Clik here to view.
News Corp rendered asunder
Si fractus illabatur orbis, impavidum ferient ruinae ‘Should the world break and fall about him, its ruins will strike him unafraid’. Rupert Murdoch’s world can, without a great deal of exaggeration,...
View ArticleClik here to view.
An Olympic Reputation
Dost thou know what reputation is? I ’ll tell thee,—to small purpose, since the instruction Comes now too late. Upon a time Reputation, Love, and Death, Would travel o’er the world; and it was...
View ArticleClik here to view.
On the contemporary art market – Expertise, Marketing and Money
“If all signs are autonomous and refer only to one another, it must seem to follow that no image is truer or deeper than the next, and that the artist is absolved from his or her struggle for...
View ArticleClik here to view.
The New News – Monetising journalism today
“What the Internet has done is made a million sources of information available. It’s only a click away… The Internet has disrupted many industries. The newspaper business has been destroyed. It’s...
View ArticleClik here to view.
The “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 ArticleClik here to view.
The 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 ArticleClik here to view.
Trials and tribulations for film franchises in 2015
It’s sequel season. 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...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Media Trends 2016
The most enjoyable pieces we pen for this blog are our looks ahead to TMT trends in the next year (they also, coincidentally, happen to be our most popular articles). Do check out our 2015 and 2014...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Tech frailty in 2016
In the course of history, many smart people have been scared by the rapid progression of technology and its impact on the way we live. Forget the printing press; Socrates was concerned that even the...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Mischief, managed – digital disruptors in need of legacy structures
“Move fast and break things”. That is the motto of Facebook, and unofficially many of its contemporaries. While much of the most visible impact of new digital organisations has been on how they respond...
View Article
