Futurology, DARPA-style
From the Winter 2009 Zeitgeist… Zeitgeist face such an alarming amount of numbers, facts, figures and statistics every day that sifting through it all to find the relevant information has become...
View ArticleFilms, Football and Uninformative Advertising
Zeitgeist saw the above ad on the London Underground earlier this week, advertising the new version of the Total Recall film that Sony is imminently releasing. (As if anything could beat the Arnie...
View ArticleIs Sony back in the game?
After an annual loss of $6.4bn in 2011, Sony has since seen a new CEO come to the fore in the form of Kazuo Hirai, who immediately made it clear that major changes were needed, including significant...
View ArticleCreative Destruction in Electronic Arts
The videogame industry, like many of the protagonists in the games it creates, is under attack. The competition is fierce. Not only is there healthy competition amongst legacy companies – including...
View ArticleOn Mobile Trends – 2013 so far…
While it’s difficult nowadays to write about telecoms or the mobile sector without drifting off into other areas of the TMT industry, Zeitgeist spent an evening last month as a guest of Accenture in...
View ArticleOf Mad Men and Spider-Men
From the November Zeitgeist… What do fictional characters and celebrity ambassadors say about the state of masculinity today? The last twenty years have arguably seen a dramatic shift in terms of...
View ArticleNintendo’s Nemesis & Evolution
“All is unceasing and rigorous competition in nature”, said the Marquis de Sade. Rivalries come and go, it is the victor who must with each success continue to innovate and ultimately change, enduring...
View ArticleMedia and Entertainment – Revenue vs Cost
“Old-media guys are always asking, ‘When will revenues rise to meet our cost structure?’ The answer, I say, is when hell freezes over.” - Clay Shirky, author, Here Comes Everybody: The Power of...
View ArticleThe “Jaws” of death? – Rethinking film industry strategy
Steven Spielberg on-set for “Jaws”. The Leviathan gave birth to the summer blockbuster This past week, Zeitgeist had the pleasure of enjoying a new adaptation of Shakespeare’s “Much Ado about Nothing”....
View ArticleThe next ‘Ishtar’: Is the film industry nearing “implosion”?
“A legendary disaster… a cascade of dysfunction”; can the film industry avoid future Ishtars? This post serves as a companion piece and extended update to our previous article on rethinking film...
View ArticleCost-cutting consoles
Zeitgeist finally got around to seeing “Elysium” last night. Typical of the current climate in film distribution, it was disappearing from all of Zeitgeist’s local screens in central London, after a...
View ArticleThreats and Opportunities for the Entertainment Industry in 2014
At the start of a new year, what to make of the entertainment sector? It depends where you look. One thing is for certain though; at the close of 2013 that old laggard the music industry upstaged its...
View ArticleTV’s bloody disruptions
Last night, Zeitgeist eagerly devoured the first episode of the new season of Netflix‘s House of Cards, a series that has received lavish praise – not least from us – both for its content and its...
View ArticleTech’s impact on business and culture in 2014
It would be impossible to capture the disruptive influence the latest digital technologies are currently having on the world in a single blog post. But what Zeitgeist has collated here are some...
View ArticleHow Apple flaunts precedents
If a market sector hasn’t seen a great deal of activity or customer engagement, after several attempts by respected companies, it might be deemed a bit of a risk for a business to enter the market....
View ArticleFirefighting at Sony
‘The Amazing Spider-Man 2′ made a cool $700m+ at the global box office. Elsewhere, the news for Sony was less rosy. We’ve written about Sony multiple times over the years, rarely in a good light. A...
View ArticleTMT Trends 2015 – Star Wars, Tech Wars & Talent Wars
Our most popular article this year by far was a piece we wrote on trends in the media and entertainment industry for the coming twelve months. That nothing has been written since January that has...
View ArticleImitation & Innovation in China
It is said that imitation is the sincerest form of flattery. If true, it should follow then that China are huge fans of most consumer electronics brands. We’ve written before about threats to...
View ArticleWhen does Microsoft stop being Microsoft?
An astounding twenty years ago, my father bought Bill Gates’ book, “The Road Ahead”. A business book barely interested me at that age, but it came with a CD-ROM (contents above) that showed an...
View ArticleTrials and tribulations for film franchises in 2015
While the Mission: Impossible franchise looked set to continue unabated – with, in Zeitgeist’s opinion, a superb Rogue Nation – others were not so fortunate. The revival of the Fantastic Four franchise...
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