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Watch Together: BT Sport adapts to lockdown, offering synchronised group streaming

Blog post by Alistair Taylor

4 Feb 2021

The pandemic-enforced prohibition of fans in attendance at sporting events has weakened the viewing spectacle, forcing rights holders and operators to experiment with the viewing experience. The NHL pioneered...

Discovery enters streaming race with discovery+ and Olympics offering

Blog post by Alistair Taylor

9 Dec 2020

discovery

Eurosport

discovery+

Last week , Discovery announced it will launch discovery+, ‘the definitive non-fiction’ subscription-video-on-demand (SVOD), on January 4th, 2021. Consumers in the US can expect the largest-ever content...

Does Virgin Media Plus O2 Equal A New UK Communications Major?

Blog post by Tim Mulligan

6 May 2020

Banijay

Comcast

EPL

Liberty Global which is the parent company of Virgin Media, is in talks with Telefonica subsidiary O2 about combining the two businesses together to create a new UK challenger to BT. Virgin Media is the...

Can BT Lay the Smackdown on Its Rivals?

Blog post by Alistair Taylor

3 Jan 2020

addressable audience

broadcast

This Saturday at 1am GMT BT will debut its live broadcast for WWE Smackdown, having acquired the exclusive rights from long-term UK broadcaster Sky in June 2019 . This signalled the end of Sky’s tenure...

BT Sport’s Key Ingredient for Competing in an Increasingly Saturated Landscape

Blog post by Alistair Taylor

22 Nov 2019

American football

basketball

broadcast audience

The strategic dilemma as to whether rights holders should seek revenue over reach when allocating domestic rights is inevitably impacted by how dependent services are on premium rights for securing subscriber...

Knock On: Rights Holders Cannot Chance Latency?

Blog post by Alistair Taylor

26 Sep 2019

Akamai

broadband providers

broadcaster

The IRB Rugby World Cup (RWC) commenced last Friday with hosts Japan producing a fine victory over second-time qualifiers Russia, 30-10. The first RWC to be held in Asia provides Australasian countries...

Streaming Needs to Worry About a Global Recession…But Perhaps Not as Much as Cable

Blog post by Hanna Kahlert

27 Aug 2019

cultural insight

Media

streaming

Last week MIDiA’s Mark Mulligan overviewed how , in a recession, discretionary expenditures are the first to be cut. Given the non-obligatory nature of subscriptions and the contractual shackles of cable,...

Anyone Order Latency? Mediaset Falls at the First Hurdle

Blog post by Alistair Taylor

23 Aug 2019

Strategy

telco

Media and Marketing

Mediaset’s newly launched Spanish subscription video on demand (SVOD) service, MiTele Plus, has suffered a succession of technical issues during the debut stream of its domestic La Liga coverage. Latency...

New Ofcom Rule Could Revive VAS Services

Blog post by Amanda Stears

10 Jul 2019

Media

Mobile content

Since 28 June UK consumers have been able to switch network providers through a single text message, while still retaining their existing mobile number. According to UK communications regulator Ofcom,...

Sports and the Tech Majors: A Competitive Partnership

Blog post by Hanna Kahlert

8 Jul 2019

Amazon Prime Instant Video

amazon video

d-day for sporting rights

We’re pleased to announce the launch of our Sports research practice. The Sports vertical provides comprehensive global analysis of the key players unleashing disruption in the business of sport broadcasting,...

US Cord Cutting Full-Year 2018: Transition Uptake

Blog post by Hanna Kahlert

30 Apr 2019

cord cutting

cord shaving

Media

This article is derived from MIDiA’s US Cord Cutting Full Year 2018 report. Cord cutting is now an established part of the US pay-TV landscape, illustrating the impact of streaming video on demand (SVOD)...

Orange Has Bold Ambitions For Financial Services

Blog post by Tim Mulligan

4 Dec 2018

banking

mobile money

multiplay

Last week, Orange held a press and analyst briefing to discuss its plans for Orange Bank and the progress to date. Orange is one of Europe’s leading converged telcos. It is aggressively rolling out fibre...

BT Sport Continues to Drive Innovation

Blog post by Tim Mulligan

23 Nov 2018

BT Sports

BT Sport will broadcast this weekend’s EE Wembley Cup live on YouTube using remote production over EE’s 5G network; a world first according to BT Sport. The sporting event is an exhibition football...

Huawei Is A Force To Be Reckoned With In 5G

Blog post by Tim Mulligan

22 Nov 2018

Huawei

Huawei held its annual global mobile broadband forum event in London this week. It was a great opportunity for the network vendor to demonstrate its leadership in 5G and appease key stakeholders on security...

MIDiA Research Welcomes Veteran Telco Analyst Paolo Pescatore To Team

Blog post by Mark Mulligan

16 Nov 2018

MIDiA Analyst Team

MIDiA Research

Paolo Pescatore

I am very pleased to announce that seasoned and respected analyst Paolo Pescatore is joining MIDiA’s analyst team, to head up our new Telco Consumer Services research stream. Paolo has spent the last...

5G Represents a Marriage Made in Heaven For the Cable Industry

Blog post by Tim Mulligan

14 Nov 2018

cable

Last week MIDiA Research was invited to participate on a panel at the Cable Next Gen Europe event in London, to discuss convergence and the impact of 5G for cable providers. The gathering largely focused...

Telcos, Media, and the Battle for Monopsony

Blog post by Tim Mulligan

14 Jun 2018

AT&T

Comcast

disney

This week has seen the culmination of unprecedented moves in the realignment of the Telco and media ecosystems. In October 2016 AT&T, the largest US Telco, put in a bid to acquire content conglomerate...

Why AT&T Has Decided To Acquire Time Warner

Blog post by Tim Mulligan

24 Oct 2016

AT&T

Mobile content

The most powerful force in nature is when two landmasses moving in opposite directions come up against each other. The result of these two tectonic plates irrepressibly pushing up against one another is...

Shine Adds Econet To Its Network-Level Adblocking Client Roster

Blog post by Karol Severin

25 Aug 2016

adblockers

adblocking

econet

On Thursday last week, Shine, the company behind offering adblocking solutions to mobile operators, announced a new mobile operator partnership. Econet is a telecommunications group mainly active in Africa,...

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