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Why The Creator Of Scandal Has Found A Home In Netflix

Tim Mulligan

15 Aug 2017

How to get Away with Murder

Shonda Rhimes is now a ‘Netflixer’, in the words of Netflix’s chief content officer Ted Sarandos. Rhimes is renowned for being the creator of hit shows such as Grey’s Anatomy and Scandal , which have generated more than $2 billion in licensing for ABC – one of the big three TV broadcast networks in the US.

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Iflix And The Emerging Market Opportunity For Video

Tim Mulligan

9 Aug 2017

Subscription video service Iflix yesterday announced that it had secured $133 million in a new round of funding. It brings the total investment in the company to date to $298 million. Iflix was launched in Malaysia in 2015 and originally focused only on the South East Asian markets.

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Why Net Neutrality Is Central To The Streaming Economy

Tim Mulligan

13 Jul 2017

The existential question of the digital era is net neutrality. Since the utopian days of 1989 when World Wide Web pioneer Tim Berners-Lee first connected his colleagues via computers at CERN in Switzerland, the emerging interconnected world of academics and entrepreneurs has been engaged in an ongoing battle of the underlying principles of the infrastructure underpinning the internet.

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Why Netflix Is A Next Generation Network And Why Amazon Is A Next Generation Operator

Tim Mulligan

19 May 2017

next genration operators

10 years on and the digital landscape is a mobile-centric landscape, with global online video consumption due to reach 50% penetration rates in 2019 (based on the MIDiA Research video forecast modeling).

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Netflix Q1 2017: International Picks Up The Slack

Tim Mulligan

21 Apr 2017

Netflix’s Q1 earnings this week revealed a company that is continuing to shape the video streaming market, with international becoming an increasingly central part of the story. With Netflix on course to pass the psychologically significant 100 million subscriber mark, the company’s Q1 2017 quarterly earnings are particularly significant.

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The Culture Bubble & Scripted Drama

Tim Mulligan

19 Apr 2017

Amazon Prime Instant Video

cultural bubble

Cultural trends are defined by technology and taste arbiters. In the modern era, increasing disposable incomes have transformed the majority of the world into consumers of services as well as products, and newly created audiences have gravitated towards emerging forms of media technology.

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Forget Cord Cutting: It’s A Bigger Cord With More Strands

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Tim Mulligan

11 Apr 2017

Amid all the noise and angst surrounding cord-cutting among the TV industry over the last two years, it is easy to fall into the trap of thinking that pay-TV is facing an irreversible decline. The reality, however, is that traditional pay-TV operators are facing irreversible decline (albeit a relatively slow and steady one), whereas streaming pay-TV is experiencing significant growth (and it really is time to stop thinking of streaming as anything other than another form of pay-TV).

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The Challenge Of Creating Disruptive Pioneers In The TV Industry

Tim Mulligan

31 Mar 2017

At this year’s TV Connect, the headline industry panel was on creating disruptive pioneers. The participants included Mark Wilson-Dunn -the Vice President of BT Media and Broadcast Enterprises, Faz Aftab -Online Commercial & Tech Director at ITV, Felix Tang -Vice President of Huawei Hybrid Video Product Line, and myself as a video industry analyst.

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The Significance behind The Amazon Prime Video Membership Numbers

Tim Mulligan

16 Feb 2017

Amazon Prime Video

One of the challenges of following the disruption wrought by Amazon in the TV and film business is assessing the size of its Prime membership. Currently a subscription to prime membership includes a subscription to Amazon Prime Video.

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Amazon Steals A March On Netflix With The First Streaming Pay- TV Best Picture Oscar Nomination

Tim Mulligan

27 Jan 2017

Amazon Video Prime

Independent films

In the ongoing video streaming wars currently being fought out between Netflix and Amazon (globally number one and number two global subscription services) Amazon have just claimed a significant victory.

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Why Netflix Can Turn A Profit But Spotify Cannot (Yet)

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Mark Mulligan

19 Jan 2017

Content strategy

Netflix originals

Having just celebrated its 10 th (streaming) birthday, Netflix followed up with a strong earnings release, announcing 5.8 million net new paid subscribers in Q4 , sending its share price up by 9%. This wraps up a stellar year for Netflix, one in which it doubled down on original programming and delivered acclaimed hits such as Stranger Things and The OA, shows that don’t fit the traditional TV mould.

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Netflix And The Tenth Anniversary Of Video Streaming

Tim Mulligan

16 Jan 2017

Content strategy

digital strategy

Today marks the tenth anniversary since Netflix launched its pivot into video streaming. Up until 2006, Netflix was a troubled company with repeated predictions for the inevitable demise of its DVD-rental business dating back to 2002.

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Welcome To The New Episodic Reality Of Online Video

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Tim Mulligan

5 Jan 2017

episodic length

2016 was big for many reasons and one of the lesser known yet significant developmental milestones for online video was the launch of The OA , an original series launched by Netflix on December 16 th .

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MIDiA Research Predictions 2017: The Year Of The Platform

Mark Mulligan

13 Dec 2016

Access Industries

Following an 84% success rate for our 2016 Predictions report, we today launch our 2017 predictions report: ‘ MIDiA Research Predictions 2017: The Year Of The Platform’. The report is immediately available to all MIDiA subscription clients and can also be purchased for individual download from our report store here.

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Netflix Flexes Its Licensing Muscle

Tim Mulligan

1 Dec 2016

The announcement yesterday that Netflix is going to allow TV and movie downloads for offline viewing is a seismic moment for TV generally not just SVOD (subscription video on demand) services in particular.

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Disney and Netflix: A Full-Stack Media Dream

Zach Fuller

7 Oct 2016

Previously linked as being one of many suitors for Twitter, Disney additionally emerged this week as a rumoured buyer for video giant Netflix. Only last month, Disney CEO Bob Iger declared his company had ‘cracked the code for keeping moviemaking profitable’, but through this triumphalist narrative, these are uncertain times for content monetisation, especially as ad-dollars both migrate from television or in some cases are blocked completely.

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What Shomi’s Failure Tells Us About The State Of Online Video

Tim Mulligan

3 Oct 2016

Last week’s announcement that Canadian SVOD (Subscription Video On Demand) service Shomi is due to close in November brings to an end its two-year experiment with trying to offer a viable alternative to Netflix.

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The Inevitable Video Data Wars

Tim Mulligan

13 Sep 2016

Netflix’s recent filing to the FCC (Federal Communications Commission) inquiryon advanced broadband sets the stakes for a clash of world views between the TV and the tech worlds. The SVOD giant’s position in support of its argument for increased data caps by Internet providers is as follows: “Watching television shows on the Internet is no longer a novelty.

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Full-Stack Media and Smart TV: Why LeEco’s Acquisition of Vizio Has Big Implications for Apple and Pay TV Giants

Zach Fuller

4 Aug 2016

LeEco’s (formerly LeTV) $2 Billion acquisition of flat screen makers Vizio is a bold step in the development of full-stack media offerings for Smart TV. The deal essentially buys LeEco directly into the US market by giving them direct access to the customers of Vizio, the California-based electronics company whom have built a respectable niche by aggressively pricing their HDTVs against major competitors, consequently capturing a 20% market share in the US.

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Netflix, Australia And Lessons For SVOD

Tim Mulligan

1 Aug 2016

Netflix’s global rollout has been hailed as a textbook example of how to gain scale quickly in a global context. With its domestic market approaching mainstream (44% penetration in US households), the world’s preminent SVOD (Subscription Video On Demand) service needs to scale internationally in order to diversify its membership base.

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