If you want hard data that points to the increased importance of multiscreen platforms, then there’s no shortage of it around, with a blizzard of new and topical studies being published and reported on in recent days. For example, according to Multichannel News, research firm Ovum estimates that this year’s FIFA World Cup was available to a global viewership on 5.9bn screens, with 57% of them being PCs, tablets or smartphones.
People who watch lots of television have long been defined as ‘couch potatoes’. The image that springs to mind is one of family members or a group of friends staring at a TV screen, while lounging on ...
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According to research firm Point Topic, global IPTV subscriptions have topped the 100 million mark for the first time, reaching 100.9m with 4.8% growth in the first quarter of 2014. Unsurprisingly, Ch...
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For content services providers, deciding how to structure their technical value chain is a crucial consideration.
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A new form of video content piracy has emerged over the last ten years, exploiting technological advances to illegally retransmit highly lucrative live broadcast sports events and, in so doing, squeez...
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International news and business media have been drawing attention to our successful efforts to combat the unauthorised streaming of live matches at the World Cup in Brazil.
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While the broadcast industry has long been subject to sometimes unwelcome regulation – one thinks of the ongoing difficulties of spectrum allocation reform in Europe – the current debate over net neut...
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It looks like a shark fin – a sudden, abrupt and massive technology adoption, followed by a rapid decline upon the arrival of a new disruptive technology wave. In Big Bang Disruption, Downes and Nunes...
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As sport is so premium with such a mass following, it should have specially-tailored content protection.
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