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Amazon & Netflix Go To The Oscars

Tim Mulligan

27 Feb 2017

Yesterday’s 89th Academy Awards made history. For the first time, streaming services were critically recognized by the Academy Of Motion Pictures and Sciences with Netflix and Amazon, the two largest...

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Why Sling TV’s Move Into Cloud DVR Takes SVOD One Step Closer To Supplanting Non-streaming Pay TV

Tim Mulligan

17 Feb 2017

Sling TV’s recently announced that it would be expanding its cloud DVR trial to its subscriber base who access the service through Amazon Fire TV and Android devices. This will be closely followed by...

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The Significance behind The Amazon Prime Video Membership Numbers

Tim Mulligan

16 Feb 2017

Amazon Prime Video

One of the challenges of following the disruption wrought by Amazon in the TV and film business is assessing the size of its Prime membership. Currently a subscription to prime membership includes a subscription...

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YouTube Unleashes The Power Of Live Streaming

Tim Mulligan

8 Feb 2017

Yesterday YouTube announced that it was opening up live streaming to its creator community who have a following of 1,000 or more on the YouTube platform. The new service called “Super Chat” allows...

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Amazon Steals A March On Netflix With The First Streaming Pay- TV Best Picture Oscar Nomination

Tim Mulligan

27 Jan 2017

Amazon Video Prime

Independent films

In the ongoing video streaming wars currently being fought out between Netflix and Amazon (globally number one and number two global subscription services) Amazon have just claimed a significant victory....

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YouTube Rolls Out A Chat Feature

Karol Severin

19 Jan 2017

Mobile messaging

After months of testing, YouTube is rolling out its chat feature. It launched Wednesday in Canada only for now, with other countries to follow. In the escalatingwar of big tech companies to establish Mobile...

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Mad Men, Video Advertising And Transparency

Tim Mulligan

20 Dec 2016

The news last week that yet another major Advertising Agency has been contacted by the US Department of Justice “concerning video production and post-production practices in the advertising industry”...

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Linear TV And The Enduring Call Of The Wild

Tim Mulligan

21 Nov 2016

natural history

Planet Earth II has shown that there’s still such a thing as appointment to view in TV for non-live events. The BBC’s flagship natural history series had 9.2 million views for its season opener on...

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Why Only Now Are eSports Taking Off?

Zach Fuller

18 Nov 2016

Although organised competitions featuring video gamers have existed since the medium’s rise throughout the 70s, it is only recently that the concept of lucrative E-Sports Leagues has become a mainstream...

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From Reality TV Host To Commander In Chief-The Enduring Power Of TV

Tim Mulligan

11 Nov 2016

Amid all the post election analysis on Tuesday’s historic vote and the talk of the first Twitter president it was easy to overlook one enduring truth in America cultural discourse - TV still matters....

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What The Death Of Vine Means For Super Short Form Video

Tim Mulligan

28 Oct 2016

supershort form video

Yesterday’s announcement of the death of Vine is a stark reminder of just how fickle the video app landscape is and underlines just how important vision is in acquisition strategy for tech companies....

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Playstation VR’s Japanese Sales Spell Trouble for Virtual Reality Adoption

Zach Fuller

25 Oct 2016

Sony’s entry into the VR market came with a lot of hype and it was easy to see why. Initially developed under the codename ‘Project Morpheus’, it arrived with brand recognition (Playstation), high-profile...

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Why AT&T Has Decided To Acquire Time Warner

Tim Mulligan

24 Oct 2016

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...

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Are You Acquiring App Users At A Loss?

Karol Severin

24 Oct 2016

Media and Marketing

It is no secret that reliable metrics are crucial for successful mobile growth, but even more important is knowing which ones to use when and how to use them. Technology is changing so fast that it is...

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What Shomi’s Failure Tells Us About The State Of Online Video

Tim Mulligan

3 Oct 2016

Last week’s announcement that Canadian SVOD (Subscription Video On Demand) service Shomi is due to close in November brings to an end its two-year experiment with trying to offer a viable alternative...

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Quick Take: Can Viveport Be the App Store of VR?

Zach Fuller

30 Sep 2016

Viveport, the online store of the HTC Vive VR headset, launches today in 30 countries with a selection of around about 60 titles across the entire pantheon of VR content - from sports to education and...

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The Inevitable Video Data Wars

Tim Mulligan

13 Sep 2016

Netflix’s recent filing to the FCC (Federal Communications Commission) inquiryon advanced broadband sets the stakes for a clash of world views between the TV and the tech worlds. The SVOD giant’s position...

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Is Virtual Reality A Partial Answer To Ad-Blocking?

Tim Mulligan

25 Aug 2016

product placement

According to the Innovid 2016 Global Video Benchmarks report, VR based advertising is 30 times more effective than mobile and 60 times more effective than desktop when measured by engagement. VR ad click...

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Quick Take: Why Mr. Robot App Is an Exciting Case To Watch

Karol Severin

19 Aug 2016

Mobile messaging

Mr. Robot is a cyber-security psychological thriller of NBCUniversal, popular with the tech-crowd. The company has partnered up with Telltale Games and Night School Studio and created a mobile game as...

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The Voice Comes To Snapchat

Tim Mulligan

9 Aug 2016

Yesterday’s announcement by TV Network NBCUniversal that it has agreed a new multi-year deal with Snapchat to produce short form versions of its content specifically for the messaging platform represents...

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