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The Mobile Web
The Lean Back Legacy

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Karol Severin

December 2015

lean back

lean forward

Mobile content

Mobile is changing the face of web browsing with a sizeable portion of monthly unique website visitors having already migrated to mobile. This divides between those who visit sites from mobile apps and...

The TV App Revolution
Authenticated Channel Apps And TVE Strategy

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Tim Mulligan

December 2015

apps

cord nevers

SVOD

Pay-TV is under assault from a pincer movement, on the one hand losing subscribers to cord cutting and on the other growth slowing due to cord-nevers (Digital Natives with no interest in subscribing to...

Push Notifications
Vendor Landscape And Best Practices

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Karol Severin and Martyn Davies

November 2015

app marketing

notifications

push notifications

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,...

Telco Music Strategy
Ironing Out The Strategic Kinks As Objectives Evolve

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Mark Mulligan

November 2015

Subscriptions

Streaming

music bundles

In a few short years telco music bundles have gone from a useful ancillary revenue stream to a core component of the streaming landscape. Despite long standing issues about how success can best be measured,...

Short Form Video Growth
The Rise Of Social Video

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Tim Mulligan

November 2015

YouTube

Online video

Facebook

Since its launch back in 2005, YouTube has dominated online video with an audience winning combination of user generated content and corporate short form content. While YouTube is more successful in terms...

User Generated Broadcast
Live Streaming Video And The Mainstream Consumer

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Tim Mulligan

October 2015

Online video

Live video streaming

User Generated Broadcast

The early adopter buzz around the launches of the live video streaming apps Meerkat and Twitter-acquired Persicope have so far failed to translate into meaningful real world adoption. But these User Generated...

Mobile Messaging Platforms
How Facebook’s Hedge Strategy Is Changing The Face Of Messaging

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Karol Severin and Mark Mulligan

October 2015

apps

mobile apps

mobile

In just a few short years mobile messaging apps have become home to the largest group of digital audiences on the planet, with 4.8 billion cumulative monthly active users. Following websites and social...

Global Music Forecasts 2015-2020
Declining Legacy Formats Cancel Out Streaming Growth

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Mark Mulligan

October 2015

Subscriptions

music sales

music revenue

In a few short years streaming has gone from being an interesting sideshow to the most important component of the recorded music market in terms of impact, innovation and disruption, though not in revenue...

App Whales And Minnows
Segmenting Mobile App Buyers

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Karol Severin

September 2015

arpu

mobile app economy

app buyers

Despite being small in number, app buyers are the bread and butter of the current mobile app economy accounting for the majority of global app revenue. But their behaviour is too often simply benchmarked...

Variable Programming
How Online Video Is Shaking Off The Schedule Straightjacket

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Tim Mulligan

September 2015

Netflix

tv networks

cord nevers

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...

Music Market Country Profile: Mexico
How Streaming Is Unlocking Latent Opportunity

Leo Morel

September 2015

Streaming

mexico

Latin America

The Mexican music market is one with huge potential despite two consecutive years of recorded music revenue decline. With a population of 122 million and growing internet and smartphone penetration, Mexico...

Connected Home Audio Forecasts, 2015 to 2020
The Reinvention Of Hi-Fi

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Mark Mulligan

August 2015

Streaming Music

Home audio

connected home audio

While the home hi-fi market was fading into irrelevance Sonos quietly set about reimagining the whole concept of in-home audio. Now connected home audio is coming of age, with Sonos the dominant player...

The Mainstreaming Of SVOD
How Apple Can Make Video Subscriptions Ready For Primetime

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Tim Mulligan

August 2015

Apple

traditional tv companies

tv networks

The digital revolution has created an increasingly fragmented TV landscape. Traditional Pay TV still clings to its old business model whilst Netflix and Amazon hammer on its door, wooing audiences and...

Streaming Music Discovery
When The Journey Becomes The Destination

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Mark Mulligan

July 2015

Streaming

free

discovery

When YouTube first starting rising to prominence streaming music was still in its infancy. Thus even though royalty payments were far form setting the world alight, there was a clear case for YouTube views...

Global Video Forecast 2015-2020
Subscriptions Come Of Age

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Tim Mulligan

July 2015

Video

smartphones

broadcast

2015 to 2020 will be a transformational period for the video sector. Accessing TV content online will become mainstream as video penetration reaches 50% by 2019. Despite solid adoption of subscription...

Facebook Video
Not The Real Deal Yet But Could Still Unseat YouTube

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Mark Mulligan

July 2015

YouTube

Online video

Facebook

Facebook is emerging as a serious challenger to YouTube and is building clear momentum that is giving the incumbent cause for concern in a way that few other short form challengers have yet managed to...

Ownership to Access, And Back
Physical Ownership Acquires A New Value In The Digital Era

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Tim Mulligan

July 2015

US

UK

sweden

It seems counter intuitive to suggest the physical ownership of content has an addressable market in the digital era. Despite the ubiquity of digital delivery mechanisms for premium content, the desire...

Mobile Market Country Profile: Germany
A Maturing App Superpower

Karol Severin

July 2015

telco

telcos

iOS

The mobile market in Germany is in the middle of a consumer behavior shift. Smartphone penetration and app usage have entered the mainstream and digital content consumption on mobile is on the rise, but...

On Demand In Demand
Meeting The Needs Of The On Demand Fan

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Mark Mulligan

June 2015

Subscriptions

Streaming

US

2014 was undoubtedly streaming’s biggest year yet, growing by 39% and accounting for nearly a third of all digital revenues. But the market is a long distance yet from being in a position where it can...

Music Publishing At A Cross Roads
How Streaming Is Transforming The Outlook For Music Publishers

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Mark Mulligan

June 2015

music publishers

Subscriptions

Streaming

Everything starts with the song yet music publishers have often been the last part of the digital equation. Relative insulation from the effects of declining music sales have enabled publishers to have...

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