All OTT articles – Page 8
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IBC Digital 2021: Ways to build, engage and retain online audiences
Building and retaining an audience is essential to the success of all broadcasters, video service providers and content creators. This 2021 session looked at a variety of different approaches to attracting and growing audiences.
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IBC Digital 2021 How Future Market and Technology Trends will define the Home Device Market
2021 was an exciting time for the home device market, with more content and services being streamed into DTVs, Set-top boxes (STBs) and OTT devices than ever before.
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IBC Digital 2021: Five minutes with: Edgecast
Darren Lepke, Head of Video Product Management at Edgecast, shares the company’s priorities for 2021 and discusses how these responded to emerging industry trends. He also considers the next phase of innovation for streaming.
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IBC Digital 2021 DEMO: The Bitmovin Stream Lab - Quality Testing for Streaming Success (Bitmovin)
As the average household uses more than four different devices for streaming videos, streaming services must support at least 24 devices across 12 different platforms to compete in 2021’s OTT market.
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IBC Digital 2021 DEMO: Building an OTT-IPTV service with Flussonic Media Platform (Flussonic)
Arkady Welker of Flussonic leads viewers through the OTT and IPTV service pipeline to explain the best ways to ingest from various content providers, to transcode at scale, record archives, serve a high quality of experience to users, and deliver multi-protocol live or on-demand video anywhere.
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IBC Digital 2021 DEMO: Transforming the global content licensing ecosystem (Whip Media)
In 2021 with the advent of streaming, the volume of content that is bought and sold had skyrocketed. New streamers have an insatiable appetite for content and sellers of content need to race to satisfy it. The velocity of deal making has also ramped up: streamers want to react to ...
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News
UK’s first social purpose streaming service launches
Together TV and Red Bee Media have launched a free-to-use streaming service to engage audiences and inspire positive social change.
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Memory Lane TV launches with Amagi to help Alzheimer’s patients
Memory Lane TV, a new service using video and sensory stimulation to target symptoms of Alzheimer’s and other forms of dementia, has partnered with Amagi to launch its 24/7 linear scientifically-researched programming.
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Daily News
EaselTV partners with Player+
EaselTV has joined forces with Player+ to provide streaming content owners with all the tools to integrate their content into an existing and thematic streaming hub.
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Daily News
Alpha Networks buys Kinow
Video software solutions provider Alpha Networks acquired Kinow, the France-based company specialised in turnkey OTT video platforms for content producers and distributors, media companies and sports federations.
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Daily News
MaxBet TV picks Setplex for gambling TV network
Setplex, which provides software for OTT service providers, has been selected by MaxBet TV to launch what is claimed to be the industry’s first casino and gambling-centric television network.
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Thought Leadership
Q&A: Maintaining engagement in an era of infinite choice
Producing and protecting exclusive content is crucial to securing future revenues, says John Ward, Executive Vice-President Americas, Friend MTS
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Daily News
A silver lining for cloud playback
Building on its relationship with Los Angeles-based Crown Media Family Networks, Globecast is now providing the media company with cloud playout services for the Hallmark Channel, Hallmark Movies & Mysteries, and Hallmark Drama. Each will reach more than 150 million homes in the US.
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Daily News
Delivering consistent QoE
The OTT video industry has been growing exponentially, and the types of devices used by subscribers are highly diverse, be it the form factor, device type, or OS. The sheer variety of devices and modes of connectivity makes it very challenging for service providers to deliver consistent QoE.
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Thought Leadership
Finding content could become ‘even more important in the crowded VOD space’
Increasingly, pay TV operators are having to act as ‘super aggregators’ and make OTT an integrated part of their ecosystem, by Jeroen Ghijsen, CEO Metrological / VP Comcast CTS business affairs at Comcast
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Daily News
MediaKind and Arqiva aim to aid cloud migration
MediaKind and Arqiva are joining forces to help broadcasters migrate to the cloud. The new strategic partnership will deliver a cloud-native, fully managed service for the aggregation, processing and delivery of television services for any platform (broadcast and OTT) in any region, at any scale.
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Thought Leadership
Why users will have more choice and ‘the industry will only become more competitive’
Consumers will expect more than video as new forms of data allow for ‘tremendous engagement’ opportunities, writes Jeff Volk, head of commercial, Americas
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Daily News
OTA and OTT monitoring in complete synchronicity with new Actus offering
The new OTT Synchro and Delivery Synchro packages offer simplified but sophisticated tools for multi-viewer monitoring and quality assurance of multi-rendition OTT streams and over-the-air linear content at multi probe points in the video delivery chain.
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Daily News
Vitec expands IP streaming business with acquisition from Ateme
Vitec has enhanced its position in IP video streaming with the acquisition of the Flamingo hospitality and enterprise video delivery business of Anevia from Ateme. This builds on Vitec’s core enterprise IPTV business and, coupled with the purchase of Exterity in April, positions Vitec as a leader in enterprise and ...
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Thought Leadership
The pandemic has ‘accelerated a paradigm shift that was already underway’ for OTT
There has never been a better time to launch an OTT service, writes Adam Smith, Simplestream.