Reports
Why Google Has to Expand into Mobile, and Why it will S...
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18 Nov 08
Google's move into mobile will provide a key source of growth over the next five years, developing a...
Games Hardware: GMI cuts FY PS3 sales guidance
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12 Nov 08
GMI has reduced its forecasts of sales for Sony PS3 hardware in light of the poor econiomic outlook ...
Cablevision Most at Threat as Telco TV Footprint Grows
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11 Nov 08
Verizon and AT&T are continuing to roll out video services in the US, putting cable companies under ...
Making VoD Pay is UK Cableco's Challenge
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04 Nov 08
Virgin Media, the major cable operator in the UK with 3.5m subs, reported a surging increase in vide...
Hearst-Argyle Q3: US TV Market Weak, but Hardly Falling...
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03 Nov 08
Hearst-Argyle Television (HTV), one of the largest operators of US network affiliates, reported thir...
BSkyB Q1 Financials: Reasons for Optimism
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28 Oct 08
GMI reiterates its view that BSkyB, reporting its first quarter 2008/9 financial year results this F...
New Free-to-air Strategy for Discovery's Intl Network
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17 Oct 08
Discovery Communications is to launch a free-to-air channel in the UK early next year. The channel w...
TF1, M6 Groups Rescued by Regulatory Windfall
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09 Oct 08
The French government plans to end advertising on public service TV after 8pm from January 2009, and...
Premiere's Phantom Subscribers Shift German Pay TV Dyna...
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06 Oct 08
German premium satellite pay-TV operator Premiere has made a major downward adjustment in its report...
Selling online video: rise of 'value-add economics'
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02 Oct 08
Internet and technology companies, retailers and e-commerce businesses have made virtually no meanin...
Key European Broadcaster Hit By Ad Sales Debacle
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19 Sep 08
ProSiebenSat.1 lost its leadership of the German TV advertising market after a disastrous change to ...
Economy Fails to Dampen First Half U.S. Home Video
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08 Sep 08
The U.S. home video market was not so badly hit by the threatened economic recession in the first si...
Nintendo's FY Upgraded In Line with GMI Forecasts
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01 Sep 08
Nintendo has increased its forecasts for hardware sales in the current financial year, bringing them...
Shift in Negotiating Power as Sports Hits the Net
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22 Aug 08
The intense focus on the success of the 2008 Olympics-and how much of a ratings and advertising bona...
Sony's FY PS3 forecasts could be bettered by 50%
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19 Aug 08
Year-on-year Q2 2008 global volumes for games hardware sell-through were up 9.4 per cent, a meaningf...
Can the Industry Afford a Big Blu-ray Success?
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15 Aug 08
GMI expects consumer demand for Blu-ray (movies, TV and games) to increase to 225m discs this year; ...
BSkyB Will Weather the UK's Economic Downturn
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07 Aug 08
The threat of the widely-expected recession to the outlook of pay-TV company British Sky Broadcastin...
Could News Corp's Goal Be Deeper Move Into Pay TV?
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01 Aug 08
The collapse of the deal between Leo Kirch's Sirius Group and the German football league (DFL) for T...
Nintendo Leads The Race, But Rivals Are Catching Up
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22 Jul 08
Nintendo has achieved a commanding lead in the console market thanks to the Wii, which had a worldwi...
Worldwide Film Revenues to Grow at 4.4% CAGR to 2011
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18 Jul 08
Projections of worldwide markets suggest that major US studio revenue from feature film exploitation...
Financing the Movie Industry in a Slow-growth Era
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07 Jul 08
Feature film revenue for the major studios totaled $34.9bn in 2007, but growth is slowing as the DVD...
Broadcast TV: Alive and Thriving in East Europe
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27 Jun 08
Two Nasdaq-listed companies, Central European Media Enterprises (CME) and CTC Media, offer a direct ...
DVD Burning Could Light a Fire under Retail Market
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13 Jun 08
Manufacturing on Demand (MOD), a process enabling retaliers to burn DVDs on demand, could shift the ...
Rousing the Giant: Chinese Cable TV Industry Explodes
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05 Jun 08
China will be the world's largest digital cable market in 2009 and the largest IPTV market in 2010. ...
The Netflix set-top box: connecting for good?
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29 May 08
Netflix (NFLX)'s recent announcement of a $100 dedicated device for streaming of movies direct to th...
Animation Giants See the Future-and it's 3D
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09 May 08
Disney, DreamWorks and other US studios are producing most of their upcoming animated movies in ster...
Euro Cable Strives To Raise Its Game
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30 Apr 08
Cable is the main form of pay TV in Europe in terms of subscribers, but DTH satellite has caputerd a...
MySpace Signs To Make Music With The Majors
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16 Apr 08
News Corp.-owned social networking site MySpace has signed a joint venture with three of the major r...
Blu-ray Sales Take Off; Can Industry Keep Up?
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10 Apr 08
Blu-ray disc sales in the US are going strong soon after the resolution of the next-gen DVD format w...
FCC Auction Boosts Telcos' Battle With Cable
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08 Apr 08
Verizon and AT&T were the big winners in the US auction of Spectrum that will bring them into direct...
Movie Exhibition: The Future Is Looking Brighter
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31 Mar 08
The future of the theatrical exhibition business in the US is brighter than most observers believe: ...
Can Microsoft Really Control The Future Of TV?
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20 Mar 08
Microsoft has finally succeeded in expanding into TV with its Mediaroom IPTV product. Although reven...
Hi-Def Format War Over: The Real Battle Begins
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18 Mar 08
The abrupt surrender by Toshiba's HD DVD format leaves Sony's Blu-ray the winner in the now-ended hi...
