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The MIDiA Research Podcast: Episode 1 – What Next for Tencent?

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Mark Mulligan

7 Aug 2020

Media & Marketing

We are excited to announce the first episode of the MIDiA Research podcast: What Next for Tencent? President Trump's executive orders concerning Bytedance and Tencent set the cat among the pigeons. In...

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Return of the fan: COVID-19 thwarts fan pilot sporting events amid regional spikes in cases

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Alistair Taylor

6 Aug 2020

Just when sports fans thought it was safe to go back into the water, COVID reared its ugly head once more. UK fan pilot sporting events were all set to start allowing fans back into arenas and attend live...

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A brutal Q2 pressures Disney to erode the theatrical release window

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Tim Mulligan

6 Aug 2020

A tough financial Q1 2020 was followed by an awful financial Q2 for Disney, with the media major reporting its first quarterly loss since 2001. With 35% of the entertainment conglomerate’s revenues originating...

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TwitchSports: Amazon throws sports into the starting line-up

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Alistair Taylor

29 Jul 2020

Amazon-owned Twitch is no newcomer to sports. However, in a deliberate move to double down, Amazon has conceded that it needs to improve the discoverability of live sporting events for its platform users...

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The end of the pay-TV era: AT&T gets behind HBO Max

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Tim Mulligan

28 Jul 2020

The Q2 2020 AT&T financial results were not pretty. Net income for the company was down 61% year-on-year (YoY). While operating expenses were down marginally by 0.1%, the real cost to the communications...

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DAZN’s belated UK launch: Can it avoid Eleven Sports’ 'mistake’?

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Alistair Taylor

24 Jul 2020

Media & Marketing

DAZN, the anointed ‘Netflix of Sport’, has announced plans to resume launching its services globally via a beta service covering boxing bouts In July and August, for users who have registered their...

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Reach for the win: BT Sport to air UEFA Champions League final on YouTube

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Alistair Taylor

23 Jul 2020

Media & Marketing

UK pay-TV incumbent BT Sport has announced it will air this year’s (COVID-delayed) UEFA Champions League (UCL) final free-to-air (FTA) on Google-owned YouTube. YouTube’s head of sport in EMEA, Tomos...

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Recovery Economics: What the post-lockdown world looks like for TV

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Tim Mulligan

22 Jul 2020

brave new world

recovery economics

As the quarter of the world that experienced the COVID-19 lockdowns start to fitfully open up again, the realisation that the world has irrevocably changed is starting to settle in. With the highly contagious...

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Netflix Q2 2020 earnings: Lockdown revenue windfall but performance expected to fall

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Tim Mulligan

17 Jul 2020

H1 2020 has been particularly good for Netflix. Q1 2020 saw record subscriber growth of 27.8 million net additions and its original content has dominated viewer interest over the previous six months. The...

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NBCUniversal hopes to draw level with Premier League move

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Alistair Taylor

15 Jul 2020

With Comcast’s NBCUniversal-owned Peacock launching today (July 15th), sports fans will be excited ahead of NBCU’s repositioning of its English Premier League (EPL) rights, giving paying subscribers...

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Welcome to the world of digital autarky

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Tim Mulligan

8 Jul 2020

2020 has thus far proved to be a year of unexpected disruption across business and the geo-political landscape as the international order adapts to the global pandemics and rising nationalism.The post...

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FuboTV adds key sporting rights to portfolio following Disney deal

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Alistair Taylor

2 Jul 2020

Sporting rights

FuboTV, the US over-the-top (OTT) internet-delivered TV service launched back in January 2015 as a soccer-centric proposition. In that time it has established itself as a niche distributor of live streams...

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Netflix $17 billion budget staves off Disney and HBO Max competition

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Tim Mulligan

30 Jun 2020

As Netflix increases its annual content budget from the $13.9 billion in 2019 to an estimated $17 billion in 2020, the global video streaming leader is responding to the competitive threat posed by its...

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Device sales key to Apple TV+ ROI

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Tim Mulligan

25 Jun 2020

During its WWDC 2020 event on Monday, Apple reminded the world that Apple TV+ reachesone billion screens. This is an officialrestatement of Apple Originals contributor Oprah Winfrey at last year’s Showtime...

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Is streaming making it harder and more expensive for consumers to access video content?

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Tim Mulligan

19 Jun 2020

Back in 2007, Netflix made its famous pivot from being a subscription postal DVD rental provider to becoming an on-demand video streaming provider. Fast forward 13 years and the entire TV industry has...

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Just what is Tencent’s Endgame?

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Mark Mulligan

16 Jun 2020

Tencent’s combined $200 million investment in WMG follows on the heels of its $3.6 billion joint investment in Universal Music. It is hardly Tencent’s first investments in music, having spent $6.2...

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Bain Capital Fashions Itself Goal-Scoring Opportunity with Tabled Serie A Offer

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Alistair Taylor

16 Jun 2020

Italian football league Serie A is attracting suitors for an equity share, following a €3 billion ($3.4 billion) ‘tentative offer’ made by Bain Capital for 25% of the league. This opened up competition...

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Premier League Acknowledges Priorities Have Changed During Lockdown

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Alistair Taylor

11 Jun 2020

artificial crowd noise

The English Premier League (EPL) is set to return to screens next Wednesday, over three months since the last fixture graced our screens. Considering the pandemic enforced-postponement has deprived sports...

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New Webinar on What Comes After Lockdown

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Mark Mulligan

9 Jun 2020

Want to know what happens in the post-Lockdown era? Join us for our free-to-attend Recovery Economics webinar tomorrow (Wednesday 10thJune) at 4pm BST / 11am EST / 8am PT for insight on music, radio,...

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The BBC Steps Into A Brave New World With The Appointment of Tim Davie

Tim Mulligan

9 Jun 2020

The appointment of Tim Davie, the current chief executive of BBC Studios – the commercial licensing and production arm of the BBC – as the next director general of the BBC is a signal that fundamental...

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