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Read our latest daily deep dives, hot takes, and exciting updates about the digital entertainment world. Check out the latest from your favourite analyst, or search by coverage - games, video, music, audio, social, or critical developments.

Is Apple Poised To Disrupt The Pay-TV Industry By Buying HBO?

Tim Mulligan

14 Jan 2016

As opportunities go, it doesn’t get much bigger than this: the opportunity to buy the most lucrative content creator in video. Rumours are running around that ( click here to see the Market Watch Article...

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Why Virtual Reality Will Not Break Through To The Mainstream in 2016

Tim Mulligan

13 Jan 2016

The premier of Fox Home Entertainment’s second VR (Virtual Reality) content offering was received with much excitement at CES last week. 21st Century Fox’s blockbuster science fiction smash hit The...

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Kakao Corp Turns MelOn Into A Full Stack Music Company

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Mark Mulligan

12 Jan 2016

Full Stack Music Company

Korean messaging app company Kakao Corp has acquired a 76.4% stake in South Korean entertainment company Loen Entertainment for $1.6 billion , valuing the company at $2 billion. Kakao operates the mobile...

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Chart Of The Week: Facebook The Full Stack Internet Company

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Mark Mulligan

11 Jan 2016

Chart Of The Week

Facebook has 1.4 billion monthly active users, up by 58% since Q3 2013. Quite simply, Facebook is big and is getting bigger. But the metrics only tell part of the story. Since its inception in 2004 as...

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Netflix Has Now Achieved What Pay-TV Could Only Dream Of

Tim Mulligan

7 Jan 2016

international online video growth

When Netflix’s CEO Reed Hastings gave his keynote presentation yesterday at CES in Las Vegas what caught the media’s attention was the scale of the Video Subscription Service’s global ambitions....

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Facebook Doubles Down On Messaging With Messenger Bots

Karol Severin

7 Jan 2016

Facebook released a Chat SDK to a limited group of developers allowing them to build official bots on Messenger. When users message these ‘official accounts’, bots can immediately reply with further...

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Why P2P Is Still The Big Deal For TV That It Used To Be For Music

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Mark Mulligan

6 Jan 2016

Piracy tracking website Torrent Freak released the chart of the 10 most downloaded TV shows on BitTorrent in 2015 . There are few surprises. The most successful TVs shows are also the most pirated TV shows....

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The Birth of The ESPN For Video Games?

Tim Mulligan

5 Jan 2016

Activision Blizzard

Amidst all the Pay TV industry angst around ESPN, Disney’s troubled Sports-Network, a new venture has appeared which specifically aims to replicate ESPN’s business model. Activision Blizzard, the gaming...

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Disney At The End of 2015: A Tale Of Two Brands

Tim Mulligan

23 Dec 2015

Friday’s downgrade of Disney stock by BTIG analyst Richard Greenfield to a sell rating was based upon the current travails of its Sports broadcasting flagship ESPN. This resulted in a 4% decline in Disney’s...

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MIDiA Chart Of The Week: Netflix Leads Format Innovation

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Mark Mulligan

22 Dec 2015

Chart Of The Week

Chart Of The Week

The advent of Video On Demand transformed the business models of the broadcast and pay-TV industries. Now it is set to have an equally disruptive impact on the nature of video content itself as the old...

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Quick Take: New Facebook Events

Karol Severin

21 Dec 2015

facebook events

Facebook launched a new event browsing experience on iOS. It suggests and allows users to look for events on specific days as well as to adjust their location to see what events are going on anywhere in...

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MIDiA Predictions 2016: Video Eats The World

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Mark Mulligan

18 Dec 2015

midia predictions 2016

With 2015 rapidly drawing to a close we have taken the opportunity to present the big trends that MIDiA Research believes will shape digital content and media in 2016. The entire findings are available...

3 min read

Netflix Originals In Top Ten Google Search Rankings

Tim Mulligan

17 Dec 2015

Netflix originals

Amidst all the publicity around the most searched for terms on Google in 2015 was the revelation that not one, but three Netflix shows feature in the top ten trending TV Show searches globally. And these...

3 min read

MIDiA Data Point Of The Day: Download Buyers

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Mark Mulligan

16 Dec 2015

Data Point Of The Day

The standout sales success of Adele over recent week has many permutations, not least of which is the keen reminder that many millions of people still buy downloads and CDs. The streaming transition continues...

2 min read

Why Reddit Has To Get Mobile Right

Karol Severin

15 Dec 2015

app monetization

mobile app strategy

Reddit has had a tough time going mobile. Their initial attempt at an official app failed in 2011. Since then, a plethora of independent Reddit apps emerged, capturing a part of Reddit’s potential mobile...

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Quick Take: Taylor Swift, Apple Music And The Search For Exclusives

Mark Mulligan

14 Dec 2015

Taylor Swift just announced that Apple Music will be the exclusive streaming partner of her latest live film ‘The 1989 World Tour Live’ which includes alongside footage of the performances, back stage...

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MIDiA Chart Of The Week: The Mobile App Funnel

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Mark Mulligan

14 Dec 2015

acquiring mobile users

Chart Of The Week

App companies lose users and revenue right across the user acquisition and retention process. Thus as the global app market grows the amount of lost revenue accelerates also. MIDiA’s app funnel analysis...

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Netflix Gets Ready To Disrupt TV Commissioning In 2016

Tim Mulligan

10 Dec 2015

This week, Ted Sarandos, Netflix’s head of content revealed the company’s 2016 originals pipeline. Netflix will nearly double its roster of original series from this year’s 16 to 31 in 2016. It will...

3 min read

Fan-Dependent Stakeholders Need To Adopt Interactive Live Broadcasting Before It Becomes Too Late

Karol Severin

9 Dec 2015

consumer loyalty

facebook live streaming

interactive streaming

Interactive live broadcasting platforms like Periscope and Meerkat are ideal tools to make superfans out of fans. Live streaming services can provide a live one-to-one communication at scale. The appeal...

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Quick Take: Vevo Buys ShowYou But Will It Seize The Opportunity?

Mark Mulligan

8 Dec 2015

Music Streaming

Vevo has acquired video curation/discovery platform ShowYou . There’s a lot of talk about how this could preface a move into subscriptions for Vevo, given that ShowYou launched subscription functionality...

3 min read

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