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Sep 24, 2024 | 
mediacatmagazine.co.uk | Natasha Randhawa |Fintan Gillespie |Duncan Bell |Paul Childs
Harder, better, faster, stronger. Daft Punk’s 2001 anthem prophesied our technological zeitgeist; two decades on, our lexicon posits a sleek, shiny, yet just as relentless digitised future. Clouds archive our memories, streams curate our entertainment, and intelligence is no longer considered purely carbon-based. Our realities are layered — MR, AR, VR, XR — and through our devices, we can dissolve into code, crossing boundaries to connect with anyone, anywhere.
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Jul 22, 2024 | 
mediacatmagazine.co.uk | Josh McLoughlin |Josh Mcloughlin |Clare Turner |Duncan Bell |Kathryn Jacob OBE
The late, great, Pulitzer Prize-winning film critic Roger Ebert once said: ‘Old [movie] theatres are irreplaceable. They could never be duplicated at today’s costs – but more importantly, their spirit could not be duplicated because they remind us of a day when going to the show was a more glorious and escapist experience. I think a town’s old theatres are the sanctuary of its dreams.’ A decade after Ebert’s death in 2013, cinema is confronting its own mortality.
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May 8, 2024 | 
mediacatmagazine.co.uk | Natasha Randhawa |Duncan Bell |Alex Hamilton |Toby Beresford
In this interview MediaCat Magazine speak to Robert Andersen, MD and Managing Creative Director at Jung von Matt CREATORS, about their project to use AI to bring to life German philosopher Immanuel Kant, recreating him as a 23-year-old influencer. Immanuel Kant was a central figure in modern philosophy and a cornerstone of German Enlightenment. Born in 1724 in Königsberg, East Prussia, Kant is best known for his work in epistemology (the theory of knowledge), ethics, and aesthetics.
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Apr 24, 2024 | 
mediacatmagazine.co.uk | Clare Turner |Duncan Bell |Kathryn Jacob OBE
Black and white classics, heart-pounding thrillers, tear-jerking dramas and side-splitting comedies. Cinema has been, and continues to be, one of the most vibrant creative industries in the world with options for all tastes. Even with the introduction of streaming on demand, and not to mention a global lockdown, audiences still continue to visit the cinema.
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Apr 2, 2024 | 
mediacatmagazine.co.uk | Josh McLoughlin |Josh Mcloughlin |Duncan Bell |Kate Knowles |Nazli Selin Ozkan
FHM, Shortlist, Glamour, Now, Time Out London… the rise of digital and skyrocketing print costs have killed off many longstanding British magazines in print. Sales have been falling since 2005. Even new media magazine darlings like Vice and gal-dem have closed, cutting hundreds of jobs as publishers’ online revenues are squeezed by an ‘oligopoly’ of tech giants hoovering up $4 in every $10 spent on advertising globally.
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Mar 13, 2024 | 
mediacatmagazine.co.uk | Ben Kay |Duncan Bell |David Juul Ledstrup |Mike Chivers
Picture the scene: it’s 2003 and eight Creative Directors are sitting in a windowless basement room somewhere in Cannes. They have agreed to spend three days there, judging all the commercials that have been entered that year. Outside, the sun is shining, and many of their colleagues are now several bottles of rosé into a very long lunch. Those creative directors have taken on this task for the honour and prestige, but by day two they are starting to lose the will to live.
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Feb 5, 2024 | 
mediacatmagazine.co.uk | Jonathan Fraser |Duncan Bell |Natasha Randhawa |Ashley Bolser
In the creative sector there is no more sure-fire route to boring, mediocre work than falling into a transactional relationship with brand clients. Brilliant ideas don’t come when walls are built between the client and their agency. They come when both sides can talk, hypothesise, and ideate together.
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Feb 1, 2024 | 
forum.flyawaysimulation.com | Duncan Bell
When I go into FSX Flight Planner, as soon as I choose my origin and destination and Find Route, when I try to save the Flight plan FSX locks up and I have to restart..This never happened when I was running Windows 7 but happenes almost all the time now that I have upgraded to Windows 10 even when I run FSX as administrator.. Still does not answer your question?
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Jan 25, 2024 | 
mediacatmagazine.co.uk | Grace Gollasch |Duncan Bell |Aoife Nicholas
UK advertising spend rose by 15.9% to a total of £9.6bn for the period July to September 2023, marking the first time that advertising spend in Q3 has exceeded the £9bn mark, according to data from the Advertising Association and WARC Expenditure Report. Driven predominantly by a sharp increase in online advertising, advertising spend generated higher-than-expected figures in Q3 2023.
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Jan 25, 2024 | 
mediacatmagazine.co.uk | Duncan Bell |Emily Rich |Tiffany Horan |Adele Walton
In Scott Galloway’s most recent No Mercy/No Malice blog he talks about the threats to Hollywood, and towards the end he mentions the threat of AI. ‘Bangkok-based directors aren’t the only ones coming for Hollywood jobs — so is AI. The industry is a cornucopia of AI use cases. You could spend $80,000 on a good sound designer, or you could spend $1,000 for an annual subscription to an AI tool that does slightly inferior work. Slightly.
