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The Meta Trends that Will Shape 2019

Posted on 16th November, 2018 by Mark Mulligan in 2019 Forecast, 2019 Tech And Media Predictions, AI, Alphabet, Amazon, Apple, AR, Environment, Facebook, GDPR, Google, Green, Machine Learning, Midia Predictions, Music, Privacy, Rights, Social, Tech, Tech Predictions, Video, Voice and Vr

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 –…

5G Represents a Marriage Made in Heaven For the Cable Industry

Posted on 14th November, 2018 by Paolo Pescatore in 4G, 5G, Cable, Telcos and Wifi

Last week MIDiA Research was invited to participate on a panel at the Cable Next Gen Europe event in London, to discuss convergence and the impact of 5G for cable…

Quick Take: Activision Blizzard Results And Why Engagement Matters Now More Than Ever

Posted on 12th November, 2018 by Karol Severin in Activision, Activision Blizzard, Activision Q3, Engagement and Gaming

Activision Blizzard reported its Q3 results late last week. Despite beating guidance on net income, which reached $260 million, the company’s stock plummeted following the announcement. The key worries include…

Sky Shows Hand With Bid For Scottish Football TV Rights

Posted on 12th November, 2018 by Alistair Taylor in Assets, Broadcast Rights, BT, Consumer Behaviour, Cord-cutters, EFL, Eleven Sports, EPL, Football, Pay Tv, Pay-tv Subscriptions, Peak Attention Economy, Rights Portfolio, Scottish Football, Scottish Sun, Sky, Sky Sports, Soccer, SPFL, Strategy, Streaming Services, Subscription Video On Demand, UCL, Value Proposition and Viewing Figures

Sky sports has doubled down on UK football and is the firm favourite to acquire the exclusive rights to broadcast Scottish football (SPFL), having bid £100 million for the next…

What UMG and Boomplay's Deal Tells Us About the Future of African Streaming

Posted on 6th November, 2018 by Zach Fuller in African Streaming, Boomplay, Streaming, Telco Streaming, UMG, Universal Music Group and Youtube

Universal Music Group have announced today they will be signing a landmark licensing agreement with Boomplay, Africa’s leading music streaming and download service, in a deal that covers multiple markets…

Demystifying the Chaos: Amazon's Quest for Commercial Omnipotence

Posted on 5th November, 2018 by Georgia Meyer in Aws, Brand Partnerships, Financial Results, Luxury Ecommerce, Merchandise and Tech Major Dismantling

There is hardly a moment that Amazon is not making the news. The business is now so vast, and spread across so many areas of technology, culture and commerce, that…

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

Posted on 2nd November, 2018 by Alistair Taylor in Addressable Audience, Amazon Prime, Attention Economy, BT, BT Sport, Collaboration, Content, Content Distribution, Cord Cutting, Customer Retention, Diversify Revenues, Eleven Sports, Exclusive Content, Linear Broadcasters, Migrating Subscribers, Netflix, Now TV, Partnership, Pay Tv, Pay-TV Customers, Sky, Sky Ireland, Sky Sports, Strategy, Streaming Pay Tv, Subscribers, Subscription Video On Demand, Svod, Tracker, UK and Value Proposition

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…

‘Hard Drive Share’ As A Strategic Weapon For Console Publishers (Until Streaming Kicks Off)

Posted on 2nd November, 2018 by Karol Severin in Console Games, Console Games Strategy, Game Developers, Game Publishers, Hard Drive Share, Hdd Share, Playstation and Xbox

As you could tell from the social media frenzy about having to delete other games to accommodate the new Red Dead Redemption 2 (RDR2) release, hard drive space is a…

Can Spotify Ever Meet Investors’ Expectations?

Posted on 1st November, 2018 by Mark Mulligan in Netflix, Record Labels, Spotify, Spotify Earnings, Spotify Investors, Spotify Q3 Earnings, Spotify Q3 Results, Spotify Stock and Streaming

Spotify just posted another solid set of results, adding four million subscribers and beating profit and revenue estimates, yet its share price fell. What’s going on? Spotify is on track…

Guess Which is The Leading Headphone Brand?

Posted on 1st November, 2018 by Mark Mulligan in Akg, Apple, Bang And Olufsen, Beats, Bose, Headphone Market, Headphone Market Shares, Headphones, Music Tech, Panasonic, Sennheiser, Skull Candy and Sony

Headphones have been centre stage of the digital music market since the launch of the iPod in 2001. Portable music started more than two decades earlier with Sony’s Walkman, but…