Moody’s Top Media Analyst Says Smaller SVOD Players Will Need To “Partner Up Or Be Acquired”
deadline.comJill Goldsmith Co-Business EditorThe top media analyst at big credit ratings agency Moody’s said the SVOD world is splitting into two tiers and that smaller players like Discovery, AMC Networks and Lionsgate are “probably going to need to partner up in some fashion or be acquired … to achieve the girth necessary.”If not, said Moody’s Neil Begley, Senior VP, Corporate Finance Group, “They’ll be relegated, and that might be fine, to being a Tier 2 provider.
But churn will be high and it will be hard to get the attention of folks as an SVOD platform on a standalone basis without having consistently superior content that attracts people in their own right.” He spoke Thursday at the Goldman Sachs media conference, a three day event with earlier.
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