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Innovation and the Future of TV, Cyrus Saihan, BBC

Smartphones, tablets, connected TVs and services such as YouTube aren’t even in their teen years but have already had a huge impact on the TV industry. But what will the next set of transformational technologies be? This talk takes a look at a few new technologies on the [...]

Live & Kicking – TV Viewing in the OTT Age, Chloe Davies, Freesat

The linear schedule is dead and no-one’s watching live TV any more, right? Well, not quite, it’s not as simple as that. Freesat’s connected TV platform has real-time tracking and the data suggests that while habits are certainly changing, there’s life in the old dog yet.

What Can We Still Learn from Broadcast Television? Ida Olsen

The enduring allure of TV and video is the emotional connection people have with the content. Ida Olsen, formerly of Channel 4 and the BBC, and now working for Sony Crackle, asks what VOD services can learn from some of the areas in which traditional TV has been [...]

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 [...]

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, [...]

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