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Netflix Q1 2017: International Picks Up The Slack

Tim Mulligan

21 Apr 2017

Netflix Online video SVOD

Netflix’s Q1 earnings this week revealed a company that is continuing to shape the video streaming market, with international becoming an increasingly central part of the story. With Netflix on course to pass the psychologically significant 100 million subscriber mark, the company’s Q1 2017 quar...

Will Amazon’s Lex Platform Be the New App-Store?

Zach Fuller

21 Apr 2017

Alexa Amazon Amazon Prime Video

Swiftly following the success of the Echo, Amazon have announced their Lex platform is now open to 3rd party developers, allowing them to create and monetise chat-bots, further embellishing the device.

Google Rumoured To Plan A Built-In Ad Blocker In Chrome

Karol Severin

20 Apr 2017

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The Wall Street Journal reported yesterday that Google may be planning to introduce an ad blocking feature to its Chrome browser on desktop and mobile. The article clarifies that this is not a confirmed move yet – it may or may not go ahead in the upcoming weeks.

The Culture Bubble & Scripted Drama

Tim Mulligan

19 Apr 2017

Amazon Prime Instant Video cultural bubble Netflix

Cultural trends are defined by technology and taste arbiters. In the modern era, increasing disposable incomes have transformed the majority of the world into consumers of services as well as products, and newly created audiences have gravitated towards emerging forms of media technology.

Exclusive: Deezer Is Exploring User Centric Licensing

Mark Mulligan

19 Apr 2017

Deezer music licensing Music streaming

One of the great, though less heralded, successes of streaming in 2016 was keeping the lid on artist angst. Previous years had been defined by seemingly endless complaints from worried and angry artists and songwriters.

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Quick Take: Baidu Acquires xPerception as Competition in Sensory Computing Heats Up

Zach Fuller

14 Apr 2017

Alibaba Amazon Echo Apple

Chinese tech giant Baidu announced today they will be acquiring xPerception, in what can be interpreted as a strategic play for the Augmented Reality market. At face value, xPerception covers much of 2017 in tech’s buzzwords: AI, AR and Deep Learning.

Quick Take: UK Recorded Music Industry Grew By 5.1% in 2016

Mark Mulligan

13 Apr 2017

Music

The recorded music industry’s run of good news stories continues with the BPI’s announcement that UK revenues grew by 5.1% in 2016. As in other markets, streaming is the fuel in the engine. Revenues hit £925.

Forget Cord Cutting: It’s A Bigger Cord With More Strands

Tim Mulligan

11 Apr 2017

cord cutting Netflix Online video

Amid all the noise and angst surrounding cord-cutting among the TV industry over the last two years, it is easy to fall into the trap of thinking that pay-TV is facing an irreversible decline. The reality, however, is that traditional pay-TV operators are facing irreversible decline (albeit a relati...

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Why The NFL Has Given Up On Twitter And Embraced Amazon

Tim Mulligan

7 Apr 2017

Amazon Amazon Prime Video NFL

After a much publicized 10 game streaming trial of live Thursday night NFL games on Twitter, the NFL has decided to discontinue the experiment. This week Amazon has bought the digital streaming rights for the next 12 months, starting this fall.

Quick Take: EyeO Acquires Flattr

Zach Fuller

5 Apr 2017

Adblock Plus adblocking advertising

In what could be a turning point in content monetisation, the creators of Adblock Plus have announced today that they will be acquiring the micropayments company Flattr. What began as a partnership several months ago, turned into what EyeO founder, Till Faida, described as ‘a realisation of the ne...

Universal And Spotify’s Deal Is An Even Bigger Deal Than It Looks

Mark Mulligan

4 Apr 2017

Major labels music licensing Spotify

Universal Music and Spotify have finally agreed on terms for the streaming service’s new licensing deal which reportedly includes better rates tied to growth targets and premium windowing. Check out Tim Ingham’s piece for detail on the deal.

The Challenge Of Creating Disruptive Pioneers In The TV Industry

Tim Mulligan

31 Mar 2017

Amazon BT Dish

At this year’s TV Connect, the headline industry panel was on creating disruptive pioneers. The participants included Mark Wilson-Dunn -the Vice President of BT Media and Broadcast Enterprises, Faz Aftab -Online Commercial & Tech Director at ITV, Felix Tang -Vice President of Huawei Hybrid Vid...

Palmer Luckey Leaves Facebook: Corporate Politics And VR's Trough Of Disillusionment

Zach Fuller

31 Mar 2017

Critical Developments

Palmer Luckey, once the boy wonder of VR’s renaissance, has announced he will be leaving the Oculus team at Facebook. Luckey had co-founded the Virtual Reality hardware company in 2012, thus ushering in the technology’s latest wave of public curiosity, as well as billions of investment in VR sta...

Quick Take: What’s Next For Brick And Mortar Game Retailers

Karol Severin

30 Mar 2017

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Last week GameStop announced the closure of 150 stores. This action is part of a wider strategy implemented by the company over the last few years. GameStop is focusing on improving per store performance and is diversifying from pure game shops towards more pop collectibles, technology and geek cult...

The Rapidly Growing Niche Online Video Market Opportunity

Tim Mulligan

28 Mar 2017

Falcon Falcon Media House Listing

Yesterday Falcon Media House , the international media group focused on the streaming video market, relisted on the London Stock Exchange’s Main Market under the ticker FAL . Overseen by a management team from the overlapping worlds of pay-TV, media streaming and telco, Falcon is a full stack medi...

Why Streaming Video Services Are In Robust Health Globally

Tim Mulligan

24 Mar 2017

Online video Pay TV Streaming video

Despite the additional probability of a correction in the inflated TV content market, SVOD (Subscription Video On Demand) services globally are in robust health. In mature TV markets, nearly half of consumers now subscribe to SVOD services, with over 50% penetration in demographics for under 35s.

Drake's More Life is the New Normal in Streaming

Zach Fuller

23 Mar 2017

Apple Music compilation Drake

Released over the weekend after much delay, Drake’s More Life project is setting records across the board on streaming platforms. The Canadian artist described More Life as ‘a body of work bridging the gap between major releases’ and positioned the release as neither a mixtape nor an album, bu...

Apple Just Put Another Nail In Snapchat’s Proverbial Coffin

Karol Severin

22 Mar 2017

apple clips clips Facebook

Yesterday Apple announced it will launch Clips in April, a video-making app that allows users to capture photos and videos, combine multiple videos and include a variety of features like Filters, Overlays, Posters and Live Titles.

Welcome To The Post-DIY Era

Mark Mulligan

20 Mar 2017

ADA Bandcamp BandLab

I recently took part in the True Music Forum in Madrid, an event organized by Boiler Room. I was on a panel that explored whether DIY is now coming of age with a host of high profile artists, most of them urban artists, bypassing or twisting the traditional label model and still achieving stand-out ...

Why Apple Dedicated A Feature Page To Indie Games

Karol Severin

17 Mar 2017

app store Apple appstore

Apple’s App Store introduced a permanent feature page for indie games yesterday. The move is another step in Apple’s ongoing effort to provide more effective discovery tools and thus, drive more value from the long-tail of the app economy.

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