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Here's Why Netflix And YouTube Just Parked Tanks On Each Other's Lawns

Blog post by Mark Mulligan

7 Mar 2016

Slowly but surely the traditional media industries are waking up to the importance of YouTubers but those taking note most quickly are the subscription video companies, Netflix in particular. As recently...

Chart Of The Week: Music Subscribers Vs Video Subscribers

Blog post by Mark Mulligan

29 Feb 2016

Chart Of The Week

Music

music subscribers

2015 was a big year for streaming music but it was a bigger deal for streaming video, generating $16 billion in revenue compared to $4.5 billion for streaming music. (Both figures are retail values). The...

Netflix’s Global Learning Curve

Blog post by Tim Mulligan

29 Feb 2016

mobile video

netflix

Online video

Last Wednesday at the MMIX stream of Mobile World Congress in Barcelona, Scott Mirer, VP of the device partner ecosystem at Netflix gave a keynote speech where he shared newly acquired insights into global...

Miranda Sings And Netflix - A New Direction For TV Commissioning?

Blog post by Tim Mulligan

12 Feb 2016

Miranda Sings

Native Content Creators

netflix

Something very big has happened in the world of online video with Netflix commissioning a brand new 8 part series from social talent Colleen Ballenger Evans aka Miranda Sings. If Miranda Sings doesn’t...

MIDiA Chart Of The Week: The Steady Decline Of The CD Buyer

Blog post by Mark Mulligan

8 Feb 2016

cd buyers

cd sales

Chart Of The Week

As much as we may be in the era of streaming, nearly half of recorded music revenue globally is still derived from physical sales, with the CD making up the vast majority of that. So, for all the understandable...

Why Netflix and Amazon Are Outbidding The Competition For The Best Of Sundance

Blog post by Tim Mulligan

27 Jan 2016

Amazon

manchester by the sea

netflix

Amid the cold wintery weather of Utah, something extraordinary is happening, and it is not just the annual Sundance Film Festival currently being held in the scenic location of Park City. For the world’s...

How Pay-TV Can Get Netflix Off Its Front Lawn

Blog post by Tim Mulligan

20 Jan 2016

emerging markets

netflix

Online video

Amidst all the positive news about Netflix’s continuing growth story, some interesting points were touched upon in yesterday’s Netflix Q4 2015 Earnings Interview with analysts. Perhaps the most revealing...

Netflix Has Now Achieved What Pay-TV Could Only Dream Of

Blog post by Tim Mulligan

7 Jan 2016

international online video growth

netflix

Online video

When Netflix’s CEO Reed Hastings gave his keynote presentation yesterday at CES in Las Vegas what caught the media’s attention was the scale of the Video Subscription Service’s global ambitions....

Why P2P Is Still The Big Deal For TV That It Used To Be For Music

Blog post by Mark Mulligan

6 Jan 2016

Amazon Prime

bittorrent

HBO

Piracy tracking website Torrent Freak released the chart of the 10 most downloaded TV shows on BitTorrent in 2015 . There are few surprises. The most successful TVs shows are also the most pirated TV shows....

MIDiA Chart Of The Week: Netflix Leads Format Innovation

Blog post by Mark Mulligan

22 Dec 2015

Amazon

Chart Of The Week

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...

Netflix Originals In Top Ten Google Search Rankings

Blog post by Tim Mulligan

17 Dec 2015

google search

netflix

Netflix originals

Amidst all the publicity around the most searched for terms on Google in 2015 was the revelation that not one, but three Netflix shows feature in the top ten trending TV Show searches globally. And these...

Quick Take: Taylor Swift, Apple Music And The Search For Exclusives

Blog post by Mark Mulligan

14 Dec 2015

adele

apple music

BBC

Taylor Swift just announced that Apple Music will be the exclusive streaming partner of her latest live film ‘The 1989 World Tour Live’ which includes alongside footage of the performances, back stage...

Netflix Gets Ready To Disrupt TV Commissioning In 2016

Blog post by Tim Mulligan

10 Dec 2015

netflix

Online video

SVOD

This week, Ted Sarandos, Netflix’s head of content revealed the company’s 2016 originals pipeline. Netflix will nearly double its roster of original series from this year’s 16 to 31 in 2016. It will...

Hulu’s Growth Shows That It’s Not all About Netflix

Blog post by Tim Mulligan

1 Dec 2015

disney

Fox

hulu

For both the mainstream media and the consumer online video subscription services equate to either Netflix or Amazon Prime Instant Video. The push towards SVOD (Subscription Video On Demand) services becoming...

MIDiA Data Point Of The Day: US Video Users

Blog post by Mark Mulligan

27 Nov 2015

Amazon Prime

Data Point Of The Day

netflix

There are 169 million online video users in the US. Online video use has now become a mainstream US consumer activity over half of the US population now watching online. Broadband connectivty, technology...

MIDiA Data Point Of The Day: Video Subscribers

Blog post by Mark Mulligan

18 Nov 2015

Amazon Prime

Data Point Of The Day

netflix

Online video appeals equally across the gender divide and this is reflected in the percentage of female subscribers to video services. This contrast s sharply with music subscriptions where the majority...

TV Content Owners Start To Rethink Their Netflix Relationship

Blog post by Tim Mulligan

5 Nov 2015

cbs

netflix

Online video

Yesterday Time Warner CEO Jeff Bewkes in his company’s Q3 earnings call made a statement which the emerging SVOD (Subscription Video On Demand) industry and Netflix in particular didn’t want to hear....

MIDiA Chart Of The Week: Online Video Subscriber Forecasts

Blog post by Mark Mulligan

19 Oct 2015

Amazon

Chart Of The Week

Over the last few years online video subscription services from the likes of Netflix, Amazon and Hulu havekick started a revolution in premium video that is threatening to disrupt the traditional TV business...

Why The Novel Is A Key Component Of The Multi Media Landscape

Blog post by Tim Mulligan

16 Oct 2015

Amazon

BBC

devices

Perhaps the most revealing comment at MIPCOM 2015 was the one made by Nick North, the BBC Director of Audiences. He stated, that he was more concerned about losing the attention of young viewers distracted...

Why Netflix And Amazon Want Jeremy Clarkson

Blog post by Mark Mulligan

26 Mar 2015

Amazon

exclusive content

jeremy clarkson

The BBC’s decision not to renew the contract of the ever-controversial Top Gear presenter Jeremy Clarkson has generated far more than its fair share of media attention. It has even triggered responses...

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