July 2019

For this week’s Cybercultural newsletter, I partnered with consumer insights platform Alpha to survey 324 people about their online gaming habits. The resulting data and insights, exclusive to Cybercultural, are presented in this edition of the newsletter. In case you didn’t know, online gaming is now a huge cultural content market. Last weekend the Fortnite…

The theme of this week’s Cybercultural newsletter is paper to digital; and how that transition is going for news media, magazines, and books. All three sectors have been forced to migrate from a largely paper platform to an increasingly digital one. In the US, print consumption of news has dropped from 47% in 2013 to…

  This week’s Cybercultural newsletter looks into internet platform dominance in the cultural sectors. I examine three recent news stories on this theme. In the first one, YouTube’s bullying tactics over its competitors and partners are laid bare. But two other, more positive, stories show how challengers constantly arise to take on the big internet…

This week’s Cybercultural newsletter examines the micropayments market from the perspective of the cultural industries. I dig into what micropayment solutions are currently available – or are upcoming, in the case of Facebook’s Libra – and provide analysis of where this market is headed. First, let’s take a look at what’s happening around the traps:…

Welcome back to Cybercultural, a weekly newsletter covering the intersection of technology and the cultural industries. Let’s start with a quick look at what’s happening this week, before my US readers head off to celebrate Independence Day: On a personal note, my nearly 15-month old son started at daycare for a couple of days a…