The revenue that the global online and video industry will receive in 2020 is forecast to more than double to over $42bn by 2020, with SVOD in the driving seat. All of which makes the rumours about YouTube launching its own streaming service to compete with the likes of Netflix and Amazon seem more likely. And finally, research from the US indicates that time-shifting is becoming more pronounced, especially amongst Millennials.
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Mergers and acquisitions: There are four major cable operators in the United States that provide video, data and voice services: Comcast, Time Warner Cable, COX Communications, and Charter Communicati...
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TV used to be easy to define. When you’d think of a person watching TV, you could easily picture what that looked like: that person sitting before a television set, watching whatever was on at that ti...
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While the growth of OTT subscription services continues to work its transformative powers on business models across the global broadcast industry, attention is starting to turn to the effect that OTT ...
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Buried deep in the French film archives of the Institut national de l’audiovisuel, there is a remarkable 1947 film showed Parisians walking around their city watching live TV broadcasts on tiny mobile...
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According to Nielsen there are over 50m Hispanics living in the USA, not only making them the largest ethnic group in the country but also the 12th largest economy in the world — somewhere between Mex...
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I wouldn’t want to predict the future, but what we are seeing is, by offloading the undifferentiated heavy lifting of maintaining and procuring technology hardware, broadcasters are able to spend more...
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Does light behave as a wave or particle? Well, both…
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In five years, the video service offering will be significantly more personalized than offerings available in the market today. Personalization in the user experience, advertising, and discovery are i...
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