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Why 2021 Could Kill TV, Save Apple and Mark the End of Ads in Broadcast Sports

Georgia Meyer

9 Jan 2019

21st Century Fox

2021–22 are the years when the world’s most expensive premium domestic sports rights come up for renewal. In the US the NFL, MLB and NHL broadcast rights will all be up for tender, whilst in the UK the Premier League (EPL) rights will be up for renewal.

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Why Music and Video are Crucial to Apple’s Future

Mark Mulligan

7 Jan 2019

comes with music

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.

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Why Revenue Growth Alone Is Not Enough For The Games Industry

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Karol Severin

4 Jan 2019

games engagement

UK games revenues rose to $4.9 billion in 2018, surpassing music and video revenues combined. 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

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Mark Mulligan

3 Jan 2019

ad supported arpu

ad supported streaming

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 Directive of which it forms a part.

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Will ‘Pause Ads’ Flourish or Fail?

Georgia Meyer

3 Jan 2019

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 interruptions.

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2019—The Year The Traditional TV Ratings System Finally Crumbles

Tim Mulligan

2 Jan 2019

2019 has only just begun andalready the traditional world ofthe TV ratings has sustained a heavy blow with US TV Network CBS not renewing its Nielsen contract into 2019. This is a significant blow in both financial and strategic terms to the public research company which is struggling to bridge the measurement gap between its traditional ratings system and the new digital first video landscape.

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Why T-Mobile Has Pressed The Pause Button On Its Video Disruption Plans

Tim Mulligan

21 Dec 2018

post-net neutrality

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 billed as a truly“disruptive TV service” which was going to up-end the US Pay TV business, a sector that was worth $108.

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Artists Direct and Streaming the Big Winners in 2018

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Mark Mulligan

18 Dec 2018

2018 music revenues

2019 Recorded music revenue

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

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.

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Team Instagram: 2018’s Ideological Warfare

Georgia Meyer

14 Dec 2018

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

Media and Marketing

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 million subscribers compared to PewDiePie’s 76.

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Knockout Blow For Eleven Sports?

Alistair Taylor

13 Dec 2018

additive service

Audience behaviour

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. Failure to attract enough subscribers onto its platform since its launch has only increased doubts over the financial viability of the service.

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Google, Facebook, And The Coming Big Tech Disruption

Tim Mulligan

12 Dec 2018

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.

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Move Toward the Cloud is Real and Happening in 2019

Tim Mulligan

10 Dec 2018

cloud computing

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.

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Superstars and Specialist Services: Will OTRO Bring Value to Fans, Footballers and their Financiers?

Georgia Meyer

7 Dec 2018

digital content

niche audiences

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, documentaries, competitions and access to personal moments with the world’s top players will populate this new $3.

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Friends for Life? Warner Media and Netflix Renegotiate Frenemy Deal

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Tim Mulligan

6 Dec 2018

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.

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Sport1 To Drop US-centric Channel in Favour of Esports

Alistair Taylor

5 Dec 2018

addressable audience

audience demographics

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.

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Independent Labels Grew Global Market Share to 39.9% in 2017

Mark Mulligan

4 Dec 2018

Media and Marketing

The global independent label trade body WIN has just published the third edition of the Worldwide Independent Market report. You can download the entire report for free here. 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 hundreds of independent record labels right across the globe.

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Orange Has Bold Ambitions For Financial Services

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Tim Mulligan

4 Dec 2018

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.

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In for a Penny, In for a Pound…Netflix and the Imminent Pinewood Studio Agreement

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Tim Mulligan

4 Dec 2018

Over the weekend news broke about 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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