Over The Top (OTT)

1st Africa, now Indonesia to regulate OTT 03 March 2016

As Over the top industry grows, nations are bringing up regulations. After South Africa’s recent fiasco, it is now Indonesia’s turn. A new regulation is being made which will demand that foreign OTT providers will have to make an additional … Continue reading

OTT in Africa faces heat of regulations 02 March 2016

OTT is growing in Africa. This has prompted ‘traditional’ telecom and media companies to call for a regulation protecting their sustainability. This was heard on South Africa’s Parliament recently. OTT services bypass general regulations and they are often lower in … Continue reading

Brazil expected to overtake Mexico in the OTT market 25 February 2016

Things are heating up in the over-the-top market in Latin America. MTM London says that video market here is witnessing a double digit growth. Brazil is expected to overtake Mexico, the current leader by 2018. This would mean half a … Continue reading

OTT in India 25 February 2016

According to a recent study by Frost & Sullivan on the OTT market in India, there are 1.3 million OTT subscribers and 66 million connected video viewers in the country. Multi-screen video consumption is hot in the country, and things … Continue reading

Video streaming services win in the battle for prime-time 25 February 2016

The concept ‘Prime-time’ is something that doesn’t have an impact in video-on-demand services. Hence TV shows that are facing stiff competition for important time slots are being welcomed on streaming services. Time slots play an important role on ratings for … Continue reading

PayTV adapts smarter OTT 22 February 2016

According to a report on aminocom, the idea of using one remote for all services is one of the advantages of Pay-TV operators offering OTT services. Also the illusion of paying for one service (with add-ons) is better than subscribing … Continue reading

OTT can still learn from PayTV 18 February 2016

While there’s a lot of news about the growth of OTT and the fall of Pay TV. But there is still a lot that OTT can learn from the traditional PayTV. According to a study by Digitalsmiths, it is seen … Continue reading

10% of US homes will have OTT by 2019 18 February 2016

According to a study by SNL Kagan, it is predicted that 10.3% of US homes will have over-the-top (OTT) services. Number wise, there will be a jump to 12.9 million in 2019, up from the current 10.5 million. The research … Continue reading

OTT norms for 2016 17 February 2016

Over 30% of UK houses with broadband have atleast one video streaming service, and the numbers are growing. It is growing so well that anyone who doesn’t have an OTT solution is building one. The competition is huge, with Netflix … Continue reading

How OTT providers can stay ahead of each other 17 February 2016

Netflix alone has 67 million and 12 million paid users in North America and Europe respectively. With numbers like this, it is no surprise that others are trying to cash in on the Netflix model. Other VoD players like Amazon … Continue reading