Kauser Kanji – VOD Professional

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FeaturesOTT Question Time #17 – OTT Piracy & Content Protection

As viewers increasingly shift from watching linear to OTT, piracy and content protection become ever more important topics of discussion for broadcasters, film studios, operators and service-providers. This isn’t just an “interesting” conversation – one industry vendor, for example, told us that “In some countries, the scale of piracy is such that it matches the revenues of the local pay-TV market”. Commercially, strategically, and technically, content security is a big deal.

That’s the

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OTT Question TimeOTT Question Time #16 – The Future of BBC iPlayer

Kauser Kanji2 weeks ago1 min

Tim Davie started his new job as Director General of the BBC last week and amongst the many items in his in-tray will be what to do next with the BBC iPlayer. That was the focus of this OTT Question Time too where, together with Gulliver Smithers, CTO of RampRate and former VP Product Development at BBC Worldwide, Stuart Cleary, Chief Commercial Officer at Zattoo and Nathalie Lethbridge, Founder of Atonik Digital,

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OTT Question TimeOTT Question Time #15 – Building an OTT Service from Scratch (Part 2)

Kauser Kanji3 weeks ago1 min

At this week's OTT Question Time (Thursday 3rd September, 4pm UK) we talked Part 2 of how to build an OTT service from scratch. In the previous session we focused on first principles, backend strategy, building for where the audience is and using data to help make decisions and form KPIs. This time we switched to the front end where we discussed:

UI / UX across different OTT platforms
Content distribution to end-user devices; associated

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OTT Question TimeOTT Question Time #14 – Building an OTT Service from Scratch (Part 1)

Kauser Kanji1 month ago1 min

During this episode of OTT Question Time (filmed on Thursday 20^th August 2020) we talked about how to build an OTT service from scratch. Sure, many of the biggest players already have suites of mature VOD products but the subject is still absolutely relevant for, amongst others, operators, film studios, sports rights holders, the automotive and aerospace verticals, content owners, publishers and brands. And even established broadcasters, who have legacy OTT systems, can dream

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EventsOTT Cook-along with a Two Michelin-Starred Chef!

Kauser Kanji1 month ago1 min

VOD Professional, in association with Varnish Software, is delighted to invite you to an evening of delicious food, great wine and an expert cook-along with Anthony Hill, the two Michelin-starred chef from the Harwood Arms in London, and for the estate of Microsoft co-founder, Paul Allen!

Together with a select group of your industry peers, and conducted over Zoom, this unique event is scheduled for 6.30 – 9.30pm on Thursday 3rd September.

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OTT Question TimeOTT Question Time #13 – PVOD & The End of Pay Windows

Kauser Kanji1 month ago1 min

Premium VOD isn’t exactly new (remember Tower Heist in 2011?) but this year’s lockdown may have accelerated a growing trend amongst film studios and content owners to test simultaneous cinema / OTT release or even go VOD-first. NBCUniversal’s Trolls World Tour, for example, has reportedly generated D2C sales of over $100m; AMC – the owner of Odeon Cinemas in the UK - has agreed that Universal films can stream on digital services after just

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Broadcasters OTT Question Time SVOD UI / UXOTT Question Time #12 – Is OTT UI / UX Now Fully Evolved?

Kauser Kanji2 months ago1 min

VOD services all over the world are usually built using a toolkit of common features including content discovery and recommendation, personalisation tools (like recently watched, single sign-on and device synchronisation) and player controls (like live restart, forward ten seconds and subtitling / closed captions). In this episode of OTT Question Time we asked whether, with ubiquitous grid layouts and lots of familiar functionality across OTT products, the evolution of these user interfaces is now effectively

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AVOD Broadcasters Cloud Growth OTT Question Time SVOD VendorsOTT Question Time #11 – The Environmental Impact of OTT Streaming

Kauser Kanji2 months ago1 min

At this week's OTT Question Time we assessed the impact of OTT streaming on the environment. This is a complex, multi-faceted issue and we covered a lot of information including:

The current lay of the land: how much OTT streaming is actually going? How has this increased over the past few years and even in 2020 alone as people have been at home more due to the pandemic?
What does that translate to in terms

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AVOD Broadcasters Content Distribution Growth OTT Question Time SVOD VendorsOTT Question Time #10 – Taking Stock as Lockdowns Ease

Kauser Kanji2 months ago1 min

In this episode of OTT Question Time we looked at the TV and on-demand industry through a wide-angle lens as lockdowns in many parts of the world started to ease. Together with Gulliver Smithers, former SVP of Product & Technology at Sony Pictures Entertainment and now CTO at RampRate IT, Adam Nightingale, SVP Commercial at Deltatre and Fred Black, Senior Analyst at Ampere Analysis, we talked about:

Whether the high

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News Sport SVODBT Sport Now on NOW TV

VOD Pro News3 months ago2 min

BT Sport is giving customers more ways to watch, by making its app available from today (16 June) on NOW TV devices.

NOW TV joins a wide range of large-screen devices and platforms on which sports fans can watch BT Sport, including Samsung smart TV, Sony PlayStation, Xbox and Apple TV, as well as mobiles, tablets, BT TV, Sky, TalkTalk and Virgin Media.

Customers with a NOW TV Smart Box with 4K, who have the

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