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Video Steps into the First On-Demand Recession

Tim Mulligan

13 May 2020

A much-cited phrase used to quantify the recent run of cable and satellite TV subscriptions cancellations in the US has been “horrific”. In Q1 the leading publicly-reporting traditional pay-TV providers reported a record 1.

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‘You’re not singing anymore’ - English Premier League set to lose over $1 billion

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Alistair Taylor

7 May 2020

The English Premier League (EPL) is faced with the very real possibility that it will have to play out the entirety of the 2020/2021 soccer season behind closed doors, starving teams of more than $1 billion in lost matchday revenue.

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Disney’s Results for Calendar Q1 Underlines The Importance Of its D2C Pivot

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Tim Mulligan

7 May 2020

There was no dressing it up. Disney had a bad start to the year from a financial perspective. In its Q2 2020 (calendar Q1 2020) report the company announced an 85% decline in income from its continuing operations before taxes, and an even greater 91% decline in net income from continuing operations.

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Does Virgin Media Plus O2 Equal A New UK Communications Major?

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Tim Mulligan

6 May 2020

Liberty Global which is the parent company of Virgin Media, is in talks with Telefonica subsidiary O2 about combining the two businesses together to create a new UK challenger to BT. Virgin Media is the second largest pay-TV operator in the UK with four million video subscribers and 5.

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Collapsing Maul: Sport Facing Global Rights Re-valuations

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Alistair Taylor

4 May 2020

broadcast rights

The English Gallagher Premiership Rugby provides another case study that demonstrates just how significant COVID-19’s impact on rights holders is likely to be moving forward, as it faces a substantial drop in the value of its broadcast rights.

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YouTube Ad Revenue Continues To Grow But For How Much Longer?

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Tim Mulligan

30 Apr 2020

On Tuesday (28th April), Alphabet, the holding company for Google released its Q1 2020 results. The performance of Google is hugely important across both the digital economy and the financial sector. Google and Facebook between them account for the overwhelming majority of digital advertising outsid...

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Historical and Crime Dramas Are Dominating Lockdown Viewing

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Tim Mulligan

29 Apr 2020

Defending Jacob

historical drama

As a quarter of the world goes into a second month of lockdown some interesting trends are starting to emerge. First of all was the spike in TV and video consumption with linear viewing challenging the long-term trend away from appointment-to-view schedules.

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HBO Max Now Has Its Launch Date-Will This Turn Out To Be Good Or Bad Timing?

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Tim Mulligan

24 Apr 2020

On Tuesday, AT&T subsidiary Warner Media announced the launch date for its forthcoming D2C streaming video service HBO Max. On May 27 th HBO Max will launch into a world radically different from the one envisaged at the HBO Max debut event held in October 2019.

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The Battle Down Under

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Alistair Taylor

23 Apr 2020

#playerstogether

additive services

With COVID-19 exposing the vulnerability of pureplay sport streaming services , the importance of building out a robust and downturn-proof offering is fundamental to the viability of these currently additive services.

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Netflix Q1 2020- Streaming’s First Financial Lockdown Update

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Tim Mulligan

22 Apr 2020

As the world continues to adjust to the new normal of lockdown, work and entertainment now revolves around the home. Over the past month a combination of consumer survey data, ratings announcements and press releases from streamers have provided us with a glimpse into the real impact of COVID-19 loc...

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Consumption and production impacts on TV and video streaming under lockdown

Tim Mulligan

21 Apr 2020

COVID-19 programming

Unsurprisingly the UK government opted to extend lockdown for a further three weeks last week, and today will mark the first full month of lockdown for UK consumers. In the US 95% of the population is now under lockdown, and globally 25% of consumers remain officially home-bound.

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Now Is the Time to Engage, Not Convert

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Hanna Kahlert

17 Apr 2020

covid-19 dislocation

Before the COVID-19 pandemic and global lockdowns, there were already two key behavioural trends that have since been accelerated by the current phenomenon: a shift towards digital consumption, and an attention economy which had hit near-saturation.

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AVOD steps out into the lockdown era

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Tim Mulligan

16 Apr 2020

Yesterday saw the soft launch of Peacock, the new direct-to-consumer (D2C) ad-supported video on demand (AVOD) and subscription video on demand (SVOD) hybrid app from NBCUniversal – the media subsidiary of communications major Comcast.

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Play for the World – EA Aims to Fill Void via FIFA Stay and Play Cup

Alistair Taylor

16 Apr 2020

In 2003, FIFA updated its primary logo to include the words ‘For the Game. For the World.’ Fast forward 17 years and governments around the world are instructing their citizens to stay inside. Now it is almost as if Nike consulted FIFA on its latest marketing campaign ‘Play Inside, Play for th...

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Forget Virtual – UFC and NRL going Remote

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Alistair Taylor

10 Apr 2020

Associated Press

With fans currently starved of sports entertainment during lockdown, rights holders are jumping out of the gate to be the first to put on live sports to serve any form of quick fix to see a jump in engagement.

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Welcome to the new era of pandemic programming

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Tim Mulligan

9 Apr 2020

As 25% of the world gets used to a second month of lockdown following the public health crisis unleashed by the COVID-19 pandemic, the impact on video continues to grow. Propositions in this new landscape are benefitted by increased entertainment time available (MIDiA Researchhas identified that for...

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Free COVID-19 Impact Webinar

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Mark Mulligan

9 Apr 2020

coronavirus impact

coronavirus research

coronavirus webinar

MIDiA Research is running a free-to-attend webinar on Wednesday, April 15 th : COVID-19 Impact on Entertainment Demand and Behaviours. Regular readers will know that MIDiA has been publishing COVID-19 impact research, data and analysis since lockdowns started taking effect in the West.

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Today Quibi launches into a brave new world with even bigger challenges ahead

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Tim Mulligan

6 Apr 2020

When Quibi chose April 6thas its US and Canada launch date, it could not have envisaged just how rapidly the world would have reprioritised its finite attention. Quibi’s go-to-market strategy has focused on the seeming gap in mobile-native premium short-form video content – smartphone-native con...

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Self-Isolation: DAZN Concedes to COVID-19

Alistair Taylor

6 Apr 2020

additive services

all-encompassing offering

Sports streaming insurgent DAZN has announced last week it plans to inform rights holders of its intent to defer its payments of rights fees for any content not yet delivered (i.e. postponed / cancelled games) during this pandemic-enforced freeze on live sports.

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Why Warner Media is investing in incoming CEO Jason Kilar

Tim Mulligan

3 Apr 2020

On Wednesday AT&T announced that Jason Kilar will become the new CEO of Warner Media on May 1st2020. The choice of Kilar speaks volumes about how the US communications major is approaching the forthcoming challenge at the heart of its Warner Media subsidiary – the May domestic launch of HBO Ma...

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