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News is The Marketing Plug in Streaming Video’s Offering Gap

Tim Mulligan

4 Jun 2018

Last week it was revealed that BuzzFeed News plans to launch a new video interview show to be streamed on Facebook Watch. The weekly show will feature 20-minute episodes with news-making personalities from the worlds of politics and celebrity.

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Post-GDPR Privacy Will Become The New Premium As The Privacy Battle Rages On

Tim Mulligan

1 Jun 2018

EU residents over the last month have been bombarded with increasingly desperate calls online for acknowledgement of convoluted and reluctantly drafted privacy agreements from digital platforms. The sudden-found interest in articulating privacy issues for users has been brought about by the impeding legal threat looming from the EU.

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Is the UFC doing a Fox, and cashing in on content?

Alistair Taylor

31 May 2018

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digital content

Last week, Disney-owned ESPN acquired the exclusive rights to show the UFC tournament in the US for $1.5 billion over five years. The deal will see the UFC earn $184 million more each year than the previous deal with Fox, which begs the question; is the UFC mimicking Fox’s strategy and cashing in on its content? While Endeavor (formerly WME-IMG), which purchased the UFC for $4 billion in 2016, was seeking in the region of $450 million per year, UFC president Dana White is ecstatic with the new deal, telling MMAJunkie: “Our last deal was $116 million a year.

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Do Playlists Make the Power Law in Music Even More Extreme?

Zach Fuller

31 May 2018

Music streaming

Music has always been a superstar economy. Data going back to the 50s shows that, like many other areas of life and business, a disproportionate amount of the results come from a small number of factors.

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Spotify’s Censorship Crisis is About Social Responsibility

Mark Mulligan

30 May 2018

Spotify has been forced into something of a rethink regarding its hate speech policy. Spotify announced it was removing music from playlists of artists that do not meet its new policy regarding hate speech and hateful behaviour.

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The Next Web 2018 – A New Sense of Tech-Driven Purpose

Georgia Meyer

30 May 2018

Last week, 15,000 people converged in Amsterdam for The Next Web’s annual two-day conference. This year’s event comprised streams covering music, the workplace, sport and social media. AI and blockchain’s omnipresence across these spheres was unsurprising.

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The Politician As Show Runner

Tim Mulligan

25 May 2018

Monday’s announcement by Netflix that it had engaged the Obamas to produce a show represents the further evolution of the power of the show runner and the increasing overlap between celebrity and politics.

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Quick Take: YouTube’s Music Streaming Service Is A Defensive Hedge

Zach Fuller

23 May 2018

YouTube has announced it is launching a paid subscription music service ‒ a move that many perceive as the service putting itself in direct competition with Apple, Spotify and Amazon. However, despite YouTube being the largest streaming service by reach, this actually appears more of hedge against the real incoming threat for its ad-supported model: Facebook’s music offering.

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Music Catalogue and Streaming

Zach Fuller

18 May 2018

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rhino entertainment

When it comes to the music industry’s transition towards streaming, how the model has worked in the past requires a reconsideration of perspective. This is because throughout the business’s entire history, catalogue and copyright accounted for the majority of revenue, as breaking new artists was, and remains, an expensive endeavour very much in the VC model of investment, with a few large payoffs accounting for the overall cost.

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Is YouTube Serious About Music Subscriptions This Time Round?

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Mark Mulligan

17 May 2018

In 2014 YouTube launched its inaugural music subscription service YouTube Music Key in beta. The following year YouTube announced it was closing it ahead of the launch of YouTube Red , a multi-format subscription video on demand (SVOD) offering, of which music was going to be sub-component.

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Why Amazon could become the ESPN of future E-sports coverage

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Tim Mulligan

16 May 2018

Last month’s NBA 2K partnership announcement between Take Two Interactive (the publisher for the NBA 2K video game) and Twitch to livestream all the new NBA 2K league on its platform was yet another milestone in the rise of e-sports as a content destination in its own right.

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Tencent 2018: Is Tencent Now a Mature Business?

Alistair Taylor

15 May 2018

With Tencent making headlines for its recent round of high-profile media investments in Spotify and Skydance Media, alongside recent concerns stemming from the Q4 2017 earnings released in March, investors are waiting with baited breath for the Q1 2018 earnings due on May 16.

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Spotify, Apple Music and Ad-Supported Streaming

Zach Fuller

11 May 2018

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Cast your mind back to streaming yesteryear, back when the format was yet to establish itself as the industry’s dominant source of revenue. Spotify pushed heavily for a free tier, citing its impressive conversion rates to paid subscriptions.

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Could Spotify Buy Universal?

Mark Mulligan

11 May 2018

Vivendi is reported to be proposing to its board a plan for spinning out Universal Music. It is certainly the right time for a spin off (always sell before the peak), but a full divestment would leave Vivendi unbalanced and a shell of its former self.

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Disney Q2 Earnings: The Warnings Lights Are Flashing

Tim Mulligan

9 May 2018

Yesterday’s Q2 Earning Results from the Walt Disney Company pleased Wall Street by beating earnings estimates. However, a closer look at the financials reveals why Disney’s much heralded pivot to subscription video on demand (SVOD) is a strategic imperative for the longevity of the media conglomerate.

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Q1 Snapshot: Advertising and Media in Big Tech

Zach Fuller

4 May 2018

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The past three months saw big tech’s advertising and media practices thrust into the spotlight, with the very public Cambridge Analytica controversy swiftly following the EU’s introduction of GDPR.

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Does Tencent Hold The Key To The Future Of Media Distribution?

Tim Mulligan

3 May 2018

The digital foundations of premium video are undergoing profound transformation. Firstly, traditional TV programming and feature films are becoming decoupled from their original distribution technologies and repositioned as premium video content for digital services.

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Spotify Q1 2018 Results: Full Stream Ahead

Mark Mulligan

2 May 2018

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spotify earnings q1 2018

Spotify released its first ever quarterly earnings results today. The results reflect strong performance in its first public quarter with growth in subscribers, total users, revenue and also gross profit.

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New Media's YouTube Strategy

Zach Fuller

27 Apr 2018

New media’s video strategy came to the fore in the last year. With instant articles on Facebook and Google meaning Vice, BuzzFeed and Vox’s core platforms lost significant amounts of traffic, video became the key source of revenue, while native advertising and branded content articles lost their cachet with advertisers.

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Sweden Might Just Have Shown Us What the Future of Music Revenues Will Look Like

Mark Mulligan

27 Apr 2018

Earlier this week the IFPI released its Global Music Report – an essential tool for anyone with a serious interest in the global recorded music business. One interesting trend to emerge was the slowdown in Swedish streaming growth and its knock-on effect on overall recorded music revenues.

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