Julian Aquilina was quoted in The Times on Premier League on the defence, he said “When Facebook tried to buy cricket TV rights in India, it put in a huge bid and everyone thought it was really serious. It didn’t get them, but Facebook would have wanted those rights because that would have driven a huge increase in Indian users to the service. In the UK, Facebook, Netflix and Amazon don’t have this problem.”

Joseph Evans was quoted in The Times on Get lost, Alexa: most Britons shun digital assistants over spying fears, he said “The privacy concerns stem from the fact that these devices are constantly listening out for the ‘wake’ word. You have to trust Amazon or Google will be respectful of your privacy, but also that there are no bugs in the software. We’ve seen instances of Alexa waking by mistake and recording everything that a user says.”

Claire Enders was quoted in the Financial Times on Rupert Murdoch’s News UK takes a potshot at BBC radio, Claire said “He has an absolute ideological objection to public service broadcasting in general and the BBC in particular.” 

Matti Littunen was quoted in the Financial Times on Facebook: false friends "Great fakes, by definition, are invisible. No one can really quantify fake Facebook accounts — advertised online at $7 per pop. Necessary privacy safeguards could foster a proliferation of fakes, by impeding online identity checks. But there will always be one metric advertisers can rely on." as Matti Littunen, of Enders Analysis, points out: "Sales directly generated by Facebook ads. If these flag, it is time to worry about fakes"

Douglas McCabe was quoted in The Times on the Buzzfeed and Huffpost owner cutting jobs after to losing out to tech giants. Douglas said “Tech stocks have zero or near zero content costs, which is what makes them so appealing. But businesses with journalists and producers do not scale in the same way,” 

Claire Enders was quoted in the Financial Times on Leadership Vaccum poses stiff challenge for Premier League “The Premier League challenges are always the same: maximising revenue; optimising the mix of licensees; and enlarging the pool of licensees, preferably without any loss of corporate life,” says Claire Enders of Enders Analysis, in a nod to companies such as Setanta which tried, and failed, to build pay-TV businesses off the back of Premier League rights.

Claire Enders was quoted in the Financial Times on new horizons for Sky under Comcast.  Claire said any company hoping to launch a streaming service in Europe would have to talk to Sky and Comcast because of their scale and reach as distributors. “There isn’t room for a successful subscription video on-demand service in any market unless it is on all the cable infrastructure,” she said, in a nod to distribution deals Netflix has struck with Sky and others in the UK and Comcast in the US.

Francois Godard was quoted in Financial Times on BFM. "BFM has been a tremendous platform for the gilets jaunes and it has emerged as the key media actor in the crisis,” said François Godard, an analyst at Enders Analysis. “The rationale of the news channel is to make an event out of anything. The gilets jaunes are moved to act because they feel the expectation.”

Douglas McCabe was quoted in the FT on the appointment of Jonathan Newhouse as Chairman of Condé Nast International. While Mr Newhouse’s announcement this week raised questions about the future of his family’s magazines, analysts are confident that its most vaunted titles will endure. “You can’t replicate a luxury environment online,” says Douglas McCabe of Enders, a media consultancy. “Vogue is not . . . going to disappear anytime soon.” 

Alice was quoted in The Times on the BBC's free TV licences for the over-75s. Enders Analysis, the media research company, said that means-testing would be the “least-worst” financial outcome for the BBC, but should still be avoided because it would be expensive to administer. Also, it could open a Pandora’s box on the question of whether low-income households of all generations should be offered free licences — not an option the BBC could afford, of course. Alice Enders, director of research at the firm, described it as a “terrible situation for the BBC and a terrible situation for the over-75s that are much more reliant on the BBC”.