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Facebook Has Got An Instagram Problem

Blog post by Mark Mulligan

1 Feb 2018

Facebook

Facebook messenger

facebook music

Mark Zuckerberg dropped a bit of bombshell during the Q4 2017 earnings call. He announced that Facebook daily active users (DAUs) have fallen across some key markets, including the US. COO Sheryl Sandberg...

Why Facebook Is Getting Into TV

Blog post by Tim Mulligan

10 May 2017

Facebook

Facebook video

live TV

Last week there was a lot of coverage around the 51% increase in year on year ad revenue and the additional 80 million monthly active users added to Facebook in Q1 2017. However last week also saw the...

Facebook The Media Company: If It Looks Like A Duck

Blog post by Mark Mulligan

22 Dec 2016

Facebook

Facebook Media Company

facebook media strategy

Yesterday Facebook's CEO Mark Zuckerberg finally confirmed that Facebook is a media company , not a traditional one, but a media company nonetheless. This is something we've been thinking about a lot at...

Chart Of The Week: Facebook Video

Blog post by Mark Mulligan

10 Apr 2016

Chart Of The Week

Facebook video

Online video

Facebook and YouTube have a lot in common. They both have in excess of a billion users, both have become part of the internet furniture and both have transitioned from disruptive challenger to incumbent....

MIDiA Chart Of The Week: YouTube Subscribers

Blog post by Mark Mulligan

18 Jan 2016

Chart Of The Week

Facebook

Facebook video

Video is eating the world and as it does so YouTube’s role is evolving in a subtle but crucial way. YouTube used to be the undisputed home of short form video but that role is now challenged by Facebook...

MIDiA Chart Of The Week: User Generated Broadcast

Blog post by Mark Mulligan

7 Dec 2015

Chart Of The Week

Facebook video

live streaming

The early adopter buzz around the launches of the live video streaming apps Meerkat and Twitter-acquired Persicope have so far failed to translate into meaningful real world adoption. But these User Generated...

MIDiA Data Point Of The Day: Facebook Video

Blog post by Mark Mulligan

6 Nov 2015

Data Point Of The Day

Facebook

Facebook video

31% of US adultswatch Facebook Video weekly. Facebook's decision to prioritize video in user's newfeeds and initate a three second autoplay default setting for native videos has led to a quardupling of...