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Disney puts its best digital foot forward for its 97th birthday

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Tim Mulligan

13 Oct 2020

The 11 months since Disney launched its direct-to-consumer (D2C) service Disney+ have been the most challenging and disruptive of its near century-long history. Founded 97 years ago on Friday (October...

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From blockbuster-breaker to niche premium experience – cinema gets a makeover

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Hanna Kahlert

12 Oct 2020

Cultural Trends

Lockdown has been catastrophic for live entertainment, forcing the closure of venues from movie theatres to concert halls to local music stages. This has forced creators and venues alike to adapt their...

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Netflix provides a masterclass in weaponising TV show fandom with Ratched

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Tim Mulligan

9 Oct 2020

Back in February 2018, Netflix shocked the TV world by poaching showrunner Ryan Murphy away from pay-TV network Fox. Murphy’s $300 million five-year deal was one of the many disruptive fallout consequences...

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Film’s existential threat

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Tim Mulligan

7 Oct 2020

Cineworld, the world’s second largest cinema operator and the largest UK movie theatre chain, is temporarily closing its UK cinemas as a result of continuing delays in the release of big budget films....

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German Bundesliga faces 20% decline in value for its international rights

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Alistair Taylor

1 Oct 2020

German business publisher Sponsors has announced the German Football League (DFL) is facing a 20% decline in the total value of its overseas’ broadcast rights for the 2020/21 campaign. This is down from...

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What Killing Eve tells us about anticipating future series demand

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Tim Mulligan

25 Sep 2020

One of the biggest challenges for show commissioners and the networks who distribute TV content is the challenge of anticipating future demand. Most of the existing data indicators available are lagging...

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European Professional Club Rugby goes OTT, pressing business over the needs of fans

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Alistair Taylor

23 Sep 2020

European Professional Club Rugby

Last Friday , European Professional Club Rugby (EPCR), the Heineken Champions Cup and the European Rugby Challenge Cup’s governing body announced the launch of its global over-the-top (OTT) streaming...

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Creating the digital home of hockey - SportsPro Live panel

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Alistair Taylor

17 Sep 2020

Yesterday at SportsPro Live, I had the pleasure of moderating a panel discussing the creation of the digital home of hockey with Thierry Weil, International Hockey Federation (FIH)’s CEO and Jean-Luc...

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Verizon Media announces platform to ‘evolve’ live streaming experience

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Alistair Taylor

16 Sep 2020

Verizon Media announced a series of new Media Platform improvements in a press release today (16th September), intended to ‘evolve the live streaming experience’. These features are all aimed at increasing...

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Quick Take: Apple One – Recession Buster

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Mark Mulligan

15 Sep 2020

Apple officially announced its long anticipated all-in-one content bundle: Apple One. $14.95 gets you Apple Music, Arcade, Apple TV+ and 50GB of iCloud storage. A family plan retails at $19.95 and a premier...

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Mulan – a tale of international compromise leaving no one satisfied

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Tim Mulligan

14 Sep 2020

A year unlike any other continues to throw curveballs at media companies with strong digital and international footprints. The live-action remake of the popular 90’s Disney animation Mulan has been 10...

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DAZN financials: Growth reliant on premium domestic rights

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Alistair Taylor

14 Sep 2020

DAZN’s 2018 financials highlighted the difficulty of encouraging a transition to consume live sports digitally with its existing portfolio of rights. DAZN has not yet released its 2019 financials, but...

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Is HBO Max about to disrupt Netflix domestically with relevant scripted drama?

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Tim Mulligan

3 Sep 2020

Streaming Video

When Warner Media executives commissioned the retro gothic horror original Lovecraft Country for its new flagship streaming service HBO Max, they could not have imagined just how on message the show would...

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Wanda Sports Group’s financials highlight long-term impact of live hiatus

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Alistair Taylor

3 Sep 2020

Wanda Sports Group’s (WSG) Q2 financials highlight a significant decline in revenues on account of “the broad effects of COVID-19 mitigation efforts”. WSG reported a second successive quarter of...

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Can LiveScore learn valuable lessons from Eleven Sports’ UK failings?

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Alistair Taylor

24 Aug 2020

streaming service

Streaming insurgent LiveScore launched its first ever over-the-top (OTT), ad-supported direct-to-consumer (D2C) streaming proposition in the UK back in June, harbouring a similar rights portfolio to that...

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MIDiA’s UK video consumer deep dive Q2 2020 report

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Tim Mulligan

20 Aug 2020

Streaming Video

MIDiA Research has published its Q2 2020 UK Video Consumer Deep Dive report, with an update on where the leading streaming services are and how they have adapted to the ongoing disruption wrought by COVID-19....

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COVID fallout: BBC no longer considers UK Athletics value for money

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Alistair Taylor

19 Aug 2020

COVID-19 exposed live entertainment as a vulnerable asset class , specifically following the pandemic-enforced postponement of live sports . One of the hardest hit during this hiatus and ensuing uncertainty...

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Fortnite’s Party Royale provides sports untapped avenue for reaching digital natives

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Alistair Taylor

19 Aug 2020

Universal platform

Burgeoning universal platform Fortnite’s ‘ Party Royale ’ is slowly becoming the gateway for rights holders to reach digitally native audiences. Party Royale, Fortnite’s ‘ experimenta l’ game...

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Facebook’s “Reels” bid to move into TikTok gap will fail

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Hanna Kahlert

17 Aug 2020

The rollout of Instagram Reels comes cleverly timed, sweeping in the wake of the announced TikTok ban to claim the many app users who will be searching for a new proposition on which to spend their attention....

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Apple to launch subscription bundle – we called it!

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Mark Mulligan

13 Aug 2020

In MIDiA’s 2020 Predictions report published in December 2019 we predicted that tech majors would start creating subscription bundles, with Apple leading the fray. Lo and behold, news has just come out...

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