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A High Tide Rises All Streaming Boats, For Now…

Mark Mulligan

27 Apr 2016

Apple Music Music Music Subscriptions

Against the backdrop of the first quarterly drop in revenue in 13 years and a sharp decline in China revenue, Apple Music at least had some good news in the shape of continued solid growth for Apple Music, hitting 13 million subscribers.

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Viacom, Dish Networks And The Content Carriage Squeeze

Tim Mulligan

26 Apr 2016

Amazon dish networks Netflix

The last minute renewal of the carriage agreement between TV Network giant Viacom and Dish Networks, the third biggest pay TV operator in the US, revealed just how much the balance of power is shifting in the US TV industry.

MIDiA Chart Of The Week: 9.99 Subscriptions At Saturation Point?

Mark Mulligan

18 Apr 2016

Streaming music had a good year in 2015, growing by 45%. Nonetheless when the IFPI announced the numbers much of the record labels’ attention focused on the role of free and especially that of YouTube and its perceived ‘value gap’ i.

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Amazon Ups The Stakes For Netflix

Tim Mulligan

18 Apr 2016

Amazon Amazon Prime Amazon Video

Next Monday Amazon will roll out its standalone SVOD (Subscription Video On Demand) service which will for the first time enable consumers to access its video services without being Prime customers. Prime is the premium delivery service which has been heavily promoted by the online retailing giant a...

Why Social Media Needs Video

Tim Mulligan

15 Apr 2016

facebook. twitter live streaming NFL

Last week saw headline grabbing announcements from the two big “traditional” players in social media - Facebook and Twitter. Facebook’s announcement that it was going to widen its live broadcasting service Live to groups and events was accompanied by its statementthat it was placing a new vide...

Facebook Just Claimed A Spot In The Mobile ‘App’ Distribution Of The Future

Karol Severin

13 Apr 2016

app economy chat bots F8 event

It’s official. Facebook released the highly anticipated Messenger Platform (Beta) inviting developers to build bots for the messaging platform at the F8 event yesterday. The traditional approach to building technology (e.

Chart Of The Week: Facebook Video

Mark Mulligan

10 Apr 2016

Chart Of The Week Facebook video Online video

Facebook and YouTube have a lot in common. They both have in excess of a billion users, both have become part of the internet furniture and both have transitioned from disruptive challenger to incumbent.

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The Chat Bot Boom Is About To Catch Fire

Karol Severin

7 Apr 2016

Media and Marketing

The mobile community eagerly awaits the F8 event next week to see whether rumours come true about Facebook launching a Messenger Bot Store and potentially roll out a Chat SDK which would allow developers to build their own bots for Messenger.

Why Facebook Is Tentatively Expanding Live Video Streaming

Tim Mulligan

6 Apr 2016

Facebook Facebook Live mobile video

Facebook announced today that it was expanding the functionality of its Live feature, enabling non-celebrities for the first time to broadcast live video to groups and respondents to events. Alongside this significant development, a new video tab has been created for the Facebook mobile app placing ...

State Of The Streaming Nation

Mark Mulligan

5 Apr 2016

Apple Music Deezer emerging markets

We are proud to announce a landmark MIDiA report: State Of The Streaming Nation: A Comprehensive Assessment Of The Global Streaming Music Market . If you are in any way involved with the streaming music market this report is an absolute must.

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Chart Of The Week: More Than Half Of App Users Enable Push Notifications

Mark Mulligan

4 Apr 2016

Accengage App Boy Chart Of The Week

Convincing mobile app users to opt-in for push notifications is the first challenge in implementing a successful push notification strategy. Based on data collected by MIDiA from 5 leading vendors 53% app users enable notifications.

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Snapchat Leaps From Social Media Hype To Messaging Life Companion

Karol Severin

31 Mar 2016

Chat 2.0 Facebook Mobile content

Snapchat rolled out a new set of features to its chat capabilities yesterday. Besides adding direct voice and video calling capabilities, the ‘Chat 2.0’ now offers a seamless way to switch between various types of communication within a chat session.

The Sky Kids App Follows In The Footsteps of DisneyLife & YouTube Kids

Tim Mulligan

30 Mar 2016

Media and Marketing

Tomorrow British pay-TV giant Sky will launch its Sky Kids app , which will be free of charge for its existing subscribers. The app has been designed with parents in mind to create a safe and engaging filter for Sky video content for the children of Sky customers.

Don't Write Pandora Off Just Yet

Mark Mulligan

29 Mar 2016

Apple Music iHeart Media Pandora

Pandora has made the news again with founder Tim Westergren stepping up to the role of CEO, replacing Brain McAndrews. These are certainly uncertain times for Pandora, once the stand out success story of digital music, at least from commercial terms if not always from a songwriter’s perspective.

Why YouTube Is Getting Into Live Streaming

Tim Mulligan

24 Mar 2016

Facebook Live Meerkat Periscope

Yesterday the news broke on VentureBeat that YouTube has been secretly building a new app for live streaming video. This places the world’s largest video platform into direct competition with Facebook with its Live video broadcasting feature for select A-Listers, and Twitter with its unrestricted ...

Could Apple Become ‘What The Doctor Ordered’?

Karol Severin

22 Mar 2016

Apple Apple Special Event CareKit

Besides the anticipated device shrinking , Apple made another important announcement at its Special Event yesterday. After recapping the tremendous success ResearchKit has had with improving medical research, Apple launched CareKit, a new software framework designed to help developers enable people ...

Apple Shrinks The Kids

Karol Severin

21 Mar 2016

Apple Apple Special Event iPad Pro

A number of signals were sent by Apple during the Apple Special Event in Cupertino today. Tim Cook started off by sharing that there are now 1 billion Apple devices in use around the world. Furthermore, Apple is now 93% energy renewable, with 100% in the US, China and other 21 countries.

Chart Of The Week. Playlists 1, Albums 0 – How Streaming Is Changing Music Listening

Mark Mulligan

21 Mar 2016

albums Chart Of The Week Chart Of The Week

The album has been under assault ever since Napster first gave consumers the ability cherry pick their favourite tracks and leave the filler behind. Apple formalised the process with the iTunes Store and in recent years streaming has hammered the nail in the coffin by supercharging the consumption s...

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Sports Content Comes To Basic Sky Subscription Packages

Tim Mulligan

18 Mar 2016

live sports Online video Pay TV

Today Sky announced that it is making a selection of sports content available to basic package subscribers. A new channel called Sky Sports Mix launching this summer will bring a range of sports content to all its TV customers in the UK and Ireland.

Sky Gets Serious About Virtual Reality

Tim Mulligan

17 Mar 2016

Sky sky vr studio Uncategorised

Today Sky announced that it has created an in-house unit dedicated to Virtual Reality (VR) content production called Sky VR Studio. This underlines the importance with which Europe’s largest pay-TV company assigns to the new immersive form of story telling.

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