Tim Mulligan

Tim is MIDiA's research director and senior video analyst. His research focus is streaming TV, and the intersection between established and emerging monetisation and engagement models for consuming TV and film. Underpinning this is a focus upon the business strategy and financial environment around which video services compete. Supporting this supply side coverage is a detailed overview of the consumer dynamics driving engagement from fandom to subscription challenges and video ad responsiveness.

The Implications Of Amazon’s Bid For Fox’s Regional Sports Networks

Tim Mulligan

21 Nov 2018

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Hot on the heels of 21CF (21 st Century Fox) securing a renewal of its multi-year distribution deal with the leading US pay TV operator AT&T; 21CF’s regional US Sports networks are now in play. According to CNBC , tech major Amazon is bidding for all 21CF’s 22 regional sports TV networks.

Why AT&T is Renewing Its Fox Distribution Relationship

Tim Mulligan

19 Nov 2018

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Yesterday , leading US telco AT&T publicly announced the multi-year renewal of its programme distribution deal with Fox Networks Group. AT&T negotiated the deal with 21stCentury Fox assets, which will go to Disney once their takeover of Fox is finalised early in 2019.

The English Premier League And The Risks Ahead

Tim Mulligan

19 Nov 2018

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Last week’s appointment of Susanna Dinnage to the post of chief executive of the English Premier League marked a watershed moment in the history of Europe’s most valuable sports league. For a start, history has been made with the blunt recognition that Dinnage is the first female chief executive...

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

Tim Mulligan

14 Nov 2018

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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 on sharing best practices, innovation and technology road map for the next few years.

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MIDiA Research Predictions 2019

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

8 Nov 2018

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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. Companies and brands mentioned in this report: ABC, Alibaba, Alphabet, Amazon, Amazon Prime Video, Apple, Apple Music, AT&T, BBC, BT, BT Sports, BT T...

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

Tim Mulligan

25 Oct 2018

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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 as a public company, it has reported a decline in worldwide monthly active users (MAUs).

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

Tim Mulligan

17 Oct 2018

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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 losing momentum.

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

Tim Mulligan

11 Oct 2018

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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 and 2017 to an estimated $8.

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

Tim Mulligan

2 Oct 2018

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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 into state law.

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

Tim Mulligan

1 Oct 2018

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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 Traction in Emerging Markets Percentage of Consumers that Use P2P Networks to Download Video, Q1 2018 In developed markets P2P piracy has been reduced to a dwind...

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Video Streaming Subscription Services Market Metrics

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 in 31 different countries. This report contains charts and analysis for 10 countries, including consumer survey data, while the complete excel model is p...

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

Tim Mulligan

24 Sep 2018

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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 £4 billion ($6 billion) more than Fox’s bid which was backed by Disney, which will inherit...

Why Sky has Placed A Strategic Bet On Disruptor Netflix

Tim Mulligan

19 Sep 2018

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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 part of a new Sky subscription pack available on Sky Q called Ultimate On Demand .

How Netflix is Slowly Disrupting YouTube

Tim Mulligan

14 Sep 2018

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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 era, this has manifested itself in the division of business models into subscription video o...

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

Tim Mulligan

30 Aug 2018

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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, Ireland, Australia and New Zealand will from today be able to view Facebook Watch through their ...

Why Netflix Needs To Consider Advertising

Tim Mulligan

23 Aug 2018

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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 (that which cannot be said) moment for the company.

Facebook Becomes A Player In Indian Sports Rights

Tim Mulligan

17 Aug 2018

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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 data leaking scandal in April and then the unprecedented 20% plunge ($120 billion – equivalent t...

Is Netflix on the Edge of Financial Disruption?

Tim Mulligan

16 Aug 2018

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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 an unprecedented level of debt issuance by the company with $8.

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Tech Majors Market Shares Q2 2018
A Tale of Mixed Fortunes

Alistair Taylor, Karol Severin, Tim Mulligan and Zach Fuller

10 Aug 2018

Apple Spotify YouTube

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 one-day loss in market capitalisation in the history of US stock exchanges.

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

Tim Mulligan

8 Aug 2018

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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 to compete directly with subscription video on demand (SVOD) services, with the announcement...

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