Rising tide of online piracy: Sink or Swim? 29 June 2015
For the first time, searches for popular insecure OTT devices have now outstripped popular secure OTT devices on Google searches. Online piracy is big business. All content is a target: thematic channels, recent movie releases and particularly live sports. … Continue reading
Discovery embarks on OTT ‘Million March’ 29 June 2015
Discovery Networks International is launching OTT video services throughout Europe. Its top executives explain how the channel operator will win streaming customers in big numbers, as it starts on its ‘March to a Million’. When TBI was the first … Continue reading
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
Digital Video Viewing Builds Slowly in Germany 26 June 2015
In Germany, traditional TV is still the center of most consumers’ video experience, according to Deloitte. Researchers quizzed 2,000 consumers in the country ages 14 to 75 in April 2015. For the first time, this Deloitte study was tailored … Continue reading
How Communication Service Providers Can Find Value in Over-the-Top Video 26 June 2015
Internet streaming media, also known as over-the-top content (OTT) is a part of our everyday reality and affecting every entertainment medium. OTT-TV services have a steep growth potential, as a growing number of people worldwide already watch Internet video … Continue reading
Sky Deutschland on binge versus linear 26 June 2015
Viewing habits for different top titles vary hugely amongst Sky Deutschland’s base, with non-linear and binge viewing much more popular in the case of some series than for others, according to Jörg Allgäuer, VP, corporate communications, speaking at the … Continue reading
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