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Spotify’s Tencent Risk

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Mark Mulligan

21 Sep 2018

emerging markets

NOTE: a previous version of this post referred to a non-compete clause with Spotify detailed in this SEC filing. I have been advised that the scope of this clause is narrower than I had originally interpreted....

4 min read

Has the BBC Cured Streaming Latency?

Alistair Taylor

21 Sep 2018

2018 FIFA World Cup

2022 FIFA World Cup

Two weeks ago , the NFL warned subscription video on demand (SVOD) services to up their content delivery game if they are to be taken seriously when bidding for premium rights. It must therefore come as...

4 min read

Why Sky has Placed A Strategic Bet On Disruptor Netflix

Tim Mulligan

19 Sep 2018

Today’s announcement that Netflix is going to be part of premium Sky offerings as from November, is a bigger deal for the UK pay-TV operator than it is for the US SVOD market leader. Netflix will form...

3 min read

Big Brother Axed By Channel 5, But It Is Not All Bad News For Endemol

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Alistair Taylor

14 Sep 2018

Dutch production house Endemol is no longer going to be making cult reality TV show Big Brother for Viacom’s UK terrestrial channel, Channel 5. It announced that it was “disappointed not to reach an...

2 min read

How Netflix is Slowly Disrupting YouTube

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Tim Mulligan

14 Sep 2018

One of the foundational cornerstones of monetising the digital economy is that there are two ways of paying for digital content: either with your wallet or with your attention. In the digital video streaming...

3 min read

S4 Capital's Growth Strategy

Zach Fuller

14 Sep 2018

Advertising industry

digital advertising

F. Scott Fitzgerald famously said there are no second acts in American lives. Sir Martin Sorrell however is not an American, despite having conducted extensive business in the US and being rumoured to...

5 min read

Article 13 – Laws of Unintended Consequences

Mark Mulligan

14 Sep 2018

[If this was Medium, it would say ‘long read’ – you’ve been warned] I do not normally add disclaimers or qualifiers at the start of blog posts, but given how divisive the whole Article 13 debate...

9 min read

The Instagram Shop: The Case for Ecommerce Diversification and Tech Major Dismantling

Georgia Meyer

14 Sep 2018

The Verge recently reported rumours that Facebook is building a standalone Instagram app for shopping. Whilst this news is as yet unconfirmed by Instagram, it would seem a logical next step given Facebook’s...

3 min read

Mid-Year 2018 Streaming Market Shares

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Mark Mulligan

13 Sep 2018

amazon music unlimited

Amazon Prime Music

Music subscribers grew by 16% in the first half of 2018 to reach 229.5 million, up from 198.6 million at the end of 2017. Year-on-year the global subscriber base increased by 38%, adding 62.8 million subscribers....

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DAZN launches in the US – is it worth the gamble?

Alistair Taylor

12 Sep 2018

On September 10 th 2018 UK-based Perform Group officially launched DAZN US, its sports streaming video on demand (SVOD) service for the US. Following its inaugural launch in August 2016 in Austria, Germany...

5 min read

Until Subscriptions Take Off, Is YouTube the Main Way to Build Emerging Market Audiences?

Zach Fuller

12 Sep 2018

Streaming has opened previously untapped emerging markets for music due to both heavy piracy and the absent legacy of a robust music industry, but monetisation remains lower in emerging markets because...

3 min read

NFL issues warning to streaming services

Alistair Taylor

6 Sep 2018

Amazon Prime Video

Consumer Behaviour

As rights holders and tech majors continue to experiment with streaming video on demand (SVOD) services as a way to broadcast sports content, questions are being raised about the ability of streaming platforms...

4 min read

Nike Has Initiated A New Era for Politicised Brands

Georgia Meyer

6 Sep 2018

Colin Kaepernick

Nike’s choice to use Colin Kaepernick as one of the faces of its Just Do It slogan anniversary campaign is the latest – but as yet unmatched in scale – step in overt brand politics. The issue which...

4 min read

How Streaming is Changing the Shape of Music [Part I]

Mark Mulligan

6 Sep 2018

[This is the first of two thought pieces on how streaming is reshaping music from creation to consumption] The streaming era has arrived in the music business, but the music business has not yet fully...

4 min read

Amazon is all in on advertising

Alistair Taylor

31 Aug 2018

ad supported streaming

advertising video on demand

Amazon’s latest play into the TV ad market with the launch of Free Dive, an ad-supported video service for Fire TV users, showcases the company’s intent to further diversify revenue streams from its...

4 min read

Podcasts: Monetising Behind Streaming Paywalls

Georgia Meyer

31 Aug 2018

brand sponsorship

Spotify’s exclusive deal with The Joe Budden podcast, as well as upping the output from a weekly to a bi-weekly show, is demonstrative of the opportunity that music streaming services perceive podcasts...

4 min read

Why Today’s International Rollout of Facebook Watch is so Significant

Tim Mulligan

30 Aug 2018

emerging markets

Today marks the first phase in the international rollout of Facebook Watch, the social media giant’s answer to YouTube. Having been available only in the US for the past year, Facebook users in the UK,...

4 min read

State of the YouTube Music Economy 2.0: A Turning Point for All Parties

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Mark Mulligan

24 Aug 2018

YouTube is the most widely used streaming music app globally but it is also the most controversial one, locked in a perpetual struggle with music rights holders, with neither side quite trusting the intent...

6 min read

Why Netflix Needs To Consider Advertising

Tim Mulligan

23 Aug 2018

Last Friday’s (August 17th) revelation, that global subscription video on demand (SVOD) market leader Netflix was running trailers on the service for its original content shows, has created a Voldemort...

3 min read

Quick Take: Twitch and Amazon’s Advertising Strategy

Zach Fuller

22 Aug 2018

digital advertising

It is the fastest growing segment of the business and yet until recently no one seems to have addressed the extent to which Amazon’s advertising is becoming an increasing force in ad land. Now that’s...

2 min read

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