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Why music and video are crucial to Apple’s future

Mark Mulligan

7 Jan 2019

Apple Music Video

Apple’s downgraded earnings guidance represents its first profit warning in 10 years. This is clearly a big deal, and probably not as much to do with a weakening Chinese economy ifAlibaba’s 2018 Singles’ Day annual growth of 23% is anything to go by.

Why revenue growth alone is not enough for the games industry

Karol Severin

4 Jan 2019

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UK games revenues rose to $4.9 billion in 2018, surpassing music and video revenues combined (per The Independent ). It is an impressive milestone, but it doesn't mean the best is yet to come. Revenues are what keep the lights on, but they are not always the best measure of the health of a sector.

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How YouTube’s domination of streaming clips the market’s wings

Mark Mulligan

3 Jan 2019

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Firstly, happy new year to you all. Now on to the first post of 2019. The Article 13 debate that shaped so much of the latter part of 2018 will continue to play an important role throughout 2019 while European and then national legislators deliberate on the provision and the wider Digital Copyright ...

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Will ‘pause ads’ flourish or fail?

Georgia Meyer

3 Jan 2019

Online video Pause Ads ROI

AT&T and Hulu have announced a trial for a new ‘pause’ ad format, whereby ads are placed on screens the moment a user literally presses ‘pause’ on content. As consumers become more adept at avoiding unwanted advertising, these unsolicited insertions may well be seen as yet more unwelcome...

2019 – The year the traditional TV ratings system finally crumbles

Tim Mulligan

2 Jan 2019

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2019 has only just begun andalready the traditional world ofthe TV ratings has sustained a heavy blow with US TV Network CBS not renewingits Nielsen contract into 2019 (per Broadcasting+Cable ). This is a significant blow in both financial and strategic terms to the public research company which is ...

Why T-Mobile has pressed the pause button on its video disruption plans

Tim Mulligan

21 Dec 2018

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This week it was revealed that the US’s third-largest Telco carrier, T-Mobile, was delaying the launch of its much vaunted video service into 2019. This comes after the attention-grabbing company had gone to considerable lengths to communicate the imminent launch of a telco-centric video service b...

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Artists direct and streaming the Big Winners in 2018

Mark Mulligan

18 Dec 2018

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With less than two weeks of 2018 left, the die is largely cast for the year, but we’ll have to wait at least a couple more months for the major labels to announce their results (though WMG still hasn’t declared its calendar Q3 results), and then another month or so for the IFPI numbers.

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Media musings: Who will buy Snap Inc.?

Zach Fuller

14 Dec 2018

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As outlined in our 2019 forecasting report, MIDiA predicts that Snap Inc. as we know it will be no more by the end of 2019. Its most notable asset Snapchat still has a sizeable audience among younger demographics but the company will be most likely acquired by a larger entity.

Team Instagram: 2018’s ideological warfare

Georgia Meyer

14 Dec 2018

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For Facebook, Instagram serves three critically valuable purposes: it maintains Facebook’s connection with younger users – shielding itself from competition with Snapchat. Secondly, it is opening up crucial new revenue streams via Instagram story ads.

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Soon to be the biggest ever YouTube channel, T-Series may also be about to reshape global culture

Mark Mulligan

13 Dec 2018

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Some time over the next month or so aYouTube landmark will bepassed: T-Series will pass PewDiePie as the most subscribed YouTube channel on the planet.As of time of writing T-Series had 75.4 millionsubscribers compared to PewDiePie’s 76.

Knockout blow for Eleven Sports?

Alistair Taylor

13 Dec 2018

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Eleven Sports, the insurgent subscription video on demand (SVOD) service, is considering closing its operations in the UK and Ireland after failing to secure distribution via traditional TV operators (via The Telegraph ).

Google, Facebook, and the coming big tech disruption

Tim Mulligan

12 Dec 2018

Facebook Google Strategy

2018 has turned out to be the year in which the seemingly invulnerable tech majors started to come unstuck. So far, Facebook has fallen the furthest in both the eyes of regulators and the general public upon whom it depends for multi-billion revenues.

The move toward the Cloud is real and happening in 2019

Tim Mulligan

10 Dec 2018

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Following araft of announcements at AWS reIgnite , Amazon Web Services (AWS) held a private press and analyst session last week to talk about its new tool AWS Elemental Media Connect . This new tool allows broadcasters to securely distribute live video feeds via the cloud.

Superstars and specialist services: Will OTRO bring value to fans, footballers, and their financiers?

Georgia Meyer

7 Dec 2018

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As debates on the sustainability of various digital content business models continue to play out live, OTRO, a new entrant to the market offers an opportunity to marry competing points of view. OTRO: the overview Otro is a new digital content offering for football fans: exclusive content, documentar...

Friends for life? Warner Media and Netflix renegotiate frenemy deal

Tim Mulligan

6 Dec 2018

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The revelation that Warner Media(previously Time Warner, and acquired by AT&T in June 2018) has negotiated a clause in its 2019 licensing agreement with Netflix for ageing sitcom Friends highlights the existential challenge facing TV players in the streaming era (per The Hollywood Reporter ).

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Sport1 to drop US-centric channel in favour of esports

Alistair Taylor

5 Dec 2018

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German broadcaster Sport1 is replacing its US sport focused channel for the very first German-speaking esports channel. Sport1 announced last week that the channel dubbed eSports1 will launch in Germany, Austria and Switzerland on January 24th 2019, replacing Sport1 US.

Independent labels grew global market share to 39.9% in 2017

Mark Mulligan

4 Dec 2018

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The global independent label trade body WIN has just published the third edition of the Worldwide Independent Market report. As regular readers will know, MIDiA Research has conducted this study on behalf of WIN for each of the three editions, collecting an unparalleled volume of data from many hund...

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Orange has bold ambitions for financial services

Tim Mulligan

4 Dec 2018

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Last week, Orange held a press and analyst briefing to discuss its plans for Orange Bank and the progress to date. Orange is one of Europe’s leading converged telcos. It is aggressively rolling out fibre broadband services across its footprint.

In for a penny, in for a pound: Netflix and the imminent Pinewood Studio agreement

Tim Mulligan

4 Dec 2018

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Over the weekend news brokeabout streaming video on demand (SVOD) global leader Netflix being in advanced stages of its negotiations with the owners of Pinewood Studios (UK), to secure a long-term lease on the facilities.

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Digital sports viewing will increasingly become a shared experience

Tim Mulligan

30 Nov 2018

Eleven NFL Sports

On November 28 Eleven Sports, the streaming SVOD insurgent, announced the rollout of a potentially disruptive feature called ‘ Watch Together ’. Watch Together adds private video group functionality to create a shared viewing experience for groups of friends and fans.

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