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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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Why Sony Can (And Should) Play The Walled Garden Game

Karol Severin

15 Jun 2018

The majority of the gaming industry is pro cross-platform gaming and truly sees it as the natural evolution of the industry. Sony, however, is retaining the walled garden model as manifested by the recent Fortnite issue.

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What’s in a Log-In? Social Platform Wars 2018

Zach Fuller

15 Jun 2018

Snap Inc has launched an alternative to the ubiquitous ‘log-in with Facebook’ offer, which commands the paucity of visual real estate available on app screens. This follows Snap’s recent announcement of development tools designed to open up the app to anyone wishing to build features, much in the same way its tech rivals have done in the past.

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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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Telcos, Media, and the Battle for Monopsony

Tim Mulligan

14 Jun 2018

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 Time Warner.

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Quick Take: Pandora and Snapchat Take a Swipe at Facebook

Mark Mulligan

14 Jun 2018

No sooner had the ink dried on Facebook’s new social music offering, that Snapchat fights back with a Pandora partnership built on its ‘unFacebook’ privacy centred app developer platform Snapkit.

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Midem 2018 – Definitive Disruption: Streaming Opportunities in Africa

Georgia Meyer

13 Jun 2018

The Africa focus at this year’s Midem began in April, with four local forums in South Africa, Nigeria, Ivory Coast and Congo. This culminated in a focused set of talks, seminars and a keynote on the main conference stage from Tencent Africa.

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Spotify’s New Rules of Engagement

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Mark Mulligan

12 Jun 2018

spotify as a label

It is easy to feel that the pervasive obsession with Spotify overplays its importance to the recorded music industry. On the one hand it may only represent 27% of global recorded music revenues, but this compares to a peak of around 10% that Apple enjoyed at the peak of the iTunes Music Store.

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Facebook — The Video News Hegemon?

Tim Mulligan

11 Jun 2018

Last Wednesday Facebook officially announced that it was partnering with a number of well-known news publishers to provide original news programmes that will feature on Watch, Facebook’s video service which is currently only available in the US.

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Why Amazon is Getting into English Premier League Football

Tim Mulligan

7 Jun 2018

Amazon Prime Video

Today is a historic day for the English Premier League, the most followed and the most valuable football league internationally. Back in February, when the 2019–2022 EPL domestic rights were auctioned off for a combined £4.

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The Fight for Viewership in the New Sports Video Era is Only Just Getting Started

Alistair Taylor

6 Jun 2018

Consumer behaviour

Traditional linear TV broadcasters are feeling the strain from the reduction in loyal customers, as sports consumption continues to transition from TV to online and mobile. SVOD’s streaming content land grab, which drew scripted drama fans from traditional pay-TV, is now moving into the sports arena.

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Facebook Aims to Bring The Fun Back Into Music

Mark Mulligan

5 Jun 2018

Facebook has announced its long mooted move into music. As widely anticipated the service offering focuses on using music to add context to social experiences. The official blog outlines two key use cases: Adding music to videosDoing live stream lip syncs in Facebook Live videos For now the roll out is limited, which will give Facebook the opportunity to hone the service and learn from the behaviour of a relatively narrow user group.

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News is The Marketing Plug in Streaming Video’s Offering Gap

Tim Mulligan

4 Jun 2018

Last week it was revealed that BuzzFeed News plans to launch a new video interview show to be streamed on Facebook Watch. The weekly show will feature 20-minute episodes with news-making personalities from the worlds of politics and celebrity.

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Post-GDPR Privacy Will Become The New Premium As The Privacy Battle Rages On

Tim Mulligan

1 Jun 2018

EU residents over the last month have been bombarded with increasingly desperate calls online for acknowledgement of convoluted and reluctantly drafted privacy agreements from digital platforms. The sudden-found interest in articulating privacy issues for users has been brought about by the impeding legal threat looming from the EU.

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Is the UFC doing a Fox, and cashing in on content?

Alistair Taylor

31 May 2018

content provider

digital content

Last week, Disney-owned ESPN acquired the exclusive rights to show the UFC tournament in the US for $1.5 billion over five years. The deal will see the UFC earn $184 million more each year than the previous deal with Fox, which begs the question; is the UFC mimicking Fox’s strategy and cashing in on its content? While Endeavor (formerly WME-IMG), which purchased the UFC for $4 billion in 2016, was seeking in the region of $450 million per year, UFC president Dana White is ecstatic with the new deal, telling MMAJunkie: “Our last deal was $116 million a year.

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Do Playlists Make the Power Law in Music Even More Extreme?

Zach Fuller

31 May 2018

Music streaming

Music has always been a superstar economy. Data going back to the 50s shows that, like many other areas of life and business, a disproportionate amount of the results come from a small number of factors.

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Spotify’s Censorship Crisis is About Social Responsibility

Mark Mulligan

30 May 2018

Spotify has been forced into something of a rethink regarding its hate speech policy. Spotify announced it was removing music from playlists of artists that do not meet its new policy regarding hate speech and hateful behaviour.

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The Next Web 2018 – A New Sense of Tech-Driven Purpose

Georgia Meyer

30 May 2018

Last week, 15,000 people converged in Amsterdam for The Next Web’s annual two-day conference. This year’s event comprised streams covering music, the workplace, sport and social media. AI and blockchain’s omnipresence across these spheres was unsurprising.

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The Politician As Show Runner

Tim Mulligan

25 May 2018

Monday’s announcement by Netflix that it had engaged the Obamas to produce a show represents the further evolution of the power of the show runner and the increasing overlap between celebrity and politics.

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Quick Take: YouTube’s Music Streaming Service Is A Defensive Hedge

Zach Fuller

23 May 2018

YouTube has announced it is launching a paid subscription music service ‒ a move that many perceive as the service putting itself in direct competition with Apple, Spotify and Amazon. However, despite YouTube being the largest streaming service by reach, this actually appears more of hedge against the real incoming threat for its ad-supported model: Facebook’s music offering.

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