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Advertising Broadcasters Features Finances GrowthHow Quickly is Linear Ad Revenue Falling for Broadcasters?

Kauser Kanji1 month ago2 min

The world’s biggest broadcasters usually have four main revenue streams:

Content production – which is either commissioned independently, in partnership, or self-funded;
Content distribution – the content is sold to other broadcasters, perhaps in other territories, or aggregators like Amazon and Netflix;
Digital revenue – which comes from digital advertising (AVOD) or subscriptions (SVOD);
And linear advertising income which has traditionally been the biggest pot.

Together, these revenue streams form something of a virtuous circle

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Advertising Finances News VendorsSynamedia Hires New VP & CFO

VOD Pro News2 months ago2 min

Synamedia has boosted its senior team with the appointment of Scott Kewley as VP Advanced Advertising and Data Products. Kewley will lead Synamedia’s addressable advertising and data monetization business, building on the firm’s heritage as an industry pioneer through its collaboration with Sky on the development of the AdSmart personalized ad targeting platform.

Kewley has extensive experience in the media and entertainment sector, having worked with tier-one consumer brands and developed strategies and solutions for

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Finances Growth Netflix News SVODNetflix Posts Q2 2019 Results – Misses Subscription Growth Target

VOD Pro News3 months ago1 min

Netflix has posted erratic results in its latest financial results statement for Q2 2019. The streaming giant had expected to grow its user base by 5 million last quarter but could only manage 2.7m new subscribers. Despite this, Netflix still increased average paid memberships by 24% YOY while ARPU increased 3% year over
year on a reported basis. Operating margin of 14.3% (up 250 bps year over year) was also higher than its beginning-of-quarter forecast.

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AVOD Broadcasters Finances Growth NewsChannel 4 Posts Strong 2018 Annual Results with Record Digital Viewing and Digital Revenues

VOD Pro News4 months ago5 min

C4's VOD service, All4, served 915m views over the year; digital revenues climbed 11% to £138m.

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Finances Growth News TiVo VendorsTiVo Announces Plan to Separate IP Licensing and Product Businesses into Two Independent Companies

VOD Pro News5 months ago3 min

TiVo today reported financial results for the first quarter ended March 31, 2019. Earlier, the Company also announced a plan to split its Product and IP Licensing businesses into two separate independent companies.

“We had a solid quarter with a strong focus on company execution,” said Raghu Rau, Interim President and Chief Executive Officer. “Management has, and will remain, focused on driving growth with profitability by executing the previously announced five

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Broadcasters Finances Growth News SVODITV 2018 Results – Long Form Online Viewing up 32%

VOD Pro News8 months ago2 min

ITV, the UK’s biggest commercial broadcaster, has today released its financial and performance results for 2018 and reports that long-form online video views on ITV Hub, Hub+ and other ad-supported platforms have increased 32% from 337 million hours in 2017 to 446 million hours last year. ITV Hub, the company’s AVOD service, now has 27.6m registered users – up from 21.3m in 2017. Its SVOD service, Hub+, now has 265,000 paying users (a tripling in

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AVOD Broadcasters Catchup Content Deals Features Finances Strategy SVODExpanding BBC iPlayer & The Challenges in Opening up Broadcast Archives for VOD Viewing

Kauser Kanji8 months ago6 min

On January the 7^th, the BBC announced plans to reinvent its iPlayer service with the aim of “…making it a destination in its own right, with box sets, live programming and archive titles that champion quality UK content and offer great programmes for longer.”

A related consultation document recognises that in the future, “BBC iPlayer will be the main way that audiences watch BBC television programmes and not just a catch-up

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Amazon AVOD Broadcasters Content Deals Features Film Studios Finances Mergers & Acquisitions Monetisation Netflix Operators Supply Chain SVOD TVOD Vendors10 VOD Talking Points for 2019

Kauser Kanji9 months ago9 min

Eschewing the tradition of trying to predict what’s going to happen over the next year, here instead are some OTT industry developments that I think we’ll be talking about in 2019.

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Broadcasters Finances Mergers & Acquisitions News Operators Security VendorsSky invests in Synamedia

VOD Pro News9 months ago1 min

Synamedia, the largest independent video software provider, today announced that Sky, Europe’s leading media and entertainment company, has taken a stake in the business, joining majority shareholder the Permira funds.

Sky’s shareholding reinforces Synamedia’s position as a strategic long-term technology partner to a growing roster of market-leading pay-TV operators and media companies worldwide.

Both Sky and its parent company Comcast are long-time Synamedia customers as well as strategic development partners.

Andrew Griffith, Sky’s

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Finances Growth Netflix News Research SVOD TVODDigital Now Makes up 72% of all UK Video Revenues

VOD Pro News9 months ago15 min

Overall video spend in 2018 was £2.34 billion, up 26% on 2017. Physical retail was down 17%; physical rental revenues now just £31.8 million.

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