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 — simply on distributing content.
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 — simply on distributing content.
Every year, Accenture publishes a report titled The Future of Broadcasting which analyses the trends and technologies on the broadcast industry roadmap.
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All around the world, Pay-TV operators find themselves being squeezed by the multiple pressures of increasing competition bought about by new entrants into the market, rising consumer expectation, spi...
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Coming out of last week’s Mip TV conference, one thing was very clear: there are a lot of very conflicted, confused, and even a little nervous traditional TV executives out there who trying to navigat...
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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 significa...
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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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