Last week, at the National Association of Broadcasters show in Las Vegas, broadcasters discussed the evolving market and how to adapt to changing viewer habits. Becoming the successful Broadcaster of Tomorrow requires a deep understanding of the millennials driving change in the industry and how to prepare for the fast-approaching digital-first era. The right online …
Spanish pay TV provider Canal+’s Yomvi OTT TV platform passed a live streaming record on March 22, with a football match between Real Madrid and Barcelona being streamed to 376,000 devices, a 29% increase in device reach over the same period last year. According to technology provider Nagra, which provides the MediaLive-based platform for Yomvi, the …
The European Commission is considering plans which could see a reform of regulatory policies to which over the top communications service providers are held. Draft documents unveiled by the commission have indicated that a level playing field between the telecoms industry, cable operators and alternative services, such as Whatsapp and Skype, has long since been forgotten. …
You are doing over the top (OTT) already if you stream content from Netflix, Amazon Prime Fire TV Stick,Slingbox, ellentube, the recently launched HBO Now and of course YouTube. These are just a few examples. OTT content is anything that reaches you the TV consumer without being mediated by an operator—a broadcast or cable network …
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 that 91% of all video viewing is still to traditional TV (and more than 90% …
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 approximately half a billion people globally with broadband connection over 1.0 Mbps allowing them to …
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 the OTT platforms says the paper. A majority of the revenues which are attained through advertising …
The television’s popularity as the go-to entertainment device may be ending, according to “Digital Video and the Connected Consumer”, a new research report from Accenture. The television was the only product category to see uniform, double-digit usage declines across different types of media worldwide among viewers of nearly all ages. It is rapidly being replaced as …