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Google Reveals Interactive YouTube Ad Tools as it Prepares to Compete with Amazon

Zach Fuller

2 Oct 2018

digital advertising

Ads on YouTube are about to get a lot more interactive. With competition from Amazon heating up, Google is doubling down on the competitive advantage of its video assets, namely YouTube’s unrivalled position as a how-to video domain, compared to Netflix and Amazon Prime Video’s more premium offerings.

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Tencent Announces Strategic Pivot, Focusing On Cloud and AI

Alistair Taylor

2 Oct 2018

business services

Chinese regulators

Chinese tech major Tencent announced its first restructuring in six years and third in its 20 year history, including creating a new division to focus on business services such as cloud computing. This pivot comes off the back of the Chinese regulators freezing approvals for games licenses, a key contributor to Tencent’s revenue and an overall tightening in government regulations, which has seen a severe reduction in gaming approvals since March .

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The State of California Goes Head to Head with The US Department of Justice on Net Neutrality

Tim Mulligan

2 Oct 2018

21st Century Fox

The Golden State is renowned for doing things differently from the rest of the US and, yesterday, its liberal credentials were reiterated by California Governor Jerry Brown signing net neutrality legislation into state law.

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Can ESPN+ Provide Pay-TV Networks Model To Address Declining Subscribers?

Alistair Taylor

28 Sep 2018

ESPN+, Disney’s sports-centric streaming video on demand (SVOD) service, has gained more than one million paying subscribers in just over five months following its launch in April 2018 , with Kevin Mayer, chairman, Direct-To-Consumer and International, The Walt Disney Company announcing : “Reaching one million paid subscribers is an important milestone for any video subscription service, but reaching this benchmark in such a short amount of time is an incredible testament to the teams from DTCI and ESPN who have worked tirelessly to bring this product to market and continually improve it since our April launch.

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Can Xbox All Access Help Microsoft Tip The Games Console Market Share In Its Favour?

Karol Severin

26 Sep 2018

As you probably know by now, Microsoft launched Xbox All Access in the US. It is a bundle deal offering an Xbox console and a two year access to Xbox Game Pass and Xbox Live – all this in return for 24 monthly payments of $21.

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Comcast Has won The First Round Of The New World Media War

Tim Mulligan

24 Sep 2018

On Saturday Comcast won the auction battle between itself and rival 21 st Century Fox For the 61% of the company which Fox does not own. In a dramatic end to the three stage bidding process, Comcast offered £4 billion ($6 billion) more than Fox’s bid which was backed by Disney, which will inherit the 39% of Sky still owned by Fox when it completes its $71.

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Sirius XM Acquires Pandora: Greater Than The Sum Of Their Parts?

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Zach Fuller

24 Sep 2018

Amazon Prime Music

media acquisitions

In the latest example of media acquisitions, though one less likely to flood the headlines as Comcast’s purchase of Sky, Sirius XM has announced it will be purchasing streaming service Pandora for $3.

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Will Direct Distribution Result in the YouTubification of Spotify?

Zach Fuller

21 Sep 2018

Spotify until now has been chiefly about, for want of a better word, the ‘professional musician’. True, many artists on the platform may not be making a living exclusively through their art, but many are still going through some form of label services and distribution deal.

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Spotify’s Tencent Risk

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Mark Mulligan

21 Sep 2018

emerging markets

NOTE: a previous version of this post referred to a non-compete clause with Spotify detailed in this SEC filing. I have been advised that the scope of this clause is narrower than I had originally interpreted.

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Has the BBC Cured Streaming Latency?

Alistair Taylor

21 Sep 2018

2018 FIFA World Cup

2022 FIFA World Cup

Two weeks ago , the NFL warned subscription video on demand (SVOD) services to up their content delivery game if they are to be taken seriously when bidding for premium rights. It must therefore come as good news for streaming services as it appears the BBC may have potentially broken through the latency problem facing streamers of live sporting events.

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Why Sky has Placed A Strategic Bet On Disruptor Netflix

Tim Mulligan

19 Sep 2018

Today’s announcement that Netflix is going to be part of premium Sky offerings as from November, is a bigger deal for the UK pay-TV operator than it is for the US SVOD market leader. Netflix will form part of a new Sky subscription pack available on Sky Q called Ultimate On Demand .

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Big Brother Axed By Channel 5, But It Is Not All Bad News For Endemol

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Alistair Taylor

14 Sep 2018

Dutch production house Endemol is no longer going to be making cult reality TV show Big Brother for Viacom’s UK terrestrial channel, Channel 5. It announced that it was “disappointed not to reach an agreement with Channel 5”, following Channel 5’s admission to the BBC that “the forthcoming series of Big Brother will be the last – of either celebrity or civilian versions – on Channel 5”.

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How Netflix is Slowly Disrupting YouTube

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Tim Mulligan

14 Sep 2018

One of the foundational cornerstones of monetising the digital economy is that there are two ways of paying for digital content: either with your wallet or with your attention. In the digital video streaming era, this has manifested itself in the division of business models into subscription video on demand (SVOD) streaming services, where content is accessed through a monthly paid subscription, and ad supported video on demand (AVOD), where streaming content is free to view and supported by in-video advertising.

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S4 Capital's Growth Strategy

Zach Fuller

14 Sep 2018

Advertising industry

digital advertising

F. Scott Fitzgerald famously said there are no second acts in American lives. Sir Martin Sorrell however is not an American, despite having conducted extensive business in the US and being rumoured to hold the record for most the transatlantic concord flights between London and New York.

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Article 13 – Laws of Unintended Consequences

Mark Mulligan

14 Sep 2018

[If this was Medium, it would say ‘long read’ – you’ve been warned] I do not normally add disclaimers or qualifiers at the start of blog posts, but given how divisive the whole Article 13 debate has become, there is a big risk that some readers will make incorrect assumptions about my position on Article 13.

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The Instagram Shop: The Case for Ecommerce Diversification and Tech Major Dismantling

Georgia Meyer

14 Sep 2018

The Verge recently reported rumours that Facebook is building a standalone Instagram app for shopping. Whilst this news is as yet unconfirmed by Instagram, it would seem a logical next step given Facebook’s recent innovations to evolve the current Instagram product into a seamless site for ecommerce.

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Mid-Year 2018 Streaming Market Shares

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Mark Mulligan

13 Sep 2018

amazon music unlimited

Amazon Prime Music

Music subscribers grew by 16% in the first half of 2018 to reach 229.5 million, up from 198.6 million at the end of 2017. Year-on-year the global subscriber base increased by 38%, adding 62.8 million subscribers.

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DAZN launches in the US – is it worth the gamble?

Alistair Taylor

12 Sep 2018

On September 10 th 2018 UK-based Perform Group officially launched DAZN US, its sports streaming video on demand (SVOD) service for the US. Following its inaugural launch in August 2016 in Austria, Germany and Switzerland, which was followed shortly thereafter by its launch in Japan, Perform has been actively buying up an extensive range of international sporting rights.

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Until Subscriptions Take Off, Is YouTube the Main Way to Build Emerging Market Audiences?

Zach Fuller

12 Sep 2018

Streaming has opened previously untapped emerging markets for music due to both heavy piracy and the absent legacy of a robust music industry, but monetisation remains lower in emerging markets because of the less developed digital ad markets.

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NFL issues warning to streaming services

Alistair Taylor

6 Sep 2018

Amazon Prime Video

Consumer behaviour

As rights holders and tech majors continue to experiment with streaming video on demand (SVOD) services as a way to broadcast sports content, questions are being raised about the ability of streaming platforms to reliably deliver high-demand premium sports events to paying sports fans.

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