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Could Google Eat the E-sports Media Rights World?

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Karol Severin

21 Feb 2020

Google entered a media rights partnership with Activision in January, including rights for the Overwatch League, Call of Duty League and HearthStone. Last week The Esports Observer reported on multiple sources which claimed the value of the deal to be $160 million paid over three years, including rights to Overwatch League, Call of Duty and Hearthstone.

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Why the BBC Finds Itself in an Existential Battle for Survival

Tim Mulligan

18 Feb 2020

On February 5 th Nicky Morgan, the UK Secretary of State for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport, announced an eight-week public consultation on whether to decriminalise TV licence fee evasion.

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The Age of the Creators

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Hanna Kahlert

17 Feb 2020

artist streaming income

Chart Of The Week

For the meek shall inherit the earth… Since early 2019, MIDiA has been publishing findings that we are moving progressively into a market dynamic in which creators are being empowered by technology to have greater direct control of their output, from conception to completion to monetisation.

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What UMG’s IPO Means for the Business of Music

Mark Mulligan

14 Feb 2020

Access Industries

music as an asset class

Finishing 2019 on $6.4 billion, Universal Music is to go to IPO hot on the heels of Warner Music’s announcement to do the same. This of course also follows the Tencent-led agreement to acquire 10% of UMG for $3 billion with an option to acquire another 10%.

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Joining the D2C Streaming Wars Is a Do-or-Die Moment for ViacomCBS

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Tim Mulligan

12 Feb 2020

Last Thursday CNBC reported that the newly-merged ViacomCBS is planning to launch its own direct-to-consumer (D2C) service, with a formal announcement to be made during the company’s forthcoming fourth quarter earnings conference call on February 20 th .

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Tale of the Tape: UFC or Bundle Driving ESPN+ Adoption?

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Alistair Taylor

11 Feb 2020

Walt Disney’s pureplay sports streaming service ESPN+, which launched back in April 2018, has surpassed 7.6 million paid subscribers, Disney’s chief executive Bog Iger reported during last week’s earnings call .

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The Politics of Twitter: Brands, News, and Freedom of Speech

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Hanna Kahlert

10 Feb 2020

With the president of the United States being Donald Trump, whose proclivity for social media usage is renowned, it comes as no surprise that Twitter has a hearty presence in news reporting in 2020. The role of social media in our digital lives is profound, and the impact on news has turned truth into more of a product than a standard – as we covered in our media report last year.

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WMG to IPO: Here’s What You Need to Know

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Mark Mulligan

7 Feb 2020

Access Industries

downtown music holdings

Throughout the last decade more than $10 billion has been invested into music catalogues. UMG bookended the merger and acquisition (M&A) boom with the Tencent-led $3 billion stake in its business, but was exceptional in that the majority of the investment was otherwise going into the independent sector (especially independent publishers).

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Spotify Q4 2019: First Signs of the New Spotify

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Mark Mulligan

5 Feb 2020

spotify creator tools

Spotify’s Q4 2019 results reflect another strong quarter and a good year for Spotify. Look a bit deeper, however, and there are the first signs of the new company that Spotify is building – and they point to a very different and much bolder future.

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20 Million Is the Magic Number for Disney Today

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Tim Mulligan

4 Feb 2020

Today Disney announces its Q1 2020 numbers, with Wall Street expected to laser-focus upon the first available numbers for Disney+ since its launch on November 12th of 2019. Disney+ is the key direct-to-consumer (D2C) service underpinning Disney’s pivot into streaming, which it formally announced at its investor’s day presentation back in April 2019.

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Gaming Is Now Equally Distributed Between Males and Females, But the Supply Side Still Needs To Catch Up

Karol Severin

4 Feb 2020

Gaming has been travelling towards a more gender-equal distribution in 2019. While mobile gaming has traditionally been well-represented among females, PC and console gaming have historically skewed male.

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Schubert Music Is the Latest Publisher to Push Into Recordings

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Mark Mulligan

30 Jan 2020

music publishers

music publishing M+A

Schubert Music Europe, the holding company of Schubert Music Publishing, today announced a deal with Sony’s independent label distribution division The Orchard. Under the deal, Schubert will distribute ten new record labels.

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Brand Strategy: Choose the Koalas

Hanna Kahlert

29 Jan 2020

At this year’s World Economic Forum recently convened in Davos, Switzerland, the subject of stakeholder capitalism over shareholder capitalism was a hotly debated topic, with themes of broader accountability and consideration at the fore.

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A View to a Sure Thing – Part Two

Tim Mulligan

29 Jan 2020

Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer

Long-term readers of the MIDiA Research Blog may remember a post from September 2017 outlining the appeal to tech majors Apple and Amazon of acquiring the rights to the James Bond franchise.

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Keeping with the Times: Sports Plays Catch-Up with Younger Digital Audiences

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Alistair Taylor

27 Jan 2020

digital natives

Sports as a product is feeling the squeeze of the peak attention economy. Sports fans in the traditional sense are ageing, and appealing to a younger digitally-native audience is a fundamental issue that rights holders can no longer ignore.

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Peacock Goes for Gold

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Alistair Taylor

23 Jan 2020

On the 16 th of January , Comcast (owner of NBCUniversal) unveiled further details of its direct to consumer (D2C) proposition, Peacock. Peacock is set to debut on the 15 th of April exclusively for Comcast’s Xfinity X1 and Flex customers, before being rolled out nationally across the US on July 15 th .

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Peacock Gets Ready to Ruffle Some D2C Feathers

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Tim Mulligan

22 Jan 2020

On January 16 th , US communications behemoth Comcast (owner of NBCUniversal) held an investors day to provide much-needed clarity around its forthcoming direct-to-consumer (D2C) service Peacock. Of the big four D2C services due to launch in a 12-month period between H2 2019 and H2 2020, Peacock is the late entrant – but potentially the one with the biggest disruptive impact.

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Amazon Music: From Dark Horse to Thoroughbred

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Mark Mulligan

22 Jan 2020

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Amazon Prime Music

Neatly ahead of Spotify’s Q4 earnings, Amazon has taken the rare step of announcing subscriber metrics for Amazon Music (inclusive of Prime Music and Music Unlimited). Amazon Music closed 2019 with 55 million ‘customers’ across free and paid.

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YouTube and the Fan Monetisation Model

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Hanna Kahlert

21 Jan 2020

Fan monetisation

How to describe YouTube? The now-15-year old video platform does not fit into a single box, but rather ticks all of them. Its positioning between consumer and business is a fascinating one, replicated in reach and capacity by no other platform.

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The Challenge for Global D2C Growth in 2020

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Tim Mulligan

17 Jan 2020

2020 promises to be a big year for direct-to-consumer (D2C) services, with Warner Media’s HBO Max and Comcast’s Peacock set to join Apple TV+ and Disney+ in the battle to win streaming audience share both in the US and beyond.

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