Tim Mulligan

5G Represents a Marriage Made in Heaven For the Cable Industry

Blog post by Tim Mulligan

14 Nov 2018

Last week MIDiA Research was invited to participate on a panel at the Cable Next Gen Europe event in London, to discuss convergence and the impact of 5G for cable providers. The gathering largely focused…

MIDiA Research Predictions 2019

Report by Alistair Taylor, Georgia Meyer, Mark Mulligan, Tim Mulligan and Zach Fuller

8 Nov 2018

In this report MIDiA Research analysts present their predictions for what will be the big trends in digital media and tech, across music, video, media, brands, marketing, games and sports in 2019. Key…

Twitter’s Q3 Earnings Usher in The New Normal For Public Tech Companies

Blog post by Tim Mulligan

25 Oct 2018

Today’s Twitter Q3 earnings represents a signature change in big tech and the value criteria ascribed to publicly traded consumer facing tech companies. For the first time in Twitter’s five years…

Netflix Q3: The SVOD Giant Pushes On, but the Tail Risks Are Mounting

Blog post by Tim Mulligan

17 Oct 2018

Yesterday’s Q3 earnings results for Netflix were welcomed by a Wall Street unnerved by last week’s US stock sell off and fear that the tech majors, the growth engine for the 10-year bull run, are…

The Fan Bingbing Story and What it Means for China’s 2018 Video Transformation

Blog post by Tim Mulligan

11 Oct 2018

China has come a long way in short time in video. Going hand in hand with the dramatic economic expansion the Country has experienced, China’s domestic box office alone increased 19-fold between 2007…

The State of California Goes Head to Head with The US Department of Justice on Net Neutrality

Blog post by Tim Mulligan

2 Oct 2018

The Golden State is renowned for doing things differently from the rest of the US and, yesterday, its liberal credentials were reiterated by California Governor Jerry Brown signing net neutrality legislation…

MIDiA Data Spotlight: Video Piracy
P2P Holding on in Emerging Markets

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Report by Tim Mulligan

1 Oct 2018

This is part of MIDiA’s data snapshot series in which we spotlight curated consumer datasets. Figure 1: P2P Video Piracy is Relegated to Niche Audiences in Developed Markets but Still Has…

Video Streaming Subscription Services Market Metrics

Report by Tim Mulligan

27 Sep 2018

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This report includes the key findings of MIDiA’s Global Streaming Video Subscriber Market Share Model, in which we present the subscribers, revenues and market shares of video streaming services…

Comcast Has won The First Round Of The New World Media War

Blog post by Tim Mulligan

24 Sep 2018

On Saturday Comcast won the auction battle between itself and rival 21 st Century Fox For the 61% of the company which Fox does not own. In a dramatic end to the three stage bidding process, Comcast offered…

Why Sky has Placed A Strategic Bet On Disruptor Netflix

Blog post by Tim Mulligan

19 Sep 2018

Today’s announcement that Netflix is going to be part of premium Sky offerings as from November, is a bigger deal for the UK pay-TV operator than it is for the US SVOD market leader. Netflix will form…

How Netflix is Slowly Disrupting YouTube

Blog post by Tim Mulligan

14 Sep 2018

One of the foundational cornerstones of monetising the digital economy is that there are two ways of paying for digital content: either with your wallet or with your attention. In the digital video streaming…

Why Today’s International Rollout of Facebook Watch is so Significant

Blog post by Tim Mulligan

30 Aug 2018

Today marks the first phase in the international rollout of Facebook Watch, the social media giant’s answer to YouTube. Having been available only in the US for the past year, Facebook users in the UK,…

Why Netflix Needs To Consider Advertising

Blog post by Tim Mulligan

23 Aug 2018

Last Friday’s (August 17th) revelation, that global subscription video on demand (SVOD) market leader Netflix was running trailers on the service for its original content shows, has created a Voldemort…

Facebook Becomes A Player In Indian Sports Rights

Blog post by Tim Mulligan

17 Aug 2018

Despite the shock to Facebook’s growth narrative in the first half of 2018, the social media giant is not standing still in rolling out its global content strategy. First came the Cambridge Analytica…

Is Netflix on the Edge of Financial Disruption?

Blog post by Tim Mulligan

16 Aug 2018

Monday’s news that Netflix’s long-serving CFO David Wells was stepping down from his position, has once again made the company’s financial operations the centre of attention. Wells's tenure oversaw…

Tech Majors Market Shares Q2 2018
A Tale of Mixed Fortunes

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Report by Alistair Taylor, Karol Severin, Tim Mulligan and Zach Fuller

10 Aug 2018

Q2 2018 delivered contrasting milestones for the tech majors with Apple becoming the first company to have a trillion-dollar market capitalisation while Facebook simultaneously saw the single biggest…

Disney Q3 Earnings: The Painful Transition To Direct-To-Consumer

Blog post by Tim Mulligan

8 Aug 2018

Yesterday a besieged Bob Iger, chairman and CEO of Walt Disney Co. had to defend his company’s Q3 (calendar Q2) results against the inflated demands of Wall Street. Disney has come out with a bold strategy…

Eleven’s Challenge With Commercialising Newly Acquired Sports Rights

Blog post by Tim Mulligan

7 Aug 2018

Sports entertainment disruptor Eleven Sports has been making headway over the previous 12 months with a series of notable acquisitions of premium sports rights in non-premium markets. Eleven’s business…

Wall Street Begins to Unfriend Facebook

Blog post by Tim Mulligan

26 Jul 2018

Yesterday (July 25 th ) Facebook announced its Q2 earnings and the results were not what the big financial speculators were looking for. Revenue for the quarter was $13.32 billion versus the $13.36 billion…

YouTube Fights to Retain Social Talent from Social Video Disruptor IGTV

Blog post by Tim Mulligan

24 Jul 2018

Yesterday news broke about Alphabet-owned YouTube offering lucrative contracts to its top social talent, to ensure that they post their videos first on the video platform. The driving force behind…