Blog: d2c

Read our latest daily deep dives, hot takes, and exciting updates about the entertainment world. Check out the latest insight from your favourite analyst, or search by coverage areas - music, entertainment and fandom, creator economy and social.

Disney’s direct-to-consumer business is now profitable – so what comes next?

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Tim Mulligan

7 May 2024

direct-to-consumer

Today, Disney announced its fiscal second quarter 2024 financial results (calendar Q1 2024). All eyes were on the Entertainment Segment, where its direct-to-consumer (D2C) division matched MIDiA’s call...

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Expect Warner Bros. Discovery’s forthcoming full year 2023 results to open up vital strategic choices

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Tim Mulligan

20 Feb 2024

Warner Bros. Discovery

On Friday, Warner Bros. Discovery (WBD) will announce its full year 2023 financial results to investors in its fourth quarter 2023 earnings call . It is going to make for hard reading by both investors...

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The engagement dilemma means that film has to embrace the future

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Tim Mulligan

6 Dec 2022

hybrid entertainment

Hollywood is in flux right now, with producers such as Jason Blum taking to social media andexpressing their frustrations: “Gotta get out to those movie theatres folks. We don’t want to be streamed...

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Disney’s latest results means the media major is now at an inflection point

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Tim Mulligan

16 Aug 2022

Ad-support Subscriptions

Last week’s Q3 22 (calendar Q2 22) earnings represented a high point in Disney’s transition to streaming juggernaut. With its number of global direct-to-consumer (D2C) subscribers now higher than Netflix,...

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Why entertainment could reach new levels of fragmentation in 2022

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Hanna Kahlert

6 Apr 2022

Since the direct-to-consumer (D2C) ‘big bang moment’ of video in 2019, entertainment propositions have been multiplying rapidly across all entertainment genres. This is about to become critical as...

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Why the markets are wrong about Paramount

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Tim Mulligan

22 Feb 2022

Last Tuesday’s investor’s day presentation by Sheri Redstone, the chair of ViacomCBS and the president of National Amusements, should have been a milestone for the future of the media major. The event...

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Why it is becoming more difficult to acquire video subscribers for Netflix in 2022

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Tim Mulligan

25 Jan 2022

Netflix Q4 21 earnings

Last Thursday’s Q4 earnings result for Netflix was badly received. This was despite the strong financial results, which announced that the year-on-year revenues were up by 19.2%, reaching $29.5 billion...

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The next evolution of direct-to-fan will be fan-to-fan

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Tatiana Cirisano

10 Jan 2022

Last month, we wrote about creator burnout and the need for more sustainable paths toward financial stability for artists. The abundance of creator platforms has opened the door for anyone to share their...

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The key strategic drivers that will shape D2C video in 2022

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Tim Mulligan

4 Jan 2022

We are one week away from the Hybrid Futures | MIDiA 2022 Predictions Webinar ,where the MIDiA Research team will be going through the big trends that are sweeping across digital entertainment in 2022....

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Peacock arrives to disrupt the European streaming market

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Tim Mulligan

16 Nov 2021

Today, November 16th, Peacock finally arrives in Europe with its soft launch in the UK and Ireland via Comcast’s European subsidiary, Sky. At no additional cost, Peacock will be made available to Sky...

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ViacomCBS points the way to D2C sustainability

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Tim Mulligan

10 Nov 2021

The streaming video revolution over the previous two years is busy transforming from growth at any cost, towards establishing a viable path to exist beyond the current surge of investment. The ultimate...

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Why HBO Max needs to invest in the new global hit model

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Tim Mulligan

26 Oct 2021

Last week, the AT&T Q3 earnings announcement revealed that HBO Max has now reached 69.4 million subscribers (up 12.5 million from last year, and up 1.9 million from the previous quarter). Today, HBO...

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What YouTube TV’s stand-off with NBCU reveals about phase 2 of D2C disruption

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Tim Mulligan

29 Sep 2021

YouTube TV’s stand-off with NBCU is approaching decision-making time, as tomorrow, September 30th, is the cut-off point for the streaming platform to meet the distribution terms of NBCU. If no agreement...

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Could HBO Max disrupt Europe?

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Tim Mulligan

10 Sep 2021

On October 26th, HBO Max will establish its European beachhead, which is launching inSweden, Denmark, Norway, Finland, Spain and Andorra. The D2C video service will then roll out in 2022 into Bosnia and...

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Netflix versus Amazon Prime Video – depth versus breadth

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Tim Mulligan

10 Jun 2021

The first half of 2021 has been a year of continued change and disruption for subscription video. The global incumbent subscription video on demand (SVOD) leaders, Netflix and Amazon Prime Video, have...

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Why video streaming needs to stop fighting the last consumer war

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Tim Mulligan

28 May 2021

Silver Streamer

Video streaming services have achieved mainstream engagement, with binge viewing now eclipsing linear TV viewing as the leading form of TV show consumption. While the digital disruptors may revel in their...

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The rise of the silver streamer

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Tim Mulligan

11 May 2021

Silver Streamer

Video streaming

MIDiA’s webinar last month on future-proofing growth and curtailing subscriber churn post-pandemic focused on the emerging trends which will define the next year as we emerge from the COVID crisis, and...

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Why Netflix is now the canary in the peak streaming coal mine

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Tim Mulligan

5 May 2021

After 10 years of uninterrupted growth, culminating in the entertainment bonanza of the great lockdown of 2020, Netflix is now post-growth after missing Q1 subscriber targets. Cue a 10% fall in Netflix’s...

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Super League feels the cost of forgetting fans

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Hanna Kahlert

23 Apr 2021

Sports has an age problem among its audiences. Around half of consumers over the age of 45 watch live sports on TV, dropping to less than a third of those under the age of 24 as of Q1 2021 (source: MIDiA...

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Fans come first in the attention recession

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Hanna Kahlert

2 Mar 2021

Media and Marketing

As vaccine rollouts gain momentum, the clock is ticking on the attention boom enabled by lockdowns over the last 12 months. The 12% of additional time spent on entertainment is going to contract sharply...

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