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Latest MIDiA Research Reports: An Overview

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Mark Mulligan
Throughout Q1 2017 MIDiA Research has taken a close look at the latest shifts, trends and consumer insights within the digital marketplace across the 4 key areas of Video, Media, Music and Games. MIDiA reports address market forecasts and growth patterns by coverage areas and our latest reports consist of development trends, competitive landscape analysis, and key developments.
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Forget Cord Cutting: It’s A Bigger Cord With More Strands

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Tim Mulligan
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 Rapidly Growing Niche Online Video Market Opportunity

Tim Mulligan
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 media company, looking to capitalize on the huge global growth in demand for streaming video.
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Snapchat Hooks Up With Vice To Produce An Original Dating Series

Tim Mulligan
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-TV channel Viceland entitled “Hungry Hearts With Action Bronson”.
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