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.

Where Verizon went wrong with go90

Tim Mulligan
Facebook
Go90
Netflix
Last week Verizon, the US’s second largest telco provider with 116 million wireless subscribers, announced the closure of its pioneering mobile-first video streaming service which launched in 2015. Go90 was launched on the back of a $200 million purchase of Intel’s unreleased streaming service, OnCue, with a mission to create mobile-centric content for digital natives (or millennials as middle-aged C-suite executives still seem intent on labelling what are, in reality, disparate demographics who collectively all grew up in the digital era).
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IGTV and How To Make Video Work in The Messaging App Ecosystem

Tim Mulligan
Facebook
IGTV
Instagram
The rise of the messaging app ecosystem over the previous seven years has created a profound challenge for premium video production companies. There are tight creative limitations that come with creating content for the smaller real estate of a smart phone screen and creating non-intrusive content on what is fundamentally a personal communication platform can also be problematic.
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Tech Majors Market Shares Q1 2018
Advertising and Subscriptions Power Growth

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Alistair Taylor, Karol Severin, Tim Mulligan and Zach Fuller
Subscriptions
Streaming
Apple
In Q1 2018 advertising revenue and services revenue drove strong growth for the tech majors – Alphabet, Amazon, Apple, Facebook, with Alphabet and Apple retaining their respective leads in each of those revenue segments but losing market share. Subscriptions were also a big part of the Q1 narrative; Amazon and Apple highlighted significant subscription growth underpinning their growing service businesses.
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