Tim Mulligan

BT Pays A Premium For Video Scarcity

Blog post by Tim Mulligan

6 Mar 2017

Today BT announced the extension of their exclusive UK broadcasting rights deal with UEFA for all Champions League and Europa League matches until the end of the 2020-2021 season. This has cost the UK…

YouTube Flicks The On Switch With YouTube TV

Blog post by Tim Mulligan

2 Mar 2017

Tuesday, February 28th could be looked back on as the day when everything changed for the pay TV industry in the US. This was the day when one of the tech majors decided to announce to the world that it…

Amazon & Netflix Go To The Oscars

Blog post by Tim Mulligan

27 Feb 2017

Yesterday’s 89 th Academy Awards made history. For the first time, streaming services were critically recognized by the Academy Of Motion Pictures and Sciences with Netflix and Amazon, the two largest…

Awesomeness TV And The Premium Online Video Content Challenge

Blog post by Tim Mulligan

21 Feb 2017

Despite the hype and the overall direction of travel, creating a premium video offering for mobile audiences remains a huge challenge. Last week Awesomeness TV and Verizon (who bought a 24.5% stake in…

Why Sling TV’s Move Into Cloud DVR Takes SVOD One Step Closer To Supplanting Non-streaming Pay TV

Blog post by Tim Mulligan

17 Feb 2017

Sling TV’s recently announced that it would be expanding its cloud DVR trial to its subscriber base who access the service through Amazon Fire TV and Android devices. This will be closely followed by…

The Significance behind The Amazon Prime Video Membership Numbers

Blog post by Tim Mulligan

16 Feb 2017

One of the challenges of following the disruption wrought by Amazon in the TV and film business is assessing the size of its Prime membership. Currently a subscription to prime membership includes a subscription…

YouTube Unleashes The Power Of Live Streaming

Blog post by Tim Mulligan

8 Feb 2017

Yesterday YouTube announced that it was opening up live streaming to its creator community who have a following of 1,000 or more on the YouTube platform. The new service called “Super Chat” allows…

The BBC’s Planet Earth II, Snapchat And The Premium Content Play

Blog post by Tim Mulligan

6 Feb 2017

Hot on the heels of last week’s S-1 Initial Public Offering prospectus release by Snap Inc, the parent company of Snapchat, was this morning’s announcement that the US messaging service is partnering…

Why Facebook Is Getting Serious About Native Video Content Creators

Blog post by Tim Mulligan

3 Feb 2017

On Wednesday’s fourth quarter earning’s call , Facebook’s CEO and founder Mark Zuckerberg made a point of emphasizing the centrality of video to the future growth of the company and specifically…

Why go90 Is Where It Is

Blog post by Tim Mulligan

2 Feb 2017

18 months is a long time in the digital world. In that time, Facebook’s Messenger and Whatsapp both passed the billion monthly active users milestone and Snapchat has more than trebled its video engagement…

Amazon Steals A March On Netflix With The First Streaming Pay- TV Best Picture Oscar Nomination

Blog post by Tim Mulligan

27 Jan 2017

In the ongoing video streaming wars currently being fought out between Netflix and Amazon (globally number one and number two global subscription services) Amazon have just claimed a significant victory.…

Netflix And The Tenth Anniversary Of Video Streaming

Blog post by Tim Mulligan

16 Jan 2017

Today marks the tenth anniversary since Netflix launched its pivot into video streaming. Up until 2006, Netflix was a troubled company with repeated predictions for the inevitable demise of its DVD-rental…

What’s In A Name: From Yahoo to Altaba

Blog post by Tim Mulligan

11 Jan 2017

So two weeks into the 2017 and it's another year and yet another twist in the ongoing saga that is Yahoo. On Monday, Yahoo Inc disclosed in a regulatory filing that it was splitting the company into two.…

US Video Market Overview
SVOD Grows The Pay-TV Market

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Report by Tim Mulligan

5 Jan 2017

20,000 foot view: The US continues to dominate global video trends as the world’s most valuable online video market. The video audience continues to experience strong growth fueled by a combination of…

Welcome To The New Episodic Reality Of Online Video

Blog post by Tim Mulligan

5 Jan 2017

2016 was big for many reasons and one of the lesser known yet significant developmental milestones for online video was the launch of The OA , an original series launched by Netflix on December 16 th . …

Mad Men, Video Advertising And Transparency

Blog post by Tim Mulligan

20 Dec 2016

The news last week that yet another major Advertising Agency has been contacted by the US Department of Justice “concerning video production and post-production practices in the advertising industry”…

The Second Coming Of Silent Cinema

Blog post by Tim Mulligan

16 Dec 2016

89 years ago The Jazz Singer was released and the moving image industry went through one of its periodic transformative moments. The jazz singer was the first “talkie”; a film with sound. At a stroke,…

Why PewDiePie Contemplated Deleting His YouTube Channel

Blog post by Tim Mulligan

9 Dec 2016

PewDiePie who runs the most subscribed YouTube channel which has just surpassed 50 million subscribers declared that he is going to close down his record-breaking channel today. PewDiePie, aka Swedish…

Quick Take: Twenty-First Century Fox Makes Its Move on Sky

Blog post by Tim Mulligan

9 Dec 2016

Today’s announcement of the tender offer by Twenty-First Century Fox to buy up the remainder of Sky Plc which it doesn’t currently own could be one of the most pronounced outcomes of Brexit for the…

Netflix Flexes Its Licensing Muscle

Blog post by Tim Mulligan

1 Dec 2016

The announcement yesterday that Netflix is going to allow TV and movie downloads for offline viewing is a seismic moment for TV generally not just SVOD (subscription video on demand) services in particular.…