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The Video Subscription Challenge In 2019

Blog post by Tim Mulligan

1 Feb 2019

Amid all the excitement in the media world around the 2019 launches of direct-to-consumer services from such illustrious content producers as Disney and Warner Media, one clear question remains unanswered...

Ad-supported Strategies Are Playing A Growing Role In The Digital Economy

Blog post by Mark Mulligan

21 Jan 2019

Critical Developments

2018 was a big year for subscriptions, across music (Spotify on target to hit 92 million subscribers), video (global subscriptions passed half a billion), games (98 million Xbox Live and PlayStation Plus...

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

Blog post by 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...

Sky Shows Hand With Bid For Scottish Football TV Rights

Blog post by Alistair Taylor

12 Nov 2018

broadcast rights

Sky sports has doubled down on UK football and is the firm favourite to acquire the exclusive rights to broadcast Scottish football (SPFL), having bid £100 million for the next block of rights, starting...

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

Blog post by Tim Mulligan

11 Oct 2018

Chinese box office

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...

Why Vivendi Is Selling 50% of Universal Music Group

Blog post by Zach Fuller

31 Jul 2018

Critical Developments

This really sets the cat amongst the pigeons. Following months of rumours that suggested French media giant Vivendi would spin off UMG into a separate entity via an IPO, the Bollore owned company have...

Culture Bubbles: Is Trap the Disco of the 2010s?

Blog post by Zach Fuller

27 Jul 2018

cultura bubbles

The tipping point in the 2015 film The Big Short, based on Michael Lewis’s book on the 2008 financial crisis, is when it dawns on Steve Carrell’s character upon traveling down from New York City to...

Quick Take: NME and the Decline of Print

Blog post by Zach Fuller

9 Mar 2018

digital advertising

To paraphrase a proverb on the inevitability of change, ‘It is astonishing how long things can continue and how quickly they can fall’. The NME’s swift announcement of a final issue certainly aligns...

Just What Is Tencent Up To With Streaming?

Blog post by Mark Mulligan

28 Feb 2018

Tencent is building a global streaming empire. Back in December 2017 Tencent Music did a 10% equity swap deal with Spotify and now it has led a $115 million investment round for India-based streaming service...

With Black Panther: The Album Soundtrack At Number One In The US, Are We Witnessing A Soundtrack Renaissance?

Blog post by Zach Fuller

20 Feb 2018

Critical Developments

With the film sitting atop the box US office, Black Panther: The Album, executively produced by Kendrick Lamar, has managed a rare franchise feat by debuting at No. 1 on the Billboard 200 chart, with 154,000...

The FCC Repeals Net Neutrality: This Changes Everything

Blog post by Zach Fuller

15 Dec 2017

cable companies

Anticipated for months, the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) voted yesterday to repeal the Obama-era ‘Open Internet Order’ enacted in 2015. Despite public outcry across social media over the...

What The End Of The Net Neutrality Could Mean For Streaming Businesses

Blog post by Tim Mulligan

8 Dec 2017

On December 14th the US Federal Communications Commission (FCC) will vote on whether or not to end the regulation around net neutrality. New FCC Chairman Ajit Pai believes that net neutrality issues are...

Spotify, Tencent And The Laws Of Unintended Consequences

Blog post by Mark Mulligan

1 Dec 2017

Media and Marketing

Critical Developments

News has emerged that Spotify and TencentMusic could be swapping 10%equity in each other’s companies ahead of Spotify’s public listing. There are some obvious implications for both enterprises, as...

Slush 2017 – All To Play For

Blog post by Tim Mulligan

1 Dec 2017

Generation Investment Management

In case you haven’t heard, this week, mainland Europe’s northernmost capital Helsinki is ground zero for tech and media. It all kicked off on Tuesday November 28 with the two-day Slush Music 2017;...

Announcing MIDiA’s Streaming Services Market Shares Report

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Blog post by Mark Mulligan

3 Nov 2017

amazon music unlimited

As the streaming music market matures, the bar is continually raised for the quality of data required, both in terms of granularity and accuracy. At MIDiA we have worked hard to earn a reputation for high-quality,...

In the Social Media Age, the Traditional Media Paradigm No Longer Applies

Blog post by Tim Mulligan

20 Sep 2017

21st Century Fox

The recent decision by Karen Bradley, the UK Culture Secretary, to refer 21stCentury Fox’s bid to take over Sky Plc to the Competition and Markets Authority is a stark reminder of the lag time between...

What’s In A Number: Can Streaming Really Be Worth $28 Billion?

Blog post by Mark Mulligan

30 Aug 2017

lehman brothers

Goldman Sachs just made some headlines with its assessment that Universal Music is worth $23.5 billion and that the paid streaming market will be worth $28 billion in 2030 (up from $3.5 billion in 2016...

GamesCom Takeaways – Gaming Has Become A Fully Fledged Cultural Movement

Blog post by Karol Severin

25 Aug 2017

As we descended upon Cologne to attend GamesCom 2017, various expectation scenarios were playing out in my head. It’s safe to say that the reality beat most of them. Having spent three days at this monster...

If Amazon Swallows Retail, Could Facebook Do the Same with Media?

Blog post by Zach Fuller

25 Aug 2017

amazon advertising

amazon media group

Former President and CEO of Netscape James L. Barksdale once said he knew of two ways to make money, ‘Bundling and Unbundling’. Whilst much of the focus has been on the unbundling factor of media,...

Apple, Eros And The Billion Dollar Content Play

Blog post by Tim Mulligan

8 Aug 2017

emerging markets

On August 7th the Economic Times ran a story on Apple’s perceived interest in acquiring the film and music catalogue of the Eros Group, which is the largest movie producer in India. Although not particularly...

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