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Paid Content Analyst: MIDiA Research Is Hiring

Blog post by Mark Mulligan

29 Jan 2016

midia research jobs

Paid Content Analyst

We’re looking for a Paid Content Analyst to join our small but quickly growing team. The position will be based in our London Tileyard office. The analyst will provide analysis on digital content monetization...

The Music Industry Is Forcing Consumers To Choose Between Buying a Lexus And Taking The Bus

Blog post by Mark Mulligan

28 Jan 2016

It has been an eventful few days for the digital music market with developments such as the launch of a whole new breed of unlicensed Spotify clones using the APIs of Spotify and YouTub e, and with Spotify...

Why Netflix and Amazon Are Outbidding The Competition For The Best Of Sundance

Blog post by Tim Mulligan

27 Jan 2016

manchester by the sea

Amid the cold wintery weather of Utah, something extraordinary is happening, and it is not just the annual Sundance Film Festival currently being held in the scenic location of Park City. For the world’s...

Why Spotify Is Getting Into Video

Blog post by Tim Mulligan

26 Jan 2016

short form video

This week looks set to herald the launch of video content on Spotify’s Android app with a video enabling update coming to the service’s iOS app coming later. Initially the video viewing functionality...

MIDiA Chart Of The Week: Mobile App Buyers

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Blog post by Mark Mulligan

25 Jan 2016

The global mobile app market was worth $35 billion in 2015 with revenue market share virtually split down the middle between Apple and Google. A host of big mobile app publishers such as King.com, Supercell...

Full Stack Or Media-Tech Conglomerate? Just What Kind Of Empire Is Access Industries Building?

Blog post by Mark Mulligan

21 Jan 2016

Access Industries

Deezer announced yesterday that it had closed a further €100 million investment round led by existing investors Access Industries and French telco Orange. There is no doubt Deezer needs the growth capital...

How Pay-TV Can Get Netflix Off Its Front Lawn

Blog post by Tim Mulligan

20 Jan 2016

emerging markets

Amidst all the positive news about Netflix’s continuing growth story, some interesting points were touched upon in yesterday’s Netflix Q4 2015 Earnings Interview with analysts. Perhaps the most revealing...

Why An Indie Film Streaming Service Looks To China To Disrupt Its Competitors

Blog post by Tim Mulligan

19 Jan 2016

Media and Marketing

If one was to seek out two areas of video streaming that are currently wide open and waiting for consolidation then right at the top of that list would be film and the China market. Ever since last September...

WhatsApp Drops Annual Fee As It Hits 990 Million Users – Next Stop: Monetization

Blog post by Karol Severin

18 Jan 2016

The CEO of WhatsApp, Jan Koum, announced in Munich that WhatsApp now has 990million users. There have been many talks about Facebook overpaying for WhatsApp. However, it managed to double its user base...

MIDiA Chart Of The Week: YouTube Subscribers

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Blog post by Mark Mulligan

18 Jan 2016

Chart Of The Week

Video is eating the world and as it does so YouTube’s role is evolving in a subtle but crucial way. YouTube used to be the undisputed home of short form video but that role is now challenged by Facebook...

Periscope’s About To Change Twitter Forever

Blog post by Karol Severin

15 Jan 2016

mobile content strategy

Periscope now plays live streams directly in Twitter feeds on iPhones, with Android and desktop functionality to come. It is a move that will change the way Twitter works and its audience uses it. Though...

Is Apple Poised To Disrupt The Pay-TV Industry By Buying HBO?

Blog post by Tim Mulligan

14 Jan 2016

As opportunities go, it doesn’t get much bigger than this: the opportunity to buy the most lucrative content creator in video. Rumours are running around that ( click here to see the Market Watch Article...

Why Virtual Reality Will Not Break Through To The Mainstream in 2016

Blog post by Tim Mulligan

13 Jan 2016

The premier of Fox Home Entertainment’s second VR (Virtual Reality) content offering was received with much excitement at CES last week. 21st Century Fox’s blockbuster science fiction smash hit The...

Kakao Corp Turns MelOn Into A Full Stack Music Company

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Blog post by Mark Mulligan

12 Jan 2016

Full Stack Music Company

Korean messaging app company Kakao Corp has acquired a 76.4% stake in South Korean entertainment company Loen Entertainment for $1.6 billion , valuing the company at $2 billion. Kakao operates the mobile...

Chart Of The Week: Facebook The Full Stack Internet Company

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Blog post by Mark Mulligan

11 Jan 2016

Chart Of The Week

Facebook has 1.4 billion monthly active users, up by 58% since Q3 2013. Quite simply, Facebook is big and is getting bigger. But the metrics only tell part of the story. Since its inception in 2004 as...

Netflix Has Now Achieved What Pay-TV Could Only Dream Of

Blog post by Tim Mulligan

7 Jan 2016

international online video growth

When Netflix’s CEO Reed Hastings gave his keynote presentation yesterday at CES in Las Vegas what caught the media’s attention was the scale of the Video Subscription Service’s global ambitions....

Facebook Doubles Down On Messaging With Messenger Bots

Blog post by Karol Severin

7 Jan 2016

Facebook released a Chat SDK to a limited group of developers allowing them to build official bots on Messenger. When users message these ‘official accounts’, bots can immediately reply with further...

Why P2P Is Still The Big Deal For TV That It Used To Be For Music

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Blog post by Mark Mulligan

6 Jan 2016

Piracy tracking website Torrent Freak released the chart of the 10 most downloaded TV shows on BitTorrent in 2015 . There are few surprises. The most successful TVs shows are also the most pirated TV shows....

The Birth of The ESPN For Video Games?

Blog post by Tim Mulligan

5 Jan 2016

Activision Blizzard

Amidst all the Pay TV industry angst around ESPN, Disney’s troubled Sports-Network, a new venture has appeared which specifically aims to replicate ESPN’s business model. Activision Blizzard, the gaming...

Disney At The End of 2015: A Tale Of Two Brands

Blog post by Tim Mulligan

23 Dec 2015

Friday’s downgrade of Disney stock by BTIG analyst Richard Greenfield to a sell rating was based upon the current travails of its Sports broadcasting flagship ESPN. This resulted in a 4% decline in Disney’s...

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