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Is it time for streaming TV to rethink monthly billing?

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Ben Woods

26 Jan 2024

What characteristics define the streaming TV revolution? The welter of content on offer? Big budget TV shows and binge watching? Perhaps th emost important is price point and consumer flexibility? The...

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Stitcher’s app closure asks – who will build the premium podcast experience?

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Annie Langston

6 Jul 2023

In August, SiriusXM plans to close its podcast platform, Stitcher. Launched in 2008 and acquired by SiriusXM in 2020 for $325 million, Stitcher offered both free podcast listening and a subscription for...

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Three podcast market trends to watch in 2023

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Annie Langston

18 Jan 2023

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format blurring

All of entertainment is facing new challenges in the recession. Both creators and platforms are doing everything they can to keep audiences as entertainment spending is at risk. While audio platforms have...

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Why HBO Max being back on Amazon Prime highlights the growing risk of piracy

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Hanna Kahlert

8 Dec 2022

Warner Bros. Discovery and Amazon have announced that HBO Max will become available on Prime Video channels in the US, with users able to subscribe through the Amazon platform. HBO Max was previously withdrawn...

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Why Amazon’s podcast move is even bigger than it looks

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Tatiana Cirisano

10 Nov 2022

Last week, Amazon made headlines with its move to expand the catalogue of music available to Prime members from 2 million songs to 100 million. But the announcement also included a major implication for...

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Why Amazon Music is primed for success

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Mark Mulligan

1 Nov 2022

Streaming Music

Amazon Music today announced that it was extending the number of songs available on its Prime Music tier from two million to one hundred million. It is kind of a big deal, but not that big a deal when...

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Why MGM is so important to Amazon Prime Video

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Tim Mulligan

15 Mar 2022

Metro Goldwyn Mayer (MGM)

Amazon Prime Video

In the absence of any last minute objection from EU regulators today, Amazon’s $8.45 billion acquisition of film studio MGM will be approved this month, pending the outstanding US Federal Trade Commission’s...

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Until video streaming cracks discovery, the challenges of retention will remain

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Tim Mulligan

30 Nov 2021

Back in February 2016, MIDiA Research published a report entitled P2P In The Age Of SVOD . In it, MIDiA identified a key challenge that was hindering the mainstream adoption of subscription video on demand...

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The content versus culture conundrum

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Hanna Kahlert

3 Jun 2021

Creating something which will please audiences in the moment and also have resonant staying power among the surrounding culture is a puzzle faced by the content strategists of today. It is also the age-old...

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This time Amazon really does have Bond in its sights

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Tim Mulligan

20 May 2021

MGM , which holds the largest film and TV library in Hollywood, is finally in play – and likely to be acquired by tech major and video streaming behemoth Amazon. With a rumoured price tag of $9 billion,...

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How Amazon could enhance its NFL coverage with virtual concert experiences

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Kriss Thakrar

30 Mar 2021

Amazon Prime has acquired the exclusive Thursday Night Football (TNF) rights to 15 NFL games, marking a new era for the world’s most valuable sports league. This shift is a giant step towards the normalisation...

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The COVID Bounce: How COVID-19 is Reshaping Entertainment Demand

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Mark Mulligan

27 Mar 2020

The economic disruption and social dislocation caused by the COVID-19 pandemic is not evenly distributed. Some business face catastrophe, while others thrive. Across the entertainment industries the same...

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Amazon, Regional Sports and Owning the Local Economy

Georgia Meyer

16 Jan 2019

21st Century Fox

Amazon is reportedly bidding for all 22 US regional sports networks that Disney is putting up for sale (as part of its $73.1 billion deal to buy most of 21st Century Fox). Among the networks is the YES...

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Why Music and Video are Crucial to Apple’s Future

Mark Mulligan

7 Jan 2019

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Apple’s downgraded earnings guidance represents its first profit warning in 10 years. This is clearly a big deal, and probably not as much to do with a weakening Chinese economy ifAlibaba’s 2018 Singles’...

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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

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attention economy

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...

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Subscriptions put premium consumers as well as premium content behind paywalls

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Georgia Meyer

5 Jul 2018

There are now 436 million paying subscribers across five of the largest distributors of digital music and video content globally (Spotify, Apple Music, Netflix, Amazon Prime, Tencent). This has very different...

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If Amazon Swallows Retail, Could Facebook Do the Same with Media?

Zach Fuller

25 Aug 2017

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amazon media group

Former President and CEO of Netscape James L. Barksdale once said he knew of two ways to make money, ‘Bundling and Unbundling’. Whilst much of the focus has been on the unbundling factor of media,...

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Quick Take: Amazon’s Whole Foods Acquisition Is A Major Coup For Voice Control Commerce

Zach Fuller

16 Jun 2017

In the hours following the announcement of Amazon’s $13.7 billion acquisition of American supermarket chain Whole Foods, much of the immediate attention is currently focused on how the e-commerce giant...

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Amazon Double Down on Voice Control by Announcing Echo Show

Zach Fuller

9 May 2017

Amazon is doubling down on Echo’s success (60% growth rate since November 2016) by just announcing the Echo Show. A visual iteration on the Echo, the device is priced at $229.99 and will initially only...

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Amazon Prime Live Events, More Than Just Gigs For Olds

Mark Mulligan

9 May 2017

Amazon Prime Live Events

Amazon today announced ‘Amazon Prime Live Events’, a series of smaller capacity gigs by largely heritage acts made available exclusively to Amazon Prime members in the UK. The first wave of artists...

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