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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.

Just What Is Tencent Up To With Streaming?

Mark Mulligan

28 Feb 2018

Tencent is building a global streaming empire. Back in December 2017 Tencent Music did a 10% equity swap deal with Spotify and now it has led a $115 million investment round for India-based streaming service...

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Why Comcast is bidding for Sky

Mark Mulligan

27 Feb 2018

In a dramatic development Tuesday, US telco giant Comcast announced it is bidding £22.1 billion ($31 billion) for UK pay-TV operator Sky. This is a 16% premium to the existing takeover bid currently undergoing...

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Which TV Genres Have The Highest Paid Conversion Rates Among Fans?

Karol Severin

26 Feb 2018

genre preferences

For the first time MIDiA has included TV genre preferences and willingness to pay for them into its quarterly surveys. This covers 20 different TV genres, cross reference-able across 75 specific TV Show...

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Why Netflix Is investing $300 million Into Ryan Murphy

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Tim Mulligan

22 Feb 2018

Last week, streaming video giant Netflix created the first $300 million showrunner (a role combining writer, executive producer and script editor responsibilities). A term only loosely understood before...

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With Black Panther: The Album Soundtrack At Number One In The US, Are We Witnessing A Soundtrack Renaissance?

Zach Fuller

20 Feb 2018

Critical Developments

With the film sitting atop the box US office, Black Panther: The Album, executively produced by Kendrick Lamar, has managed a rare franchise feat by debuting at No. 1 on the Billboard 200 chart, with 154,000...

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The Sports Bubble Has Finally Burst for The English Premier League

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Tim Mulligan

14 Feb 2018

English Premier League

Yesterday the English Premier League (EPL) announced the winners of its triennial domestic TV broadcast rights. As expected the two incumbent rights holders (Sky and BT) retained their privileges to cover...

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The Digital Advertising Contest Between Google And Facebook Is Intensifying

Zach Fuller

14 Feb 2018

digital advertising

Brace yourselves for a stats-centric blog. Having gone through this week’s annual reports from big tech, there have been some important developments in the digital advertising space. These of course...

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Radio Is Streaming’s Next Frontier

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Mark Mulligan

9 Feb 2018

Ad Supported Music

ad supported streaming

This week MIDiA held its latest quarterly research and networking event at Gibson Brands Showrooms in the heart of London’s West End. The event was heavily over-subscribed and was a great success (there...

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The Premier League Faces Some Tough Choices What Ever Happens With This Week's Broadcast Rights Bids

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Tim Mulligan

8 Feb 2018

This is a big week for the English Premier League with the bid submissions for the 2019-2022 broadcast rights due to be delivered tomorrow. The Premier League is the world’s most lucrative football league,...

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Quick Take: Is Pandora Too Big to Fail for the US Streaming Economy?

Zach Fuller

5 Feb 2018

A quick appraisal of the US music streaming space reveals some surprising distinctions in the market, particularly when compared to global trends. The US Streaming market is disproportionately ad-supported:...

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Facebook Has Got An Instagram Problem

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Mark Mulligan

1 Feb 2018

Facebook messenger

Mark Zuckerberg dropped a bit of bombshell during the Q4 2017 earnings call. He announced that Facebook daily active users (DAUs) have fallen across some key markets, including the US. COO Sheryl Sandberg...

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Why Chinese Tech & US Film Production Need Each Other

Tim Mulligan

30 Jan 2018

Media and Marketing

Thursday’s (January25th) announcement that Tencent was acquiring 10% of movie and TV production company Skydance Media, revealed the latest front in the content war being fought between tech and media,...

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Yonder And Streaming's Less Travelled Path

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Mark Mulligan

29 Jan 2018

emerging market stats

emerging markets

Back in 2012, a music service that had raised $174 million in funding closed without yet having launched to consumers. That service was Beyond Oblivion, a company that intended to transform the music market...

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Market Definition Lifecycles and the Future of Netflix

Zach Fuller

26 Jan 2018

How a business defines itself and the products or services it offers are crucial in how market forces (public or private) develop around it. Narrow definitions of business operations in the short-term...

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Fandom Overlap – Cannibalisation Risks For Games And SVOD Releases

Karol Severin

24 Jan 2018

October 27 was one of the busiest days in terms of major games releases in 2017. On that day, Super Mario Odyssey, Assassin’s Creed and Wolfenstein II were released, attracting gamers across the genre...

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Netflix Is Now A Truly International Player

Tim Mulligan

23 Jan 2018

Streaming Video

In light of MIDiA Research ’s Q4 2017 Brand tracker survey data, which revealed that Netflix penetration in the US has reached 49%, Netflix has to look outside the US for future growth. Why is international...

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Join Us At ‘Radio Is Streaming’s Next Frontier’

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Mark Mulligan

22 Jan 2018

I’m very pleased to announce that MIDiA is hosting a special industry event on Wednesday 7 th February at Gibson Brands incentral London, in partnership with 7digital. The event ‘Radio Is Streaming’s...

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Walled Gardens: How Does Amazon and Google’s Approach Compare to Apple’s?

Zach Fuller

22 Jan 2018

consumer electronics

Having begun to embed itself within popular consciousness throughout 2017, voice control is poised to extend its influence and usher in the latest hardware paradigm shift in tech. What is important to...

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Why YouTube Is Going Big At Sundance

Tim Mulligan

19 Jan 2018

Interesting things are happening at YouTube. In February 2017 it launched YouTube TV, a subscription video-on-demand (SVOD) service with live video and catch up incorporated into its core functionality....

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Is The Telegraph Model The Future Of Premium News Journalism?

Tim Mulligan

19 Jan 2018

digital transformation

Yesterday the Telegraph announced its decision to remove bulks from its operations. Bulks are the distribution of free copies of the print version of newspapers and a means to pad out print circulations,...

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