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Adventures Group Holdings and Adventure Entertainment partner to grow Caravan World
Adventure Entertainment (AE) and Adventures Group Holdings (AGH) have announced the completion of a new partnership to grow the Caravan World media business in Australia. Under the arrangements AE will acquire the Caravan World print business from AGH. AGH will continue to operate the Caravan World website and digital business. The parties will collaborate on future content and partnerships work to maximise the content delivered to consumers and deliver outcomes for partners.
[Omdia Webinar] 2025 Games Industry
View this Omdia on-demand webinar and get the answers the most pressing questions facing the gaming industry in 2025. Omdia's team of expert games analysts ran a webinar on Tuesday, March 11, 2025, providing the perfect preparation for GDC 2025 by leveraging their peerless data and insights to answer the most pressing questions facing the gaming industry in 2025. Key questions and topics included: Will the games industry 'survive in 25'?
Galliano and Gilles Peterson Talk Album Art, Birthdays, and Halfway Somewhere
Gilles Peterson is a DJ, a BBC Radio host, and the co-founder of the legendary label Acid Jazz Records; Rob Gallagher is a songwriter and DJ whose band Galliano was the first signed to Acid Jazz. Galliano’s first record in almost three decades, Halfway Somewhere, was just released this summer. To celebrate the occasion, the two longtime friends and collaborators met up at Gilles’s to catch up about it all.
'Understand some of the world's biggest issues' - King's launches new online Master's degrees
Two new online Master’s programmes – MA Digital Futures and MSc Digital Economies – have been launched by the Department for Digital Humanities and Department for Culture, Media & Creative Industries. Applications for two new Master’s courses are now open for students to join in Autumn 2024.
Platform politics: ‘deep states’ and ‘diagonalists’ go online
From a ‘deep state’ to ‘diagonalist’ movements, our politico‑spatial imaginary is altered by digital technologies The globalised, postmodern world of the 1990s was portrayed as confoundingly resistant to mapping by theorists such as Fredric Jameson.
This gameworld is yours
The ways of seeing produced by open-world videogames owe much to colonial prospecting tools Open-world games have become the dominant videogame genre. Aesthetically, the worlds players can now explore vary widely.
Foundations for Spirit-Filled Christianity
Assemblies of God scholars Jerry Ireland, Paul Lewis, and Frank Macchia are editors of a new series of textbooks from Baker Academic.
The politics of the NPC meme: Reactionary subcultural practice and vernacular theory
Abstract The acronym ‘NPC’ originates from videogame culture, where it refers to computer-controlled drones whose behaviour is dictated by their programming. By 2018 the term had gained traction within right-wing subcultural spaces as shorthand for individuals apparently incapable of thinking for themselves. By the autumn of 2018, these spaces were awash with NPC memes accusing liberals and leftists of uncritically accepting progressive doxa and parroting left-wing catchphrases.
Omdia joins IBC2022 as exclusive research partner Original
, July 28, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Omdia has been designated as the official research partner for IBC2022 in Amsterdam this September, IBC's first in-person event after two years of virtual formats. Through the strategic alliance, this year's conference delegates will have access to Omdia's exclusive report, The Advertising Revolution: How CTV, FAST, and AVOD Are Reshaping the TV and Video Landscape.
TBI Tech & Analysis: How online video can stand out amid a “tyranny of choice”
Netflix’s personalized homepage may drive viewership, but more and more people are looking beyond online video apps and pay-TV platforms to decide what to watch, with major implications for how providers compete, writes Omdia’s Rob Gallagher. In 2016, two Netflix executives published an academic paper asserting that personalization and recommendations saved the company more than $1bn per year.
TBI Tech & Analysis: Netflix & the globalisation of the local Netflix has become a dominant global force with commissioning hubs around the world, but how will its local content strategy evolve, asks Omdia’s Rob Gallagher Is Netflix a trusted local content partner or just another globalising US media firm? This question has become increasingly relevant since I posed it in 2017; Omdia analysis of viewing data from PlumResearch suggests fresh answers.
The fundamental obstacle to Netflix’s games strategy is one of its own making
Reflecting on a feeling of digital déjà vu Is it just me, or does Netflix’s games offering feel like Spotify’s failed first foray into video? Data from Omdia and its research partners about the streaming video giant’s mobile games and interactive video titles presents a mixed picture. Spotify introduced video to its platform in 2015, licensing shows from Comedy Central, Vice News, and others and commissioning original series.
Adventures in the asset store
The use of asset libraries to build video games raises questions of authorship, ownership and exploitation Arevenge saga set in Hong Kong’s criminal underworld, much of the 2001 video game Shenmue II plays out in dilapidated tower blocks of 1980s Kowloon. Most of the flats hold nothing of consequence, and a typical video game would simply have presented players with rows of locked doors.
