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Ten predictions for the 2021 media and entertainment industry

Carmen Arroyo Nieto and Josep Valor December 27, 2020

As we near the close of 2020, we wonder what the new year might bring to the entertainment and media industry. During these complicated 12 months, we have seen an apparent acceleration of the trends that had been in the works since the early 2010s. In 2021, that transformation of the market will only speed […]

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Netflix struggles to compete against content moguls

Carmen Arroyo Nieto and Josep Valor February 20, 2019

60% of Americans stream content online and more than half of them do it through Netflix. But that might just change unless the company makes some moves. In early 2019, the company announced price increases. Now, the one-stream subscription plan costs $9 instead of $8; the two-stream plan $13 instead of $11, and the most […]

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Apple intends to save journalism… at a price

Josep Valor and Carmen Arroyo Nieto February 15, 2019

The next tech ‘solution’ for the news industry seems to be coming from Cupertino, California. Apple wants to launch a subscription service for news, what the media is calling “Netflix for news”. The tech company would require a flat monthly subscription fee—estimated to be around $10—in exchange for access to an unlimited number of articles […]

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The NYT proves that media can live off digital revenues

Carmen Arroyo Nieto and Josep Valor February 13, 2019

Living off digital revenues is every news outlet’s dream. Last week The New York Times revealed the dream had become a reality for them. The prominent newspaper announced its 2018 financials, disclosing that 40% of its total revenue comes from digital sources. This is good news, a story of success after the January layoffs that […]

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Local journalism needs net neutrality

Josep Valor and Carmen Arroyo Nieto February 4, 2019

On February first, Washington DC was the scenario of probably the most important conversation on the Internet that is taking place these days. The case Mozilla v. FCC, which is being heard by the US Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia, relaunched the conversation over net neutrality in the United States, a discussion […]

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Digital advertising is not enough to keep digital news outlets afloat

Josep Valor and Carmen Arroyo Nieto January 30, 2019

For the media industry, 2019 is not starting off on the right foot. In a little over a week, 1,000 jobs were cut nationwide. This avalanche started last Wednesday when Verizon Media Group; Yahoo, AOL and The Huffington Post’s parent company; disclosed a 7% cut in their media unit staff (800 jobs.) Short after, Buzzfeed […]

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Bandersnatch: Netflix does it again

Josep Valor and Carmen Arroyo Nieto January 18, 2019

It’s 1984, and Stefan Butler wakes up at 8.30am ready for a big meeting with Tuckersoft, a video-game company, to show them his video game demo called Bandersnatch. He takes his morning pills, washes his face and goes to the kitchen to have breakfast with his dad. They chat about his video game for a […]

Josep Valor

Josep Valor-Sabatier is professor of Information Systems and information technology and holder of the Indra Chair of Digital Strategy.

He received his Ph.D. in Operations Research from MIT, and his Sc.D. in Medical Engineering from the Harvard-MIT Division of Health Sciences and Technology. Josep Valor teaches extensively at the senior executive level on Management Information Systems, Media Management, Management of Technology, and Strategy.

Carmen Arroyo

Carmen Arroyo is a financial reporter for Euromoney Institutional Investor, which she joined after finishing her graduate studies in international politics at Columbia University in New York City. She also freelances for the news agency IPS News Service at their United Nations Bureau, covering migration and climate, and writes a newsletter on narrative journalism.

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