Culture Insight & Innovation

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UK music streaming hits high note of 500m songs per week

Ed Sheeran, Mark Ronson and Rihanna helping to drive the boom in audio streams on services such as Spotify, Deezer and Google Play

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Belvoir Director Anne Marie Sarks launched a last-minute twitter campaign #greygrey4taytay to help secure permission to use Shake it Off on stage.

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For Mark Zuckerberg, The Future is Immersive

Video may be hot right now, but the future is virtual reality.

Video content is proving enormously popular for Facebook users and advertisers. Users now spend 46 minutes a day on the company’s products thanks to video, though Mark Zuckerberg is quoted saying that immersive 3D content is going to be the next big thing (may or may not be surprising since the company acquired virtual reality start up Oculus last year).

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This Digital R&D Fund video shows how arts and cultural organisations in England are using mobile technology to improve accessibility. 

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The Digital R&D Fund’s latest video exploring how arts and cultural organisations in England are using mobile technology to engage audiences. 

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As we punch above our weight as a global hub for the creative industries let’s remember that it all has to start small somewhere.

Caroline Norbury, Chief Executive of Creative England

http://www.theguardian.com/media-network/2015/jul/20/britains-got-talent-how-to-ignite-our-creative-industries

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New research from the Australian Department of Communications shows that 4 in 10 ‘content-consuming Australians’ had accessed media illegally in the first three months of 2015 (double the rates seen in the UK) and only a fraction of those would stop if threatened by their internet service provider.  People would likely stop infringing if legal content was cheaper (39%), more available (38%), and had the same release date as other countries (36%), though 43% say they’re not confident of what is legal online content…

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Find out more about the economic contribution the arts and culture sector makes to the creative industires, and the wider economy.

Arts Council England has released a new report on the macroeconomic contribution of the arts and culture industry to the UK economy. Two things stood out to me: The first is that is shows Gross Value Added by arts & culture increased by over a third between 2010 and 2013; a tough time for the UK economy. The second is that the average arts and culture worker is paid well over the national average wage in the UK. Go figure.

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Is streaming good for music? - BBC News

Four experts give their view about the effect of streaming on the music industry.

The BBC took a closer look at the impact of streaming services on music careers. The 25 min podcast  contains some interesting perspectives, including Lars Ulrich from Metallica who says less money for record companies equals less investment in young artists.

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