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Women as entrepreneurs in the UK: Closing the gaps

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Female-led and equally-led employers numbered 550,000 in the UK in 2019, a 40% share of 1.4 million businesses. These are often sub-scale businesses requiring financial and digital skills to scale up.

Female-led businesses cluster in education, health, food and accommodation, the latter being highly exposed to the pandemic. The more protected and dynamic ICT sector has low female engagement, which higher levels of study of STEM subjects will remedy.

Consumers are embracing digital to live and work through the pandemic. Enterprises that are digital and digitally-enabled will survive and flourish, supported by initiatives from Google, Facebook and others.

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Virgin Media: Subscriber growth renaissance continues

11 November 2020

Virgin Media’s lockdown subscriber surge continued into Q3, as working-from-home highlights the importance of the faster speeds its network can offer.

ARPU is more challenged, and will get worse next quarter given its forgone price rise, but price rises are back in fashion in the industry, so this problem is likely to prove temporary.

Openreach’s full fibre remains a medium-term threat, but the company is rightly taking advantage while its network superiority remains, with momentum firmly in its favour for now.

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Jamie MacEwan was quoted in Reuters on "Change of tune: Japan music fans moving from CDs to streaming services"

11 November 2020

Jamie said streaming services, which had accounted for less than 10% of sales in Japan until a few years ago, grew to 15% last year and will likely exceed 20% this year. “The crossover point where total digital revenues eclipse physical production is now just a matter of time."

He added “Domestic labels are likely to make more of their catalogues available to stream closer to physical release, which will accelerate the digital transition in the coming years."

“This will prevent the emergence of an Apple-Spotify duopoly as seen elsewhere."

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Google News Showcase: An olive branch to publishers (and regulators)

11 November 2020

On 1 October, Google CEO Sundar Pichai announced $1 billion for worldwide news publisher partnerships for a novel News Showcase product, helping them to distribute their content to a new audience.

It is an important milestone: for the first time Google will pay publishers to curate content in the Google News app (initially), and to provide unpaywalled access to articles on publishers’ websites that users can click through to.

In so doing, Google is defusing the simmering conflict with publishers in major markets, and showing policy-makers its willingness to collaborate with a news industry facing existential threats.

 

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2020 console launches: Xbox looks to the future; PlayStation looks to the past

10 November 2020

The launch of new games consoles this week showcases broadly divergent strategies for Sony and Microsoft, with market leader PlayStation focused solely on defending its model against the rising tide of cheaper subscription games services.

Xbox's consumer offer is the best value proposition for these difficult economic times, attracting new customers and positioning for growth, and stopping slavish devotion to 'core gamers' in the process.

Amazon's Luna lands, providing big competition in game streaming services for Google's Stadia. But nobody is taking any notice, as neither provide a real breakthrough for the industry or great value for gamers. Stadia’s lifespan could be limited.

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Julian Aquilina was quoted in The Telegraph on "Six Nations plans to start on schedule in 2021 even without fans"

10 November 2020

Julian said “Typically when rights are sold to pay-TV broadcasters, they bring in a lot more money because those broadcasters are in a better position to monetise those rights through expensive subscriptions to millions of customers. However, Amazon has grown so quickly over the past year, and ­particularly during the pandemic, and has acquired other sports rights including 20 Premier League matches, that it is going to be really interesting to see whether they have had another success with [the Autumn Nations Cup] that subscribers stick with them.”

He added “We have seen properties move behind a paywall and then audiences go through the floor. There is an element of protecting the interest of the competition, and you can lose that when you do not reach millions of people.”

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BT: Glacially improving outlook

5 November 2020

BT’s revenue growth remained very suppressed in the September quarter at -7%, with a limited COVID-19 recovery chocked off by seasonal roaming effects and regulator-inspired pricing forbearance.

EBITDA growth did improve to -3% from -7% last quarter, mainly due to short-term cost actions and the early impact of its longer-term cost program, and the company has upgraded its short- and longer-term EBITDA targets.

The company is also optimistic on a longer-term return to underlying revenue growth, helped by a return to regular existing customer price increases and the impact of full fibre, but not until 2023, with a few bumps in the road before then.

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