Video blog by MIDiA Research

Blog: Video

Is HBO Max about to disrupt Netflix domestically with relevant scripted drama?

Blog post by Tim Mulligan

3 Sep 2020

When Warner Media executives commissioned the retro gothic horror original Lovecraft Country for its new flagship streaming service HBO Max, they could not have imagined just how on message the show would...

Wanda Sports Group’s financials highlight long-term impact of live hiatus

Blog post by Alistair Taylor

3 Sep 2020

sports fans

covid

live sports

Wanda Sports Group’s (WSG) Q2 financials highlight a significant decline in revenues on account of “the broad effects of COVID-19 mitigation efforts”. WSG reported a second successive quarter of...

Can LiveScore learn valuable lessons from Eleven Sports’ UK failings?

Blog post by Alistair Taylor

24 Aug 2020

streaming service

LiveScore

OTT

Streaming insurgent LiveScore launched its first ever over-the-top (OTT), ad-supported direct-to-consumer (D2C) streaming proposition in the UK back in June, harbouring a similar rights portfolio to that...

MIDiA’s UK video consumer deep dive Q2 2020 report

Blog post by Tim Mulligan

20 Aug 2020

YouTube

netflix

streaming video

MIDiA Research has published its Q2 2020 UK Video Consumer Deep Dive report, with an update on where the leading streaming services are and how they have adapted to the ongoing disruption wrought by COVID-19....

COVID fallout: BBC no longer considers UK Athletics value for money

Blog post by Alistair Taylor

19 Aug 2020

Covid-19

covid

pandemic

COVID-19 exposed live entertainment as a vulnerable asset class , specifically following the pandemic-enforced postponement of live sports . One of the hardest hit during this hiatus and ensuing uncertainty...

Fortnite’s Party Royale provides sports untapped avenue for reaching digital natives

Blog post by Alistair Taylor

19 Aug 2020

Universal platform

Fortnite

Epic Games

Burgeoning universal platform Fortnite’s ‘ Party Royale ’ is slowly becoming the gateway for rights holders to reach digitally native audiences. Party Royale, Fortnite’s ‘ experimenta l’ game...

Facebook’s “Reels” bid to move into TikTok gap will fail

Blog post by Hanna Kahlert

17 Aug 2020

Mobile content

Media

social video

The rollout of Instagram Reels comes cleverly timed, sweeping in the wake of the announced TikTok ban to claim the many app users who will be searching for a new proposition on which to spend their attention....

Apple to launch subscription bundle – we called it!

Blog post by Mark Mulligan

13 Aug 2020

Video

Music

Games

In MIDiA’s 2020 Predictions report published in December 2019 we predicted that tech majors would start creating subscription bundles, with Apple leading the fray. Lo and behold, news has just come out...

The MIDiA Research Podcast: Episode 1 – What Next for Tencent?

Blog post by Mark Mulligan

7 Aug 2020

Video

Music

Media & Marketing

We are excited to announce the first episode of the MIDiA Research podcast: What Next for Tencent? President Trump's executive orders concerning Bytedance and Tencent set the cat among the pigeons. In...

Return of the fan: COVID-19 thwarts fan pilot sporting events amid regional spikes in cases

Blog post by Alistair Taylor

6 Aug 2020

Video

Sports

Games

Just when sports fans thought it was safe to go back into the water, COVID reared its ugly head once more. UK fan pilot sporting events were all set to start allowing fans back into arenas and attend live...

A brutal Q2 pressures Disney to erode the theatrical release window

Blog post by Tim Mulligan

6 Aug 2020

Video

Mulan

Disney+

A tough financial Q1 2020 was followed by an awful financial Q2 for Disney, with the media major reporting its first quarterly loss since 2001. With 35% of the entertainment conglomerate’s revenues originating...

TwitchSports: Amazon throws sports into the starting line-up

Blog post by Alistair Taylor

29 Jul 2020

Video

Sports

Games

Amazon-owned Twitch is no newcomer to sports. However, in a deliberate move to double down, Amazon has conceded that it needs to improve the discoverability of live sporting events for its platform users...

The end of the pay-TV era: AT&T gets behind HBO Max

Blog post by Tim Mulligan

28 Jul 2020

Video

at&t

HBO Max

The Q2 2020 AT&T financial results were not pretty. Net income for the company was down 61% year-on-year (YoY). While operating expenses were down marginally by 0.1%, the real cost to the communications...

DAZN’s belated UK launch: Can it avoid Eleven Sports’ 'mistake’?

Blog post by Alistair Taylor

24 Jul 2020

Video

Sports

Media & Marketing

DAZN, the anointed ‘Netflix of Sport’, has announced plans to resume launching its services globally via a beta service covering boxing bouts In July and August, for users who have registered their...

Reach for the win: BT Sport to air UEFA Champions League final on YouTube

Blog post by Alistair Taylor

23 Jul 2020

Video

Sports

Media & Marketing

UK pay-TV incumbent BT Sport has announced it will air this year’s (COVID-delayed) UEFA Champions League (UCL) final free-to-air (FTA) on Google-owned YouTube. YouTube’s head of sport in EMEA, Tomos...

Recovery Economics: What the post-lockdown world looks like for TV

Blog post by Tim Mulligan

22 Jul 2020

Video

brave new world

recovery economics

As the quarter of the world that experienced the COVID-19 lockdowns start to fitfully open up again, the realisation that the world has irrevocably changed is starting to settle in. With the highly contagious...

Netflix Q2 2020 earnings: Lockdown revenue windfall but performance expected to fall

Blog post by Tim Mulligan

17 Jul 2020

Video

netflix

Netflix q2

H1 2020 has been particularly good for Netflix. Q1 2020 saw record subscriber growth of 27.8 million net additions and its original content has dominated viewer interest over the previous six months. The...

NBCUniversal hopes to draw level with Premier League move

Blog post by Alistair Taylor

15 Jul 2020

Video

Sports

Covid-19

With Comcast’s NBCUniversal-owned Peacock launching today (July 15th), sports fans will be excited ahead of NBCU’s repositioning of its English Premier League (EPL) rights, giving paying subscribers...

Welcome to the world of digital autarky

Blog post by Tim Mulligan

8 Jul 2020

Video

autarky

TikTok

2020 has thus far proved to be a year of unexpected disruption across business and the geo-political landscape as the international order adapts to the global pandemics and rising nationalism.The post...

FuboTV adds key sporting rights to portfolio following Disney deal

Blog post by Alistair Taylor

2 Jul 2020

Fubo

FuboTV

Sporting rights

FuboTV, the US over-the-top (OTT) internet-delivered TV service launched back in January 2015 as a soccer-centric proposition. In that time it has established itself as a niche distributor of live streams...

Showing 161 to 180 of 445 results.