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Why Chinese Tech & US Film Production Need Each Other

Tim Mulligan

30 Jan 2018

Media and Marketing

Thursday’s (January25th) announcement that Tencent was acquiring 10% of movie and TV production company Skydance Media, revealed the latest front in the content war being fought between tech and media, and increasingly between US companies and their Chinese competitors.

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Yonder And Streaming's Less Travelled Path

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Mark Mulligan

29 Jan 2018

emerging market stats

emerging markets

Back in 2012, a music service that had raised $174 million in funding closed without yet having launched to consumers. That service was Beyond Oblivion, a company that intended to transform the music market with music bundled into handsets and phone packages at no extra cost to consumers.

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Market Definition Lifecycles and the Future of Netflix

Zach Fuller

26 Jan 2018

How a business defines itself and the products or services it offers are crucial in how market forces (public or private) develop around it. Narrow definitions of business operations in the short-term allow focus on product and or service, but in the longer term they limit the scope of companies.

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Fandom Overlap – Cannibalisation Risks For Games And SVOD Releases

Karol Severin

24 Jan 2018

October 27 was one of the busiest days in terms of major games releases in 2017. On that day, Super Mario Odyssey, Assassin’s Creed and Wolfenstein II were released, attracting gamers across the genre spectrum.

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Netflix Is Now A Truly International Player

Tim Mulligan

23 Jan 2018

Streaming video

In light of MIDiA Research ’s Q4 2017 Brand tracker survey data, which revealed that Netflix penetration in the US has reached 49%, Netflix has to look outside the US for future growth. Why is international growth imperative for Netflix? Although a 6% surge in its international subscribers may appear modest, when overall YoY international subscriber growth rate is taken into account, this increase has been spectacular indeed.

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Join Us At ‘Radio Is Streaming’s Next Frontier’

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Mark Mulligan

22 Jan 2018

I’m very pleased to announce that MIDiA is hosting a special industry event on Wednesday 7 th February at Gibson Brands incentral London, in partnership with 7digital. The event ‘Radio Is Streaming’s Next Frontier’ is going to explore how in 2018, streaming music is going to start impacting radio just like it has spent the last few years replacing downloads.

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Walled Gardens: How Does Amazon and Google’s Approach Compare to Apple’s?

Zach Fuller

22 Jan 2018

consumer electronics

Having begun to embed itself within popular consciousness throughout 2017, voice control is poised to extend its influence and usher in the latest hardware paradigm shift in tech. What is important to consider is that in these early days of the technology, the charge is being led by two companies with a far less decorated history of delivering hardware: Amazon and Google.

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Why YouTube Is Going Big At Sundance

Tim Mulligan

19 Jan 2018

Interesting things are happening at YouTube. In February 2017 it launched YouTube TV, a subscription video-on-demand (SVOD) service with live video and catch up incorporated into its core functionality.

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Is The Telegraph Model The Future Of Premium News Journalism?

Tim Mulligan

19 Jan 2018

digital transformation

Yesterday the Telegraph announced its decision to remove bulks from its operations. Bulks are the distribution of free copies of the print version of newspapers and a means to pad out print circulations, which the newspaper industry has used for many years to inflate figures.

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Free Report: Lyrics Take Centre Stage In Streaming Music

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Mark Mulligan

16 Jan 2018

We are pleased to announce the publication of a brand new, totally free, Streaming Music report. In this report, we present the findings of an exclusive consumer survey fielded in November 2017 to consumers in the US, UK and Germany, deep diving into streaming behaviours and the growing role that lyrics is taking.

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Quick Take: Facebook Deprioritises Publishers

Zach Fuller

12 Jan 2018

Facebook has once again updated its news feed and in the tradition of its tense relationship with content creators, it does not appear to favour publishers. It is worth viewing such a move in the context of Mark Zuckerberg’s annual resolutions.

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Traditional Pay-TV Squeezes More Revenue Out of a Declining Asset

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Tim Mulligan

10 Jan 2018

ESPN’s announcement last week about the latest Nielsen ratings showing that this season’s NFL coverage had seen viewing figures decline 9.7 from the 2016 season was startling enough. The follow up revelation that ad revenue had actually increased slightly by 2% over the same period, from $504 million in 2016 to $513 million last year, was a stark reminder of the pay-TV incumbent strategy to increase margins.

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We're Hiring!

Mark Mulligan

10 Jan 2018

2017 was a big year for MIDiA, during which we expanded our team, coverage and revenues. We also added many fantastic new companies as clientsandlaunched our suite of cloud data tools: Fuse. But we have even bigger plans for 2018.

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Quick Take: Amazon, the Premier League and Next Gen Sports Frameworks

Zach Fuller

5 Jan 2018

next gen monetisation

In a move long anticipated by MIDiA , Amazon are rumoured to be in the running for Premier League streaming rights. Although they are unlikely to be alone in this endeavour (both Facebook and Google have also been mooted as sports rights bidders), they are arguably in a better position to build a next-gen sports monetisation framework than their rivals.

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The Sports Bubble and What It Means For TV

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Tim Mulligan

4 Jan 2018

The broadcasting of live sport has been a key part of TV’s appeal and underpins the pay-TV ecosystem. However, a combination of entrenched cord-cutting and an ageing audience means that revenues are now moving out of synch with inflating domestic sports rights costs.

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Joining the Dots: How Wixen’s Suit Impacts Spotify’s DPO

Mark Mulligan

4 Jan 2018

Spotify law suit

While many are still recovering from their festive exertions, Spotify hits the news twice –though for two very different reasons: the long-awaited confirmation of its DPO date and, less expected, a new lawsuit from a music publisher .

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Quick Take: Universal’s Partnership with Facebook

Zach Fuller

22 Dec 2017

content monetisation

Following its renewed deal with YouTube earlier this week, Universal has signed another landmark agreement for digital monetisation, this time with Facebook. Described by the world’s largest recorded music label as ‘unprecedented’, Facebook users,under the terms of the partnership, will now be able to upload videos that contain licensed music across Facebook’s assets.

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The Top TV Shows Of 2017

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Tim Mulligan

20 Dec 2017

Game of Thrones

For the past 15 months MIDiA Research has been tracking every quarter more than 60 leading TV shows across the US, UK, Canada and Australia. With the fragmentation of TV audiences and the rise of streaming video services like Netflix and Amazon Prime Video that are notoriously guarded with their data, it is becoming progressively more difficult for TV companies and advertisers to know just how popular individual TV shows actually are.

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MIDiA Research Predictions 2018: Post-Peak Economics

Mark Mulligan

18 Dec 2017

2018 predictions

With 2017 drawing to a close and 2018 on the horizon, it is time for MIDiA’s 2018 predictions. But first, on how we did last year,our 2017 predictions had a 94% success rate. See bottom of this post for a run down.

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Disney, Netflix and the Squeezed Middle: The Real Story Behind Net Neutrality

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Mark Mulligan

15 Dec 2017

Unless you have been hiding under a rock this last couple of weeks you’ll have heard at least something about the build up to the decision over turning net neutrality in the US, a decision that was confirmed yesterday.

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