In 2020, this newspaper published a documentary series that reflects the potential consequences of the epidemic in the next society. Five years after Covid, we review some of these great issues.
Five years ago, the planet was paralyzed. Covid-19, an Asian Corona virus, expanded through every corner of the world and Spanish citizens. Long confinement began with uncertainty, fear and boredom. In this case, all kinds of questions arose: How did a person manage his spare time from now on? What will happen to cinema, theaters, the disk, the concerts? Will entertainment change forever?
“It was a very difficult time, especially since it was not known how long the closing situation will continue,” explains Louis Gill, the director general of the Film Union in Spain. Special yarn, musicians like Mike Izal gave old songs at home to give them their fans through YouTube, and others like Amaral or Coque Maya participated in virtual festivals like #yomequedoencafestival.
Meanwhile, broadcast platforms like Netflix, Disney+ or HBO Max August -they reduce the quality of their emissions to reduce servers and facilitate communications -, put distributors in examining cinemas, and lived the video game in a foundation. In Spain alone, bills in this sector grew by 18 % between 2019 and 2020 to 1747 million euros.
Live music
But health warning went to a better life and the world ended with the restoration of its old stab. Michael Isal expected that the first concerts will be “wild”, based on reports that the music promoters Association, most of the sector, was clarified. Before the epidemic, the progress was really great, with a growth of more than 14 % since 2015, peaks up to 24 %, as happened in 2018 when live music described more than 333 million euros thanks to macofestalfal and great tours. In the previous year of the health crisis, the amount reached 382 million, to nearly 64 % to 138 million in a full pandemic. the reason? Because of the restrictions, 91,106 concerts were passed in 2019 to 11851 in 2020.
In 2020
Curke of Live Music was devastating. In 2019, he had recorded 382 million euros. His historical record was. In 2020, 64 % decreased to 138 million euros. Of 91,106 concerts in 2019, it passed to 11851 concerts in 2020
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Jordi Oliva Kodina, a professor of art and human studies in 2019, explained that the overwhelming recovery of the sector by issuing bills more than 459 million euros, 2022 confirmed the overwhelming recovery of the sector
After 2021, which is still renewed due to multiple restrictions, 2022 overwhelmed the sector, with sales of more than 459 million euros, and this is 20 % over the year before the health crisis. “We have left the crisis, which is our record year according to the date we have.”
Some numbers that amounted to 2023 to approximately 579 million euros. “Yes, I think it was an answer to the truth of imprisonment and restrictions, but it also followed the direction of 2019. It is true that we left a complex situation and among the citizens, there was awareness of recovery and benefit from time, but I think it was at this time, it would have been so much because nature had already been established,”
Something more cautious shows the anthropologist Mercedes Fernandez Marrill, who believes that the most famous imprisonment and restrictions “can affect” this hatch, but “I see it as a kind of cooperation and alliance between the population. We are in societies that are deeply modified structurally, knowing the population and practicing very happy and huge cohesion meetings. It is a passion and a mood to feel monotheism and say: this is my group.”
Platforms and cinemas
More difficult to get Cinera, which closed 2019 great with 105.5 million viewers and a total of 624.1 million euros of assembly. He has been his best character since 2009.
Platforms and distributors did not help either. From day to day, Warner declared that he would simulate for the first time in cinema and platforms, while Disney chose to direct Pixar films directly in “Broadcast”, as if the exploitation windows were from cinema to open TVs, which were governed by the film industry so far were in the past. “In a position like that we live, the appearance has become short -term,” says Jill, who believes that many of these messages have been launched to give peace.
The fact is that a good part of the platforms took their first steps and needed to attract subscribers, while trying to make way for films to start the exploitation period as soon as possible. “The epidemic accelerates the decline in the platforms and we used distributors in theaters as a laboratory in which we see what might be the future of films: if it is on the platform only, which makes the first synchronous show, which reduces the windows of exploitation, follow the traditional model …”. This, as a generation says, mix the viewer and generate dissatisfaction with the large screen.
In 2020
Pits such as Netflix, Prime Video, or HBO manufactured August and announced its companies like Warner that large production will be issued simultaneously in “broadcasting” and cinemas, while cinemas have been established.
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“The looks became short. Louis Jill, FECE General Manager, says distributors used theaters as a laboratory. But the “flow” is not as strong as it seems: Disney+ Abough 2024 with 700,000 lower users.
Over time, the “singing” that predicted the end of the rooms was wrong because in the end films could not avoid exploiting them in the rooms because that enriches them, and gives them meaning and their reason, also from the economic part, by taking more performance. 2024 with 700,000 lower users -the scenario book and actors’ strike also did not help -while others such as Max or Apple TV+ alliances with other services such as Movistar Plus+.
On the other hand, it was three years aid in cinemas from the epidemic, but in 2024, the number of spectators decreased for the first time to 73 million viewers. “In Spain, the market relies heavily on Americans, and therefore any situation in the crisis there has a waterfall effect,” says Gil.
video games
A unique condition is the case of video games. Its consumption of explosion during imprisonment, as it reached only 2020 in Spain by 18 % compared to 2019, to 1747 million euros. However, the disappearance of restrictions did not make the market volatile, as it continued to grow throughout these years, even at a simple pace, until it reaches the year 2023, 2,239 million euros.
In 2020
The consumption of video games in the explosion during the imprisonment, as it reached only 2020 in Spain, reached 18 % compared to 2019, to 1747 million euros.
now
However, the disappearance of restrictions did not make the market volatile, as it continued to grow throughout these years, even at a simple pace, until it reaches the year 2023, 2,239 million euros.
There were those who expected a setback after the end of the health crisis, but the characters destroyed them. Without going further, STEAM, the Valve online video game platform, made the most popular among personal computers operators, last Sunday recorded for simultaneous players, with more than 40 million users. “Now we are collecting what we were reaping. This means that the digital gap decreases, and the spectrum of ages expands to what the video games reach and more and more than our spare time, and more easily with the mobile phone. Who does not want to play? The trend is to turn more.
In 2020
This is what we have five years ago:
This was the third episode of A documentary series “Then what?” This newspaper was published in 2020, which is reflected in the possible consequences of the epidemic in the next society.
Then, the epidemic accelerates a more individual entertainment position. New consumption proposals for home unit. For isolation. An experience characterized by the distant that seemed to remain to stay. We asked ourselves: Will entertainment change as we knew that? Will the new trends affect entertainment management? Will we be more deepened?
employment. The work was the scenario that just a few months after the epidemic was expected to start representing some of the great social changes that were then. Will Teleworking be unified? Will new jobs be established? Will the cabarets increase?
