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‘Hard Drive Share’ As A Strategic Weapon For Console Publishers (Until Streaming Kicks Off)

Karol Severin

2 Nov 2018

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As you could tell from the social media frenzy about having to delete other games to accommodate the new Red Dead Redemption 2 (RDR2) release, hard drive space is a real issue for many console gamers, with their desire for a new game forcing some of their previously played games off their consoles.

Can Spotify Ever Meet Investors’ Expectations?

Mark Mulligan

1 Nov 2018

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Spotify just posted another solid set of results, adding four million subscribers and beating profit and revenue estimates, yet its share price fell. What’s going on? Spotify is on track for where it should be, slightly below, but on track.

Guess Which is The Leading Headphone Brand?

Mark Mulligan

1 Nov 2018

Headphones have been centre stage of the digital music market since the launch of the iPod in 2001. Portable music started more than two decades earlier with Sony’s Walkman, but it was digital’s ability to fill a device with catalogues of music, rather than just one album that empowered music li...

How Are Modern Media Subscription Services Building Competitive Advantages Against Traditional Media?

Zach Fuller

29 Oct 2018

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Media, with its creative nature, often likes to define itself as distinct from other industries, and yet it is governed by many of the same principles that shape other areas of commerce. With the shift to streaming in full swing, how are media business models being affected by the market forces that...

Spotify May Already Be Too Big for the Labels to Stop it Competing With Them

Mark Mulligan

26 Oct 2018

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Spotify’s Daniel Ek is betting big on developing a ‘two sided marketplace’ for music . With the company’s market cap on a downward trend despite strong growth metrics , Ek might find himself having to play up the disruption narrative more boldly and more quickly than he’d planned.

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Twitter’s Q3 Earnings Usher in The New Normal For Public Tech Companies

Tim Mulligan

25 Oct 2018

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Today’s Twitter Q3 earnings represents a signature change in big tech and the value criteria ascribed to publicly traded consumer facing tech companies. For the first time in Twitter’s five years as a public company, it has reported a decline in worldwide monthly active users (MAUs).

Discovery Taking PGA Tour Golf Global

Alistair Taylor

24 Oct 2018

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Eurosport-parent Discovery and the PGA Tour have unveiled GolfTV , an upcoming international golf-centric subscription video on demand (SVOD) service. The announcement follows a 12-year, $2 billion June agreement granting Discovery the international rights to distribute PGA Tour content outside the ...

Quick Take: Will Stream Djing be the Renaissance of Soundcloud?

Zach Fuller

19 Oct 2018

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After a difficult two yearsthat saw acquisitions fall through and a lack of meaningful uptake of its subscription service, SoundCloud have needed some positive news. Reveredwithin the creator community though still struggling to make a profit, SoundCloud CEO Kerry Trainorannounced today at Amsterdam...

Netflix Q3: The SVOD Giant Pushes On, but the Tail Risks Are Mounting

Tim Mulligan

17 Oct 2018

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Yesterday’s Q3 earnings results for Netflix were welcomed by a Wall Street unnerved by last week’s US stock sell off and fear that the tech majors, the growth engine for the 10-year bull run,are losing momentum.

Spotify, DistroKid and the Two Sided Marketplace

Mark Mulligan

17 Oct 2018

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Spotify has taken a minority stake in DistroKid . In itself, it may be a slightly left field but relatively insignificant move, except that it is in fact one small but important step on a much bigger journey.

Event Postponed

Mark Mulligan

17 Oct 2018

Just to confirm that tonight's MIDiA Event is not taking place. The event has been postponed and we will announce the new date shortly.

Is Rugby in a state of crisis?

Alistair Taylor

12 Oct 2018

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The value of Rugby has suffered another major blow in what has already been a tumultuous year financially for the sport. The asking price for the Six Nations title sponsorship has plunged 64% to just £6 million ($7.

The Fan Bingbing Story and What it Means for China’s 2018 Video Transformation

Tim Mulligan

11 Oct 2018

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China has come a long way in short time in video. Going hand in hand with the dramatic economic expansion the Country has experienced, China’s domestic box office alone increased 19-fold between 2007 and 2017 to an estimated $8.

Facebook Launches Its Smart Speaker: A Few Strategic Considerations For Portal

Zach Fuller

9 Oct 2018

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Earlier this year, MIDiA predicted that Facebook would join the smart speaker market. A TV dongle or smart speaker: It makes strategic sense for Facebook to develop a TV dongle like Amazon’s Fire Stick or smart speaker like Apple’s HomePod, to give it a hardware foothold in the home—something ...

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Advertising Week New York: The Dynamic, the Dead and the Dangerous

Georgia Meyer

9 Oct 2018

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Notoriously overwhelming, this week’s AWNY ramped activities up even further, expanding the number of stages from 8 to 12. A disorientating amount of content to navigate and a somewhat amusing metaphor for today’s digital consumer.

Looking for the Music in Tencent Music

Mark Mulligan

5 Oct 2018

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The Tencent Music Entertainment (TME) F1 filing makes for highly interesting reading, but don’t expect copious amounts of data to give you an inside track in the way that Spotify’s F1 filing did. Instead TME’s F1 bears much closer resemblance to iQyi’s F1, namely a basic level of KPIs, lots ...

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Making Free Pay: Fine-tuning Freemium

Mark Mulligan

3 Oct 2018

Streaming is transforming music and TV business models, driving growth in both audiences and revenue. A balance between free and paid tiers and services has been key to this success, but, growth is not always balanced, and as we approach maturity in many western markets, more may be needed of free, ...

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

Zach Fuller

2 Oct 2018

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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 offe...

Tencent Announces Strategic Pivot, Focusing On Cloud and AI

Alistair Taylor

2 Oct 2018

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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 co...

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

Tim Mulligan

2 Oct 2018

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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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