Entertainment and media outlook: 2016–2020

December 19, 2016

To capture attention and build value, companies need to understand how local and global markets are impacted by the changing pace of the entertainment and media (E&M) industry. For 7 years, PwC’s Outlook has been providing expert commentary and insights centred on the shifts in advertising and consumer spending. The Outlook is a compendium of data and perspective about our extraordinarily vibrant industry.Every sector has experienced significant technological disruption over the past decade, but only now are these major changes coming together enough for us to start to make sense of them. The challenge for industry is not simply to react to this disruption and change, but to find a path that will successfully allow companies to confidently look ahead.

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Wizards of the Coast

At Wizards of the Coast everything starts with great stories, fantastic art and innovative game play. Our players and fans are members of a global community bound together by their love of both digital gaming and in-person play. From Magic: The Gathering, the first and most widely played Trading Card Game (TCG), to Dungeons & Dragons, the roleplaying game that started an entire new category and culture, each of our brands delivers a unique entertainment value to our fan communities including novels, animated TV series, movies, video games, board games, apparel and much more.

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