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Radio Is Streaming’s Next Frontier

Mark Mulligan

9 Feb 2018

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This week MIDiA held its latest quarterly research and networking event at Gibson Brands Showrooms in the heart of London’s West End. The event was heavily over-subscribed and was a great success (there are some photos at the bottom of this post).

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The Premier League Faces Some Tough Choices What Ever Happens With This Week's Broadcast Rights Bids

Tim Mulligan

8 Feb 2018

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This is a big week for the English Premier League with the bid submissions for the 2019-2022 broadcast rights due to be delivered tomorrow. The Premier League is the world’s most lucrative football league, with 14 of the 30 largest revenue generating clubs competing in the league.

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Quick Take: Is Pandora Too Big to Fail for the US Streaming Economy?

Zach Fuller

5 Feb 2018

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A quick appraisal of the US music streaming space reveals some surprising distinctions in the market, particularly when compared to global trends. The US Streaming market is disproportionately ad-supported: The United States is still the world’s largest music market, despite its dominance being ch...

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Facebook Has Got An Instagram Problem

Mark Mulligan

1 Feb 2018

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Mark Zuckerberg dropped a bit of bombshell during the Q4 2017 earnings call. He announced that Facebook daily active users (DAUs) have fallen across some key markets, including the US. COO Sheryl Sandberg elaborated: “In the US and Canada, these changes contributed to a DAU decline of 700,000 comp...

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Why Chinese Tech & US Film Production Need Each Other

Tim Mulligan

30 Jan 2018

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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

Mark Mulligan

29 Jan 2018

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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

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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

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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

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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 app...

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

Mark Mulligan

22 Jan 2018

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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 ...

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

Zach Fuller

22 Jan 2018

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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 wi...

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Why YouTube Is Going Big At Sundance

Tim Mulligan

19 Jan 2018

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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

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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

Mark Mulligan

16 Jan 2018

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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 ly...

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Quick Take: Facebook Deprioritises Publishers

Zach Fuller

12 Jan 2018

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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

Tim Mulligan

10 Jan 2018

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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 mi...

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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

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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 ne...

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The Sports Bubble and What It Means For TV

Tim Mulligan

4 Jan 2018

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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

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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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