Despite a less-impressive ending performance, HBO’s Game of Thrones (GOT) has set a record for itself as the most successful TV show in decades. With an unprecedented budget of about $800 million for the 8 seasons, GOT is the most expensive TV show to ever be produced. While its American streaming audience was estimated at about 40 million, the worldwide audience for GOT final season was also estimated at one billion viewers across 170 different countries. So it is not a matter of contest that GOT was a success, but what can we learn as media and marketing people from…
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rblfmr / Shutterstock.com John Colley, Warwick Business School, University of Warwick The year of the tech IPO is 2019. Uber went public on May 10 with a US$82.4 billion valuation. Fellow ride-sharing app Lyft floated in March with a U$24 billion valuation and Pinterest had a US$10 billion IPO in April. More big names – including Slack, Airbnb, WeWork and Palantir – are set to follow. But Uber’s share price began to slide as soon as it went public. Lyft’s shares have also been on a downward trajectory since March. So it’s worth considering how astronomic valuations for these non-profitable…
Keep your friends close, keep your acquaintances closer. Tess Dixon/Flickr, CC BY-NC-ND Panos Sousounis, Keele University Many people claim to have a broad social circle, but we are all more likely to consider only a handful of people as our “close” friends. These are the ones we turn to when we want advice or company. More importantly though, friends like these can give empathy and support at a time of need. Finding yourself out of work involuntarily is clearly just such a moment, and so naturally, you turn to your closest friends for help getting back in the job market.…
HOLY HUMOUR Driven out. The story of Adam and Eve was being carefully explained in the children’s Sunday School class. Following the story, the children were asked to draw some picture that would illustrate the story. Little Bobby drew a picture of a car with three people in it. In the front seat was a man and in the back seat, a man and a woman. The teacher was at a loss to understand how this illustrated the lesson of Adam and Eve. Little Bobby was prompt with his explanation. “Why, this is God driving Adam and Eve out of…
ACTS 14:21-27; PSALM 145; APOCALYPSE 21:1-5; JOHN 13:31-33, 34-35. Reading 1 Acts 14:21-27 After Paul and Barnabas had proclaimed the good news to that city and made a considerable number of disciples, they returned to Lystra and to Iconium and to Antioch. They strengthened the spirits of the disciples and exhorted them to persevere in the faith, saying, “It is necessary for us to undergo many hardships to enter the kingdom of God.” They appointed elders for them in each church and, with prayer and fasting, commended them to the Lord in whom they had put their faith. Then they traveled…
Today’s young people don’t play outside as much as their predecessors and are heavy users of electronics. (Shutterstock) Langis Michaud, Université de Montréal Ask anyone about the benefits of technology and it probably won’t take them long to rhyme off a list of examples: it helps broaden your knowledge, connect with friends, both new and old, and allows you to see things you’ve never seen before. But what about the drawbacks? Here’s a major one: increased screen time is hard on your eyes. In fact, more and more young people are wearing glasses to correct their nearsightedness. This trend has…
Antidepressants bring in almost $17 billion a year for the pharmaceutical industry, and yet science shows their benefit to be small. Natural therapies such as diet, exercise, light therapy and cognitive behavioural therapy are just as effective. (Shutterstock) Matt Strauss, McMaster University Winter is upon us. And with it comes the annual worsening of depressive symptoms. Sadly, in the United States, suicide continues to claim more lives than firearms, and suicide rates are increasing in nearly all states. The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention reports that death by suicide has increased by 30 per cent since 1999 and…
The 2019 Pride Women Conference will take place on Friday, May 24, 2019 at the Nigerian Institute of International Affairs, Victoria Island, Lagos, Nigeria. The theme of this year’s conference is Women: Work, Relationship and Marriage – The Conversation Expands. The conference will be chaired by the Founder and CEO of Medplus Pharmacist (Mrs) Joke Bakare. The distinguished lists of speakers for the occasion are: Tewa Onasanya, publisher and mindset stylist, will be speaking on ‘The Importance of Restyling Your Mind for Success in Every Area’. Dr Timi Oyebode, a certified profession counselor, will speak on ‘Breaking Through Trauma, Abuse and…
Dear Esteemed Readers, A very warm welcome to the month of May 2019. Today, MAY 1 is Workers’ Day. We salute workers all over the world, and we urge all our readers to find a worker and shake his or her hand with gratitude! Without workers, nothing will get done. We salute all our staff at Pride Magazine Nigeria for the good work they are doing. As one reader puts it “I am a regular reader of Pride Magazine Nigeria posts. I am really pleased with your editorial content. Great insightful articles – not just the usual magazine fluff.” As…
Access to finance is consistently listed as the biggest obstacle for start-ups Africa. Wikimedia Commons/The Wot-If? Trust Aubrey Hruby, Georgetown University Entrepreneurs have a pivotal role to play in Africa’s unemployment crisis. Today over a third of the continent’s young workforce (those aged 15-35) are unemployed. Another third are in vulnerable employment. By 2035, Africa will contribute more people to the workforce each year than the rest of the world combined. By 2050 it will be home to 1.25 billion people working aged. To absorb these new entrants, Africa needs to create over 18 million new jobs each year. Governments…