iTunes Radio closes Pandora's box
Apple’s iTunes will add free-to-the-user online and mobile radio to the platform in the autumn of 2013, meshing music purchase with enhanced tools for discovery.
iTunes Radio also meshes with Match, the cloud-based music storage and retrieval utility sold for $24.99/year, whose users will enjoy ad-free online and mobile radio.
The main casualty of iTunes Radio is likely to be #1 US internet station Pandora, which this week launched the next phase of its battle to win the better royalty terms of commercial radio. |
Media, Internet, Music and Radio |
June 2013 Access this report
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Google Play Music All Access
Google Play, the digital content platform from Google for Android devices, has added a music subscription service to the sale of music, ebooks, videos and apps
All Access, available only in the US initially, benefits from integration in Google Play, the default storefront on Android smartphones and tablets (excepting Amazon’s Kindle Fire). All Access isn’t available on Apple devices, in the majority in the US, severely limiting its reach |
Media, Internet, Music and Radio, Technology |
May 2013 Access this report
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Facebook and mobile social networking in the UK
As smartphones have grown in the UK, so has mobile use of social networks However, mobile messaging services that offer an alternative channel to Facebook have become almost as important Meanwhile analysis by smartphone platform shows that iPhone users continue to have a higher propensity to install and use apps than do Android users. Android skews young and lower income, and messaging apps in particular start as a means to save money (though they are now much more than that), but even in this category iPhone users appear to care more |
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May 2013 Access this report
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Facebook: increasing mobilisation
Facebook’s audience and engagement continue to rise as a result of the migration to mobile devices – on its current trajectory more people will access the social network via mobile devices than PCs by the end of 2014
The transition to mobile is cannibalising desktop time on Facebook but significantly higher usage on mobile devices and rising mobile ad yield is driving growth in overall consumption and revenue |
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May 2013 Access this report
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Google’s US and EU antitrust cases: 1:0 Google
In January 2013, the US Federal Trade Commission (FTC) cleared Google of anticompetitive practices in its core search and advertising business – a corresponding European antitrust investigation is pending, but looks set to take a (slightly) stricter stance on Google.
The FTC’s closing of the search bias investigation is key to Google’s strategy to integrate and expand its general and vertical search products, such as its e-commerce channels Google Shopping and Google Maps, with direct positive revenue implications. |
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April 2013 Access this report
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Facebook Home and mobile
Facebook has announced Home, an Android app that takes control of your phone, replaces the home screen with your Facebook newsfeed and relegates any competing social services to, it hopes, an afterthought.
At launch, Home will be available to at most 20% of Facebook’s mobile base. It is an interesting tool to lock in core users and drive up their engagement, but can only be part of Facebook’s mobile strategy. |
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April 2013 Access this report
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Future for online news: regulation?
The phone hacking scandal showed the necessary ingredients for journalistic abuses to occur. In a world of online news, greater commercial pressures mean that, if anything, they will increase
The internet will also diminish plurality among major news providers and make abuses harder to correct, increasing the need to prevent them in the first place
It is often argued that attempts to regulate the internet will either fail or be actively harmful. We argue that regulation focused on major online news providers could be a limited success |
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April 2013 Access this report
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Future for online news: digital services
Digital disruption is causing the decline and fall of print media, but the new online landscape is not settled. Not all newspapers will survive the transition to digital
So far, most newspaper brands (at least in the UK) have chosen to remain free online, relying on advertising revenue. Recent announcements at the Telegraph Media Group, News International and elsewhere indicate this is changing
While a handful of global news sites that achieve huge scale could remain free, many services will have to charge consumers for access |
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April 2013 Access this report
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National newspapers: print and digital audiences
Last month saw the fourth release of NRS PADD, a fusion of NRS and comScore data, which provides the first industry-wide, cross-platform (print and PC) data set on newspaper brand readership. It was the first release to use full year print readership data |
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April 2013 Access this report
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UK recorded music still in decline
UK recorded music retail sales fell 8% in 2012 to £1 billion, as CD sales fell 21% to £540 million whilst digital formats rose 15% to £484 million on a huge 70% climb in subscriptions.
HMV store closures in 2013 will further dent CD sales, but accelerate the point of inflection (at least 50% digital sales) of the UK’s retail market.
The UK remains a robust source of royalties from performance of sound recordings, with PPL reporting revenues in 2011 of £153.5 million, up 7%. |
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March 2013 Access this report
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PS4 and next-gen Xbox: the last console cycle?
