Industry Updates

70% of Arab Satellite TV channels have online sites 29 June 2015

  During April and May 2015, the Arab Advisors Group examined 724 fully operational FTA satellite TV channels targeting the Arab World to research their online presence. Of the analyzed stations, 70% (505 channels) have an online presence. Spurred by … Continue reading

Blockbuster quietly reborn as successful TVOD 26 June 2015

  OTT history has come full circle, with Blockbuster – the fallen video rental giant that once famously turned down the chance to purchase Netflix for a (relative) pittance – having been reborn in Denmark as a quietly successful, exclusively … Continue reading

North America SVoD revenues $7bn by 2020 26 June 2015

  North America already had 50.6 million SVoD homes [for movie and TV services only – excluding sports] by end-2014 – or 38.8 per cent of TV households and 48.1 per cent of fixed broadband homes, according to a report … Continue reading

No distinction between OTT and pay TV in “two to three years” 26 June 2015

  Pay TV operators need to simplify the client-side equipment they provide and focus on open-source and cloud-based technologies to achieve the necessary scale and agility to see off OTT TV platforms as competitors, according to Ken Morse, CTO of … Continue reading

Netflix to Boast Larger Audience Than Big Four Networks Within Year 26 June 2015

  Online video on demand service Netflix will within about a year have a bigger daily audience than each of the big four TV networks, an analyst said Wednesday. Working from the 10 billion hours of streaming the company reported in … Continue reading