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Sky and BT announce long term partnership for cross-supply of content

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Alistair Taylor
British broadcasters Sky and BT confirmed this week a long-term extension and expansion to an overall content cross-supply deal. Following the initial agreement signed in the UK last December , the partnership now includes Ireland, allowing Sky Ireland customers access to Sky Sports and BT Sport through a single Sky TV subscription.
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Tencent Announces Strategic Pivot, Focusing On Cloud and AI

Alistair Taylor
Chinese tech major Tencent announced its first restructuring in six years and third in its 20 year history, including creating a new division to focus on business services such as cloud computing. This pivot comes off the back of the Chinese regulators freezing approvals for games licenses, a key contributor to Tencent’s revenue and an overall tightening in government regulations, which has seen a severe reduction in gaming approvals since March .
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Big Brother Axed By Channel 5, But It Is Not All Bad News For Endemol

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Alistair Taylor
Dutch production house Endemol is no longer going to be making cult reality TV show Big Brother for Viacom’s UK terrestrial channel, Channel 5. It announced that it was “disappointed not to reach an agreement with Channel 5”, following Channel 5’s admission to the BBC that “the forthcoming series of Big Brother will be the last – of either celebrity or civilian versions ­– on Channel 5”.
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How Netflix is Slowly Disrupting YouTube

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Tim Mulligan
One of the foundational cornerstones of monetising the digital economy is that there are two ways of paying for digital content: either with your wallet or with your attention. In the digital video streaming era, this has manifested itself in the division of business models into subscription video on demand (SVOD) streaming services, where content is accessed through a monthly paid subscription, and ad supported video on demand (AVOD), where streaming content is free to view and supported by in-video advertising.
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Disney Q3 Earnings: The Painful Transition To Direct-To-Consumer

Tim Mulligan
Yesterday a besieged Bob Iger, chairman and CEO of Walt Disney Co. had to defend his company’s Q3 (calendar Q2) results against the inflated demands of Wall Street. Disney has come out with a bold strategy to compete directly with subscription video on demand (SVOD) services, with the announcement of its intent to launch a direct-to-consumer Disney originals content proposition in 2019, alongside the launch of streaming sports service ESPN+ in April 2018 .
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Beggars Group, Sky, The Economist, Plus more Speakers at the Access vs Ownership Industry Event

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Dara Jegede
MIDiA is back with another exclusive industry event, bringing together experts, decision makers, innovators and entrepreneurs from all across the digital entertainment spectrum. This event will explore the transition in music and video from linear consumption to streaming and subscription, examining the impact of the access-over-ownership shift and what to expect of its denouement.
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