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The AI revolution sweeping video creator tools

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Ben Woods

12 Mar 2024

Streamlining the content creation process has become a key battleground for social video platforms. They are banking on AI shouldering most of the menial tasks associated with publishing a video, freeing...

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Is BritBox International the missing commercial streaming catalyst for the BBC?

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Tim Mulligan

4 Mar 2024

Business Strategy

Last Friday, ITV announced the sale of its entire 50% interest subscription video on demand (SVOD) service to its partner and fellow shareholder, BBC Studios (the commercial arm of the BBC). BritBox was...

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Paramount is on the right track but does it have enough time?

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Tim Mulligan

29 Feb 2024

Yesterday, Paramount announced its full year 2023 financial results. The numbers were stark, with revenues down 2% to $29.7 billion and an operating loss of $451 million. The stock price declined at the...

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Expect Warner Bros. Discovery’s forthcoming full year 2023 results to open up vital strategic choices

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Tim Mulligan

20 Feb 2024

Warner Bros. Discovery

On Friday, Warner Bros. Discovery (WBD) will announce its full year 2023 financial results to investors in its fourth quarter 2023 earnings call . It is going to make for hard reading by both investors...

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Are Prime Gaming subscriptions the drug that Twitch cannot live without?

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Ben Woods

19 Feb 2024

Twitch chief executive Dan Clancy has been quick to reshape the livestreaming platform since taking charge just shy of a year ago. Clancy has cooled competition with YouTube and Kick and taken the wind...

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Was this the year of peak ad revenues for Paramount and the Super Bowl?

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Tim Mulligan

13 Feb 2024

Sunday saw the Super Bowl LVIII broadcast on CBS, Paramount+, and Nickelodeon, providing a bumper advertising windfall estimated at between $650-$700 million for parent company Paramount. The media majors’...

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Why Disney’s Epic Games investment challenges YouTube

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Ben Woods

9 Feb 2024

YouTube’s chief executive, Neil Mohan's, latest open letter was full of confidence . A little over a week since YouTube recorded a 16% jump in advertising revenue to $9.2 billion for Q4 2023 , he outlined...

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How the smartphone ‘Swiss Army knife’ will unlock shoppable TV

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Ben Woods

2 Feb 2024

MIDiA has predicted that streaming TV services will make big strides with shoppable TV in 2024 . Key to that success will be the smartphone. An attempt by the likes of Amazon Prime, YouTube, and Disney...

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Why Channel 4 is the canary in the digital ad mine

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Tim Mulligan

30 Jan 2024

Yesterday, UK publicly owned (yet ad-funded) broadcaster Channel 4 announced that it was laying off 200 staff and closing 40 roles; reducing its headcount by 18%. In the press release for the announcement,...

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Is it time for streaming TV to rethink monthly billing?

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Ben Woods

26 Jan 2024

What characteristics define the streaming TV revolution? The welter of content on offer? Big budget TV shows and binge watching? Perhaps th emost important is price point and consumer flexibility? The...

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Smackdown – Netflix is now a sports streamer…and this is just the beginning

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Tim Mulligan

23 Jan 2024

Today Netflix announced that it has just secured the 10-year exclusive rights to show WWE’s flagship weekly programme Raw in the U.S., Canada,U.K., and Latin America, with additional countries and regions...

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How X can become a leading social video player by fuelling controversy over creativity

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Ben Woods

17 Jan 2024

Elon Musk has celebrated a small win after persuading Jimmy Donaldson – aka Mr Beast – to post a video on Twitter/ X. Until now, X’s attempts to woo the superstar creator have been rebuffed . Mr...

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Why increased ad-based engagement is hampering Netflix’s revenue growth

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Tim Mulligan

16 Jan 2024

Netflix ARPU Growth

Netflix basic with ads

Speaking at the Variety Entertainment Summit in Las Vegas, Netflix’s president of advertising, Amy Reinhard, revealed that the company now has more than 23 million monthly active users globally on its...

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Here is how livestreaming can pay its way in 2024 – and creators will not like it

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Ben Woods

11 Jan 2024

Creator economy

Twitch has become the latest company to provide a sobering outlook for the creator economy. On Wednesday (January 11th, 2024)chief executive Dan Clancy confirmed press rumours that Twitch would be cutting...

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The slow-TV opportunity

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Samuel Griffin

11 Jan 2024

Product Strategy

Since its debut in 2010, Netflix’s Fireplace for Your Home – consisting of three one-hour long episodes of crackling, rolling, digital flames – has been a semi-popular release on the platform. This...

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Why the era of spatial computing will need its entertainment moment

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Tim Mulligan

11 Jan 2024

spatial computing

On Monday, Apple announced the February 2ndlaunch date for the Vision Pro. For those unfamiliar with this hybrid augmented reality virtual reality device, it is, in the words of the press release : “A...

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Smart TV operators are gamifying engagement – here is how they can dial it up a notch

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Ben Woods

4 Jan 2024

Tracking Father Christmas’ journey on a smartphone app is a festive tradition of the modern era. Much like leaving a carrot out for Rudolf, many families are now logging on come Christmas Eve to keep...

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Who will be the winners in video as the walled gardens of entertainment recede?

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Ben Woods

21 Dec 2023

Protectionist measures that kept the streaming wars alive are being wound back. Licenced content is back in vogue, despite streaming TV being built on exclusive shows. Competitive tensions are cooling...

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Predicting what happens next in video….

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Tim Mulligan

19 Dec 2023

2024 predictions

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If 2023 was the year of consolidation in video, 2024 is poised to be one of experimentation and disruption. First up, the lag in content output as a result of this year’s writers and actors strikes left...

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How back catalogue shows can soften the blow from the Hollywood strikes in 2024

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Ben Woods

15 Dec 2023

Hollywood Strikes

It is that time of year when MIDiA Research makes its annual predictions for 2024 . While there is a strong track record of accuracy, there will always be unforeseen opportunities and challenges that boost...

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