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Quick Take: Amazon Music Unlimited Comes To The UK

Mark Mulligan
Amazon announced the anticipated launch of Amazon Music Unlimited in the UK today. For my full take on Amazon Music Unlimited see my previous post here. Make no mistake, Amazon are taking this launch seriously, with a coordinated PR campaign and press release quotes not only from Amazon’s head of streaming music Steve Boom but also from Jeff Bezos himself.
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How Spotify Can Become A Next Generation “Label”

Mark Mulligan
One of the themes my MIDiA colleague Tim Mulligan (the name’s no coincidence, he’s my brother too!) has been developing over in our online video research is that of next generation TV operators. With the traditional pay-TV model buckling under the pressure of countless streaming subscriptions services like Netflix (there are more than 50 services in the US alone) pay-TV companies have responded with countless apps of their own such as HBO Go and CBS All Access.
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Has Snapchat Learned From Twitter’s IPO?

Zach Fuller
Snap Inc, the parent company of messaging app Snapchat, have hired Goldman Sachs and Morgan Stanley for a seemingly imminent IPO. In addition to being one of the first app generation unicorns (alongside Spotify and Uber) to go public, the company is doing so at a time when fellow social media giant Twitter is in the process of selling itself, having seemingly been stalled by acquisition discussions with Disney, Google and Salesforce.
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Why Netflix and Amazon Are Outbidding The Competition For The Best Of Sundance

Tim Mulligan
Amid the cold wintery weather of Utah, something extraordinary is happening, and it is not just the annual Sundance Film Festival currently being held in the scenic location of Park City. For the world’s preeminent independent film festival is now firmly in the sights of the two largest global SVOD (subscription video on demand) services: Netflix and Amazon.
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