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IGTV and how to make video work in the messaging app ecosystem

Tim Mulligan

26 Jun 2018

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The rise of the messaging app ecosystem over the previous seven years has created a profound challenge for premium video production companies. There are tight creative limitations that come with creating content for the smaller real estate of a smart phone screen and creating non-intrusive content o...

Corporate mergers and the battle for fandom

Zach Fuller

22 Jun 2018

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Back in 1999, the Cluetrain Manifesto appeared across the nascent web as a predictive gospel of what this new technology meant for commerce. Still revered among software entrepreneurs, the ebook outlined the paradigm shift of business in the digital era from a transactional model of one-off payments...

Access To Ownership: MIDiA’s Free to Attend Event

Mark Mulligan

22 Jun 2018

For readers based in the UK, MIDiA Research will be hosting its third quarterly event on July 4th at The Ministry in London. The event is free to attend and we will be examining best practices for premium content monetisation across media industries and exploring the lessons learned and transferrabl...

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Could article 13 kill off music on YouTube?

Mark Mulligan

21 Jun 2018

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It was a day of two halves for YouTube. On one side a big press release went out championing a host of impressive new stats – including hitting 1.9 billion logged in users, following an official launch of YouTube Music the day before.

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Shoppable stories: Competition between Instagram and Snapchat intensifies

Georgia Meyer

20 Jun 2018

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Pressure to demonstrate the commercial viability of social media platforms, particularly for those sites not already owned by major media players, is intensifying. This is all the more resonant in an age where business models are increasingly reliant upon data and hyper-targeting.

Is this the last broadcast TV World Cup?

Tim Mulligan

19 Jun 2018

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The football World Cup – historically the world’s biggest international sporting event by viewership, kicked off last Thursday (14 June) in Moscow, with host nation Russia dispatching Saudi Arabia 5-0.

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What’s in a log-in? Social platform wars 2018

Zach Fuller

15 Jun 2018

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Snap Inc has launched an alternative to the ubiquitous ‘log-in with Facebook’ offer, which commands the paucity of visual real estate available on app screens. This follows Snap’s recent announcement of development tools designed to open up the app to anyone wishing to build features, much in ...

Why Sony can (And should) play the walled garden game

Karol Severin

15 Jun 2018

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The majority of the gaming industry is pro cross-platform gaming and truly sees it as the natural evolution of the industry. Sony, however, is retaining the walled garden model as manifested by the recent Fortnite issue.

Are consumers losing out from the latest Premier League Rights deal?

Alistair Taylor

15 Jun 2018

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Following the landmark rights deal that saw the English Premier League (EPL) sell domestic rights to the tech major Amazon, the sports landscape has fundamentally changed. For the first time the EPL has sold domestic digital rights, allowing for matches to be live streamed on Amazon Prime.

Telcos, media, and the battle for monopsony

Tim Mulligan

14 Jun 2018

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This week has seen the culmination of unprecedented moves in the realignment of the Telco and media ecosystems. In October 2016 AT&T, the largest US Telco, put in a bid to acquire content conglomerate Time Warner.

Quick Take: Pandora and Snapchat take a swipe at Facebook

Mark Mulligan

14 Jun 2018

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No sooner had the ink dried on Facebook’s new social music offering, that Snapchat fights back with a Pandora partnership built on its ‘unFacebook’ privacy centred app developer platform Snapkit.

Midem 2018 – definitive disruption: streaming opportunities in Africa

Georgia Meyer

13 Jun 2018

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The Africa focus at this year’s Midem began in April, with four local forums in South Africa, Nigeria, Ivory Coast and Congo. This culminated in a focused set of talks, seminars and a keynote on the main conference stage from Tencent Africa.

Spotify’s new rules of engagement

Mark Mulligan

12 Jun 2018

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It is easy to feel that the pervasive obsession with Spotify overplays its importance to the recorded music industry. On the one hand it may only represent 27% of global recorded music revenues, but this compares to a peak of around 10% that Apple enjoyed at the peak of the iTunes Music Store.

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Facebook — The video news hegemon?

Tim Mulligan

11 Jun 2018

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Last Wednesday Facebook officially announcedthat it was partnering with a number of well-known news publishers to provide original news programmes that will feature on Watch, Facebook’s video service which is currently only available in the US.

Why Amazon is getting into English Premier League football

Tim Mulligan

7 Jun 2018

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Today is a historic day for the English Premier League, the most followed and the most valuable football league internationally. Back in February, when the 2019–2022 EPL domestic rights were auctioned off for a combined £4.

The fight for viewership in the new sports video era is only just getting started

Alistair Taylor

6 Jun 2018

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Traditional linear TV broadcasters are feeling the strain from the reduction in loyal customers, as sports consumption continues to transition from TV to online and mobile. SVOD’s streaming content land grab, which drew scripted drama fans from traditional pay-TV, is now moving into the sports are...

Facebook aims to bring the fun back into music

Mark Mulligan

5 Jun 2018

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Facebook has announced its long mooted move into music. As widely anticipated the service offering focuses on using music to add context to social experiences. The official blog outlines two key use cases: Adding music to videosDoing live stream lip syncs in Facebook Live videos For now the roll out...

News is the marketing plug in streaming video’s offering gap

Tim Mulligan

4 Jun 2018

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Last week it was revealed that BuzzFeed News plans to launch a new video interview showto be streamed on Facebook Watch (according to The Information ). The weekly show will feature 20-minute episodes with news-making personalities from the worlds of politics and celebrity.

Post-GDPR privacy will become the new premium as the privacy battle rages on

Tim Mulligan

1 Jun 2018

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EU residents over the last month have been bombarded with increasingly desperate calls online for acknowledgement of convoluted and reluctantly drafted privacy agreements from digital platforms. The sudden-found interest in articulating privacy issues for users has been brought about by the impeding...

Is the UFC doing a Fox and cashing in on content?

Alistair Taylor

31 May 2018

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Last week, Disney-owned ESPN acquired the exclusive rights to show the UFC tournament in the US for $1.5 billion over five years. The deal will see the UFC earn $184 million more each year than the previous deal with Fox, which begs the question; is the UFC mimicking Fox’s strategy and cashing in ...

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