Next-generation consoles from Sony and Microsoft, expected late this year/early next, will kick off a new cycle for the games industry, but enter a much more competitive market
Smartphones and tablets offer an alternative gaming model, with more variety, lower cost, greater convenience and, crucially, rapidly increasing sophistication
These new platforms are expanding gaming to a much larger audience, but also increasingly competing with consoles for the time and attention of core gamers. This could be the last recognisable console cycle |
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March 2013 Access this report
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Netflix managed satisfaction
Netflix continues to expand its global base on foundations that look slightly less shaky than a year ago as the establishment shows signs of becoming more positive to the upstart in its midst
There has been much talk of the OTT cord cutting threat to pay-TV platforms, yet the real threat lies more with certain broadcast TV channels, especially those specialising in children’s and archive entertainment series |
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March 2013 Access this report
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Slides accompanying Media & Telecoms: 2013 & Beyond (part 2)
Slides from the presentations by the following speakers at the Media & Telecoms: 2013 & Beyond conference on 15 January 2013: •Anthony Wood, CEO, Roku •Anne Bouverot, Director General, GSMA •Thomas Hesse, Chief Digital Officer, Bertelsmann |
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February 2013 Access this report
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Media & Telecoms - 2013 & Beyond, part 2
Enders Analysis co-hosted its annual conference, in conjunction with BNP Paribas and Deloitte, in London on 15 January 2013. The event featured talks by 14 of the most influential figures in media and telecoms, and was chaired by Sir Peter Bazalgette. |
Media, Mobile, TV, Fixed line, Press, Internet, Technology, Telecoms |
February 2013 Access this report
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Media & Telecoms: 2013 & Beyond (part 1)
Enders Analysis co-hosted its annual conference, in conjunction with BNP Paribas and Deloitte, in London on 15 January 2013. The event featured talks by 14 of the most influential figures in media and telecoms, and was chaired by Sir Peter Bazalgette. |
Media, Mobile, TV, Fixed line, Press, Internet, Music and Radio, Technology, Telecoms |
January 2013 Access this report
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Slides accompanying Media & Telecoms: 2013 & Beyond (part 1)
Slides from the presentations by the following speakers at the Media & Telecoms: 2013 & Beyond conference on 15 January 2013:
•Sir Martin Sorrell, CEO, WPP
•Michael Tobin, CEO, Telecity Group
•Liv Garfield, CEO, Openreach
•Dido Harding, CEO, TalkTalk Group
•Victor Zhang, CEO, Huawei UK & Ireland
•Cindy Rose, Executive Director of Digital Entertainment, Virgin Media |
Media, Mobile, TV, Fixed line, Press, Internet, Music and Radio, Technology, Telecoms |
January 2013 Access this report
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Facebook finally trials social search
Facebook’s announcement of Graph Search, the company’s first move into socially-powered search which now in beta trial in the US, leaves many details unanswered including full launch and monetisation plans. Reliance on user-generated content from Facebook friends limits the usefulness of Graph Search as a conventional search engine and hence its impact on Google and other web search businesses in the near term. |
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January 2013 Access this report
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YouTube’s Original Channels venture
YouTube continues to evolve away from user-generated content with the expansion of its native Original Channels initiative in the US, Europe and Japan
Professional and semi-professional content is key to increasing YouTube’s sellable video inventory, raising advertising yield and attracting brand advertisers
Whilst YouTube is the leading global distribution platform for professional short-form video, it poses little immediate threat to TV viewing or revenues |
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January 2013 Access this report
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UK local media: a holy grail?
This report explores and quantifies expenditure in the local media landscape. Flat disposable income and the rise in e-commerce continue to force many retailers from the high street, though we argue first-rate small and medium enterprises (SMEs) have the opportunity to grow share of the local market, despite these pressures |
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December 2012 Access this report
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TV, non-linear and disruption
The linear TV broadcast industry has kept its oligopolistic structure remarkably intact over the last 50 years against a background of much technological innovation and re-regulation, but now faces a new wave of innovation that promises growth of non-linear at the expense of linear True disruption can only occur by solving the device challenge of developing on a mass scale new, compelling and innovative ways to access content, but so far non-linear has achieved a very small share of total viewing while linear viewing levels are as high as ever Although non-linear viewing may become substa |
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October 2012 Access this report
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