We are soon to be presented to the 2022 edition of Spotify Wrapped! This is one of the company’s most popular personalization features, as well as the hook for its’ biggest marketing campaign of the year. Ahead of the release – here is a chart of all songs with more than 1 billion Spotify streams. Likely, some of them will also be featured in your personal top rankings.

Apple has also started to sum up 2022, as it released the winners of its annual App Store Awards earlier this week. The winner in the iPhone category is… BeReal! For those of you who have not been aquatinted with this app yet, BeReal is a social media app that asks users to post unfiltered photos of themselves once a day. The app is intended to encourage people to be more authentic, taking away heavily filtered photos and asking us to present ourselves just as we are – in that moment. Below are some of the most viral BeReal’s we were blessed with this past year.

Speaking of wrapping up and looking ahead, Mediavision will soon present its’ 2022 survey – The Nordic Industry Outlook. In exchange for your anonymous participation in a 3-minute online survey, we will provide a whitepaper on the anticipated development for the Nordic media market in 2023 – from the perspective of the industry, sprinkled with insights from the Mediavision team. All data is We would very much appreciate your help!

BTW – Here is another, rather mindboggling visualization to take a look at if you have a moment to spare: “All of the world’s money and markets in one visualization.”

Netflix and Create Denmark (including the seven creative workers’ unions it represents) have reached an agreement following 11 months of negotiations. The new agreement is said to guarantee an initial rights payment upon launch on the Netflix service, followed by additional remuneration based on the success of a show. Netflix has recently entered into similar agreements in Norway and Sweden. The agreement comes into force when it is approved by the confederations and the Producers Association and runs until the end of 2024. Although the long-awaited agreement finally has been formed, it is still unknown when the Danish Netflix productions will resume.

According to Bloomberg, the company’s plans to spend more than USD 1 billion a year to produce movies set for a release in theaters. This marks the largest commitment to cinemas made by an internet company. Reportedly, the budget will cover between 12 to 15 movies annually – according to the source, who asked not to be identified because the company is still “sorting through its strategy”. Regardless of the somewhat unsure nature of these news, the market replied happily, and US cinema chain shares rose sharply after publication.

Amazon further proved its willingness to pay the big bucks for theatrical movies this week, with its acquisition of Red Shirt, a spy thriller package featuring Channing Tatum, David Leitch, and Simon Kinberg. Amazon has paid more than USD 50 million to the key creative talent for this original thriller.

Rival Netflix has traditionally been hesitant to host wide cinematic releases of its movies ahead of the streaming release. It recently showed Glass Onion: A Knives Out Mystery in a limited number of theatres in the US – much smaller scale than the industry had anticipated following to the historic deal Netflix reached with AMC, Regal, Cinemark ahead of the premiere.

Sweden: AVOD has bigger reach than SVOD – Advanced Television 

Sociala medier driver AVOD-tittandet – Dagens Media

Disney Plus höjer insatsen – ger ut svensk originalserie – Dagens industri

Storytel ökade streamingintäkterna med 27 procent – vände till vinst – Breakit