“Some investors have concluded that owning media stocks is too risky amid dramatic changes in how viewers consume entertainment, analysts said. Viewership changes are beginning to prompt studio chiefs to reassess how they manage their businesses and even which shows and movies get the green light.”
Category: AUDIENCE
Explosive Growth: Thousands Flock To Watch Video Game Competitions
“As many as 12,000 people descended on KeyArena this week to watch teams of professional gamers square off in the International Dota 2 tournament. At stake in Saturday’s final round is a $6.5 million prize, part of an $18 million purse, the largest in e-sports history. E-sports, as competitive video gaming is known, is big business and is now attracting the likes of Amazon and Microsoft. Increasingly, the Seattle area is a focus of the industry.”
We Asked 100,000 People Why They Attended Arts Events. Here’s What They Told Us
“Results suggest that being entertained is not necessarily a universal driver, with significant variances in responses. In the visual arts sector, for example, audiences cited intellectual stimulation (45%) and inspiration (44%) as important drivers for attendance. More than a third (37%) of these visitors also stated that they attend art galleries because the visual arts are an important part of who they are, highlighting their personal identification with the artform as a significant factor in their decision to attend (more than for all other artforms).”
Tate Britain Attempts To Turn Visual Art Into Multi-Sense Experience
“The exhibition features cutting edge technology, including binaural and directional audio to produce 3D sound, a perfume release system to engage the sense of smell, and state-of-the-art haptic technology to recreate the sense of touch.”
Major Shift In How People Pay (Or Don’t) For TV Has Media Companies Scrambling
“Media companies and distributors indicated that more people are cutting the cord and ditching pricey channel packages. Meanwhile, media company executives did damage control, putting a positive spin on the prospect of selling individual channels online.”
What To Do With Your Theatre App? Take People Backstage
“National Theatre Backstage officially launches next week and will curate media from existing outlets that the NT uses, such as YouTube and Soundcloud, alongside specially commissioned content. It will also include articles from the theatre’s archives. The app will enable audiences to buy digital programmes of the theatre’s plays.”
How Morality Is Brokered By Attention On The Internet
“The mere act of choosing to look at something online generates real value for a company, materially helping to support its staff, its content, and the social interactions that a platform plays host to. This is why a website like Do Not Link exists: It promises a way to share a link from a website without boosting that site’s standing in search rankings.”
How “Hamilton” Transcends Theatre To Become Great Theatre
The show breaks every rule of Broadway success. “There are no movie stars and it’s not a revival. It’s storytelling and an original piece of theater that has inspired all this excitement.”
How To You Contextualize Theatre To The Audience It Wants To Serve?
“What quickly became apparent is that the local authority officers share our ambition to find ways of increasing the perceived “usefulness” of the arts and asking: if the regular audience to theatre comprises only 8% of the population, what might the other 92% be interested in?”
Do New York Theatergoers Really Dress Like Slobs? And Does It Matter?
Alexis Soloski: “Mostly I’m in favour of dressing down. It seems democratising to me. Less elitist. It makes theatre seem like the kind of thing anyone and everyone can go do, which is what I devoutly wish. (Well, that and cheaper, better wine at the concession stands.)”