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Neymar to PSG: The Collision of Peak Pay-TV and New Media Economics

Zach Fuller

4 Aug 2017

Sports

Reactions to Neymar Jr’s $260M move to Paris Saint-Germain (PSG) are divisive. Many will bemoan it as a marker of how far football has gone from the days when the chasm between player and fan was less immense, back when my grandfather would drink with David O’Leary and co in North London after A...

Quick Take: Zynga Swings To Profit in Q2

Karol Severin

3 Aug 2017

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Zynga is turning things around. Its Q2 2017 revenue and booking performance were the best in four years. The company’s revenue was $209.2 million, up from $181.7million in Q2 2016. What’s more, Zynga had a $5.

Spotify at 60 Million Paid Subscribers: What’s Next?

Zach Fuller

2 Aug 2017

Spotify announced on August 1 thatit hadreached 60 million paid subscribers, just five months after the company hit 50 million. This ispositive news for the music streaming economy, but with a prospective IPO, Spotify will need to continue this growth trajectory expected of tech stocks by Wall Stree...

The Three Eras Of Paid Streaming

Mark Mulligan

28 Jul 2017

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Streaming has driven such a revenue renaissance within the major record labels that the financial markets are now falling over themselves to work out where they can invest in the market, and indeed whether they should.

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Nintendo’s Results Beat Expectations

Karol Severin

27 Jul 2017

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Nintendo is going from strength to strength. According to its quarterlyearnings results released yesterday, the company earned ¥154.1 billion, surpassing analysts’ median forecast of ¥136.5 billion.

The Relentless Rise of YouTube

Tim Mulligan

27 Jul 2017

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Monday unfurled the latest chapter in the YouTube Journey. At the Q2 earnings announcement for Alphabet, Google CEO Sundar Pichai revealed that Alphabet’s growth in revenues in Q2 2016 was largely due to the increased performance of its YouTube division.

Bertelsmann and Penguin Random House: A Strategy Based on Extremes

Zach Fuller

24 Jul 2017

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Having created a next-gen music publisher in BMG, German media giant Bertlesmann are applying a similar strategy to their publishing division. Consistent with BMG’s tactic of investing heavily in legacy music publishing assets as well as niche Indie labels, Bertlesmann are doubling down on their m...

How Social Influences Impact Tech Innovation

Zach Fuller

21 Jul 2017

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We know we cannot predict the future, yet the fortunes of investors and entrepreneurs continue to be made and lost in trying. Whether you are Nostradamus or a staff writer on Black Mirror , the future remains an amorphous misfit, forever teasing our understanding of how to prepare for its revelation...

YouTube And Latin America Are Taking Over The World

Mark Mulligan

20 Jul 2017

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Unless you have been on Mars for the last couple of days you will have seen the news that Luis Fonsi’s ‘Despacito’ has become the most streamed track in history with 4.6 billion streams. The figure includes a couple of versions of the track (ie the one include a certain Justin Bieber) but is a...

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Zynga Teams Up With MGM To Create ‘Words With Friends’ Game Show

Karol Severin

20 Jul 2017

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MGM Television and Zynga have announced a collaboration to develop a new television game show based on Words With Friends , the world's most popular mobile word game. The show will also incorporate aspects from Zynga's larger portfolio of With Friends word and puzzle games.

What The New Season Of Game Of Thrones Tells Us About YouTube Engagement

Tim Mulligan

20 Jul 2017

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YouTube has been notoriously coy about its user growth, with the official PR line for the company still stating that it has ‘Over one billion users.’ For a company that has been the driving force behind online video consumption for the last 12 years, YouTube has been both derided for the superfi...

Can Oculus’s planned $200 VR headset move the needle for VR in gaming?

Karol Severin

14 Jul 2017

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So far, VR hasn’t exactly taken off in they way many would have predicted 2 years ago. MIDiA Research consumer survey data reveals that just 4% of consumers own a VR headset (weighted average across US, UK, Brazil, Japan, Sweden and Germany).

Quick Take: An Echo Sales Spike on Prime Day Is Another Win For Amazon’s Burgeoning Service Business

Zach Fuller

14 Jul 2017

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Amazon Echo revenues have until now remained relativelysmall. With the device still available in just three markets (US, UK and Germany), its main victories have been in its cultural impact, as well as spurring other tech majors (Alphabet and Apple) into the market away from their focus on other tec...

Why Net Neutrality Is Central To The Streaming Economy

Tim Mulligan

13 Jul 2017

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The existential question of the digital era is net neutrality. Since the utopian days of 1989 when World Wide Web pioneer Tim Berners-Lee first connected his colleagues via computers at CERN in Switzerland, the emerging interconnected world of academics and entrepreneurs has been engaged in an ongoi...

Why LaVar Ball Has Chosen Facebook For His Family Reality TV Series

Tim Mulligan

7 Jul 2017

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Facebook has commissioned LaVar Ball for a docu-series, which revolves around his basketball superstar sons - Lonzo, Liangelo, LaMelo and their fast-rising careers in the second most widely viewed sport in the US.

How A Month With Spectacles Changed My Outlook On Snap’s Future

Karol Severin

7 Jul 2017

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When the SnapBot finally popped up in Berlin, I eagerly trekked to the location to see whether the product would change my existing opinions about the company’s future. It did. I made my way to the SnapBot on a sunny Friday afternoon.

The Art of Windowing: Why 4:44 is a Different Kind of Exclusive

Zach Fuller

5 Jul 2017

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For a brief moment last year, windowing seemed like the future of music streaming. Already common practice in the film-industry, the strategy was being touted as a way of utilising artist fan engagement to drive registrations (both freemium and paid) to streaming services, thus engendering the payme...

How Soundcloud Could Transform Deezer’s Market Narrative

Mark Mulligan

4 Jul 2017

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News has emerged of Deezer being a potential buyer of troubled Soundcloud. This follows on from Spotify’s prolonged but ultimately abortive courting last year . Soundcloud was once a streaming powerhouse, with 175 million Monthly Active Users reported in October 2014.

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Thoughts On Second-Order Effects For Content Discovery in Voice

Zach Fuller

30 Jun 2017

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Second-order effects are rarely considered when new technologies come to the fore and reach critical mass. For example, the realisation of smartphones, the emergence of Apple's app store and the ubiquity of Wi-Fi and cheap, effective data in mature digital markets means a service such as WhatsApp ma...

Facebook Gets Further Into Premium Sports Content

Tim Mulligan

30 Jun 2017

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The UEFA Champions League is coming to Facebook for the 2017-2018 season. Facebook is partnering with Fox Sports to live stream next season’s games starting in September, via the TV network’s Facebook pages.

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