Industry Updates

Making OTT content available on TV screens a possible way forward in India 20 April 2015

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 … Continue reading

Time Shifted TV Viewing Is The Default 17 April 2015

According to new research from Hub Entertainment Research “Time Shifting” viewers, who have broadband and watch at least 5 hours of TV per week, time-shift more TV than they watch live. The average viewer says that 47% of the TV shows … Continue reading

NAB 2015: Content discoverability to be the top challenge for the TV biz, “and there’s no number two” 17 April 2015

With the digital, global, avalanche of content ever growing and never slowing, discoverability will be the number one challenge in the video on demand industry’s future, according to panellists on a forward-looking TV panel at the National Association of Broadcasters … Continue reading

Most Moviegoers Wouldn’t Pay More Than $10 for Day-and-Date VOD, says Survey 17 April 2015

How much value do consumers place on the ability to see a film at home when it’s still playing in the theaters? Not as much as Hollywood would like, it appears. According to a recent survey by RBC Capital Markets, 87% … Continue reading

Internet Bills To Rise As Cable TV Heads Into ‘Veritable Bloodbath’ 17 April 2015

Cord cutting, combined with more consumer-friendly rules from the CRTC, will send Canada’s telecoms into a TV-services “bloodbath” from which they will recover by raising prices for internet services, market observers say. The latest signs that cord-cutting is beginning to … Continue reading