Blog: media companies

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From Ownership to Access

Mark Mulligan

10 Jul 2018

Access

Innovation

innovation disruption

Last Wednesday we held the third MIDiA Quarterly forum, exploring the shift from ownership to access across different media industries. In addition to MIDiA analyst presentations we had panellists from...

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Facebook Is Finally Ready To Become A Media Company

Mark Mulligan

10 Nov 2016

esports

Facebook

Innovation

Facebook beat estimates with its latest earnings but announced that ad revenues would likely slow in 2017 as the digital ad market feels the pinch of advertiser budgets lagging the shift in user behaviour....

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Quick Take: Brexit And The UK Media And Tech Sectors

Mark Mulligan

24 Jun 2016

brexit

EU

media companies

The UK referendum on membership of the European Union has resulted in a vote to leave. There could be countless implications for the UK media and tech sectors but smaller companies such as independent...

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Full Stack Or Media-Tech Conglomerate? Just What Kind Of Empire Is Access Industries Building?

Mark Mulligan

21 Jan 2016

Access Industries

Bertelsmann

Crowdsurge

Deezer announced yesterday that it had closed a further €100 million investment round led by existing investors Access Industries and French telco Orange. There is no doubt Deezer needs the growth capital...

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