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Sky Shows Hand With Bid For Scottish Football TV Rights

Blog post by Alistair Taylor

12 Nov 2018

Sky sports has doubled down on UK football and is the firm favourite to acquire the exclusive rights to broadcast Scottish football (SPFL), having bid £100 million for the next block of rights, starting...

The Fan Bingbing Story and What it Means for China’s 2018 Video Transformation

Blog post by Tim Mulligan

11 Oct 2018

China

Chinese box office

Fan Bingbing

China has come a long way in short time in video. Going hand in hand with the dramatic economic expansion the Country has experienced, China’s domestic box office alone increased 19-fold between 2007...

Why Vivendi Is Selling 50% of Universal Music Group

Blog post by Zach Fuller

31 Jul 2018

Critical Developments

This really sets the cat amongst the pigeons. Following months of rumours that suggested French media giant Vivendi would spin off UMG into a separate entity via an IPO, the Bollore owned company have...

Culture Bubbles: Is Trap the Disco of the 2010s?

Blog post by Zach Fuller

27 Jul 2018

cultura bubbles

disco

disco bubble

The tipping point in the 2015 film The Big Short, based on Michael Lewis’s book on the 2008 financial crisis, is when it dawns on Steve Carrell’s character upon traveling down from New York City to...

Quick Take: NME and the Decline of Print

Blog post by Zach Fuller

9 Mar 2018

digital advertising

facebook

Media

To paraphrase a proverb on the inevitability of change, ‘It is astonishing how long things can continue and how quickly they can fall’. The NME’s swift announcement of a final issue certainly aligns...

Just What Is Tencent Up To With Streaming?

Blog post by Mark Mulligan

28 Feb 2018

Anghami

China

Gaana

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...

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

Blog post by 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...

The FCC Repeals Net Neutrality: This Changes Everything

Blog post by Zach Fuller

15 Dec 2017

adit pai

bcc

cable companies

Anticipated for months, the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) voted yesterday to repeal the Obama-era ‘Open Internet Order’ enacted in 2015. Despite public outcry across social media over the...

What The End Of The Net Neutrality Could Mean For Streaming Businesses

Blog post by Tim Mulligan

8 Dec 2017

AT&T

FCC

net neutrality

On December 14th the US Federal Communications Commission (FCC) will vote on whether or not to end the regulation around net neutrality. New FCC Chairman Ajit Pai believes that net neutrality issues are...

Spotify, Tencent And The Laws Of Unintended Consequences

Blog post by Mark Mulligan

1 Dec 2017

Media and Marketing

Critical Developments

News has emerged that Spotify and TencentMusic could be swapping 10%equity in each other’s companies ahead of Spotify’s public listing. There are some obvious implications for both enterprises, as...

Slush 2017 – All To Play For

Blog post by Tim Mulligan

1 Dec 2017

Eco Wave Power

finland

Generation Investment Management

In case you haven’t heard, this week, mainland Europe’s northernmost capital Helsinki is ground zero for tech and media. It all kicked off on Tuesday November 28 with the two-day Slush Music 2017;...

Announcing MIDiA’s Streaming Services Market Shares Report

Blog post by Mark Mulligan

3 Nov 2017

7Digital

Amazon

amazon music unlimited

As the streaming music market matures, the bar is continually raised for the quality of data required, both in terms of granularity and accuracy. At MIDiA we have worked hard to earn a reputation for high-quality,...

In the Social Media Age, the Traditional Media Paradigm No Longer Applies

Blog post by Tim Mulligan

20 Sep 2017

21st century fox

Facebook media

Media

The recent decision by Karen Bradley, the UK Culture Secretary, to refer 21stCentury Fox’s bid to take over Sky Plc to the Competition and Markets Authority is a stark reminder of the lag time between...

What’s In A Number: Can Streaming Really Be Worth $28 Billion?

Blog post by Mark Mulligan

30 Aug 2017

goldman sachs

lehman brothers

streaming

Goldman Sachs just made some headlines with its assessment that Universal Music is worth $23.5 billion and that the paid streaming market will be worth $28 billion in 2030 (up from $3.5 billion in 2016...

GamesCom Takeaways – Gaming Has Become A Fully Fledged Cultural Movement

Blog post by Karol Severin

25 Aug 2017

gamers

Games

As we descended upon Cologne to attend GamesCom 2017, various expectation scenarios were playing out in my head. It’s safe to say that the reality beat most of them. Having spent three days at this monster...

If Amazon Swallows Retail, Could Facebook Do the Same with Media?

Blog post by Zach Fuller

25 Aug 2017

Amazon

amazon advertising

amazon media group

Former President and CEO of Netscape James L. Barksdale once said he knew of two ways to make money, ‘Bundling and Unbundling’. Whilst much of the focus has been on the unbundling factor of media,...

Apple, Eros And The Billion Dollar Content Play

Blog post by Tim Mulligan

8 Aug 2017

Apple

emerging markets

eros group

On August 7th the Economic Times ran a story on Apple’s perceived interest in acquiring the film and music catalogue of the Eros Group, which is the largest movie producer in India. Although not particularly...

Bertelsmann and Penguin Random House: A Strategy Based on Extremes

Blog post by Zach Fuller

24 Jul 2017

Bertelsmann

BMG

harper collins

Having created a next-gen music publisher in BMG, German media giant Bertlesmann are applying a similar strategy to their publishing division. Consistent with BMG’s tactic of investing heavily in legacy...

How Social Influences Impact Tech Innovation

Blog post by Zach Fuller

21 Jul 2017

artificial intelligence

ballooning

flight

We know we cannot predict the future, yet the fortunes of investors and entrepreneurs continue to be made and lost in trying. Whether you are Nostradamus or a staff writer on Black Mirror , the future...

Why Net Neutrality Is Central To The Streaming Economy

Blog post by Tim Mulligan

13 Jul 2017

Binge One

Comcast

net neutrality

The existential question of the digital era is net neutrality. Since the utopian days of 1989 when World Wide Web pioneer Tim Berners-Lee first connected his colleagues via computers at CERN in Switzerland,...

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