OTT platforms have made entertainment, sports, and education available to the users on-demand. The popularity of streaming media has eliminated the need of any middle man such as the traditional cable TV network. Muvi allows content owners to launch white-labeled Video and/or Audio streaming service – both on-demand and live. And following the recent pricing update of Muvi Free, creators can go live in a simple click at zero cost.
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Streaming Video Overtakes Live Programming As Method-of-Choice 26 May 2015
According to the recently released Deloitte “Digital Democracy Survey,” streaming OTT video services, used by more than 42% of American households, has overtaken live programming as the viewing method-of-choice, with 56% of consumers now streaming movies and 53% streaming television … Continue reading
Pay TV Providers Embrace Over-the-Top Video and ‘Skinny’ Bundles to Stave Off Cord-Cutting: IHS Infonetics Report 22 May 2015
The global pay TV services market, including cable TV, satellite TV, telco TV and over-the-top (OTT) video, totaled $237 billion in 2014, up 7 percent from the previous year, according to the 2015 IHS Infonetics Pay TV Services and … Continue reading
Live Viewing Way Up In Q1, Says FreeWheel Report 21 May 2015
FreeWheel Q1 2015 Monetization Report says live viewing, mainly of sports, but also authenticated entertainment and news content, was up 140%, year to year and that authenticated viewing grew 328% year-over-year and now accounts for 57% of all long-form and and … Continue reading
How the Cable Industry is Adapting to Cord Cutters 19 May 2015
For people attending The Internet and Television Exchange, the redubbed Cable Show for 2015, enabling technologies are as important as always, but the transformation of business models in the video delivery industry has certainly cast a huge grip on an … Continue reading
Nearly 60% of U.S. Broadband Households Use OTT Video Services, but “Account Sharing” Is Prevalent 18 May 2015
Digital media consumer research from Parks Associates reports 57% of U.S. broadband households access an OTT video services, but account sharing is a lingering challenge. According to a 3Q 2014 survey of U.S. broadband households, 8% are using a subscription … Continue reading
Allied Fiber CEO Sees Rise of OTT ‘Telcos’ 15 May 2015
Allied Fiber LLC CEO Hunter Newby said in an ITW interview that OTT platforms and content providers are a faster-growing customer segment for the dark fiber provider than traditional carriers. Various companies, including content providers, tower providers, social networks and subsea operators are … Continue reading
What an OTT Future Means for Brands 15 May 2015
If you haven’t heard of OTT, short for “over the top,” you will soon. The acronym refers to video content delivered straight to the consumer via internet. The core disruptive concept is that the “pipe” created by the cable MSOs … Continue reading
Why Young Hollywood said no to cable, and yes to OTT 14 May 2015
Last year, Young Hollywood CEO R.J. Williams was six months into negotiations with a major media conglomerate on a deal that would give his celebrity-obsessed, millenial-targeted digital brand its own 24/7 linear TV cable channel. Tech meetings were held and … Continue reading
Streaming Media East ’15: The Power of the Niche 14 May 2015
Over-the-top (OTT) content providers are finding out what many subscription-based content providers already knew: There is money to be made by serving people who are passionate about a particular niche. This was evident during the “How OTT is Disrupting the … Continue reading
OTT and the Challenge of Live-Linear Channels 13 May 2015
The growth of over-the-top (OTT) video delivery has been nothing short of spectacular. In the last 12 months alone, OTT has grown to $9–12 billion in global revenues, with $1.9 billion of those revenues coming from emerging markets, according to … Continue reading
