Viral marketing: the very worst lockdown-themed adverts

https://www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio/2020/may/30/lockdown-adverts-british-airways-facebook-jack-daniels-maltesers

Prepare For The Death & Rebirth of Hollywood

https://medium.com/@RichardJanes/prepare-for-the-death-rebirth-of-hollywood-f3853aacbee0

Hit badly by COVID-19 with closed theme parks, cruise lines, and no live sporting events, we won’t see a cash purchase from Disney, but every shareholder of a failing movie exhibitor won’t pass up on the chance to see their certificates exchanged for notes that bear the mouse.

Disney already has over 200 retail stores in dying shopping malls across the country — just go to any business journal right now and look at how many retailers are reporting that they have stopped paying rent and they won’t be in a position to reopen many of their stores even once the all clear has been given. Shopping malls were already dying. This will be the final nail in the coffin for many of them.

Covid-19 could trigger 'media extinction event' in developing countries

https://www.theguardian.com/global-development/2020/may/06/coronavirus-could-trigger-media-extinction-event-in-developing-countries

Extra terrestrial: how lockdown revived linear TV

https://www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio/tvandradioblog/2020/may/04/extra-terrestrial-how-lockdown-revived-linear-tv

 Michael Sheen as Chris Tarrant in Quiz, which became event television for ITV earlier this month. Photograph: Matt Frost/ITV

Studios bypass cinemas with lucrative lockdown premieres

https://www.theguardian.com/film/2020/may/02/studios-bypass-cinemas-with-lucrative-streaming-premieres-the-end

Universal’s latest on-demand hit, kept out of theatres by Covid-19, has made more profit in three weeks than its predecessor did in five months on the big screen

 The Screen on the Green in Islington, north London. Cinemas may be closed for some time. Photograph: Philip Sharkey/TGS Photo/Rex Shutterstock