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The death of Quibi, a six-month-old app

Carmen Arroyo Nieto and Josep Valor October 23, 2020

After a six-month run, the streaming service Quibi is shutting down. Its plans thwarted by the pandemic, its numbers in decline, and its shows lacking a loyal following, Quibi—short for Quick Bites—is closed for business. The streaming wars and the pandemic are partly to blame for Quibi’s failure, as is the rise of the social […]

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Where did Quibi go wrong?

Carmen Arroyo Nieto and Josep Valor July 9, 2020

Three months ago, the streaming service Quibi was launched with some fanfare and we devoted one of our posts to it (read Quibi, the new streaming platform for mobile devices). Its success so far has been quite limited. Its founders have blamed the pandemic for the app’s flop, but its problems may not stop here. […]

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Subscriptions Flood Movie Theater Chains

Carmen Arroyo Nieto and Josep Valor March 4, 2020

We’ve heard it a thousand times—movie theaters, very much like books, are done. With their humongous fixed costs and their conservative outlook, they are just not ready to survive the online streaming era. That general assertion is true—streaming platforms, available for anyone with a laptop or a TV set, are releasing world-class pictures. But, although […]

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Streaming wars part II: the unbundling

Carmen Arroyo Nieto and Josep Valor December 21, 2019

When streaming platforms emerged in the late-2000s, they announced they had come to unbundle the bundled linear TV programming. Viewers got ordinary TV channels to watch sports programs, news shows as well as movies. They were unable to choose a show on-demand and had to wait for it to come up on the screen. Streaming […]

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Disney+ and the value of knowing your customer

Carmen Arroyo Nieto and Josep Valor November 25, 2019

On Nov. 12, a new streaming platform entered the market, aiming to dethrone the incumbent—Disney+ is ready to take on Netflix. Since 2015, Disney’s CEO Bob Iger had been planning the launch of the company’s over-the-top service. For a time, the $236 billion empire had been licensing its content to Netflix, but in the streaming […]

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Quibi, the new streaming platform for mobile devices

Carmen Arroyo Nieto and Josep Valor October 19, 2019

That smartphone usage is growing is a fact; that we want to stream 10-minute episodes anytime anywhere is a hypothesis. Quibi, a Hollywood-based streaming company, wants to prove the hypothesis is true.  With high-quality content and a hefty budget, Quibi aims to produce 10-minute episodes of film and shows for smartphones. The idea sounds very […]

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Apple TV Plus is here to fight for prestige

Carmen Arroyo Nieto and Josep Valor October 12, 2019

Apple TV Plus is only a few days away from launch, and we are excited to see the service. The new Apple product is set to start operating on November 1st, with nine original shows and movies. After launch, five new titles will be added to the list. But if you are anxious, don’t worry. […]

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Netflix, no longer the streaming leader in the US

Carmen Arroyo Nieto and Josep Valor August 1, 2019

Two weeks ago, Netflix revealed its 2019 second-quarter results. They didn’t look pretty and the stock plummeted as a consequence. For the first time since 2011, Netflix has lost subscribers in the United States. The company is still growing internationally, but it has added almost 2 million subscribers less than expected—2.7million vs. the 5 million […]

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Josep Valor

Josep Valor-Sabatier is professor of Information Systems and information technology and holder of the Indra Chair of Digital Strategy.

He received his Ph.D. in Operations Research from MIT, and his Sc.D. in Medical Engineering from the Harvard-MIT Division of Health Sciences and Technology. Josep Valor teaches extensively at the senior executive level on Management Information Systems, Media Management, Management of Technology, and Strategy.

Carmen Arroyo

Carmen Arroyo is a financial reporter for Euromoney Institutional Investor, which she joined after finishing her graduate studies in international politics at Columbia University in New York City. She also freelances for the news agency IPS News Service at their United Nations Bureau, covering migration and climate, and writes a newsletter on narrative journalism.

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