Industries: Ownership and control
1. A conglomerate ownership is a media company that owns lots of smaller media companies. 2. The smaller companies that are owned by the conglomerate. 3. They make money at every stage of production and distribution. Complete Ownership = more profit and control. 4. Allows companies to widen their audience and find other ways to make money. 5. Disney , MCU and Cross Media Convergence. 6. Smartphones as they have completely changed the relationship between industries and producers. 7. Instagram were becoming a threat to Facebook so they took the risk and bought it. 8. Rupert Murdoch 9. Walt Disney Pictures , Walt Disney Animation Studios, Pixar, Marvel Studios, Lucasfilm, 20th Century Studios, 20th Century Animation, and Searchlight Pictures . 10. Allows the MCU to have a more creative freedom when making shows about the Marvel Universe on films and TV.