MipTV Online Plus ends on April 2. Series Mania ’s Digital Forum on April 7. As virtual marketplace presentations foreseeably wind down, here area few first takes on the world’s first, and one hopes last, totally online business. More will be added shortly.
Yes, deals were announced during the Series Mania/Mip-TV virtual marketplace, which may now be beginning to wind down.
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But sales news flow, even by MipTV standards, was notably slower than normal. One reason: Many super-indies have offices in most major territories. So the Banijay Group has focused this last week not on sales but commissions to its local companies – for instance, Germany’s Brainpool TV on the SAT-1-ordered “Like, Stay at Home” – of COVID-19 pick-me-up shows.
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How the marketplace world changes: The long-term impact by category - AIM Group
From cars to homes to jobs to general e-commerce, the Covid-19 pandemic will have a profound, long-term impact on every category of marketplace. We're seeing the effects already. Some changes will last forever; some, like virtual tours of homes, may well fade over time.
Chaos in the Marketplace? Don't Believe It! - Foundation for Economic Education
Buyers and sellers have conflicting objectives. Buyers want low prices. How low? As low as possible. Sellers want high prices. How high? As high as possible. Sounds like a recipe for chaos in the marketplace, doesn't it? Lots of Americans think so. The mind-set has pervaded our nation at least since Franklin Roosevelt's 1930s New Deal .
This notion of marketplace chaos is bogus, however. Never mind the fact that many otherwise intelligent Americans have embraced it. Also bogus is the companion notion that reconciliation of buyers and sellers' conflicting objectives is possible only if government economic "czars" prescribe the terms for buyer/seller interaction.
What sound does a volatile stock market make? - Marketplace
The COVID-19 pandemic has sparked historic stock market volatility in recent weeks, coming on the heels of historic highs.
Maybe you’ve seen the graphs; a steady rise followed by a sharp drop that is now zig-zagging, up and down. That’s what the data looks like. But what might it sound like? Is there a way for us to actually hear how the market has gone from the steady highs of months ago to its current state?
Yes, there is. Thanks to Jordan Wirfs-Brock, an information science Ph.D student at the University of Boulder Colorado. Wirfs-Brock created a 12-second sonification of the stock market from Jan. 2, 2020 to March 27, 2020, where each second represents a week of trading. Using the Dow Jones Industrial Average market data, Wirfs-Brock focused on two metrics: the daily percentage change, to convey volatility and the daily closing price, to convey overall market movement.
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With stores closed, local bookstores lean on online sales - Marketplace
Bookstores across the country have closed or are closing their doors to help slow the spread of COVID-19. For independent bookstores with tight margins, closure poses an obvious threat to business.
Bookshop.org is an online platform that lately finds itself providing vital assistance to many brick-and-mortar independent bookstores. The platform helps local bookstores sell books online, allowing stores to continue to reach patrons digitally. Andy Hunter, founder and CEO of Bookshop.org, told “Marketplace” that the company has "seen a steady rise in book sales" and that stores are selling "about 800% of what they were selling a few weeks ago."
China's employees paid wages from COVID-19 shutdown - Marketplace
Huang Xiangyun chats with her colleagues at a clothing store in the suburbs of Shanghai. She is happy to be back at work.
In January, Huang was in central Anhui province visiting her family for the Lunar New Year when people across the country were forced to stay indoors to prevent the spread of the COVID-19 virus.
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"Some officials dug a big hole in our roads so no cars could enter the village. We could go grocery shopping, but we avoided that if we could," Huang said. "My father-in-law organized volunteers to buy the stuff villagers needed."
Shipping in the age of COVID-19 - Marketplace
While many of us are staying inside to curb the COVID-19 outbreak, some people are are still heading to work, to supply the economy with essential products. For many barge workers shipping products along America’s waterways, dangerous conditions can arise on the job even without an global pandemic.
Austin Golding is the president of Golding Barge in Vicksburg, Mississippi. He spoke with “Marketplace” host Kai Ryssdal about how his barge crews are navigating the coronavirus outbreak.
What the Depression can teach us about economic crises - Marketplace
We're starting to see some devastating economic indicators related to the global pandemic. More than 3 million people filed first-time unemployment claims the third week of March. On Thursday, we'll find out how many people filed for unemployment in the fourth week, and on Friday, we'll get the first monthly unemployment report since large parts of the economy started shutting down.
One of the big questions on your mind is probably: Just how bad things are going to get? That's why we asked a few historians to tell us about the economic crises of the past — and in particular, the Great Depression — and what we should be keeping an eye out for today.
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