Alternative futures part 2: When our tech giants never happened
AOL Time Warner wasn’t destined to be one of the worst business disasters ever, Facebook may have had things much tougher, and we all...
Analysing where media intersects culture and technology
Deeper dives into the media and tech business for a longer read
- May 15, 2019
- 7 min
Alternative futures part 1: How our tech world could be so very different
When trying to make sense of the way things are and predict where we’re headed, it can be helpful to think about what nearly was. There...
- May 2, 2019
- 8 min
7 things Netflix still need to worry about
Netflix is the big kahuna of streaming subscriptions. A tech and movie colossus streets ahead of all current and potential competitors....
- May 1, 2019
- 9 min
Lessons in change - what Ukraine’s unlikely new president tells us about challenging incumbency
Or why Ukraine’s election shows why Disney works so well and why Uber will struggle Ukraine’s voters elected a new president on 21 April,...
- Apr 5, 2019
- 7 min
5 things we still don’t understand about music streaming
With music streaming now over 10 years old and really hitting its stride as the power behind the music industry’s return to growth and...
- Mar 21, 2019
- 7 min
The curious case of advertising
So advertising, what happened? Advertising is one of the fuels of the modern digital economy. Advertising dollars pay for countless...
- Feb 18, 2019
- 19 min
If data is now more valuable than oil, and OPEC broke the oil giants, is tech’s OPEC moment upon us?
Clive Humby, mastermind behind the Clubcard loyalty scheme of UK retail giant Tesco, is generally attributed with coining the phrase...
- Jan 16, 2019
- 8 min
How Spotify should be more like Amazon (but perhaps not in the way you’re thinking…)
Very interesting and well written Medium piece by music tech writer Cherie Hu on how Spotify can’t be just a music service if it’s going...