AOL/Bebo: Hanging Out With The Wrong Crowd?
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17 Mar 08
AOL is to buy Bebo, the privately-owned social networking site, for $850m. GMI thinks it's doubtful ...
Qualcomm To Lead As US Mobile TV Emerges
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07 Mar 08
GMI projects that total mobile TV revenues in the US will grow to $2.56bn in 2012 (39% of the global...
A Gloomy Oulook For Global Ad Markets
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03 Mar 08
GMI projects that ad revenue growth in Europe's big five markets and the US will be sluggish in 2008...
EA Courts Take-Two To Create Games Giant
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26 Feb 08
The unsolicited bid by Electronic Arts for games publisher Take-Two Interactive, values the company ...
SanDisk's Fanfare heralds Apple challenge
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22 Feb 08
SanDisk, whose Sansa range of portable audio devices is currently number two in the US to Apple's iP...
European Pay TV Groups Fight To Stay On Top
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14 Feb 08
Leading pay TV players have fought off competition in the DTH space but cannot rest on their laurels
Man Bites Dog: Studios embrace iTunes rental
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08 Feb 08
All major studios license digital movie rights to Apple - but for rental only, after failing to come...
Amazon pacts with LoveFilm in Europe
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06 Feb 08
Amazon exits the online DVD rental business in UK & Germany via deal with privately-held LoveFilm; p...
Masters of the children's television universe
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31 Jan 08
The children's TV market is dominated by vertically-integrated groups - in particular, Disney, Nicke...
DVR: more friend than foe to TV ads?
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28 Jan 08
UK and US viewing research data suggests that DVRs may not be the ad-killers once feared. However, a...
Warner's abandonment of HD DVD for Blu-ray
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15 Jan 08
Warner decision to opt for Blu-ray HD format is first step towards returning
packaged media market t...
MMOG: growth beyond Warcraft?
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08 Jan 08
While World of Warcraft continues to dominate the subscription-based massive multiplayer online game...
Will digital save the IMAX business model?
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21 Dec 07
The IMAX and AMC digital JV will double the number of US commercial IMAX locations to 200, lower the...
Is the party over for online DVD sub growth?
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14 Dec 07
Online DVD subscriptions have been the only bright spot in a declining rental market but online DVD ...
Holiday season console bets
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14 Dec 07
This Christmas season dozens of game publishers, who had previously underestimated the popularity of...
Video Via Social Networks
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07 Dec 07
Internet-based social networks like MySpace, Facebook, Bebo and last.fm hope to become important new...
Activision & Vivendi
Games. A Perfect Fit.
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04 Dec 07
GMI believes that the proposed Activision Vivendi Games merger represents a perfect marriage between...
700 MHz spectrum
auction strategies
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03 Dec 07
The qualities of the 700MHz spectrum to be auctioned off in January 2008, are such that
this sale re...
Lowering download-to-own movie estimates
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21 Nov 07
Major Studios and Apple have failed to reach an agreement regarding download-to-own (DTO) movies on ...
The business case for digital 3D cinema
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31 Oct 07
Unlike earlier iterations seen in the 1950s and 1980s, this time around 3D is not a gimmick. Consume...
Do movies make money?
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24 Oct 07
iPhone: hardware - not content - is king
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28 Jul 07
GMI sees the iPhone as just one relatively small piece in
a holistic, 360-degree strategy by Apple t...
The prospects for online DVD rental services
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31 Mar 07
The online DVD rental model -- pioneered by Netflix in the US, and adopted by Blockbuster and other ...
US screen advertising: the launch of National CineMedia
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27 Feb 07
Wall Street discovers the field of screen advertising as the IPO of National CineMedia creates a $2....
European pay TV sports rights: money well spent?
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06 Feb 07
Competition from new pay TV platforms such as IPTV has caused prices for the rights to show Europe's...
Will the US digital cinema boom spread to Europe?
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30 Jan 07
Digital cinema experienced rapid growth during 2006 in the US, well ahead of original forecasts. Eur...
European cable business: a bargain for investors?
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15 Dec 06
Are plans to revive triple-play cable services (combined TV, telephone, internet) in Europe too late...
User-generated online video
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13 Dec 06
With major media companies buying into user-generated video sites, will the long-term earnings poten...
Television on the internet: the US market
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01 Dec 06
Revenues from internet-delivered premium television content in the US market will grow significantly...
Next generation games consoles - the software challenge
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15 Nov 06
Games publishers face significantly higher development costs and risks as they create software for t...
Mobile TV: likely winners and losers
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23 Oct 06
Mobile network operators, TV channels and content producers are all keen for mobile TV technology to...
Can hi-def discs arrest declining DVD growth?
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12 Sep 06
The format war between Sony-backed Blu-Ray Disc and HD DVD, promoted by Toshiba, won't prevent new h...
Will games retailers survive digital distribution?
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04 Sep 06
With downloads and streaming growing fast as a means of distributing PC - and increasingly console -...
Will digital cinema change the balance of power in film...
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24 Aug 06
The beginning of roll-out is introducing new players into the film industry. While established playe...
Hi-Def TV: Hype definition, or the next big thing?
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07 Aug 06
HDTV is finally set for global lift-off with winners and losers throughout the TV value chain. After...
Is the TV content production sector ready for investors...
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24 Jul 06
Quotas, rights rules and new technology make the cream of European television production companies ...
Dot com boom or bust? is the web the way forward for TV...
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01 May 06
As advertising dollars shift from network TV to the internet, downloads offer new revenue streams fo...
Will digital distribution leave games retailers out in ...
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17 Apr 06
Retail companies will play a significant role in the digital distribution of games content to PCs an...