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Hulu’s Integrated Streaming And Pay-TV Approach Could Be The Future of Video Entertainment

Tim Mulligan

11 Jan 2019

hulu

Netflix

Pay TV

On Tuesday, USstreaming video provider Hulu announced that it had reached 25 million subscribers, a 48% increase year on year. This was on the back of a 36% growth rate in 2017 and now means that Hulu...

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

Alistair Taylor

2 Nov 2018

addressable audience

Amazon Prime

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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Why Netflix Is A Next Generation Network And Why Amazon Is A Next Generation Operator

Tim Mulligan

19 May 2017

Amazon

Netflix

next genration operators

10 years on and the digital landscape is a mobile-centric landscape, with global online video consumption due to reach 50% penetration rates in 2019 (based on the MIDiA Research video forecast modeling)....

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Why Facebook Is Getting Into TV

Tim Mulligan

10 May 2017

Facebook

Facebook video

live TV

Last week there was a lot of coverage around the 51% increase in year on year ad revenue and the additional 80 million monthly active users added to Facebook in Q1 2017. However last week also saw the...

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Forget Cord Cutting: It’s A Bigger Cord With More Strands

Tim Mulligan

11 Apr 2017

cord cutting

Netflix

Online video

Amid all the noise and angst surrounding cord-cutting among the TV industry over the last two years, it is easy to fall into the trap of thinking that pay-TV is facing an irreversible decline. The reality,...

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