Reports: Pay-TV

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Q2 2020 UK Video Consumer Deep Dive

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Tim Mulligan
UK video engagement in Q2 2020 remains primarily a two-horse race between subscription-based Netflix and ad-supported YouTube, which returned to dominance with 55% weekly average user penetration – three percentage points higher than Netflix. Against this trend new streaming entrant Disney+ has achieved 16% weekly average user penetration, underlying the rising competition between the subscription-based and ad-supported video streaming alternatives as the UK streaming market matures.
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D2C 2020
Media, Tech and Communications Majors Go Head to Head

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Tim Mulligan
The current division between the new video D2C entrants of 2019/2020 has revealed a strategic split between those that are leveraging established distribution advantages versus those focused on monetising existing content assets. The current market distortions wrought by the ongoing COVID-19 epidemic have placed power firmly in the hands of services able to leverage zeitgeisty originals combined with libraries of proven content and brand assets.
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Consumer Engagement
Building Sustainable Brands in 2020 and Beyond

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Hanna Kahlert
Brands have an ongoing engagement problem. No matter how much data they use or how targeted they go, competition is fierce, consumer attention is saturated, and all usage comes at the expense of time spent elsewhere. With the ubiquity of advertising, brand choices are as much a personal statement by the consumer to their peers as a testament to trust and loyalty in a company.
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US and UK Sports Fans
Reaching Digital Natives

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Alistair Taylor
Sports as a product is feeling the squeeze of the peak attention economy. Sports fans in the traditional sense are ageing, and appealing to a younger digitally-native audience is a fundamental issue that rights holders can no longer ignore. Sports rights holders have realised the importance of their virtual (gaming) counterparts, acknowledging that they are taking much of the attention of a large proportion of their fanbases, but also nurturing expected future fans who do not interact with the real-life version of sports.
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Netflix After Q2 2019
Post-Peak or Strategic Reset?

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Karol Severin, Tim Mulligan and Amanda Stears
With a market capitalisation 122 times its current annual net income, Netflix suddenly finds itself scrambling to justify its price-to-earnings ratio. The July 17th earnings call knocked 11% off the market capitalisation of the poster-child of the streaming era in a matter of two days – equivalent to the entire market capitalisation of Snap Inc, another former darling of the tech and media landscape.
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Sports SVOD Services Deep Dive

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Alistair Taylor
Sports-centric subscription video on demand (SVOD) services have entered international markets, looking to capture digital-native audiences from pay-TV and other established SVOD services. Eleven Sports’ demise in the UK provides the best case study for how streaming services can struggle when entering a market with insufficient rights offerings.
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US Cord Cutting Full Year 2018
Streaming Transition Picks Up Pace

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Tim Mulligan
Cord cutting is now an established component of the US pay-TV landscape, reinforcing the role of the US as the canary in the mine for the global pay-TV business. Cord cutting accelerated in 2018, highlighting the secular nature of the phenomenon. However, this is not simply a story of decline but instead one of transition, with streaming growing ­— in a wider sense — the total base of pay-TV subscribers.
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SVOD Stacking
Direct to Consumer Services Set to Move the Needle

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Tim Mulligan
In the attention economy, everyone is your competitor – a point well made by Netflix’s Reed Hastings’ observation that the company is now vying for viewer time with the popular game Fortnite. Now that we are entering the post-peak phase of the attention economy, the focus for video is shifting to the overlap between subscription video on demand (SVOD) users and the additional services they use.
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