The younger group has grown up with a screen in their hands so, using their smartphone and/or tablet to stay connected on social media and to their entertainment was natural. Change was happening! “The M&E industry has been going through growing pains over the past few years,” Allan McLennan, CEO of PADEM Media Group, said [...]
“Unmatched market understanding, insight and actionable strategic advice.” That’s one client’s feedback for Allan McLennan, chief executive and founder of the PADEM Media Group, a global streaming media and entertainment management consulting, strategic advisory and analyst firm. And it’s the type of feedback McLennan has consistently received during the dozen-plus years he and PADEM have been [...]
So, what do you want first? The good news or the bad news? The good news is the M&E industry has changed – dramatically – almost over night, opening up new opportunities for creative folks, studios, content distributors/aggregators and consumers.
When projects start up again, 2020 will be the year of content directed and produced by women, with an abundance of heroine leads. It will be the year graphic novels can slowly make theaters healthy. It will be the year streaming content providers will be recognized as viable contenders and will drive serious, above-the-line profits [...]
Without the right content and a well thought out and executed marketing/communications plan, they might as well throw open the doors and let folks come and go at will. It takes time for wounds to heal and fade; or better yet, an overwhelming set of good/great memories to replace the bad ones. When we mentioned [...]
Anand Sanwal, CEO of CB Insights, constantly reminds organizations that the most difficult decision management has to make is determine it’s time to change direction, and replace or kill their best product line because the world is changing. And if they don’t do it, someone else will https://bit.ly/2KyO3zw. When you scroll through the list of [...]
A deep dive into how the Covid19 had an impact on the world of entertainment.China’s theaters sat empty during the coronavirus epidemic on what was planned to be one of the largest theater going periods of the year, Lunar New Year. It’s impossible to recover the lost revenues and some fear people will be reluctant [...]
While the M&E industry likes to split hairs; consumers simply refer to their viewing as TV. It doesn’t matter if it’s pay-TV, AVOD, SVOD, TVOD — Netflix, Amazon Prime, Disney +, Apple TV +, Peacock, Hulu, HBO Max, MoviStar, BritBox, Tencent, Baidu, Jadoo, Yupp, Hotspot, ABC, CBS, BBC, YouTube, TikTok, TV5Monde, ZDF, ARD, TV2, Polstat, [...]
Content creators all want a direct line to consumers; and all consumers want is something to watch right now
