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'For all the noise around rival streamers and subscriber numbers, Clive Dickens argues the real existential pressure on Netflix is coming from somewhere else entirely. “Another reason the next billion is going to be very hard is AI,” he said, pointing to how quickly audiences are shifting from consuming content to generating it."' Thank you so much to Natasha Lee and Mediaweek Australia for sharing the Meliora perspective on the Warner Bros. Discovery acquisition by Netflix that has made international headlines this week. Read the piece here: https://lnkd.in/gJN7vsp5 #ThePursuitOfBetter

It's Melbourne, 2011. Three founders have a big idea: personalised radio that knows your taste in music, your location, your favourite content. And whilst they're busy trying to solve that particular problem, they'll build something else entirely. This week on The Relentless Optimist, we share 'The Story of Omny Studio's Podcast Pivot'. With thanks to Matt Saraceni, Sam Cavanagh, Jules Lund, Clive Dickens, produced by 18Sixty and support from Edward Hooper. Listen now wherever you get your podcasts: https://lnkd.in/gGq55HFD #ThePursuitOfBetter #TheRelentlessOptimist Anthony Zahra Gareth Evans Tony Moorey Melanie Lee Vijay Solanki 🧘♂️🤖📖

Brisbane, 2023. A 25-year-old stands twelve yards from goal. Between her and history: a goalkeeper, a football, and the weight of an entire nation watching. Cortnee Vine is the youngest player on the pitch. If she scores, Australia reach their first ever FIFA World Cup semi-final, and it’s all happening on home soil. Until now, women's football had been a side story. Until, in this moment, everything is about to change. But this story isn't just about what happened on the pitch. It's about the hundred days before that kick - when a telecommunications company took a gamble. What if 85% of the country decided to watch? What if the Matildas went all the way? What if technology helped change the standing of women’s football forever? This week we tell the story of the Australian 2023 FIFA WWC broadcast - Stadium networks upgraded ahead of schedule. A content delivery network rebuilt from scratch. A studio constructed inside a telco office. Engineers watching dashboards as numbers jumped by tens, then hundreds, then thousands, then tens of thousands - in microseconds. The longest penalty shootout in FIFA history unfolding while invisible infrastructure carried it to millions of screens across a continent. Listen now: https://lnkd.in/gMBUKf2i Clive Dickens Stephanie Foran Amy Prosser Melanie Lee with thanks to 18Sixty Anthony Zahra Gareth Evans Tony Moorey #ThePursuitOfBetter

A rickety staircase in Soho leads to a small office where four founders are about to do something impossible. They have an old Nokia phone, a laptop with a few dozen songs, and an algorithm. Years before the iPhone. Before streaming. Before smartphone apps. They’re about to answer an age-old question: What's that song? And in the process, change music discovery forever. Today we are pleased to share our second episode of Meliora's The Relentless Optimist podcast- 'The Story Of Shazam - The Early Years'. With thanks to Clive Dickens Chris Barton Vijay Solanki 🧘♂️🤖📖 18Sixty Backchat Media Listen now wherever you get your podcasts: https://lnkd.in/gqN2fbue #ThePursuitOfBetter #TheRelentlessOptimist

Congratulations to Edward Hooper Andrew Armstrong and the GXE team on a successful Series A funding round. We are proud to back GXE through our investment arm, Meliora Ventures and looking forward to what’s to come. #ThePursuitOfBetter https://lnkd.in/gA-3eUjf

It's November 2010. A 19th-century chapel in North London fills with an unusual congregation. They haven’t come for worship - they’ve come for something that’s never been attempted before. Sir Elton John sits at a white piano, about to make history. Not just with his performance, but with the invisible technology carrying his music into homes across Britain. Today we are pleased to launch the Meliora podcast: The Relentless Optimist. Stories of what happens when curiosity, creative courage and technology combine. Listen now: https://lnkd.in/gTNRNnVb With enormous thanks to Meliora strategic partner 18Sixty as well as Gareth Evans Anthony Zahra Tony Moorey Christian O'Connell James Curran Anthony Abbott Clive Dickens Available wherever you get your podcasts. #ThePursuitOfBetter #TheRelentlessOptimist