"To thrive in a marketplace that is increasingly competitive, slower-growing, and dependent on personal recommendations, companies must develop strategies that engage, grow, and monetize their most valuable customers — i.e., their fans. To do so, they must combine excellent content with breadth and depth of distribution, and then bring it all together in an innovative user experience, in which the content is discoverable easily on an array of screens and at an attractive price. Simply capturing the natural growth in consumers and their uptake of services and content with existing approaches is no longer sufficient. Across the industry, the resulting quest to create the most compelling, engaging, and intuitive user experiences is now the primary objective for growth and investment strategies — and technology and data lie at their center." (Executive summary)
Contents
Curtain up! Outlook perspective, 10
Business models: as distribution splinters, adaptation is the name of the game, 22
Value chains: across E&M, companies chart a direct-to-consumer path, 26
Technological change: driving incremental growth through innovation, 29
Content strategy: adapting to penetrate technological and cultural filters, 32
Deals: strong tailwinds, 35
Regulation: market contrasts, net neutrality, and privacy, 38