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Reach for the win: BT Sport to air UEFA Champions League final on YouTube

Blog post by Alistair Taylor

23 Jul 2020

UK pay-TV incumbent BT Sport has announced it will air this year’s (COVID-delayed) UEFA Champions League (UCL) final free-to-air (FTA) on Google-owned YouTube. YouTube’s head of sport in EMEA, Tomos...

Just what is Tencent’s Endgame?

Blog post by Mark Mulligan

16 Jun 2020

tencent

Tencent Music

China

Tencent’s combined $200 million investment in WMG follows on the heels of its $3.6 billion joint investment in Universal Music. It is hardly Tencent’s first investments in music, having spent $6.2...

YouTube Ad Revenue Continues To Grow But For How Much Longer?

Blog post by Tim Mulligan

30 Apr 2020

Alphabet

digital ads

FAANG

On Tuesday (28th April), Alphabet, the holding company for Google released its Q1 2020 results. The performance of Google is hugely important across both the digital economy and the financial sector. Google...

Google, Facebook, And The Coming Big Tech Disruption

Blog post by Tim Mulligan

12 Dec 2018

Alphabet

China

facebook

2018 has turned out to be the year in which the seemingly invulnerable tech majors started to come unstuck. So far, Facebook has fallen the furthest in both the eyes of regulators and the general public...

The Meta Trends that Will Shape 2019

Blog post by Mark Mulligan

16 Nov 2018

2019 forecast

2019 tech and media predictions

MIDiA has just published its annual predictions report . Here are a few highlights. 2018 was another year of change, disruption and transformation across media and technology. Although hyped technologies...

Amazon is all in on advertising

Blog post by Alistair Taylor

31 Aug 2018

Ad Supported

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...

Tech Majors Market Shares Q2 2018

Blog post by Mark Mulligan

15 Aug 2018

Alphabet

Apple

facebook

The tech world has no shortage of acronyms for the big tech companies (GAFA, GAAF, Fang, the four horsemen…). At MIDiA we like to keep things simple, just like the major record labels and major TV studios...

Could Article 13 Kill Off Music on YouTube?

Blog post by Mark Mulligan

21 Jun 2018

Alphabet

article 13

European parliament

It was a day of two halves for YouTube. On one side a big press release went out championing a host of impressive new stats – including hitting 1.9 billion logged in users, following an official launch...

The Next Web 2018 – A New Sense of Tech-Driven Purpose

Blog post by Georgia Meyer

30 May 2018

Alphabet

Blockchain

Last week, 15,000 people converged in Amsterdam for The Next Web’s annual two-day conference. This year’s event comprised streams covering music, the workplace, sport and social media. AI and blockchain’s...

Could Spotify Buy Universal?

Blog post by Mark Mulligan

11 May 2018

Alphabet

Amazon

AOL

Vivendi is reported to be proposing to its board a plan for spinning out Universal Music. It is certainly the right time for a spin off (always sell before the peak), but a full divestment would leave...

Q1 Snapshot: Advertising and Media in Big Tech

Blog post by Zach Fuller

4 May 2018

advertising

Alphabet

amazon media group

The past three months saw big tech’s advertising and media practices thrust into the spotlight, with the very public Cambridge Analytica controversy swiftly following the EU’s introduction of GDPR....

Free Is Never Free In The Digital Economy; Video Just Might Be Facebook’s Salvation

Blog post by Tim Mulligan

29 Mar 2018

Alphabet

Cambridge Analytica

facebook

Unless you are one of those rare individuals who is still able to live a digital-free life, you will have been made aware of Facebook’s recent fall from grace on the back of the revelations about its...

Quick Take: YouTube Moves Into Social E-commerce With Ticketmaster Partnership

Blog post by Zach Fuller

15 Nov 2017

Alphabet

Amazon

amazon prime video

YouTube has announced a partnership with Ticketmaster that will allow its video property to connect users directly with concert tickets. The deal is non-exclusive and similar to a previous coalition between...

Quick Take: Big Tech’s Q3 Earnings Have Big Implications for Media

Blog post by Zach Fuller

3 Nov 2017

advertising

Alphabet

Amazon

With US listed public companies’ quarterly earnings currently being drip-fed to Wall Street, here are two of the implications for Media and Advertising entities from Tech’s Big Four Q3 earnings: Amazon’s...

The Relentless Rise of YouTube

Blog post by Tim Mulligan

27 Jul 2017

Alphabet

emerging markets

google

Monday unfurled the latest chapter in the YouTube Journey. At the Q2 earnings announcement for Alphabet, Google CEO Sundar Pichai revealed that Alphabet’s growth in revenues in Q2 2016 was largely due...

Google Rumoured To Plan A Built-In Ad Blocker In Chrome

Blog post by Karol Severin

20 Apr 2017

ad blockers

Ad Blocking

Adblock

The Wall Street Journal reported yesterday that Google may be planning to introduce an ad blocking feature to its Chrome browser on desktop and mobile. The article clarifies that this is not a confirmed...

MIDiA Research Predictions 2017: The Year Of The Platform

Blog post by Mark Mulligan

13 Dec 2016

Access Industries

Alphabet

Amazon

Following an 84% success rate for our 2016 Predictions report, we today launch our 2017 predictions report: ‘ MIDiA Research Predictions 2017: The Year Of The Platform’. The report is immediately available...