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Netflix Is Now The Fifth Highest Ranked TV Network For Show Fandom

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Tim Mulligan
Amazon
AMC
BBC
We are proud to announce the inaugural results of our new TV Show Brand Tracker. The findings reveal how streaming is impacting TV show audiences and which networks are performing best. Based on data from more than 60 TV shows across the US, Canada, Australia and the UK, CBS’s The Big Bang Theory is the leading TV show in terms of audience fandom, followed by NCIS (also CBS), with the BBC’s Sherlock in third place.
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Comcast Feels The Heat As Wall Street Shows Its Concerns Over Cord-Cutting

Tim Mulligan
Comcast
cord cutting
Netflix
Wall Street is not renowned for its ability to take the long-term view. A good example is the recent massive sell-off in Comcast stock, which saw $16 billion wiped off its market cap. It followed the announcement last week from Comcast’s residential products chief Matthew Strauss, that the company could lose as many as 150,000 pay-TV subscribers in Q3 2017.
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Why Net Neutrality Is Central To The Streaming Economy

Tim Mulligan
Binge One
Comcast
net neutrality
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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Forget Cord Cutting: It’s A Bigger Cord With More Strands

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Tim Mulligan
cord cutting
Netflix
Online video
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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Why Netflix Can Turn A Profit But Spotify Cannot (Yet)

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Mark Mulligan
Content strategy
Netflix
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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Disney and Netflix: A Full-Stack Media Dream

Zach Fuller
acquisitions
BAMTech
Bob Iger
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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