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

Alistair Taylor

4 Feb 2021

BT Sport

telco

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 the drive for change in terms of the viewing format, vying to create a ‘ made-for-TV ’ ...

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Discovery enters streaming race with discovery+ and Olympics offering

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 library for a new streaming service from launch, with more than 55,000 episodes from Discover...

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Verizon Media announces platform to ‘evolve’ live streaming experience

Alistair Taylor

16 Sep 2020

Verizon

Verzion Media

Verizon Fios

Verizon Media announced a series of new Media Platform improvements in a press release today (16th September), intended to ‘evolve the live streaming experience’. These features are all aimed at increasing fan engagement following COVID-19’s detrimental impact on the overall viewing spectacle ...

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Where Verizon went wrong with go90

Tim Mulligan

3 Jul 2018

Facebook

Go90

Netflix

Last week Verizon, the US’s second largest telco provider with 116 million wireless subscribers, announced the closure of its pioneering mobile-first video streaming service which launched in 2015. Go90 was launched on the back of a $200 million purchase of Intel’s unreleased streaming service, ...

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Disney, Netflix and the Squeezed Middle: The Real Story Behind Net Neutrality

Mark Mulligan

15 Dec 2017

Amazon

Apple Music

Disney

Unless you have been hiding under a rock this last couple of weeks you’ll have heard at least something about the build up to the decision over turning net neutrality in the US, a decision that was confirmed yesterday.

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With interest in Fox’s video content business, is 2017 the beginning of the end for traditional TV and film companies?

Tim Mulligan

21 Nov 2017

21st Century Fox

Comcast

Fox

Last Friday, media stocks in the US rose on the back of news that 21st Century Fox had been approached by Comcast, Walt Disney Co, Sony and Verizon over the possible sale of its film and international TV assets.

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Awesomeness TV And The Premium Online Video Content Challenge

Tim Mulligan

21 Feb 2017

awesomeness tv

Mobile content

Online video

Despite the hype and the overall direction of travel, creating a premium video offering for mobile audiences remains a huge challenge. Last week Awesomeness TV and Verizon (who bought a 24.5% stake in Awesomeness TV for $159 million) decided to halt the development of their premium mobile content se...

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Why go90 Is Where It Is

Tim Mulligan

2 Feb 2017

Go90

mobile apps

Mobile content

18 months is a long time in the digital world. In that time, Facebook’s Messenger and Whatsapp both passed the billion monthly active users milestone and Snapchat has more than trebled its video engagement to account for 32% of all short form video views.

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What’s In A Name: From Yahoo to Altaba

Tim Mulligan

11 Jan 2017

Alibaba

altaba

Apple

So two weeks into the 2017 and it's another year and yet another twist in the ongoing saga that is Yahoo. On Monday, Yahoo Inc disclosed in a regulatory filing that it was splitting the company into two.

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Verizon's Go90 And The Impact Of Mobile-First Content Strategy

Karol Severin

11 Sep 2015

Go 90

Go90

Mobile content

Verizon’s free, ad-supported mobile video streaming service Go90 launches this week. The service will be available to all users, regardless of being a Verizon customer. The product is aimed at 18-34 year olds, the key mobile data consumption segment of now but the appeal will be far wider than tha...

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