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Why Netflix is now the canary in the peak streaming coal mine

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Blog post by Tim Mulligan

5 May 2021

After 10 years of uninterrupted growth, culminating in the entertainment bonanza of the great lockdown of 2020, Netflix is now post-growth after missing Q1 subscriber targets. Cue a 10% fall in Netflix’s...

F1 Drive to Survive: The rise of a Motorsport Multiverse

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Blog post by Srishti Das

24 Mar 2021

Drive to Survive

Netflix’s Drive to Survive was one of the first media projects taken up by Liberty Media after it bought the keys to Formula One (F1) in 2017. The first season aired in March 2019, bringing with it a...

Netflix as blockbuster behemoth?

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Blog post by Tim Mulligan

19 Jan 2021

Netflix Q4 Results

Today Netflix announces its Q4 2020 results. Widely recognised as one of the standout business winners of 2020, Netflix avoided any D2C ‘Big Bang ’disruption by seeing its dominant streaming video...

Why Condé Nast believes Netflix is the new Vogue and Vanity Fair

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Blog post by Tim Mulligan

2 Dec 2020

The digital revolution has not been kind on the print magazine industry. In the pre-digital world media power resided on access to coverage on the front pages of style and culture arbiters such as Vogue...

Why DAZN is adapting to German consumer nuances with linear and digital bets

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Blog post by Alistair Taylor

22 Oct 2020

DAZN’s recently-established position as the ‘Netflix of sport’ has been a hard fought one, requiring extensive rights investment in order to carve out a compelling proposition. In the markets where...

The Premier League going pay-per-view means a sucker-punch for sports fans

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Blog post by Alistair Taylor

15 Oct 2020

English Premier League

English Premier League (EPL) clubs have agreed an ‘interim solution’ to allow fans to continue watching their teams live. EPL fixtures not selected for broadcast in October will be available to fans...

Zombies and vaporwave: Consumer vibes in 2020

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Blog post by Hanna Kahlert

12 Sep 2020

News has become culturally vital in 2020. In a year of global health, social and economic disruption, it now possesses a relevant edge to compete vigorously for consumer attention in a saturated content...

MIDiA’s UK video consumer deep dive Q2 2020 report

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Blog post by Tim Mulligan

20 Aug 2020

Streaming Video

MIDiA Research has published its Q2 2020 UK Video Consumer Deep Dive report, with an update on where the leading streaming services are and how they have adapted to the ongoing disruption wrought by COVID-19....

DAZN’s belated UK launch: Can it avoid Eleven Sports’ 'mistake’?

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Blog post by Alistair Taylor

24 Jul 2020

Media & Marketing

DAZN, the anointed ‘Netflix of Sport’, has announced plans to resume launching its services globally via a beta service covering boxing bouts In July and August, for users who have registered their...

Netflix Q2 2020 earnings: Lockdown revenue windfall but performance expected to fall

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Blog post by Tim Mulligan

17 Jul 2020

H1 2020 has been particularly good for Netflix. Q1 2020 saw record subscriber growth of 27.8 million net additions and its original content has dominated viewer interest over the previous six months. The...

NBCUniversal hopes to draw level with Premier League move

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Blog post by Alistair Taylor

15 Jul 2020

With Comcast’s NBCUniversal-owned Peacock launching today (July 15th), sports fans will be excited ahead of NBCU’s repositioning of its English Premier League (EPL) rights, giving paying subscribers...

Netflix $17 billion budget staves off Disney and HBO Max competition

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Blog post by Tim Mulligan

30 Jun 2020

As Netflix increases its annual content budget from the $13.9 billion in 2019 to an estimated $17 billion in 2020, the global video streaming leader is responding to the competitive threat posed by its...

Is streaming making it harder and more expensive for consumers to access video content?

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Blog post by Tim Mulligan

19 Jun 2020

Back in 2007, Netflix made its famous pivot from being a subscription postal DVD rental provider to becoming an on-demand video streaming provider. Fast forward 13 years and the entire TV industry has...

The Last Dance – ESPN Raining Threes

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Blog post by Alistair Taylor

18 May 2020

With the pandemic-enforced postponement of live sports creating an entertainment void for sports fans, US broadcaster ESPN played its trump card to capitalise on the thirst for stimulating content during...

Does Virgin Media Plus O2 Equal A New UK Communications Major?

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Blog post by Tim Mulligan

6 May 2020

Liberty Global which is the parent company of Virgin Media, is in talks with Telefonica subsidiary O2 about combining the two businesses together to create a new UK challenger to BT. Virgin Media is the...

HBO Max Now Has Its Launch Date-Will This Turn Out To Be Good Or Bad Timing?

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Blog post by Tim Mulligan

24 Apr 2020

On Tuesday, AT&T subsidiary Warner Media announced the launch date for its forthcoming D2C streaming video service HBO Max. On May 27 th HBO Max will launch into a world radically different from the one...

The Battle Down Under

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Blog post by Alistair Taylor

23 Apr 2020

#playerstogether

additive services

With COVID-19 exposing the vulnerability of pureplay sport streaming services , the importance of building out a robust and downturn-proof offering is fundamental to the viability of these currently additive...

Netflix Q1 2020- Streaming’s First Financial Lockdown Update

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Blog post by Tim Mulligan

22 Apr 2020

As the world continues to adjust to the new normal of lockdown, work and entertainment now revolves around the home. Over the past month a combination of consumer survey data, ratings announcements and...

Consumption and Production Impacts on TV and Video Streaming under Lockdown

Blog post by Tim Mulligan

21 Apr 2020

COVID-19 programming

Unsurprisingly the UK government opted to extend lockdown for a further three weeks last week, and today will mark the first full month of lockdown for UK consumers. In the US 95% of the population is...

Welcome to the new Era of Pandemic Programming

Blog post by Tim Mulligan

9 Apr 2020

As 25% of the world gets used to a second month of lockdown following the public health crisis unleashed by the COVID -19 pandemic, the impact on video continues to grow. Propositions in this new landscape...

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