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“First day, first show” – Premium video on demand’s potential in India

Blog post by Srishti Das

26 Jul 2021

India is home to one of the world’s largest and most successful film industries. However, 2020 was rife with economic setbacks across the entertainment industry due to the pandemic. The film industry...

Reach over revenue: India’s lesson for developed sports markets

Blog post by Srishti Das

26 Feb 2021

cricket

hotstar

Disney+

India is growing as a sporting nation, with athletes performing across different international sports outside of cricket like kabaddi, motorsports, basketball, chess and so on. The majority of media consumption...

Discovery enters streaming race with discovery+ and Olympics offering

Blog post by Alistair Taylor

9 Dec 2020

discovery

Eurosport

discovery+

Last week , Discovery announced it will launch discovery+, ‘the definitive non-fiction’ subscription-video-on-demand (SVOD), on January 4th, 2021. Consumers in the US can expect the largest-ever content...

DAZN launches globally with advent calendar offering of boxing contests

Blog post by Alistair Taylor

3 Dec 2020

DAZN

SVOD

subscription video on demand

DAZN’s global roll out is finally here , following an announcement to launch worldwide (including the UK) back in March. The pandemic-enforced postponement and cancellation of live sports scuppered its...

WWE Q3 Earnings – An innovative digital strategy helps WWE overcome COVID-19 disruption

Blog post by Alistair Taylor

12 Nov 2020

WWE

World Wrestling Entertainment

covid

WWE’s Q3 2020 results provide a fascinating insight into how a live event-focused entertainment business has successfully navigated a global pandemic. In its financials for the quarter , WWE saw a 19%...

European Professional Club Rugby goes OTT, pressing business over the needs of fans

Blog post by Alistair Taylor

23 Sep 2020

EPCR

European Professional Club Rugby

OTT

Last Friday , European Professional Club Rugby (EPCR), the Heineken Champions Cup and the European Rugby Challenge Cup’s governing body announced the launch of its global over-the-top (OTT) streaming...

Can LiveScore learn valuable lessons from Eleven Sports’ UK failings?

Blog post by Alistair Taylor

24 Aug 2020

streaming service

LiveScore

OTT

Streaming insurgent LiveScore launched its first ever over-the-top (OTT), ad-supported direct-to-consumer (D2C) streaming proposition in the UK back in June, harbouring a similar rights portfolio to that...

NBCUniversal hopes to draw level with Premier League move

Blog post by Alistair Taylor

15 Jul 2020

Video

Sports

Covid-19

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...

FuboTV adds key sporting rights to portfolio following Disney deal

Blog post by Alistair Taylor

2 Jul 2020

Fubo

FuboTV

Sporting rights

FuboTV, the US over-the-top (OTT) internet-delivered TV service launched back in January 2015 as a soccer-centric proposition. In that time it has established itself as a niche distributor of live streams...

The Last Dance – ESPN Raining Threes

Blog post by Alistair Taylor

18 May 2020

Adam Silver

bundle

Chicago Bulls

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...

The Battle Down Under

Blog post by Alistair Taylor

23 Apr 2020

#playerstogether

A-League

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...

Universal Search – The Gaping Hole in Streaming Video

Blog post by Amanda Stears

5 Dec 2019

All 4

BBC iPlayer

cord shavers

The day is done and you are slouched on the sofa, ready for some binge watching. But how often have you found yourself aimlessly scrolling through Netflix, Amazon Prime Video, Now TV etc. not knowing exactly...

Streaming in Southeast Asia: Challenges and Opportunities for International Competitors

Blog post by Amanda Stears

10 Sep 2019

apple tv

asia pacific

disney

With a combined population of 371.7 million and a combined GDP of $2.9 trillion, Thailand, Malaysia and Indonesia represent sizeable and fast-growing markets for streaming services. The largest players...

Starz to Increase Brand Presence with AT&T Carriage Deal

Blog post by Amanda Stears

3 Sep 2019

OTT

Pay TV

pay tv operators

On August 30, AT&T announced a multi-year content carriage deal with Starz, allowing AT&T to offer STARZ content to its customers. This content deal includes STARZ and STARZ ENCORE premium linear...

Is YouTube MLB’s Answer to Tap into Younger Audience?

Blog post by Alistair Taylor

29 Jul 2019

baseball

cable consumption

Channel 4

On July 18 th , Google-owned YouTube livestreamed the first of its exclusive Major League Baseball (MLB) matches, acquired through a partnership announced with the MLB at the end of April 2019 . YouTube’s...

Fail Fast, Fail Early – Can Eleven’s UK Struggle Aid Future Growth?

Blog post by Alistair Taylor

21 Feb 2019

Allsvenskan

altice

Amazon Fire Stick

Eleven Sports announced last week it had successfully agreed long-term distribution agreements with all four TV operators in Portugal – Altice, NOS, Nowo and Vodafone. Achieving this agreement puts Eleven...

Will An EPL Streaming Service Devalue Domestic Rights?

Blog post by Alistair Taylor

15 Feb 2019

addressable audience

BT Sport

Following the English Premier League (EPL) announcing in November its plans to launch its own streaming service for the next rights cycle (2022-2025), the Sunday Times reported that the EPL is coming close...

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,...

Is the UFC doing a Fox, and cashing in on content?

Blog post by Alistair Taylor

31 May 2018

acquisition

content provider

digital content

Last week, Disney-owned ESPN acquired the exclusive rights to show the UFC tournament in the US for $1.5 billion over five years. The deal will see the UFC earn $184 million more each year than the previous...

The Rapidly Growing Niche Online Video Market Opportunity

Blog post by Tim Mulligan

28 Mar 2017

Falcon

Falcon Media House

Listing

Yesterday Falcon Media House , the international media group focused on the streaming video market, relisted on the London Stock Exchange’s Main Market under the ticker FAL . Overseen by a management...