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”. 

Douglas McCabe was quoted in the FT on advice books written by millennial women for peers who are trying to navigate a working life. Douglas observes that criticisms of older career books echo “the criticism that many executives make about MBA programmes today — that there is too much focus on business principles and case studies from before, say, 2000, when the business world started to be turned upside down” 

Douglas McCabe was quoted in the FT on the decline in print advertising and the effects on Johnston Press. Douglas said “The fundamental problem is not just the decline in print, it’s also that Johnston Press and other local publishers have not been able to generate meaningful revenues online. A lot of the marketing money has not stuck to the local news bundle, as publishers had hoped.”

Douglas McCabe was quoted in the FT on the sale of Johnston Press. Analysts said strategic buyers would include Reach, formerly known as Trinity Mirror, and Newsquest, which both have large local newspaper portfolios. But the debt may scare off potential bidders. Douglas said “The question is, can they sell the whole portfolio or is there an inevitability about it being broken up?”

James Barford was paraphrased in The Financial Times in an article on Comcast’s plans for Sky’s broadband business. James argued they may “look to boost Sky’s telecoms arm by investing in business telecoms, given it has a strong presence in the US, or by buying spectrum to boost its mobile arm. However, he said it was also possible that it could look to acquire companies such as TalkTalk, which has 4.2m broadband customers, or smaller competitors.”