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"Many have argued Disney’s ongoing reliance on Netflix shows the severity of their initial licensing mistakes (the deal for five original Netflix series occurred within 12 months of the first three agreements)."

http://redef.com/original/disney-as-a-service-why-disney-is-closer-than-ever-to-walts-60-year-old-vision

REDEF ORIGINAL: Disney as a Service: Why Disney is Closer than Ever to Walt’s 60 Year Old Vision To many, Disney has become the posterchild for poor licensing decisions in the digital era. Four years ago, the company sold exclusive digital rights to nearly the entire Disney catalog through the end of the decade. As a result, critics argue, Disney can do little to adapt to the OTT and D2C era –…

"As the digital era has developed, the major television networks have come to terms with many key ideas: the importance of TV Everywhere and SVOD availability, the frailty of the cable bundle and inevitable fragmentation of audiences across services and windows. But these are far from enough."

http://redef.com/original/7-deadly-sins-where-hollywood-is-wrong-about-the-future-of-tv

REDEF ORIGINAL: 7 Deadly Sins: Where Hollywood is Wrong about the Future of TV Linear television networks today face seven key threats that continue to be overlooked, under-addressed or ignored. They don’t all apply to every network (nor are they equally menacing), but as a whole, they’re critical to both understanding and planning for the future of television.

I remember Aaliyah! Do you?

http://noisey.vice.com/blog/aaliyah-personal-essay-2016

Remembering Aaliyah, My Mentor Through Life | NOISEY For the last 15 years, I’ve mourned the artist who helped me navigate friendship, gender, and queerness—three of the most important parts of my life today.

It just happens right?

https://www.bloomberg.com/gadfly/articles/2016-08-30/spotify-can-t-live-on-that-10-a-month-subscription-fee

Spotify Can't Live on $10 a Month One-price-fits-all is destined for the same fate as Tower Records.

"The streaming leader is discussing making some new music available only to paying subscribers in hopes of ending a months-long impasse with the major record companies, The Post has learned."

http://nypost.com/2016/08/29/spotify-releases-some-new-music-to-paying-customers-only/

Spotify releases some new music to paying customers only Newly married Spotify Chief Executive Daniel Ek is coming around to the idea of compromise. The streaming leader is discussing making some new music available only to paying subscribers in hopes of…

"America has become a resentful, bitter, and dissatisfied collection of cynics. Eleven percent of the population takes anti-depressant drugs, few people claim to have many close friends, and polling data regularly indicates that an overwhelming majority believe that country is “on the wrong track.”

http://www.salon.com/2016/08/30/springsteens-subversive-joy-on-the-bruce-concert-as-antidote-to-nihilism-and-american-self-destruction/

Springsteen’s subversive joy: On the Bruce concert as antidote to nihilism and American self-destruction In his affirmational hands, our year of dark discontent fades into hope, even just for a few hours

"By 2020, two-thirds of all online activity is expected to take place on mobile devices. Currently, mobile-only internet access has risen more sharply among Latino, black, and low-income Americans."

http://shorensteincenter.org/mobile-vs-computer-news-audiences-and-outlets/

Mobile vs. Computer: Implications for News Audiences and Outlets - Shorenstein Center A new paper by Johanna Dunaway, Joan Shorenstein Fellow (spring 2016) and associate professor of communication at Texas A&M University, examines how mobile technology – despite expanding internet access – is also contributing to a digital divide in news consumption....

"There were a shadowy Illuminati controlling the world of rap, Lyor Cohen would be its all-seeing eye, the man behind the scenes, pulling the strings of the most powerful players and reaping the benefits."

http://www.complex.com/music/2016/08/lyor-cohen-300-entertainment-interview

Lyor Cohen Predicted The Rise Of Young Thug. Here’s What He Thinks Is Coming Next. The 300 Entertainment founder has been around the block. In fact, he helped build it. Here, he reveals what’s around the next corner.

"Most Americans can recite their share of jingles. Perhaps they can’t remember their partner’s cell phone number, but they know every digit required to reach Empire carpet."

http://www.theatlantic.com/business/archive/2016/08/what-killed-the-jingle/497291/

What Killed the Jingle? Marketing ditties once had a distinctive, hokey sound, but today’s advertisers have ditched them for standard pop songs.