VO blog | P. 40

The Acceleration of the TV as a Service Market

Wed, Jun 21, 2017 | by Meirav Gan

The TV as a Service market is on course to be a $1.5 billion a year industry by 2021 as the advantages of cloud-based business models are becoming increasingly recognised. The cloud is reshaping many industries. So many, that the acronym XaaS, standing for Everything as a Service, is becoming increasingly used.

Wed, Jun 14, 2017 | by Mathieu Harel

Cisco’s latest Mobile Visual Networking Index estimates that there will be a 9x increase in mobile video traffic between 2016 and 2021. What are the factors driving this?

Mon, Jun 5, 2017 | by Leonid Berkovich

While 360 and VR Streaming gain a hold on the public consciousness, the global trend of virtualization in the Pay-TV industry is gaining momentum.

Wed, May 31, 2017 | by Andy Stout

One of the interesting aspects of the shifting power structures within the industry is that operators are increasingly able to choose the channels they want — and only the channels they want. This mea...

Thu, May 25, 2017 | by Sarit Rosenthal-Aviram

Social media networks, with Facebook and Twitter at the forefront, have been adding video functionality over recent years as part of their continued program of accelerated expansion. Investors like to...

Tue, May 23, 2017 | by Einav Levi

When it comes to driving competitive advantage for TV operators, analytics deliver in three key areas of the content cycle.

Tue, May 16, 2017 | by Patricia Frith

There’s no doubt about it…the changes that are occurring in the television business are happening so fast that you sometimes feel like you need a crash course in Media Acceleration 101. There are so m...

Wed, May 10, 2017 | by Ludo Rubin

Future generations might well have to Google the phrase ‘water-cooler TV’ when they come across it in old documents about television at the start of the 21st century. The idea that millions and millio...

Tue, May 2, 2017 | by Andy Stout

There is no doubt that television is an expensive business, and not just making it but distributing it as well. The BBC, for example, spends 6% of its licence fee income — some £210 million every year...