gains Favour
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Company strategy
Piracy Much Higher Than Freeloaders Confess To, Ofcom Told
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Earnings analysis

Game Group Issues Warning After Poorer Christmas Game Sales

The UK’s leading video game retailer again finds itself looking forward to another co...

By Robert Andrews  
Market indicators
China Round-Up: E-book Wars, Digital Music Opportunity And Games Go Large
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Company strategy
Coldplay Will Warm To Streaming After Unit Sales Ebb
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Interviews
Interview Part 2: Netflix’s Hastings Hurt By Criticism But Over Transition
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Interviews
Interview Part 1: Netflix’s Hastings Aims To Challenge BSkyB
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Earnings analysis
HMV Sees Physical Content Crash Slowing Down, Despite Christmas Crunch
By Robert Andrews  
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Company strategy
Netflix Has Launched In UK, Price War With Amazon’s Lovefilm
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Company strategy
Premier League Rights: Google And Apple Unlikely To Bid
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Market indicators
Charts: What’s Happening To UK Music Sales
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Company strategy
EU To Focus On Digital Content Policy In 2012
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Company strategy
What’s Coming In 2012: Internet TVs Out-Box The Boxes
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Market indicators
Online Video Sales Growing In China
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IPO analysis
Rovio Still Talking Up A Mickey Mouse IPO, Now In Hong Kong
By Robert Andrews  
Company strategy

Al Jazeera, Apple Could Drive Up Sky Sports’ Soccer Costs

Cash-rich pay-TV service Al Jazeera Sports could force Sky Sports to bid 25 percent m...

By Robert Andrews  
Company strategy
Microsoft And Nokia Pay Perform For A Mobile Soccer App
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Company strategy
Apple Finally Brings iTunes Music And Movies To Latin America
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Company strategy
BBC Now Allowing Mobile iPlayer To Stream On Mobile Networks
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Company strategy
Deezer Goes Boldly Global, Thumbing Its Nose At U.S.
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Company strategy
Deezer Goes Boldly Global, Thumbing Its Nose At U.S.
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Company strategy
BSkyB ‘Perplexed’ By On-Demand Movie Judgement
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Company strategy
BSkyB Could Be Forced To Host On-Demand Movie Rivals
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Company strategy
Slideshow: The Future Of Movies According To Blinkbox And Tesco
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Tesco, Blinkbox Marry DVD, Online Movies Ahead Of Ultraviolet
Company strategy
Tesco, Blinkbox Marry DVD, Online Movies Ahead Of Ultraviolet
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Insights
Video: Noel Gallagher On How Technology Is Devaluing The Music Experience
By Robert Andrews  
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M&A analysis
Shazam Is Buying Back Its Own Core Patents To Go Multi-Media
By Robert Andrews  
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Company strategy
First Look: Spotify’s TiVo App On Virgin Media UK
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Company strategy

Chart: Spotify’s Growth Story; Next Stop: 100 Million Users?

Spotify is getting its systems in order to support a planned 100 million users in the...

By Robert Andrews  
Interviews
Interview: FilmFlex CEO To Netflix: Bring It On!
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Company strategy
Now With 2.5 Million Customers, Spotify Tries Patenting Itself
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Funding analysis
Netflix’s Global Funding Makes Sense — If It Can Rescue Domestic
By Robert Andrews  
Company strategy
Netflix Will Rely On Rival Amazon’s Cloud For Years To Come
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Company strategy
Spotify Announcing ‘A New Direction’ Next Week; What Is It?
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Company strategy
Big In Sweden: Spotify-Crazy Youngsters Are Bellwether For Music Biz
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