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Hulu Takes Aim At Netflix

Tim Mulligan

25 Jan 2019

From February 26 th , Hulu, currently the number three subscription video on demand (SVOD) service in the US, will reduce its ad-supported offering from $7.99 to $5.99. This comes one week after Netflix —currently the US SVOD leader — increased pricing for its membership plans.

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DAZN Stepping Up Its Domestic Rights Offering – Insurgent come Enforcer?

Alistair Taylor

17 Jan 2019

Having grown its portfolio for premium international and domestic sporting rights, DAZN is now starting to graduate from a disruptor into an established part of the landscape. Emphasised by its latest plan, aiming to snap up domestic Bundesliga rights in Germany for 2021–2025 (provided the terms are economically viable for the SVOD service), and thus significantly upgrade its German market value proposition.

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Hulu’s Integrated Streaming And Pay-TV Approach Could Be The Future of Video Entertainment

Tim Mulligan

11 Jan 2019

On Tuesday, USstreaming video provider Hulu announced that it had reached 25 million subscribers, a 48% increase year on year. This was on the back of a 36% growth rate in 2017 and now means that Hulu has 44% of Netflix’s domestic subscriber numbers (Netflix Q3 2018 earnings ) and 64% of Amazon’sPrime Video subscriber count in the US.

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Why T-Mobile Has Pressed The Pause Button On Its Video Disruption Plans

Tim Mulligan

21 Dec 2018

post-net neutrality

This week it was revealed that the US’s third-largest Telco carrier, T-Mobile, was delaying the launch of its much vaunted video service into 2019. This comes after the attention-grabbing company had gone to considerable lengths to communicate the imminent launch of a telco-centric video service billed as a truly“disruptive TV service” which was going to up-end the US Pay TV business, a sector that was worth $108.

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Knockout Blow For Eleven Sports?

Alistair Taylor

13 Dec 2018

additive service

Audience behaviour

Eleven Sports, the insurgent subscription video on demand (SVOD) service, is considering closing its operations in the UK and Ireland after failing to secure distribution via traditional TV operators. Failure to attract enough subscribers onto its platform since its launch has only increased doubts over the financial viability of the service.

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The Meta Trends that Will Shape 2019

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Mark Mulligan

16 Nov 2018

2019 tech and media predictions

MIDiA has just published its annual predictions report . Here are a few highlights. 2018 was another year of change, disruption and transformation across media and technology. Although hyped technologies – VR, blockchain, AI music – failed to meet inflated expectations, concepts such as privacy, voice, emerging markets and peak in the attention economy shaped the evolution of digital content businesses, in a year that was one to remember for subscriptions across all content types.

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

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Alistair Taylor

2 Nov 2018

addressable audience

Attention economy

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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Looking for the Music in Tencent Music

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Mark Mulligan

5 Oct 2018

The Tencent Music Entertainment (TME) F1 filing makes for highly interesting reading, but don’t expect copious amounts of data to give you an inside track in the way that Spotify’s F1 filing did. Instead TME’s F1 bears much closer resemblance to iQyi’s F1, namely a basic level of KPIs, lots of market narrative and even more space assigned to explaining all of the risks associated with investing in a Chinese company.

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Google Reveals Interactive YouTube Ad Tools as it Prepares to Compete with Amazon

Zach Fuller

2 Oct 2018

digital advertising

Ads on YouTube are about to get a lot more interactive. With competition from Amazon heating up, Google is doubling down on the competitive advantage of its video assets, namely YouTube’s unrivalled position as a how-to video domain, compared to Netflix and Amazon Prime Video’s more premium offerings.

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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

14 Sep 2018

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

14 Sep 2018

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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Amazon is all in on advertising

Alistair Taylor

31 Aug 2018

ad supported streaming

advertising video on demand

Amazon’s latest play into the TV ad market with the launch of Free Dive, an ad-supported video service for Fire TV users, showcases the company’s intent to further diversify revenue streams from its video services, pushing into advertising video on demand (AVOD).

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Is Netflix on the Edge of Financial Disruption?

Tim Mulligan

16 Aug 2018

Monday’s news that Netflix’s long-serving CFO David Wells was stepping down from his position, has once again made the company’s financial operations the centre of attention. Wells's tenure oversaw an unprecedented level of debt issuance by the company with $8.

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Netflix 2018 Q2 Earnings: Wall Street Wakes Up to the Savvy Switcher

Tim Mulligan

17 Jul 2018

original content

paid subscriptions

On Monday (July 16 th ) Netflix announced its 2018 Q2 earnings and came head to head with the inflated expectations raised through six months of sustained growth. Netflix’s stock price has increased everyday this year at an average of 1.

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From Ownership to Access

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Mark Mulligan

10 Jul 2018

innovation disruption

Last Wednesday we held the third MIDiA Quarterly forum, exploring the shift from ownership to access across different media industries. In addition to MIDiA analyst presentations we had panellists from Sky, The Economist, Beggars Group, Reed Smith and Readly.

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How Tencent is Successfully Monetising a Messaging App Ecosystem

Alistair Taylor

6 Jul 2018

digital content

Chinese tech giant Tencent, the company that 12 months ago you probably were not paying attention to, is now the second largest messaging app ecosystem globally, behind Facebook. Tencent is the only company currently monetising its digital consumer base effectively.

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Is This The Last Broadcast TV World Cup?

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Tim Mulligan

19 Jun 2018

English Premier League

The football World Cup – historically the world’s biggest international sporting event by viewership, kicked off last Thursday (14 June) in Moscow, with host nation Russia dispatching Saudi Arabia 5-0.

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Are Consumers Losing Out From the Latest Premier League Rights Deal?

Alistair Taylor

15 Jun 2018

Following the landmark rights deal that saw the English Premier League (EPL) sell domestic rights to the tech major Amazon, the sports landscape has fundamentally changed. For the first time the EPL has sold domestic digital rights, allowing for matches to be live streamed on Amazon Prime.

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Is YouTube Serious About Music Subscriptions This Time Round?

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Mark Mulligan

17 May 2018

In 2014 YouTube launched its inaugural music subscription service YouTube Music Key in beta. The following year YouTube announced it was closing it ahead of the launch of YouTube Red , a multi-format subscription video on demand (SVOD) offering, of which music was going to be sub-component.

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Netflix Q1 2018 Results: Hiking Prices or Fighting Churn?

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Tim Mulligan

18 Apr 2018

Monday saw another solid Netflix earnings call as the preeminent subscription video on demand (SVOD) service continues its seemingly inexorable rise to global dominance. Year-on-year (YoY) revenue growth was an impressive 40.

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