All FAST articles – Page 2
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Industry Trends
DAI and Sustainability: Session-Based Solutions and Efficiency in Ad Delivery
With COP 28, the UN’s climate change conference taking place through middle of December this year, the world’s attention is once again focussed on the question of sustainability, and the broadcast industry is no exception, writes John Maxwell Hobbs.
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Daily News
Edgio partners with Wurl on FAST
Edgio announced a partnership with Wurl, a data-driven software specialist for connected TV (CTV), to offer global FAST syndication via Edgio’s Uplynk service.
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News
Paramount to Combine My5 and Pluto TV Platforms in UK
Paramount is to combine Channel 5’s broadcast video-on-demand (BVOD) service My5 with its FAST service Pluto TV in the UK in 2024.
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Industry Trends
Bringing it Back Home: A New Dawn for Content Aggregation?
With streaming service subscriptions in decline in some established markets as the cost of living crisis worsens, it’s likely that the industry will have to take a fresh look at content aggregation, writes David Davies.
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Industry Trends
NAB Show New York: From AI to AM Radio
The annual National Association of Broadcasters (NAB) Show New York (October 24-26) saw more than 12,000 broadcast, media and entertainment professionals converge on the Javits Center, a figure that the NAB team claims is a 28% improvement over the previous year.
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News
A+E Networks Names Mark Garner Head of FAST
A+E Networks has promoted Mark Garner to the newly created position of Executive Vice President, Head of Global FAST Channels.
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Video
WisePlay Simplifies Broadcasting and Streaming Monetisation with AI
IBC2023: WisePlay is a cost-effective, versatile, and interactive FAST channel playout designed to revolutionise broadcast operations and streamline on-air operations for monetisation.
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Video
Metadata: The Essential Building Block for FAST
IBC2023: Metadata, the descriptive information around entertainment programming from what it’s about to who’s in it to where it’s available, is more essential than ever in the streaming-first world. Gracenote, the largest global metadata provider, plays a key role in the streaming ecosystem by helping FAST channels integrate into Global ...
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Video
Panel Discussion: Best Practice for FAST in Europe
IBC2023: With a mission to help local content providers and broadcasters embrace the FAST business model using EU-based technology, networks, and production houses, OKAST has grown out of the EU-funded consortium FAST4EU. This session will share best practice and look at the various factors, such as localisation, that will contribute ...
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Video
FAST Talk: A Discussion on Global Expansion Challenges and Opportunities
IBC2023: The FAST market is entering a new phase of maturity as viewers respond en-masse to the no cost/no commitment model presenting resonant content by way of a familiar linear experience. According to Statista, the number of FAST users will grow to 1.1B users by 2027 and market share will ...
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Video
Videosher Dynamic FAST Channel Tool: Empowering fashion TV
IBC2023: Introducing Videosher Dynamic FAST Channel Tool: a game-changer in Fast Adaptive Streaming Technology (FAST). This innovative solution elevates personalization by offering dynamic, auto-updating channels with configurable logic. No more static schedules. Our tool enables content providers to curate channels that adapt in real-time based on user preferences. Whether it’s ...
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Video
Personalised FAST by Spideo
Discover truly personalised TV! FAST has emerged as a primary content topic in trade shows in recent years, and it has already changed the shape of the broadcasting industry. Spideo leverages their recommendation technology to create personalised and thematic FAST channels. Thematic channels are curated and delivered through automatic programming, ...
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Video
Whip Media FASTrack™: The FAST/AVOD Reporting Solution for Small-Medium Sized Distributors
Whip Media’s latest innovation was designed to help solve the unavoidable challenges that have come from the recent explosion of FAST and AVOD. Whip Media FASTrack™ is the FAST/AVOD reporting solution for distributors who are dealing with messy, manual and inconsistent viewership and financial reporting across content partners. FASTrack will ...
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Daily News
Eutelsat announces first FAST channel carriage
wedotv is launching its FAST platform on Eutelsat’s Hotbird satellites for audiences in Italy. It is the first FAST channel to launch on Eutelsat satellites.
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Video
Fireside chat: The FAST take-off behind Pluto TV's success
IBC2023: Join Olivier Jollet, Executive Vice President and International General Manager at Pluto TV for an in-depth discussion about Pluto TV’s rise to FAST channel success, fighting off the FAST competition, and how exclusive content and a strong local offering have been the key to Pluto TV’s success.
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News
IBC2023: The rapid evolution of FAST
FAST channel experts gave an insight into the rapid evolution of one of the latest developments at an IBC2023 session entitled ‘Thriving in the FAST Lane’.
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Thought Leadership
What’s Happening in the Video Advertising space?
Whether it’s cinema, broadcast TV, YouTube, or TikTok, these services wouldn’t exist at the scale they are today without advertising. But as video services, tech, and video consumption evolve, the role of advertising is changing as well.
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Thought Leadership
The day content providers became ads managers, or how FAST is changing content providers’ business and pushing them to get new skills
Professional press, analysts, and even media agreed that FAST should be seen not as competition, but as an additional source of revenue to SVOD and broadcast licensing. Everybody is jumping into this new distribution model by leveraging massive dormant catalogues of old content, from small boutiques to independent network and ...