Total spending on home entertainment—a large category including physical discs, downloads and Subscription VOD services —ticked up 1% in 2015 to reach $18.1 billion, according to an annual report issued today by the Digital Entertainment Group. Released as CES kicks … Continue reading
The music industry may have evolved its way around the illegal downloading problem, now that Spotify and other streaming services have more or less taken over as the main way to listen to songs. But movie piracy continues to be … Continue reading
Entering into the world of streaming services is far from simple. The field is beyond crowded with well-established services backed by a whole lot of money, popular original programming, and exclusive licensing deals with TV and movie studios. When Yahoo! entered … Continue reading
It isn’t quite time for the pay-TV industry to face the armies of analysts and shareholders waiting to drive down stock prices based on fears of cord-cutting (annual earnings reports won’t be released until closer to the end of the … Continue reading
Today, Ooyala steps up with its State of the Broadcast Industry 2016, in which it assuredly predicts that this year will be a lot like last year but more of it. Over-the-top video content moved to center stage in 2015, … Continue reading