Tim Mulligan

Why Virtual Reality Will Not Break Through To The Mainstream in 2016

Blog post by Tim Mulligan

13 Jan 2016

The premier of Fox Home Entertainment’s second VR (Virtual Reality) content offering was received with much excitement at CES last week. 21 st Century Fox’s blockbuster science fiction smash hit The…

Netflix Has Now Achieved What Pay-TV Could Only Dream Of

Blog post by Tim Mulligan

7 Jan 2016

When Netflix’s CEO Reed Hastings gave his keynote presentation yesterday at CES in Las Vegas what caught the media’s attention was the scale of the Video Subscription Service’s global ambitions.…

The Birth of The ESPN For Video Games?

Blog post by Tim Mulligan

5 Jan 2016

Amidst all the Pay TV industry angst around ESPN, Disney’s troubled Sports-Network, a new venture has appeared which specifically aims to replicate ESPN’s business model. Activision Blizzard, the gaming…

Disney At The End of 2015: A Tale Of Two Brands

Blog post by Tim Mulligan

23 Dec 2015

Friday’s downgrade of Disney stock by BTIG analyst Richard Greenfield to a sell rating was based upon the current travails of its Sports broadcasting flagship ESPN. This resulted in a 4% decline in Disney’s…

Netflix Originals In Top Ten Google Search Rankings

Blog post by Tim Mulligan

17 Dec 2015

Amidst all the publicity around the most searched for terms on Google in 2015 was the revelation that not one, but three Netflix shows feature in the top ten trending TV Show searches globally. And these…

MIDiA Research Predictions, 2016
Video Eats The World

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Report by Karol Severin, Mark Mulligan and Tim Mulligan

15 Dec 2015

The 20,000 Foot View This decade has been defined by accelerating innovation and disruption. With the majority of consumers now digitally connected in one way or another, new technologies have the ability…

Netflix Gets Ready To Disrupt TV Commissioning In 2016

Blog post by Tim Mulligan

10 Dec 2015

This week, Ted Sarandos, Netflix’s head of content revealed the company’s 2016 originals pipeline. Netflix will nearly double its roster of original series from this year’s 16 to 31 in 2016. It will…

The TV App Revolution
Authenticated Channel Apps And TVE Strategy

Report by Tim Mulligan

4 Dec 2015

The 20,000 Foot View Pay-TV is under assault from a pincer movement, on the one hand losing subscribers to cord cutting and on the other growth slowing due to cord-nevers (Digital Natives with no interest…

Hulu’s Growth Shows That It’s Not all About Netflix

Blog post by Tim Mulligan

1 Dec 2015

For both the mainstream media and the consumer online video subscription services equate to either Netflix or Amazon Prime Instant Video. The push towards SVOD (Subscription Video On Demand) services becoming…

The Vision Behind Today’s DisneyLife Launch

Blog post by Tim Mulligan

23 Nov 2015

Today marks the launch of DisneyLife in the UK. This is Disney’s new app –based subscription video on demand service. The launch represents a significant development in the evolution of the global…

Vine Gets Creative For Non Creatives

Blog post by Tim Mulligan

19 Nov 2015

Yesterday’s announcement by 6 second video platform Vine that it is has launched a new feature for audio remixing of videos highlights two new contradictory trends in short form video. Firstly most…

Short Form Video Growth
The Rise Of Social Video

Report by Tim Mulligan

16 Nov 2015

The 20,000 Foot View Since its launch back in 2005, YouTube has dominated online video with an audience winning combination of user generated content and corporate short form content. While YouTube is…

T-Mobile Embraces The New Video Streaming Reality With "Binge On"

Blog post by Tim Mulligan

13 Nov 2015

From November 15 th onwards T-Mobile will stop charging for data usage of selected online video services with the launch of a new feature call “Binge On.” Following on from 'Music Freedom' (its zero…

Snapchat Grabs a Chunk Of Online Video's 4.2 Trillion Views

Blog post by Tim Mulligan

10 Nov 2015

[caption id="attachment_1093" align="aligncenter" width="584"] Online Video views by platform for H1 2015[/caption] Snapchat’s confirmation that it now gets 6 billion daily views on its messaging platform…

TV Content Owners Start To Rethink Their Netflix Relationship

Blog post by Tim Mulligan

5 Nov 2015

Yesterday Time Warner CEO Jeff Bewkes in his company’s Q3 earnings call made a statement which the emerging SVOD (Subscription Video On Demand) industry and Netflix in particular didn’t want to hear.…

User Generated Broadcast
Live Streaming Video And The Mainstream Consumer

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Report by Tim Mulligan

30 Oct 2015

The 20,000 Foot View The early adopter buzz around the launches of the live video streaming apps Meerkat and Twitter-acquired Persicope have so far failed to translate into meaningful real world adoption.…

SeeSo Continues The Trend Towards Video Fragmentation

Blog post by Tim Mulligan

28 Oct 2015

The beta launch of SeeSo by Comcast owned NBC Universal this December represents a further fragmentation of the Pay TV world as the big players look to diversify and survive the consumer tsunami wrought…

Disney Moves Into The Subscription Business

Blog post by Tim Mulligan

23 Oct 2015

Disney’s announcement that it will launch a new subscription service for the UK market is a significant moment in the media industry. The new subscription service, which will be called Disney Life, will…

YouTube Bets On Premium

Blog post by Tim Mulligan

21 Oct 2015

YouTube’s announcement today that it is going to launched a paid subscription service on October 28th has been long anticipated and marks a significant development in the platform’s evolution. A decade…

Why The Novel Is A Key Component Of The Multi Media Landscape

Blog post by Tim Mulligan

16 Oct 2015

Perhaps the most revealing comment at MIPCOM 2015 was the one made by Nick North, the BBC Director of Audiences. He stated, that he was more concerned about losing the attention of young viewers distracted…