The official blog of Stathis Kassios for Business, Media, Economics & Arts

Find below some interesting articles served from yours truly for the relaxing time-intervals between family dinners during Christmas: Digital Streaming Platforms (Netflix) vs. Hollywood - read here ''Mr. Stuber’s operation is set up to supply 55 original films a year, including some with budgets as high as $200 million. Add in documentaries and animated movies, handled by other divisions, and the number of annual Netflix film releases climbs to about 90. To compare, Universal, one of Hollywood’s most prolific traditional studios, releases roughly 30 movies a year.'' #Fintech rises in Europe - read here ''Revolut claims to have attracted 3 million users so far by offering cryptocurrency trading and money transfers at the interbank exchange rate. It also stated that it’s been opening 8,000 to 10,000 accounts daily over the last 12 months while reaching $4 billion per month in transaction volume. The startup also plans to launch commission-free sto...

Taking over ''Still'' from Karmic Link’s second studio album ''Esoterica'', George Vemag transforms the original melodic rock ballad into a massive house track while keeping the progressive trance elements of his identity as a producer. Trip your mind with thick basslines, ethereal vocals & atmospheric sounds that blend together to form a dance ritual under a haunting summer moon. Enjoy ''Still'' remix @Soundcloud's HTML5 widget! - Stathis

Karmic Link on SoundCloud! Click on the link above to stream Karmic Link tracks on SoundCloud! SoundCloud is a very powerful new media & digital music distribution tool!

Just a few days before I fly back to cold Scandinavia for my second year in the Arts & Entertainment Master program, I deliberately decided to purchase Pink Floyd's album "A Momentary Lapse of Reason", released through EMI records back in 1987 (first Pink Floyd album after Roger Water's departure). The album's evocative cover shows an infinite number of beds spread along a sandy beach being lost in a curved line where the human eye meets the horizon, a pretty unrealistic scene which always caught my attention in various records stores I had visited. The glorious days of EMI, the colossal record company that shared the success of Pink Floyd, Sex Pistols (who were later fired), The Beatles, seem as an ideal past, as nowadays, EMI is facing enormous economic problems, holding not more than 9,6% of the global music business market share, counting a failed acquisition that took place in 2007, when the company was acquired by Terra Firma Capital Partners for 4...