Talking Television – How are Consumers Changing the Conversation? Charles Dawes, TiVo
Voice is fast becoming a must-have part of any video discovery experience and TiVo has been at the forefront of this user experience revolution. Analysing data from 10 months of interactions across in-market deployments, TiVo will share unique insights into how real users are embracing voice technology. From [...]
Introducing the Mercury Viewer Experience Created with LUNA, William Cooper, informitv
The Mercury concept was developed to present a video user interface that combines smart channels and playlists to create a custom viewing experience. This blends the best of traditional television with the benefits of video-on-demand. It was created using the LUNA cross-platform video experience engine, which allows interfaces [...]
Transforming the Experience & Economics of Online Video, Allen Dickson, Brightcove
The current economics of online video publishing are too complex and inflexible for many media companies to thrive, as more and more of the revenue and profit potential is concentrated in a small number of dominant organisations. Allen Dickson discusses how media businesses need to improve the user [...]
VUIX 2016 – Christoffer Kittel – How Viaplay Built Their Cross Platform Olympic Experience
18 days, 38 different sports and 1816 events - The UX team at Viaplay had a daunting task in building a consistent, simple and elegant user experience for the Olympics in Rio. Creative Director Christoffer Kittel will talk about Viaplay's design process and how to account for a [...]
VUIX 2016 – Panel Session – The VOD Product Development Crystal Ball
What’s going to be on your development roadmap in the next 12-18 months? Will you concentrate on populating your service to even more platforms? Or perhaps you’ll be upgrading the products that you already have out there? And what about VR, AI, personalisation, content recommendation and monetisation? Join [...]
VUIX 2016 – Paolo Malabuyo – Connecting Art and Science: a UX Designer’s Journey
Come on this designer's journey of discovery of A/B testing, a greatly misunderstood and often maligned tool. This is not simply about testing button colors and page layouts, but applying it at a strategic level to inform design from concept to shipped product and see how this is [...]
VUIX 2016 – Miki Chojnacka – Re-Thinking the TV for Little Fingers
The future of TV is apps. But while kids are huge users of both apps and TV, VOD on TV hasn't always been an easy experience for younger kids. Although a lot of players in the on-demand space now offer kids service, many designs were simply retrofitted to [...]
BBC iPlayer Posts Best Ever Monthly Results
334 million TV requests in October 2018, up 18% on the same month last year, beats previous record high of 328 million in January.
DAZN to Launch Sports Streaming Service in Brazil
Platform set to launch in March 2019, will be the exclusive home to Copa Sudamericana, Serie A TIM and Ligue 1 matches.
The Gig Economy Effect on Media & Entertainment
The gig economy is all about working on an 'as needed' basis. How does this attitude affect viewing habits and what are the knock-on effects for broadcaster, operator and service-provider business models?
Vodafone Launches Giga TV OTT Service in Germany
Vodafone Germany has launched Giga TV, a new OTT service, marketed at its 7.6 million TV customers in the country. Giga TV, which costs EUR 9.99 a month for the first year, is offered without the need to for broadband or fixed line packages. It contains 47 TV [...]
SVOD to Overtake Pay-TV in Australian Households by end of 2018
Consumer spend on video entertainment in Australia is expected to grow 3% in 2019 to AU $5.3 billion, according to the latest video entertainment report from Futuresource Consulting. This growth is to be helped by an uplift at the box office and with SVOD uptake continuing to impress. [...]
Paramount to Make Movies for Netflix
Viacom’s Paramount Pictures is to make movies for Netflix as part of a new deal between the pair, unveiled at the end of last week. Speaking on Viacom’s full-year results conference call at the end of the week, Paramount boss James Gianopoulis said that the studio was “exploring [...]
Barclays Doubles SVOD Fund to £200m
Barclays Corporate Banking has announced a doubling of its SVOD (subscription video on demand) fund to support UK TV producers. The £100m fund was launched in March 2017 in response to the rapidly evolving TV production landscape, with the rise of subscription services such as Netflix and Amazon [...]
Blockbuster Selects 3SS To Deliver Roadmap for its Nordic Service
3 Screen Solutions (3SS), leading provider of software solutions and services for set-top-box and multiscreen digital entertainment, announces being chosen by Blockbuster, the Nordic video services platform owned by Denmark’s TDC Group, to engineer, deliver and integrate a new app to support connected TVs. This is the first [...]
The 23 Most Sought After Features in OTT Services
Device synchronisation, offline viewing… and a sleep timer? Here are some of the most commonly asked for features as requested by viewers. Back in October I completed some research for our annual VUIX conference - an event which is dedicated to online video product development and UI/UX - [...]
Does User Experience Match User Expectation in VOD Services?
An analysis of 4,000 reviews of on-demand services identifies performance, functionality and content as the three largest pain points in VOD. Last week we held our VUIX 2015 conference - an event dedicated to online video product development, user interfaces and user experience. Co-hosted by Brightcove, leading broadcasters, [...]
VOD Industry 101: CDNs
Looking at how content delivery networks work, vendor solutions and rules for choosing an appropriate supplier. Alongside premium content, offering a clean video stream is one of the most important aspects to finding success in OTT - indeed, a fascinating white paper released by QoE (Quality of Experience) [...]
VOD Industry 101: Analytics
Looking at how analytics work, vendor solutions and rules for choosing an appropriate supplier. The VOD industry has undergone a number of transformational phases since 4oD, the UK's first broadcaster on-demand service, launched all the way back in 2006. After their initial rush to get an MVP onto [...]
Airbeem builds Management Team
Airbeem, the OTT content distribution platform, announced today that Steve Plunkett has joined its Board of Directors to advise the company on its technical growth and strategy. Airbeem has also appointed Tim Clement to the role of VP Sales. With over two decades of experience in the media, [...]
