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Why First is Far Less Important Than Best

Blog post by Mark Mulligan

4 Feb 2019

Following Marshmello’s ‘live’ performance in Fortnite which was seen by 10 million simultaneous gamers, there has been the inevitable chorus of ‘but 2 nd life did this more than a decade ago’....

Music Tech and Unintended Consequences

Blog post by Zach Fuller

23 Jan 2019

Innovation

Media

Recent discussions over how music will look in the app economy, with services such as TikTok effectively ‘meme-ing’ the concept of music and emphasising its social context, has led me to reflect on...

Amazon, Regional Sports and Owning the Local Economy

Blog post by Georgia Meyer

16 Jan 2019

21st century fox

Amazon Prime

ATP

Amazon is reportedly bidding for all 22 US regional sports networks that Disney is putting up for sale (as part of its $73.1 billion deal to buy most of 21st Century Fox). Among the networks is the YES...

Why Music and Video are Crucial to Apple’s Future

Blog post by Mark Mulligan

7 Jan 2019

Amazon Prime

apple earnings

apple mno

Apple’s downgraded earnings guidance represents its first profit warning in 10 years. This is clearly a big deal, and probably not as much to do with a weakening Chinese economy ifAlibaba’s 2018 Singles’...

Knockout Blow For Eleven Sports?

Blog post by Alistair Taylor

13 Dec 2018

additive service

Audience behaviour

BBC

Eleven Sports, the insurgent subscription video on demand (SVOD) service, is considering closing its operations in the UK and Ireland after failing to secure distribution via traditional TV operators....

Move Toward the Cloud is Real and Happening in 2019

Blog post by Tim Mulligan

10 Dec 2018

aws

cloud computing

Innovation

Following araft of announcements at AWS reIgnite , Amazon Web Services (AWS) held a private press and analyst session last week to talk about its new tool AWS Elemental Media Connect . This new tool allows...

Sport1 To Drop US-centric Channel in Favour of Esports

Blog post by Alistair Taylor

5 Dec 2018

addressable audience

audience demographics

broadcaster

German broadcaster Sport1 is replacing its US sport focused channel for the very first German-speaking esports channel. Sport1 announced last week that the channel dubbed eSports1 will launch in Germany,...

BT Sport Continues to Drive Innovation

Blog post by Tim Mulligan

23 Nov 2018

BT Sports

BT Sport will broadcast this weekend’s EE Wembley Cup live on YouTube using remote production over EE’s 5G network; a world first according to BT Sport. The sporting event is an exhibition football...

Facebook Launches Its Smart Speaker: A Few Strategic Considerations For Portal

Blog post by Zach Fuller

9 Oct 2018

Amazon Echo

apple home pod

echo dot

Earlier this year, MIDiA predicted that Facebook would join the smart speaker market. A TV dongle or smart speaker: It makes strategic sense for Facebook to develop a TV dongle like Amazon’s Fire Stick...

Tencent Announces Strategic Pivot, Focusing On Cloud and AI

Blog post by Alistair Taylor

2 Oct 2018

Alibaba

business services

Chinese regulators

Chinese tech major Tencent announced its first restructuring in six years and third in its 20 year history, including creating a new division to focus on business services such as cloud computing. This...

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...

From Ownership to Access

Blog post by Mark Mulligan

10 Jul 2018

Access

Innovation

innovation disruption

Last Wednesday we held the third MIDiA Quarterly forum, exploring the shift from ownership to access across different media industries. In addition to MIDiA analyst presentations we had panellists from...

Subscriptions put premium consumers as well as premium content behind paywalls

Blog post by Georgia Meyer

5 Jul 2018

Amazon Prime

apple music

Innovation

There are now 436 million paying subscribers across five of the largest distributors of digital music and video content globally (Spotify, Apple Music, Netflix, Amazon Prime, Tencent). This has very different...

Quick Take: Pandora and Snapchat Take a Swipe at Facebook

Blog post by Mark Mulligan

14 Jun 2018

Innovation

Pandora

snapchat

No sooner had the ink dried on Facebook’s new social music offering, that Snapchat fights back with a Pandora partnership built on its ‘unFacebook’ privacy centred app developer platform Snapkit....

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...

Quick Take: Have We Witnessed Peak Silicon Valley?

Blog post by Zach Fuller

30 Mar 2018

Apple

facebook

fairchild semiconductors

In light of Facebook’s controversial handling of the Cambridge Analytica scandal, it seems a pertinent time to ask if the world is falling out of love with Silicon Valley, the West Coast powerhouse that...

Will AI Replace The Artist Altogether Or Will It Serve As Another Creation Tool?

Blog post by Zach Fuller

28 Feb 2018

artificial intelligence

electricity

ernst gombrich

In covering tech trends, we try to avoid chasing after the latest buzzwords at MIDiA. Artificial Intelligence certainly ticks the boxes of Gartner’s famed hype cycle model , i.e. technologies that attract...

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

Blog post by Zach Fuller

22 Jan 2018

Amazon

apple pod

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...

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...

How A Month With Spectacles Changed My Outlook On Snap’s Future

Blog post by Karol Severin

7 Jul 2017

Innovation

Media

Mobile content

When the SnapBot finally popped up in Berlin, I eagerly trekked to the location to see whether the product would change my existing opinions about the company’s future. It did. I made my way to the SnapBot...

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