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Superstars and specialist services: Will OTRO bring value to fans, footballers, and their financiers?

Georgia Meyer

7 Dec 2018

digital content

As debates on the sustainability of various digital content business models continue to play out live, OTRO, a new entrant to the market offers an opportunity to marry competing points of view. OTRO: the overview Otro is a new digital content offering for football fans: exclusive content, documentar...

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Friends for life? Warner Media and Netflix renegotiate frenemy deal

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Tim Mulligan

6 Dec 2018

The revelation that Warner Media(previously Time Warner, and acquired by AT&T in June 2018) has negotiated a clause in its 2019 licensing agreement with Netflix for ageing sitcom Friends highlights the existential challenge facing TV players in the streaming era (per The Hollywood Reporter ).

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Global Video Forecast 2018–2025

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Tim Mulligan

December 2018

YouTube

Amazon

Streaming video

2018–2025 will represent an epoch-defining era for video as streaming supplants analogue as the main technology for delivering content to TV audiences. In 2018 streaming video subscriptions already reached parity with pay-TV subscriptions in leading markets.

Independent labels grew global market share to 39.9% in 2017

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Mark Mulligan

4 Dec 2018

Independent labels

The global independent label trade body WIN has just published the third edition of the Worldwide Independent Market report. As regular readers will know, MIDiA Research has conducted this study on behalf of WIN for each of the three editions, collecting an unparalleled volume of data from many hund...

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Orange has bold ambitions for financial services

Tim Mulligan

4 Dec 2018

Last week, Orange held a press and analyst briefing to discuss its plans for Orange Bank and the progress to date. Orange is one of Europe’s leading converged telcos. It is aggressively rolling out fibre broadband services across its footprint.

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In for a penny, in for a pound: Netflix and the imminent Pinewood Studio agreement

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Tim Mulligan

4 Dec 2018

Pinewood Studios

Over the weekend news brokeabout streaming video on demand (SVOD) global leader Netflix being in advanced stages of its negotiations with the owners of Pinewood Studios (UK), to secure a long-term lease on the facilities.

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Digital sports viewing will increasingly become a shared experience

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Tim Mulligan

30 Nov 2018

On November 28 Eleven Sports, the streaming SVOD insurgent, announced the rollout of a potentially disruptive feature called ‘ Watch Together ’. Watch Together adds private video group functionality to create a shared viewing experience for groups of friends and fans.

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BT unveils BT Plus v2.0

Tim Mulligan

27 Nov 2018

BT will be offering a WiFi guarantee as part of the next iteration of BT Plus, its premium home broadband and 4G bundle. This includes a new Smart Home Hub 2 (router) along with one disc that connects to the router to improve connectivity throughout the home.

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BT Sport continues to drive innovation

Tim Mulligan

23 Nov 2018

BT Sport will broadcast this weekend’s EE Wembley Cup live on YouTube using remote production over EE’s 5G network; a world first according to BT Sport. The sporting event is an exhibition football tournament featuring a range of YouTube high-profile stars including Spencer Owen, F2 Freestylers ...

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Huawei is a force to be reckoned with in 5G

Tim Mulligan

22 Nov 2018

Huawei held its annual global mobile broadband forum event in London this week. It was a great opportunity for the network vendor to demonstrate its leadership in 5G and appease key stakeholders on security concerns.

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Taylor Swift, label services, and what comes next

Mark Mulligan

22 Nov 2018

label services deals

Taylor Swift has done it again, striking a deal with UMG that includes a commitment from the world’s largest label group to share proceeds from Spotify stock sales with artists (per The Guardian ), even if they are not recouped (i.

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The implications of Amazon’s bid for Fox’s regional sports networks

Tim Mulligan

21 Nov 2018

21st Century Fox

Hot on the heels of 21CF (21stCentury Fox) securing a renewal of its multi-year distribution deal with the leading US pay TV operator AT&T; 21CF’s regional US Sports networks are now in play. According to CNBC , tech major Amazon is bidding for all 21CF’s 22 regional sports TV networks.

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Why AT&T is renewing its Fox distribution relationship

Tim Mulligan

19 Nov 2018

Yesterday, leading US telco AT&T publicly announced the multi-year renewal of its programme distribution deal with Fox Networks Group. AT&T negotiated the deal with 21stCentury Fox assets, which will go to Disney once their takeover of Fox is finalised early in 2019.

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The English Premier League and the risks ahead

Tim Mulligan

19 Nov 2018

English Premier League

Last week’s appointmentof Susanna Dinnage to the post of chief executive of the English Premier League marked a watershed moment in the history of Europe’s most valuable sports league. For a start, history has been made with the blunt recognition that Dinnage is the first female chief executive ...

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5G represents a marriage made in heaven for the cable industry

Tim Mulligan

14 Nov 2018

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 providers. The gathering largely focused on sharing best practices, innovation and technology road map for the next few years.

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Quick Take: Activision Blizzard results and why engagement matters now more than ever

Karol Severin

12 Nov 2018

Activision Blizzard

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 engagement, success of future games within franchises like Call of Duty and Destiny, as ...

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Sky shows hand with bid for Scottish football TV rights

Alistair Taylor

12 Nov 2018

broadcast rights

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 block of rights, starting in 2021 (per The Scotsman ).

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MIDiA Research Predictions 2019

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Alistair Taylor, Georgia Meyer, Mark Mulligan, Tim Mulligan and Zach Fuller

November 2018

Apple

Spotify

YouTube

In this report MIDiA Research analysts present their predictions for what will be the big trends in digital media and tech, across music, video, media, brands, marketing, games and sports in 2019. Companies and brands mentioned in this report: ABC, Alibaba, Alphabet, Amazon, Amazon Prime Video, Apple, Apple Music, AT&T, BBC, BT, BT Sports, BT T...

Spotify Q3 2018 Earnings
Metrics on Track But Investors Not Convinced

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Mark Mulligan

November 2018

Subscriptions

Streaming

Streaming Music

Spotify’s Q3 2018 earnings once again showed continued solid progress across most of its performance metrics, with strong progress in many areas. However, weakening investor confidence across US tech stocks as a whole, coupled perhaps unrealistic investor expectations saw Spotify’s share price fall again.

Demystifying the chaos: Amazon's quest for commercial omnipotence

Georgia Meyer

5 Nov 2018

brand partnerships

financial results

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 it is difficult to keep abreast of developments – or formulate a coherent picture of what its ambitions are.

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