MEDIA CASE STUDY

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  • Wider Contexts
    • Coldplay are world's most streamed band, 322m a day
    • Spotify created in 2006, more people than ever stream instead of buying in music in traditional forms 
    • napster shut down 2001
    • napster destroyed music industry because people weren’t paying for music
    • Music industry turned to merch for profit, more modern streaming sites use advertising and ‘premium’ accounts to make profit
    • streaming revenues are 51% of total music revenues
    • paid subscriptions are now at $2.5b and are becoming the industries main source of income 
    • NDM: How has the music industry responded to technology advancements? 
      • Theory applied to case study
        • Marxism
        • Liberal Pluralism
        • Wikinomics
        • Para-social interaction
      • E MEDIA: COLDPLAY'S WEBSITE
        • Everything’s moved online. Some of the information displayed on their website previously would have been in a magazine  
        • Audience have the option to follow their Facebook, twitter, Tumblr as well as many different streaming websites including Spotify and tidal
        • Has the option to request a song at their tour- para social interaction
        • Eco friendly ideology- links to ‘client earth’ Facebook page
        • support charity- have a link to Oxfam donate pages
        • Consumerist- links to their shop MERCH WC
        • Promotes freedom of speech through links to multiple social medias which allow you to express your opinion
        • GLOBALISATION: Asian tour, German festival and America tour advertised, they’re A British band
        • Make money through streaming- worlds most streamed band  
        • also make money from touring
      • WEMEDIA: EDSHEERANFANS.COM
        • audience created- LEVELLING
        • Written codes ‘Get your Advert Here! Contact [email protected] now!!’ promote audience interactivity and involvement 
        • links to social media
        • funded through advertising as well as their fan shop. Option to stream his music too and buy his CDs
        • Consumerist ideologies – ‘visit our shop’ 
        • ‘American dream’ (even though he’s British) because he worked hard and now he’s massively successful  
        • Promotes choice- you can choose to listen to Ed Sheeran’s music and be a fan of him- they don’t force you to in any way it’s just a platform for fans to connect on 
      • PRINT: KARRANG
        • Moved online (as well as in paper) to embrace new technology  
        • Audience involvement through Kerrang gigs, social media etc. 
        • Although the magazine is UK based a lot of the bands advertised are American e.g. twenty one pilots  
        • Promotes choice- you can choose which bands you want to listen to, which gigs etc
        • Website version accessible everywhere, as well as magazine e.g. the subscribe to Kerrang option gives you prices in £,$ and euros
        • Attempting to survive by moving online, getting money through gig tickets, subscription fees etc. 
      • BROADCAST: BBC RADIO ONE
        • Probably regulates what they can and can’t do e.g. must read the news frequently, cant swear etc.. 
        • Institution= BBC, radio one paid for by TV license fee like the rest of BBC
        • to embrace new technology they have websites YouTube channels, twitter etc
        • Audiences encouraged to tweet along and interact with accounts e.g. radio one’s twitter, 
        • British culture- it’s one of the oldest broadcasting companies in Britain, radio ones been going since 1967 
        • Radio 1 provides alternative genres after 7:00 pm, therefore promotes choice
        • You can listen to it everywhere, their website makes this possible 
        • Attempting to survive by creating shows like ‘the internet takeover’ with youtubers which will get youth and millennials listening. 
        • Multiple playlists on Spotify, YouTube channel, host teen awards 

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