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Is Video Streaming About to Witness Music’s P2P Trial by Fire?

Hanna Kahlert

2 Mar 2020

Music Video

As the direct-to-consumer (D2C) big bang moment continues the slow process of expansion through the attention-saturated digital universe , video service providers are struggling with the existential question of how to compete well enough to survive in the hostile environment of overstimulated, walle...

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NFL's broadcast over-index flatters to deceive

Alistair Taylor

27 Feb 2020

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The NFL’s recently released viewing figures provided to CNBC highlighted a 5% increase in viewership as TV audiences grew on average to 16.5 million, up from 15.8 million in 2018. Not only this, but according to Quartz , throughout the season the NFL finished with 41 out of the top 50 broadcasts (...

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Why the BBC finds itself in an existential battle for survival

Tim Mulligan

18 Feb 2020

Strategy Video BBC

On February 5thNicky Morgan, the UK Secretary of State for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport,announcedan eight-week public consultation on whether to decriminalise TV licence fee evasion (via Gov.uk ).

Joining the D2C streaming wars is a do-or-die moment for ViacomCBS

Tim Mulligan

12 Feb 2020

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Last Thursday CNBC reportedthat the newly-merged ViacomCBS is planning to launch its own direct-to-consumer (D2C) service, with a formal announcement to be made during the company’s forthcoming fourth quarter earnings conference call on February 20th.

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20 million is the magic number for Disney today

Tim Mulligan

4 Feb 2020

Disney Video Business Strategy

Today Disney announces its Q1 2020 numbers, with Wall Street expected to laser-focus upon the first available numbers for Disney+ since its launch on November 12th of 2019. Disney+ is the key direct-to-consumer (D2C) service underpinning Disney’s pivot into streaming, which it formally announced a...

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A view to a sure thing (part two)

Tim Mulligan

29 Jan 2020

Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer mgm Netflix

Long-term readers of theMIDiA Research Blogmay remember a post fromSeptember 2017outlining the appeal to tech majors Apple and Amazon of acquiring the rights to the James Bond franchise . Fast forward to the 26thof January 2020, CNBC identified the James Bond film franchise distribution owner Metro-...

Peacock goes for gold

Alistair Taylor

23 Jan 2020

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On the January 16, Comcast (owner of NBCUniversal) unveiled further details of its direct to consumer (D2C) proposition, Peacock. Peacock is set to debut on April 15, exclusively for Comcast’s Xfinity X1 and Flex customers, before being rolled out nationally across the US on July 15th.

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Peacock gets ready to ruffle some D2C feathers

Tim Mulligan

22 Jan 2020

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On January 16th, US communications behemoth Comcast (owner of NBCUniversal) held an investors day to provide much-needed clarity around its forthcoming direct-to-consumer (D2C) service Peacock. Of the big four D2C services due to launch in a 12-month period between H2 2019 and H2 2020, Peacock is th...

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YouTube and the fan monetisation model

Hanna Kahlert

21 Jan 2020

Fan monetisation fanbase Fandom

How to describe YouTube? The now-15-year old video platform does not fit into a single box, but rather ticks all of them. Its positioning between consumer and business is a fascinating one, replicated in reach and capacity by no other platform.

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The challenge for Global D2C growth in 2020

Tim Mulligan

17 Jan 2020

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2020 promises to be a big year for direct-to-consumer (D2C) services, with Warner Media’s HBO Max and Comcast’s Peacock set to join Apple TV+ and Disney+ in the battle to win streaming audience share both in the US and beyond.

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The meta trends that will shape the 2020s

Mark Mulligan

10 Jan 2020

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CES, the big annual consumer tech show, is underway in Las Vegas. Unlike in most previous years, there has been little in the way of big new announcements. This is in large part because we are reaching a degree of maturity in the consumer landscape, with big new developments being replaced by smalle...

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Netflix bewitches the internet

Tim Mulligan

9 Jan 2020

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Netflix, the current subscription video on demand (SVOD) global leader, has topped Wikipedia searches for the second week of 2020 with its new fantasy scripted drama original, The Witcher . The show is based upon a story universe created by Polish author Andrzej Sapkowski, which originated in novel ...

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Enter the Dragon: Netflix steps closer to borderless content with Korea’s CJ ENM

Tim Mulligan

2 Jan 2020

CJ ENM Netflix Strategy

Netflix has quietly announced a new strategic partnership with potentially far-reaching ramifications for how it weathers the direct-to-consumer (D2C) storm of 2020. The December 30th press release officially announced the production and output deal agreed on November 21st2019 between Netflix and St...

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The future has finally arrived – streaming supplants pay-TV

Tim Mulligan

16 Dec 2019

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It was a long time in coming, but what was always on the horizon has now become a reality as subscription video on demand (SVOD) has finally supplanted pay-TV to become the main paid video consumption format.

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How an economic downturn could reshape digital media

Mark Mulligan

13 Dec 2019

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Ten years on from the credit crunch, the global economy could be poised to enter another recession. Many of the underlying causes of the credit crunch remain in place, due to governments lacking appetite for structural reform of the faults in the global financial system that catalysed the slowdown.

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Hotstar's potential Disney+ partnership raises brand challenges

Amanda Stears

12 Dec 2019

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Yesterday Indian streaming service Hotstar published its 2019 India Watch Report . Hotstar (a fully-owned Disney subsidiary since the 21CF acquisition by Disney back in March of this year) now boldly states that its streaming app has reached 400 million app installs, making it one of the most downlo...

What Star Wars in Fortnite tells us about the future of digital entertainment

Karol Severin

10 Dec 2019

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It has been revealed that Disney will soon be premiering a scene from its upcoming The Rise of Skywalker film (per engadget ). What makes this a truly newsworthy story is that the event will take place inside Fortnite ’s Risky Reels digital drive-in theatre, apparently with J.

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Is Comcast’s D2C move digital peacocking?

Tim Mulligan

9 Dec 2019

Comcast d2c Peacock

On January 16th 2020, Comcast will be holding an investor day meeting to provide further clarity around Peacock – its forthcoming ad-supported direct to consumer (D2C) video streaming service. The focus of the meeting will be to address “the overarching strategy for the platform”.

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Disney+ Has Tapped the Cultural Zeitgeist with the Mandalorian

Tim Mulligan

6 Dec 2019

Star Wars The Mandalorian Video

With 10 million sign ups in its first day (per The Verge ),there is no doubt that Disney+ has tapped strong latent demand in what is already a highly saturated US streaming video market. What differentiates market insurgent Disney+ from incumbent Netflix is that it is trading on big individual brand...

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Streaming is finally beginning to turn the German market

Zach Fuller

4 Dec 2019

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Still the fourth-largest market by revenue after the US, UK, and Japan, Germany has been comparatively slow to make the digital transition while remaining a key territory for record labels due to its scale, spending power and robust physical market.

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