While it is tempting to think that television in the pre-Pay TV era, that was transmitted by large TV masts and received by domestic TV aerials is just a relic of a bygone age, it is still a significant part of the industry. Not just in the developing world, with figures from recent years suggesting that 21% of US households rely on antenna reception for at least one TV set in the house.
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One of the factors that is often referred to when accounting for the electronic entertainment industry’s comparatively slow movement towards the cloud is worries about content security. When it comes ...
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In January 2015, analyst Digi-Capital made a bold statement about the future of Virtual Reality (VR) and Augmented Reality technology (AR). “VR will be big; AR will be bigger and take longer,” it said...
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From funnels to touchpoints to end–to-end journeys, we’ve come a long way in our understanding of the decision processes that customers make when they are choosing a service, whether it be TV or anyth...
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In 1996 Bill Gates wrote a brilliant and visionary article ‘Content is the King’. Reading this title with today’s eyes, and looking at the current landscape increasingly dominated by OTT content, it i...
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Early March was an important date for the broadcast industry as a significant tipping point was reached in the US – the number of streaming media services subscribers finally overtook the number of Pa...
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Just about five years ago, if you wanted to distribute your video content via the Internet and retain any kind of a full-quality experience, it was an intimidating and extremely costly endeavor. The t...
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There are several worrying angles to the subject of video piracy on mobile phones. And while the most disruptive so far has undoubtedly been the use of handsets to capture and stream protected content...
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Netflix launched its latest slate of programming at the start of February, in a blog post whose opening few sentences described exactly what the fuss is about regarding TV content personalization.
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