Social TV On The Rise, Finds IAB 21 April 2015
A large majority of American adults use mobile devices or computers while watching TV, and a big part of this multiscreen activity is devoted to social media — much of it related to the TV programs, according to a new … Continue reading
Traditional Television Viewing Continues To Grow Despite VOD Threat 21 April 2015
In reality, television viewing is down by 3% from last year,while video viewing through OTT platforms on Internet, smartphone, and multimedia devices combined is up by 45%. Misleading statistics considering their vastly different starting points. A more telling statistic is … Continue reading
Online video streaming and the future of traditional television 21 April 2015
The way we watch television has changed dramatically in just the past decade or so. The days of sitting through commercials, waiting a week or two between episodes of your favorite shows and upgrading to a more expensive cable package … Continue reading
The next billion OTT viewers will be able to stream HD online, claims Irdeto 20 April 2015
The next billion OTT platform viewers will be those consumers who will be able to stream HD content online as new compression technologies get adopted, eliminating one of the major limitations – bandwidth availability. Irdeto believes that currently there are … Continue reading
Gov’t may block Comcast-Time Warner merger, new boost for Net Neutrality 20 April 2015
According to a report by Bloomberg finance news agency, the Department of Justice is “nearing a recommendation” to stop Comcast from purchasing Time Warner Cable. The two firms involved in the potential deal are already the largest and second-largest cable … Continue reading
Internet TV to replace linear in 20 years, says Netflix 20 April 2015
Over the next 20 years internet TV and video on demand platform are going to replace linear TV as the way that people consume video, according to Netflix president and CEO Reed Hastings. Speaking on the firm’s first quarter earnings … Continue reading
Video infrastructure set to rocket 37% despite virtualization 20 April 2015
Video infrastructure markets will continue to grow at a relatively healthy pace of 37% over the next five years, despite the impact of visualization separating hardware and software requirements. According to ABI Research, broadcast pre- and post-production, video encoding, and … Continue reading
Making OTT content available on TV screens a possible way forward in India 20 April 2015
As video content increasingly seems to be consumed, shared and generated, the traffic of such content over the internet is increasing. In fact OTT media apps seem to be one of the few services that are earning large revenues for … Continue reading
Time Shifted TV Viewing Is The Default 17 April 2015
According to new research from Hub Entertainment Research “Time Shifting” viewers, who have broadband and watch at least 5 hours of TV per week, time-shift more TV than they watch live. The average viewer says that 47% of the TV shows … Continue reading
NAB 2015: Content discoverability to be the top challenge for the TV biz, “and there’s no number two” 17 April 2015
With the digital, global, avalanche of content ever growing and never slowing, discoverability will be the number one challenge in the video on demand industry’s future, according to panellists on a forward-looking TV panel at the National Association of Broadcasters … Continue reading
Reach out to Muvi at:
