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Hot TV News: 9% Churn for Netflix; VPN Piracy; Laptops Remain 2nd Screen Champion; YouTube Ads Increase | Viaccess-Orca Blog

Fri, Aug 7, 2015 | by Merav Cunningham

The battle for online eyeballs continues as Parks Associates reveals churn figures for the US OTT Industry and YouTube unveils impressive growth in the number of online advertisers and launches a new, premium service for advertisers. Meanwhile, research both uncovers the massive use of Virtual Private Networks to circumvent geo-blocking controls and shines a somewhat surprising light on the pre-eminent position the laptop still occupies in broadband homes.

Tue, Aug 4, 2015 | by Merav Cunningham

There was lots of interesting debate at London’s recent Connected TV World Summit —but one panel in particular interested us: ‘How Time-Shift And On-Demand Is Evolving, And The Challenges And Opportun...

Mon, Jul 27, 2015 | by Christine Maury-Panis

While the wider political situation in Europe can best be described as fluid as the repercussions of the Greek financial crisis continue to ripple outwards, one story from recent weeks could hold sign...

Mon, Jul 20, 2015 | by David Leporini

Digital Rights Management (DRM), viewed as the set of technologies enforcing license agreements, has been an integral part of the history of digital content since its very early days.

Fri, Jul 17, 2015 | by Merav Cunningham

There are many forms of online piracy, with one of the most prevalent, credential-sharing, expected to cost the industry a massive $500m this year. Meanwhile, concern is growing about how exactly to p...

Fri, Jul 10, 2015 | by Efrat Fenigson

While the US has hosted the whole messy net neutrality debate out in the open with accusation, counter-accusation, and squadrons of lawyers circling Washington while the internet has gone into frequen...

Mon, Jul 6, 2015 | by David Leporini

An increasing number of companies are interested in cloud environments in order to improve their computing, storage and networking efficiency, adaptability, and to reduce their capital expenditures. B...

Thu, Jul 2, 2015 | by Efrat Fenigson

The concept of TV Everywhere continues to reshape the landscape of consumer viewing, powered by ever-more capable mobile and connected devices, the growth in high bandwidth fixed and mobile services, ...

Wed, Jul 1, 2015 | by Merav Cunningham

Facebook’s foray into the world of online video seems to be gathering steam and later in the year it could pose a real threat to the video primacy of YouTube if it continues to expand at the current r...