All OTT articles – Page 25
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Thought Leadership
As OTT matures, the content supply chain needs to grow alongside
The streaming video industry is racing through its adolescence and through an age-appropriate growth spurt as new OTT services launch and traditional content owners and distributors plan their entry into a market nowhere near full grown.
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Video
Video: The promise of 5G
Demystifying the hype around 5G, experts discuss the promise and expectations of ultra high-speed mobile connectivity and its potential for the media and entertainment sector.
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Industry Trends
DAZN: The Netflix of sports?
Just two years old, DAZN has spent hundreds of millions acquiring sports rights in a bid to win subscribers to its subscription streaming service. But will its big spending ways pay off? Ross Biddiscombe profiles the OTT platform that’s disrupting the sports broadcasting industry.
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Webinar
On-demand webinar: Why telcos need content and content providers need telcos
Join this IBC365 webinar on demand to discuss how the boundaries between broadcasters, pay TV platforms, OTT operators and telecoms providers are blurring.
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Executive Interviews
Digital pitch
Ralph Rivera was a star in the IBC2018 Sports Track headliner ‘How Eurosport is driving digital to attract new audiences’, and like many people around the show his driving desire is to see broadcast and digital converge.
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Industry Trends
How Serie A went OTT with IMG
IMG’s entry into the OTT marketplace with its new Serie A service has ramped up the battle for sports audiences on digital platforms after a couple of years of cautious rights buying by the likes of Amazon and Facebook.
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Webinar
On-demand webinar: Accelerating innovation across Media & Entertainment
This IBC365 webinar outlines and explains the collaborative Media-Telecom Catalyst innovation programme and how you can get involved in designing solutions to current media & entertainment challenges.
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Industry Trends
Satellite technology: Advances in connectivity
Over the past several months, it has become clear that, in many ways, far from being a distinct sector, the satellite industry is a microcosm of the larger broadcast industry in which it operates.
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Industry Trends
New voyage for Discovery
JB Perrette is totally changing the look and feel of Discovery Networks International.
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Executive Interviews
Interview: Seth Shapiro, Alpha Networks
Seth Shapiro, Emmy winner and CEO / founder of Alpha Networks, is preparing for the launch of that company’s blockchain – enabled entertainment platform. Exposing viewers to underappreciated content from foreign markets is just one of the things the offering will focus on.
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Executive Interviews
Interview: Mike Darcey, M247
The TV industry is grappling with a ‘three-way profit squeeze’, which means many companies will not make as much money as they did in the past, warns veteran broadcasting executive Mike Darcey.
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Industry Trends
IBC2018 review: 4K, OTT and cloud-based workflows
Advances in 4K and UHD live production, fresh solutions for OTT content, an array of cloud-based ‘big data’ workflow sharing solutions and remote collaboration tools were the main themes in Halls 9, 13 and 15.
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Industry Trends
Satellite: Still at the heart of the industry
It was very apparent at IBC2018 that the broadcast industry continues to be in a state of flux. Ian McMurray finds that satellite operators and suppliers are no less affected by pervasive and disruptive change.
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Industry Trends
In-flight entertainment: The next TV battleground?
Competition to deliver content to airline passengers is ramping up, writes Chris Forrester.
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Whitepaper
Whitepaper: Live remote production and monitoring matters
Two whitepapers in one: Insights into the challenges Online Video Providers (OVPs) face and the solutions for consideration as they seek to keep current customers and attract new viewers.
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Executive Interviews
Interview: Michelle Munson, Eluvio
The leader of new ‘content-centric’ software start-up Eluvio shares her thoughts on evolving distribution models, and the merits of perceiving AI and blockchain as ‘tools’ to ease system implementation.
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Executive Interviews
Interview: Yves Padrines, Synamedia
With the competition from OTT and media companies who are now distributing content directly to subscribers, pay-TV operators have been in search of ways to enhance their services beyond these offerings with truly personalised, high quality video experiences for their subscribers, explains Synamedia Chief Executive Yves Padrines.
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Industry Trends
IBC2018 review: OTT delivery and the issue of latency
Hall 14 continues to expand and mature into one of the most exciting and interesting spaces at IBC, writes IBC Daily reporter Anne Morris.
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Technical Papers
Using machine learning to create personalised 'snackable' content
In this paper, we explore a platform which utilises state-of-the-art ML algorithms for the real-time analysis of thousands of hours of multilingual multimedia content, including television and VoD.
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Technical Papers
How will 5G really work?
5G Wireless Networks are being built to serve new applications. These applications must fund the development of the solutions and the infrastructure.