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Sky and BT announce long term partnership for cross-supply of content

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Alistair Taylor

2 Nov 2018

British broadcasters Sky and BT confirmed this week a long-term extension and expansion to an overall content cross-supply deal. Following the initial agreement signed in the UK last December, the partnership now includes Ireland, allowing Sky Ireland customers access to Sky Sports and BT Sport thro...

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‘Hard Drive Share’ as a strategic weapon for console publishers (until streaming kicks off)

Karol Severin

2 Nov 2018

game developers

game publishers

As you could tell from the social media frenzy about having to delete other games to accommodate the new Red Dead Redemption 2 (RDR2) release, hard drive space is a real issue for many console gamers, with their desire for a new game forcing some of their previously played games off their consoles.

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Can Spotify ever meet investors’ expectations?

Mark Mulligan

1 Nov 2018

Spotify just posted another solid set of results, adding four million subscribers and beating profit and revenue estimates, yet its share price fell. What’s going on? Spotify is on track for where it should be, slightly below, but on track.

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Hoe are modern media subscription services building competitive advantages against traditional media?

Zach Fuller

29 Oct 2018

media business models

Media, with its creative nature, often likes to define itself as distinct from other industries, and yet it is governed by many of the same principles that shape other areas of commerce. With the shift to streaming in full swing, how are media business models being affected by the market forces that...

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Spotify may already be too big for the labels to stop it competing with them

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Mark Mulligan

26 Oct 2018

independent record labels

Spotify’s Daniel Ek is betting big on developing a ‘two sided marketplace’ for music. With the company’s market cap on a downward trend despite strong growth metrics, Ek might find himself having to play up the disruption narrative more boldly and more quickly than he’d planned.

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Twitter’s Q3 earnings usher in the new normal for public tech companies

Tim Mulligan

25 Oct 2018

Today’s Twitter Q3 earnings represents a signature change in big tech and the value criteria ascribed to publicly traded consumer facing tech companies. For the first time in Twitter’s five years as a public company, it has reported a decline in worldwide monthly active users (MAUs).

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Discovery taking PGA Tour golf global

Alistair Taylor

24 Oct 2018

digital content

Eurosport-parent Discovery and the PGA Tour have unveiled GolfTV , an upcoming international golf-centric subscription video on demand (SVOD) service. The announcement follows a 12-year, $2 billion June agreement granting Discovery the international rights to distribute PGA Tour content outside the ...

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Quick Take: Will stream dj-ing be the renaissance of SoundCloud?

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Zach Fuller

19 Oct 2018

After a difficult two yearsthat saw acquisitions fall through and a lack of meaningful uptake of its subscription service, SoundCloud have needed some positive news. Reveredwithin the creator community though still struggling to make a profit, SoundCloud CEO Kerry Trainorannounced today at Amsterdam...

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Netflix Q3: The SVOD giant pushes on, but the tail risks are mounting

Tim Mulligan

17 Oct 2018

Yesterday’s Q3 earnings results for Netflix were welcomed by a Wall Street unnerved by last week’s US stock sell off and fear that the tech majors, the growth engine for the 10-year bull run,are losing momentum.

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Spotify, DistroKid, and the two sided marketplace

Mark Mulligan

17 Oct 2018

spotify as a label

Spotify has taken a minority stake in DistroKid (per Music Business Worldwide ). In itself, it may be a slightly left field but relatively insignificant move, except that it is in fact one small but important step on a much bigger journey.

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Headphones Market Shares
Apple Takes the Lead

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Mark Mulligan

October 2018

Subscriptions

Streaming

Music Subscriptions

Headphones are the physical manifestation of streaming music. With the focus of listening shifted from home speakers to smartphones, headphones have become ubiquitous. But, whereas convenience was unchallenged in the early years, consumers have started to place more importance on quality.

Is Rugby in a state of crisis?

Alistair Taylor

12 Oct 2018

Consumer behaviour

The value of Rugby has suffered another major blow in what has already been a tumultuous year financially for the sport. The asking price for the Six Nations title sponsorship has plunged 64% to just £6 million ($7.

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Facebook launches its smart speaker: A few strategic considerations for Portal

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Zach Fuller

9 Oct 2018

Facebook portal

Earlier this year, MIDiA predicted that Facebook would join the smart speaker market : " A TV dongle or smart speaker: It makes strategic sense for Facebook to develop a TV dongle like Amazon’s Fire Stick or smart speaker like Apple’s HomePod, to give it a hardware foothold in the home—somethi...

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Advertising week New York: The dynamic, the dead, and the dangerous

Georgia Meyer

9 Oct 2018

digital consumers

Notoriously overwhelming, this week’s AWNY ramped activities up even further, expanding the number of stages from 8 to 12. A disorientating amount of content to navigate and a somewhat amusing metaphor for today’s digital consumer.

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Looking for the music in Tencent Music

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Mark Mulligan

5 Oct 2018

The Tencent Music Entertainment (TME) F1 filing makes for highly interesting reading, but don’t expect copious amounts of data to give you an inside track in the way that Spotify’s F1 filing did. Instead TME’s F1 bears much closer resemblance to iQyi’s F1, namely a basic level of KPIs, lots ...

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Making free pay: Fine-tuning Freemium

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Mark Mulligan

3 Oct 2018

Business Strategy

Streaming is transforming music and TV business models, driving growth in both audiences and revenue. A balance between free and paid tiers and services has been key to this success, but, growth is not always balanced, and as we approach maturity in many western markets, more may be needed of free, ...

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Tencent announces strategic pivot, focusing on Cloud and AI

Alistair Taylor

2 Oct 2018

business services

Chinese regulators

Chinese tech major Tencent announced its first restructuring in six years and third in its 20 year history, including creating a new division to focus on business services such as cloud computing. This pivot comes off the back of the Chinese regulators freezing approvals for games licenses (per Bloo...

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Can ESPN+ provide Pay-TV networks model to address declining subscribers?

Alistair Taylor

28 Sep 2018

ESPN+, Disney’s sports-centric streaming video on demand (SVOD) service, has gained more than one million paying subscribers in just over five months following its launch in April 2018 , with Kevin Mayer, chairman, Direct-To-Consumer and International, The Walt Disney Company announcing (via ESPN ...

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Video Streaming Subscription Services Market Metrics

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Tim Mulligan

September 2018

Netflix

hulu

SVOD

This report includes the key findings of MIDiA’s Global Streaming Video Subscriber Market Share Model, in which we present the subscribers, revenues and market shares of video streaming services in 31 different countries. This report contains charts and analysis for 10 countries, including consumer survey data, while the complete excel model is p...

Can Xbox All Access help Microsoft tip the games console market share in its favour?

Karol Severin

26 Sep 2018

As you probably know by now, Microsoft launched Xbox All Access in the US. It is a bundle deal offering an Xbox console and a two year access to Xbox Game Pass and Xbox Live – all this in return for 24 monthly payments of $21.

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