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How Well Is YouTube Red Really Doing?

Tim Mulligan

1 Jun 2016

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When YouTube Red launched in YouTube’s main market of the US back in October 28th, 2015 there was a lot of excitement mingled in with anticipation. This emanated from the media, analysts, professional YouTubers and way down the line, from the YouTube channel audiences.

Is A New Pay TV Giant Enough To Save An Industry Under Attack From Online Video?

Tim Mulligan

19 May 2016

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Finally, the seventh largest US pay-TV Operator Charter has completed its protracted takeover of rivals Time Warner Cable and Bright House Networks. This catapults Charter towards the top ranking of the pay –TV operators, making it the second biggest U.

Viacom, Dish Networks And The Content Carriage Squeeze

Tim Mulligan

26 Apr 2016

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The last minute renewal of the carriage agreement between TV Network giant Viacom and Dish Networks, the third biggest pay TV operator in the US, revealed just how much the balance of power is shifting in the US TV industry.

Amazon Ups The Stakes For Netflix

Tim Mulligan

18 Apr 2016

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Next Monday Amazon will roll out its standalone SVOD (Subscription Video On Demand) service which will for the first time enable consumers to access its video services without being Prime customers. Prime is the premium delivery service which has been heavily promoted by the online retailing giant a...

Sports Content Comes To Basic Sky Subscription Packages

Tim Mulligan

18 Mar 2016

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Today Sky announced that it is making a selection of sports content available to basic package subscribers. A new channel called Sky Sports Mix launching this summer will bring a range of sports content to all its TV customers in the UK and Ireland.

The Imminent Launch Of Comic-Con HQ Highlights The Trend Towards Online Video Fragmentation

Tim Mulligan

17 Mar 2016

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On March 14th, Comic-Con and Lionsgate jointly announced the imminent launch of Comic-Con HQ a new SVOD (Subscription Video On Demand) service. The new platform will allow Beta access on the 7th of May in advance of its official launch in in June.

The Chinese Online Video Landscape Is About To Change

Tim Mulligan

15 Mar 2016

Baidu China iQiYi

Last Friday, Baidu, the Chinese tech group mainly known for its leading search engine in the Chinese market, announced that it was effectively spinning off Qiyi (recently rebranded to the domestic market as iQiyi).

Here's Why Netflix And YouTube Just Parked Tanks On Each Other's Lawns

Mark Mulligan

7 Mar 2016

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Slowly but surely the traditional media industries are waking up to the importance of YouTubers but those taking note most quickly are the subscription video companies, Netflix in particular. As recently illustrated by its commissioning of ‘Haters Back Off’ from YouTuber Colleen Balling-Evans’...

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Netflix’s Global Learning Curve

Tim Mulligan

29 Feb 2016

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Last Wednesday at the MMIX stream of Mobile World Congress in Barcelona, Scott Mirer, VP of the device partner ecosystem at Netflix gave a keynote speech where he shared newly acquired insights into global SVOD (Subscription Video On Demand) consumption.

Miranda Sings And Netflix - A New Direction For TV Commissioning?

Tim Mulligan

12 Feb 2016

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Something very big has happened in the world of online video with Netflix commissioning a brand new 8 part series from social talent Colleen Ballenger Evans aka Miranda Sings. If Miranda Sings doesn’t sound familiar to you then that merely helps to underline the foresight of Netflix’s commission...

How Pay-TV Can Get Netflix Off Its Front Lawn

Tim Mulligan

20 Jan 2016

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Amidst all the positive news about Netflix’s continuing growth story, some interesting points were touched upon in yesterday’s Netflix Q4 2015 Earnings Interview with analysts. Perhaps the most revealing meta narrative for the whole management zeitgeist was summed up Netflix’s CFO David Wells ...

Netflix Has Now Achieved What Pay-TV Could Only Dream Of

Tim Mulligan

7 Jan 2016

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When Netflix’s CEO Reed Hastings gave his keynote presentation yesterday at CES in Las Vegas what caught the media’s attention was the scale of the Video Subscription Service’s global ambitions. Hastings boldly announced that Netflix is now available in 130 countries, including such diverse ma...

Netflix Originals In Top Ten Google Search Rankings

Tim Mulligan

17 Dec 2015

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Amidst all the publicity around the most searched for terms on Google in 2015 was the revelation that not one, but three Netflix shows feature in the top ten trending TV Show searches globally. And these three shows are Netflix Originals and so commissioned exclusively for viewing on the world’s l...

Netflix Gets Ready To Disrupt TV Commissioning In 2016

Tim Mulligan

10 Dec 2015

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This week, Ted Sarandos, Netflix’s head of content revealed the company’s 2016 originals pipeline. Netflix will nearly double its roster of original series from this year’s 16 to 31 in 2016. It will also build up the critical success of this year’s “Beasts Of No Nation” by releasing 10 f...

Hulu’s Growth Shows That It’s Not all About Netflix

Tim Mulligan

1 Dec 2015

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For both the mainstream media and the consumer online video subscription services equate to either Netflix or Amazon Prime Instant Video. The push towards SVOD (Subscription Video On Demand) services becoming a mainstream phenomenon has been driven in no small part by the PR machine headed up by the...

The Vision Behind Today’s DisneyLife Launch

Tim Mulligan

23 Nov 2015

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Today marks the launch of DisneyLife in the UK. This is Disney’s new app –based subscription video on demand service. The launch represents a significant development in the evolution of the global content provider which has been the forefront of so much story-telling innovation and looks set to ...

MIDiA Data Point Of The Day: Video Subscribers

Mark Mulligan

18 Nov 2015

Amazon Prime Data Point Of The Day Netflix

Online video appeals equally across the gender divide and this is reflected in the percentage of female subscribers to video services. This contrast s sharply with music subscriptions where the majority of subscribers are male.

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TV Content Owners Start To Rethink Their Netflix Relationship

Tim Mulligan

5 Nov 2015

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Yesterday Time Warner CEO Jeff Bewkes in his company’s Q3 earnings call made a statement which the emerging SVOD (Subscription Video On Demand) industry and Netflix in particular didn’t want to hear.

SeeSo Continues The Trend Towards Video Fragmentation

Tim Mulligan

28 Oct 2015

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The beta launch of SeeSo by Comcast owned NBC Universal this December represents a further fragmentation of the Pay TV world as the big players look to diversify and survive the consumer tsunami wrought by the digital native.

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MIDiA Chart Of The Week: Online Video Subscriber Forecasts

Mark Mulligan

19 Oct 2015

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Over the last few years online video subscription services from the likes of Netflix, Amazon and Hulu havekick started a revolution in premium video that is threatening to disrupt the traditional TV business to the core.

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