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Covid-19: Big shifts in the entertainment industry
- The closure of major theater chains across the country is driving studios to break what's known in the industry as the "window" – the three-month period between when a movie hits the big screen, and when it's offered for video on demand purchase or rental, and then on streaming devices.
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- We are going to see the rise of new consumption habits, shift in bargaining power across the value chain, and eventually the rise of entirely new business models.
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- The crisis again shows us that in a connected world, data infrastructure is more critical than transportation infrastructure.
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- For example, what would an amusement park look like with social distancing? What core elements of the amusement park experience can you reconstruct in a virtual world? What hybrid experience would that then lead to in a post-Covid19 world where distancing ceases but users have been conditioned?
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- Minecraft reverse-engineered Disney, starting from a virtual world, creating character IP, and eventually licensing them to physical amusement parks. Can companies like Disney, coming in from the other side, enter Minecraft's turf?
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- Streaming is poised to win big during lockdown not just because of demand-side effects but also supply-side effects.
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- Studios are already moving titles to streaming channels.
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- This isn’t your average temporary channel shift. The “window” is the one big moat protecting theatre revenues. By eroding the “window” even for a bounded period studios will get to test success of movie releases on streaming platforms and use that to negotiate post-lockdown. Though theatres won’t go away, their negotiating power certainly will.
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