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Disney, China And The Challenges Of Global Strategy For Media Companies

Blog post by Tim Mulligan

30 Jun 2016

June the 16th was a big day for the world’s most high profile content provider. Walt Disney Company’s $5.5 billion Shanghai Disney Resort opened its doors to consumers that are every bit as engaged...

Quick Take: Why Twitter Is Moving Into The Increasingly Congested VR Space

Blog post by Zach Fuller

29 Jun 2016

augmented reality

Innovation

journalism

Twitter have hired former Apple designer Alessandro Sabatelli to oversee the company’s Virtual and Augmented Reality teams, a position Sabatelli claims is to ‘empower us all in the spatial computing...

Brexit Implications: How the UK's EU Exit Could Impact Media and Tech

Blog post by Zach Fuller

28 Jun 2016

brexit

digital music

digital outlook

The UK’s vote to leave the European Union sent shockwaves that will continue to reverberate across the globe for years to come. While the potential geopolitical permutations may prove to be era defining,...

Yonder Music Unlocks The Emerging Market Opportunity

Blog post by Mark Mulligan

27 Jun 2016

Axiata

Beyond Oblivion

celcom

One of the high profile digital music casualties of recent years was the failed ‘next generation’ service provider Beyond Oblivion. There were numerous factors behind Beyond Oblivion’s failure but...

Quick Take: Brexit And The UK Media And Tech Sectors

Blog post by Mark Mulligan

24 Jun 2016

brexit

media companies

The UK referendum on membership of the European Union has resulted in a vote to leave. There could be countless implications for the UK media and tech sectors but smaller companies such as independent...

Why Facebook is commissioning video

Blog post by Tim Mulligan

23 Jun 2016

Facebook Live

facebook. live video

Online video

When Facebook turned down the opportunity to buy the digital streaming rights to ten Thursday night NFL matches and instead chose to focus on rolling out its live video streaming feature through partnering...

What Tencent’s Supercell Takeover Tells Us About The Future Of The App Economy

Blog post by Karol Severin

22 Jun 2016

game app business

gaming apps

Mobile content

Supercell, the company behind Clash of Clans and Clash Royale, agreed to sell 86% of their equity to the Chinese giant Tencent for $8.6 billion. The acquisition catapults the Tencent into being the number...

Why Taylor Swift And Co Are Aiming To Disrupt YouTube

Blog post by Tim Mulligan

21 Jun 2016

It’s not everyday that a digital native threatens to disrupt the world’s largest video sharing platform. But then Taylor Swift is no ordinary 26 year old. And YouTube is no ordinary platform. Both...

Spotify, Pandora And YouTube: In Search Of The Real Value Of Free

Blog post by Mark Mulligan

20 Jun 2016

David Touve

Freemium

per stream rates

The music industry remains in a fix over free. The freemium wars in late 2014 almost saw the freemium tier of Spotify turned off in the face of pressure from Apple’s Jimmy Iovine. The majors eventually...

Watch Out Facebook Messenger: Apple’s iMessage Just Got Serious

Blog post by Karol Severin

17 Jun 2016

App Drawer

Apple

iMessage

Apple’s WWDC this week confirmed that company is getting serious about messaging. At its developer conference it announced a major overhaul for iMessage with the upcoming release of iOS10. While iMessage...

Chart Of The Week: Over Half Of App Users Enable Push Notifications

Blog post by Mark Mulligan

16 Jun 2016

In the increasingly competitive app economy, push notifications and in-app messages are becoming crucial means of driving retention rates and other KPIs. The question is no longer whether to use notifications,...

Soundcloud, Amazon, Tidal: Streaming’s Other Runners

Blog post by Mark Mulligan

16 Jun 2016

Amazon

apple music

music streaming

Apple, Spotify and YouTube have all been grabbing the streaming headlines of late, albeit for different reasons. While these companies will continue to set the pace over the next couple of years (again,...

Has Apple Woken Up To The Power Of Bundled TV?

Blog post by Tim Mulligan

14 Jun 2016

apple tv

Online video

Pay TV

Yesterday’s announcement at Apple’s WWDC event that it was partnering with Sling TV (the Dish Network’s online pay –TV subscription service) to be the first media streaming device to feature the...

What's Really Behind Apple's App Store Revamp

Blog post by Karol Severin

10 Jun 2016

app advertising

app revenue

app store

This week Apple announced that major changes are coming to the App Store. Firstly, it will allow all app categories to deploy subscription offerings as a part of their revenue models. Furthermore, if publishers...

Decoding the Live Event Consumer

Blog post by Zach Fuller

9 Jun 2016

live events

mobile

See Tickets

The prolonged decline of the recorded music business has often been magnified by the dynamic growth in the live music sector - itself just one part of a booming live event marketplace. Accustomed to an...

Free Report - Cross Border Listening: Borderless Hits And Curated Playlists

Blog post by Mark Mulligan

7 Jun 2016

Midem

Spotify

streaming

On Friday at Midem we launched our new report ‘Cross Border Listening: Borderless Hits And Curated Playlists’. MIDiA produced this report in conjunction with Midem for the 50th anniversary event and...

Mission Selfie And The Redefining Of Video Production

Blog post by Tim Mulligan

6 Jun 2016

mission selfie

Online video

short form video

A London-based start up called the Narrative has just the finished production of a 5 episode short form video series for BBC Worldwide called Mission Selfie. This is the first short form video series commissioned...

Facebook’s DeepText Sees And Learns From Everything You Write

Blog post by Karol Severin

3 Jun 2016

DeepText

facebook

Facebook introduced its DeepText AI this week . It is a deep learning-based text understanding engine, which allows Facebook to sieve through and understand several thousand posts per second across 20...

Chart Of The Week: Online Video Subscriber Penetration By Age

Blog post by Mark Mulligan

2 Jun 2016

Amazon

Amazon Prime

amazon video

Streaming video subscriptions are now firmly established as a key component of the pay-TV landscape and look set to be an even bigger part of its future. With Netflix leading the way, SVOD is gaining ground...

How Well Is YouTube Red Really Doing?

Blog post by Tim Mulligan

1 Jun 2016

AVOD

Online video

When YouTube Red launched in YouTube’s main market of the US back in October 28 th , 2015 there was a lot of excitement mingled in with anticipation. This emanated from the media, analysts, professional...

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