Building virtual worlds: video games and autobiographical architecture
Video games can offer space to build autobiographical architectures, but these digital worlds do not exist in a void You can tell that Clive Riordan, the villain in Edward Dmytryk’s Obsession (1949), is a thwarted and disturbed person because he owns an elaborate model railway.
Recipe: Utopian Rebels Světlý Ležák
All Access Subscribers can download the Beersmith and BeerXML version of this recipe. Subscribe today. Rob Gallagher, former chair of the London Amateur Brewers, has a thing for decoction mashing. This is his Czech-style pale lager recipe, which won Best of Show at London Brew Con 2018. It includes a triple-decoction mash and plenty of gorgeous Saaz hops.
Amazon Prime: one subscription to rule them all?
Rob Gallagher, director, media and entertainment research and analysis at Ovum, reflects on the role of video within Amazon Prime and how it affects Amazon’s wider business model. In 2016, Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos said of the company’s Prime service: “We get to monetise video in a very unusual way. When we win a Golden Globe, it helps us sell more shoes.” In the coming years, the strategy will go well beyond simple shopping to transforming TV.
'Miss You'
Aidan Gallagher (left) and Trinity Rose Aidan Gallagher (left) and Trinity Rose Photo by Rob Gallagher ‘Miss You’ Photo courtesy Jo Drummond Aidan Gallagher (left) and Trinity Rose L ocal musician Trinity Rose released “Miss You,” a duet with Aidan Gallagher. According to a statement shared by Rose’s mother, Jo Drummond, the song “is a story about love broken apart by distance. “The song was actually written while the two friends were living apart during Trinity’s hiatus in New York.
Maui River: Review
They say it’s a Caravan World but how did the mighty Maui River compare on our epic NT trip? My family are the quintessential novice campers. Being involved in the space for a number of years, I understand the pros and cons of the different travel approaches, the lifestyle decisions people make buying or renting products, but I thought it was time to put these theories to the test. And what better place to start than an epic trip commencing in Darwin?
Top End Family Touring, NT
Rob Gallagher found the perfect spot for quality family time in Katherine, in the heart of the Northern Territory. Amazing rock formations rose sharply from the water's edge as I paddled with my six-year-old daughter Harriet along the Northern Territory’s beautiful Nitmiluk Gorge. It is a memory I will never forget, and that's what the Northern Territory is about, getting out amongst nature, pushing your comfort zone and leaving lasting experiences, for both you and the kids.
Australian Geographic Outdoor Announces Relaunch - B&T
Aussie adventure lifestyle title Australian Geographic Outdoor has announced it will be relaunched with a new name, new editor and a new look and feel. From the next issue (September cover date), the title will be known as OUTDOOR and published by Adventures Group Holdings. These changes follow Adventures Group Holdings’ deal with Bauer Media, which saw the group begin publishing Australian Geographic Outdoor in May.
Connected TV World Summit 2017: TV's biggest changes will begin behind the scenes - Ovum
Revolution: A dramatic and wide-reaching change in conditions, attitudes, or operation. This term is overused – and abused – by many in the technology industry. But when it comes to how TV and video service providers are changing how they run their platforms, it’s strikingly apt. Last month, I had the privilege of chairing the Future of TV Operations track of this year’s Connected TV World Summit.
Netflix, Apple, and the future of the pay-TV UI - Ovum
The challenge with making predictions is distinguishing between what you want to happen and what will happen. And so it is with the pay-TV user interface (UI). Like many people, I love TV, but often struggle to decide on what to watch, due to shows and movies being hidden within a labyrinth of menus or across multiple apps. So far, the industry has been quick to acknowledge this failing, but has been slow to act.
BBWF 2016 Highlights: Day Three - Ovum
Ovum has a team of senior analysts attending this year’s Broadband World Forum (BBWF 2016), on October 18–20, VR & AR World on October 19–20, and Apps World on October 19–20, all at ExCeL, London. We are chairing and moderating a number of sessions across the three days and will be discussing the latest industry trends, market challenges, and opportunities.
Analyst Opinion: 10 trends from CES 2016
The Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas provides a glimpse of new technology and innovation to come during the rest of the year. There was more evolution than revolution to this year’s event, with many companies launching “me-too” or upgraded versions of existing products rather than breakthrough concepts. It’s a welcome sign of maturity for many new categories, which have suffered from poor design and misguided concepts in the past.
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Opinion As more business processes become digitized, tasks such as monitoring, decision making, and optimization that would previously have been carried out by human participants are beginning to be augmented or replaced by machine-based algorithms and artificial intelligence. This is a natural progression in the transition to digital, and we expect to see it advance rapidly […]
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