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Palmer Luckey Leaves Facebook: Corporate Politics And VR's Trough Of Disillusionment

Zach Fuller

31 Mar 2017

Critical Developments

Palmer Luckey, once the boy wonder of VR’s renaissance, has announced he will be leaving the Oculus team at Facebook. Luckey had co-founded the Virtual Reality hardware company in 2012, thus ushering in the technology’s latest wave of public curiosity, as well as billions of investment in VR sta...

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Quick Take: What’s Next For Brick And Mortar Game Retailers

Karol Severin

30 Mar 2017

brick and mortar game retailers

Last week GameStop announced the closure of 150 stores. This action is part of a wider strategy implemented by the company over the last few years. GameStop is focusing on improving per store performance and is diversifying from pure game shops towards more pop collectibles, technology and geek cult...

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The Rapidly Growing Niche Online Video Market Opportunity

Tim Mulligan

28 Mar 2017

Falcon Media House

Yesterday Falcon Media House , the international media group focused on the streaming video market, relisted on the London Stock Exchange’s Main Market under the ticker FAL . Overseen by a management team from the overlapping worlds of pay-TV, media streaming and telco, Falcon is a full stack medi...

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Why Streaming Video Services Are In Robust Health Globally

Tim Mulligan

24 Mar 2017

Streaming video

Despite the additional probability of a correction in the inflated TV content market, SVOD (Subscription Video On Demand) services globally are in robust health. In mature TV markets, nearly half of consumers now subscribe to SVOD services, with over 50% penetration in demographics for under 35s.

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Drake's More Life is the New Normal in Streaming

Zach Fuller

23 Mar 2017

Released over the weekend after much delay, Drake’s More Life project is setting records across the board on streaming platforms. The Canadian artist described More Life as ‘a body of work bridging the gap between major releases’ and positioned the release as neither a mixtape nor an album, bu...

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Apple Just Put Another Nail In Snapchat’s Proverbial Coffin

Karol Severin

22 Mar 2017

Yesterday Apple announced it will launch Clips in April, a video-making app that allows users to capture photos and videos, combine multiple videos and include a variety of features like Filters, Overlays, Posters and Live Titles.

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Welcome To The Post-DIY Era

Mark Mulligan

20 Mar 2017

I recently took part in the True Music Forum in Madrid, an event organized by Boiler Room. I was on a panel that explored whether DIY is now coming of age with a host of high profile artists, most of them urban artists, bypassing or twisting the traditional label model and still achieving stand-out ...

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Why Apple Dedicated A Feature Page To Indie Games

Karol Severin

17 Mar 2017

Apple’s App Store introduced a permanent feature page for indie games yesterday. The move is another step in Apple’s ongoing effort to provide more effective discovery tools and thus, drive more value from the long-tail of the app economy.

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Snap Inc. As An AR Company

Zach Fuller

17 Mar 2017

augmented reality

Whilst those uneasy by the company's IPO may feel vindicated by the stock’s falling price, it may not be wise to completely write-off Snap Inc. just yet. Snap Inc. is ‘a camera company’. If we momentarily ignore the questions over monetisation, Snapchat has a hold on youthful demographics that...

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Snapchat Hooks Up With Vice To Produce An Original Dating Series

Tim Mulligan

15 Mar 2017

Snapchat’s parent company Snap Inc. has followed up on its huge publicity around its recent IPO (Initial Public Offering) to land a significant content deal with Vice Media. Rapper chef Action Bronson (real name Arian Asllani) is set to host an eight episode dating series developed by Vice’s pay...

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How Ed Sheeran Broke The Charts

Mark Mulligan

13 Mar 2017

Atlantic Records

Unless you have been hiding under a stone on Mars this last few weeks you will have struggled not to hear or see some clip of Ed Sheeran one way or another. Atlantic Record’s carpet bombing market campaign has tipped Sheeran into global ubiquity.

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Quick Take: Google AMP And The Ongoing Issue Of Inflated Metrics

Zach Fuller

10 Mar 2017

Media and Marketing

Google’s Accelerated Mobile Pages has allegedly been inflating the traffic metrics of its publishing clients. The service was launched last year in a bid to compete with Facebook’s Instant Articles, with both being sold to publishers as a method of increasing content traffic.

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MIDiA Exclusive: 7digital Acquires Leading Competitor 24-7

Mark Mulligan

10 Mar 2017

UK music services provider 7digital today announced they are currently considering the acquisition of longstanding competitor 24-7 from German retail giant MediaMarktSaturn (MMS). 24-7 is one of the longest standing companies in the entire digital music space, founded in 2000 (MMS took a majority ho...

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Facebook’s ‘Disputed News’ Shows Intent But Does Not Solve The Fake News Problem

Karol Severin

7 Mar 2017

Last week Facebook started to roll out a feature which allows users to flag content as ‘disputed’, in a bid to mitigate the circulation of fake news on the site. Stories flagged by users will then be passed onto Facebook’s partner fact-checking organizations, which are signatories to the Poynt...

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BT Pays A Premium For Video Scarcity

Tim Mulligan

6 Mar 2017

Champions League

Today BT announced the extension of their exclusive UK broadcasting rights deal with UEFA for all Champions League and Europa League matches until the end of the 2020-2021 season. This has cost the UK telco £1.

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Snapchat Imitations Are a Red Herring - Tencent Is Who Facebook Truly Want to Emulate

Zach Fuller

2 Mar 2017

Snapchat has gone public, yet investors are still cagey on the company's IPO in response to Facebook’s regular copying of the ephemeral image-based app. Such is the extent of this that in response to the S1 filing, there was a popular meme on LinkedIn suggesting Snapchat going public was even more...

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YouTube Flicks The On Switch With YouTube TV

Tim Mulligan

2 Mar 2017

Tuesday, February 28th could be looked back on as the day when everything changed for the pay TV industry in the US. This was the day when one of the tech majors decided to announce to the world that it was getting into streaming pay-TV in a big way.

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Twitch Will Start Selling Games And Offer A Cut To Streamers

Karol Severin

1 Mar 2017

content monetisation

Twitch, the game video streaming platform owned by Amazon, announced yesterday that it will start selling games via streamers’ channels. This alone is news-worthy, but what makes the announcement a potential juncture in content monetisation is the revenue share model at place.

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Global Recorded Music Revenues Grew By $1.1 Billion In 2016

Mark Mulligan

1 Mar 2017

Media and Marketing

Following on from the global market share numbers we released on Sunday , here are our findings regarding the growth of the overall market. Throughout 2016 as the major label earnings were coming in there was a growing awareness that 2016 was going to be a landmark year for the recorded music busine...

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Quick Take: Soundcloud Go Take 2

Mark Mulligan

1 Mar 2017

Music Subscriptions

Soundcloud Go, Soundcloud’s initial foray into the world of premium subscriptions was never the best of fits for the Berlin based streaming upstart. Soundcloud has achieved something few others have in streaming: it has carved out a unique proposition, user base and catalogue.

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