To state the obvious, Lionel Messi’s arrival at Inter Miami in 2023 was a big deal. It mattered to both the MLS and its media partner Apple, which owns the global rights to the league for a decade and used the World Cup winner as a key way to sell its Season Pass subscription. However, […]
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Channel 5 often gets lost in the debate about streaming and British public service broadcasters. I confess I don’t spend much, if any time watching it. However, recent figures show plenty of people do. There is something very interesting going on there. Over 31 million people watched a Channel 5 property last month. That is
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Lot’s of great sporting action this weekend. There are two cup finals and the climax of rugby’s Six Nations. Premier League Football League Cup Final Six Nations Rugby If you’re travelling abroad but want to access your usual service to watch, you will need a VPN. NordVPN is the one I use.
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Last night, (midnight UK time) the NWSL, America’s domestic women’s soccer football league, kicked off. The format is fairly straightforward and is typical of US sports. Fourteen teams play each other home and away and then there is a playoff to decide the champions. (Orlando Pride won last year.) The media setup is interesting though.
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What I’m Watching Mythic Quest is the best show on Apple TV+ and it has returned for season four. If you haven’t seen it yet, it’s ostensibly about people working at a successful video games company, but you do not have to be a gamer to love it. Everything is about the relationships between the
Sean McNulty from The Ankler discusses the Oscars, the SAG Awards and the future of these kinds of shows. Does anyone actually care?! The viewership for the Academy Awards show stayed stable this year, once all the various streaming options were taken into account. Away from awards, we look at the growth of The Ankler
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Almost all of the media industry, one way or the other, is talking about AI. And quite right too. The technology, whichever way it progresses, will have a huge impact on everything from marketing to journalism and beyond. We’re not talking about nonsense like NFTs here. My view, as I’ve outlined before, is to focus
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