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Social video’s shopping push will be a rare recession winner

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Ben Woods

22 Nov 2022

Despite pressure on Joe Biden’s administration to ban TikTok , the social video app made a fresh incursion into America earlier this month by bringing its live-streaming e-commerce service TikTok Shop...

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Why the MLS and Apple are rebooting subscription sports for the streaming TV era

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Tim Mulligan

17 Nov 2022

MLS Season Pass

Yesterday Apple announced that it is launching the MLS Season Pass in 100 plus countries. This is a de-facto call to arms for every tech major and media major serious about wanting to incorporate Sports...

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Can Elon Musk’s Twitter takeover trigger a revolution for creator pay?

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Ben Woods

15 Nov 2022

Creator economy

Amid Twitter’s subscription turmoil, Elon Musk unveiled plans for a land grab on his social media rivals. The likes of YouTube, Facebook, and Twitch moved into his sights as he recently declared that...

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Why video monetisation is becoming more complex

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Tim Mulligan

14 Nov 2022

video monetisation

Business Strategy

H2 2022 is proving to be an inflection point for video streaming. The dramatic increase in available services across subscription video on demand (SVOD) and ad-supported video on demand (AVOD), has coincided...

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Why the iStar takedown ruling is a timely reminder of the piracy risk to video

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Tim Mulligan

10 Nov 2022

On Monday, the International Broadcaster Coalition Against Piracy ( IBCAP ) achieved a landmark legal ruling against iStar, a pirate IPTV service. iStar’s business model revolved around selling illegal...

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Patreon is making video a battleground for creator allegiance

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Ben Woods

8 Nov 2022

With jitters building in the advertising market, YouTube appears vulnerable to challengers. Google’s parent Alphabet, the ultimate owner of YouTube, recorded its slowest sales growth for two years last...

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Why Netflix Basic with Ads is an inflection point for streaming TV

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Tim Mulligan

3 Nov 2022

Netflix basic with ads

Business Strategy

Last week, Comcast’s Q3 2022 results underlined the changing pace of disrupting video monetisation models. The communications major revealed it had lost half a million high-margin cable TV subscribers...

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Twitch and YouTube are poised for disruption in the video game advertising explosion

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Ben Woods

1 Nov 2022

Two years ago, the broad negative sentiment toward in-game advertisements stood steadfast as the gaming industry devised the ground rules for realising its multi-billion-dollar advertising opportunity....

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How DAZN is set to reboot global sports fandom

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Tim Mulligan

27 Oct 2022

Hidden in the stream of high-profile broadcast rights announcements from DAZN this month was an announcement that EA sports will be DAZN’s now global sponsor of its UEFA Women’s Champion’s League...

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House of spoilers: Leaks are bad for services, but good for fans

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Hanna Kahlert

26 Oct 2022

The finale of House of the Dragon aired this Sunday (or Monday, for countries to the east of the US), culminating a wildly successful first season of HBO’s first Game of Thrones spinoff. To be specific;...

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Video streamers batten down the hatches, the social subscription revolution is coming

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Ben Woods

25 Oct 2022

Social media companies have been happy to ride the tumultuous waves of digital advertising regardless of the market dominance of Google and Facebook. Arguments for tweaking the business model have always...

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A resurgent Netflix has reassured Wall Street despite the warning signs appearing in emerging markets

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Tim Mulligan

19 Oct 2022

Netflix Q3 2022

emerging markets

Netflix Q3 2022 results were well received by the financial markets, with NFLX shares up 14.4% in after-hours trading. This follows a challenging year for the world’s largest subscription video on demand...

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Why interactive engagement must become a new frontline in video streaming

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Ben Woods

18 Oct 2022

Cult of The Lamb

As we travel deeper into the era of entertainment saturation, video streaming services are facing some uncomfortable truths.Maintaining and securing audiences by green-lighting expensive series based on...

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User-centric versus feature-centric: the future of social platforms

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Hanna Kahlert

12 Oct 2022

attention inflation

TikTok shook the social world two years ago by introducing its classic user-generated content (UGC) video feed and a suite of creator tools, thereby becoming a runaway success. Since then, innovation has...

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Why Samsung is pushing Tizen across the smart TV ecosystem

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Tim Mulligan

11 Oct 2022

Yesterday the world’s largest smart-TV manufacturer by market share announced partnerships with international original development manufacturing (ODM) companies to license its smart-TV operating system,...

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How can entertainment reintroduce scarcity in a time of attention over-saturation?

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Hanna Kahlert

5 Oct 2022

Spoiler alert, to the disappointment of some: it is not going to be NFTs. Scarcity, real or artificial, is what drives value. The diamond industry is perhaps the most obvious example of managed scarcity...

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Why Sky remains focused on Formula 1 as streaming TV remakes sports fandom

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Tim Mulligan

4 Oct 2022

Last Friday, Comcast-owned Sky announced that it had renewed its exclusive UK and Ireland coverage of Formula 1 (F1) until the end of 2029. Included in this deal are additional rights for Sky Italia and...

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Amazon touches down with a new streaming era for NFL… and a boost to Prime membership

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Tim Mulligan

27 Sep 2022

Thursday Night Football

On September 15th, Amazon Prime Video aired its first Thursday Night Football ( TNF ) match under its new $1 billion-per-year domestic broadcast rights deal. Amazon’s decision to become the exclusive...

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Fox brings its FIFA World Cup 2022 coverage into the streaming era

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Tim Mulligan

20 Sep 2022

FIFA World Cup 2022

Last week, Fox subsidiary Tubi launched a dedicated linear channel for the FIFA World Cup Qatar 2022 tournament. Alongside using Fox’s US broadcast rights to live stream all tournament matches and highlights,...

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Why Netflix is doubling down on strengthening its media fusion IP moat

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Tim Mulligan

14 Sep 2022

Assassins Creed

It has been a difficult year for Netflix so far. 2022 has brought some home truths to a growth strategy that had become complacent in the wake of the streaming service’s Covid bounce, and where Netflix’s...

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