Can Netflix and Spotify make the leap to the top tier?
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What the leading on-demand entertainment specialists – Netflix and Spotify – will need to do the mount a serious challenge to GAFA in the top tier of Internet platforms and how telcos can help them make the online world more competitive.
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Format: PDF file
Pages: 47 pages Charts: 19 Author: David Pringle Publication Date: March 2018Table of Contents
- Executive Summary
- Netflix: much loved, but too narrow
- Spotify: leading a formidable pack
- Lessons for telcos
- Conclusions for telcos
- Introduction
- The evolution of online entertainment
- Netflix: Keeping it original
- Right time, right proposition
- Competitive clouds gathering
- Economies of scale, but not scope
- Strengths
- Weaknesses
- Opportunities
- Threats
- Spotify: The power of the playlist
- Smaller than Netflix, but more rounded
- Strengths
- Weaknesses
- Opportunities
- Threats
- Takeaways for telcos
- Lessons for telcos
- Next steps for telcos
Table of Figure
- Figure 1: How the leading Internet companies have diversified
- Figure 2: Netflix revenue and paid subscriber growth, 2015-2017
- Figure 3: Netflix has grown much faster than its rivals in the US
- Figure 5: Netflix from a monolithic website to a flexible microservices architecture
- Figure 6: Netflix: SWOT analysis
- Figure 7: Tailoring movie artwork to the individual viewer
- Figure 8: Netflix’s addressable market is growing steadily
- Figure 9: The number of mobile broadband connections is rising rapidly
- Figure 10: How studio films aim to make money using release windows
- Figure 11: Hulu’s broad proposition is a challenge to Netflix
- Figure 12: Growth in digital music is now offsetting declining sales of physical formats
- Figure 13: Spotify’s rapid revenue and paid subscriber growth
- Figure 14: Spotify’s fast-growing premium service is the profit engine
- Figure 15: A SWOT analysis for Spotify
- Figure 16: Spotify has significantly lower ARPU and costs than Netflix
- Figure 17: Spotify’s losses continue to grow despite rapid revenue rises
- Figure 18: Spotify’s costs are rising rapidly
- Figure 19: YouTube is a major destination for music lovers
Technologies and industry terms referenced include: content, Data analytics, entertainment, GAFA, music streaming, Netflix, partnerships, personalisation, Platform, scale, scope, Spotify, two-sided business model, Video Streaming