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, [...]
Charging for BBC iPlayer
What could an SVOD version of iPlayer look like? Who would its audience be? And what kind of revenues and uptake could it hope to achieve? You may have seen the news a couple of weeks ago that the BBC's budget was effectively being cut by around £650m [...]
Approaches to Building a VOD Service from Scratch
If you’re thinking about building a VOD service and you don’t have to deal with legacy, this is how you do it. Imagine you were building a VOD service from scratch, unconstrained by legacy infrastructure. Which core components, tasks and functions might you need to consider? This isn't just [...]
TiVo Renews Personalised Content Discovery Agreement with Foxtel
TiVo’s multi-dimensional approach delivers highly relevant search results, customised recommendations carousels and increased convenience with natural voice recognition and insights for an enhanced viewing experience
Manage Content Metadata – It’s Every Bit As Important As The Media!
The media industry has experienced a shift in consumption patterns – worldwide - which are the most disruptive in its history. Consumers expect to watch video when they want, where they want, on whatever platform they want. Multiscreen viewing, including through connected TV devices and mobile devices, is [...]
Mediamorph Announces New Executive Sales Appointments
Mediamorph, the leading Content Value Management (CVM) cloud platform powering the largest entertainment companies in the world, announced today new appointments within its senior sales management team. Bill Woods has been promoted to the position of Executive Vice President of Global Sales, where he will lead the Mediamorph [...]
Simplestream Partners with Nice People at Work to Provide Premium Video Analytics and Data Insight
NPAW (NICE PEOPLE AT WORK), a global leader in video business intelligence and predictive analytics and Simplestream, the leaders in live and on-demand OTT services, today announced that Simplestream has chosen NPAW as its data analytics technology provider for its VOD-in-a-Box service and its bespoke OTT projects. The first Simplestream [...]
VUIX 2016 – James Grant & Miruna Dogaru, Using UEX Insights to Build a Video Ad Monetisation Strategy
In our anytime, anywhere TV environment the audience is everywhere and hugely diversified. Understanding which shows are being watched on which screen and by whom is, of course, essential for publishers as this is what drives the value of ad space. Some of the leading players, however, have [...]
VUIX 2016 – Cathie Toshach – The Evolution of HBO’s Digital Product Experience Design
The past several years have seen phenomenal growth of HBO’s digital streaming platforms, across both TV Everywhere and Over-the-Top offerings (HBO GO and HBO NOW). Meeting the rapidly changing needs of our audiences and partners has required an evolution across several fronts, including toolsets, processes, communications, and design [...]
VUIX 2016 – Bjarne Myklebust – When will OTT Overtake Linear?
Over the past 18 months, Norway’s public service broadcaster, NRK, has been analysing the TV viewing behaviour of its 350,000+ unique daily users across various platforms and devices. In this speech, Bjarne Myklebust, the company’s Head of Distribution (and a two-time #1 in 50 VOD Professionals Nordic!) presents [...]
VUIX 2016 – Adam Nightingale – VOD the Teenager
Online video is now well into its second decade of life and broadcasters, operators and service-providers have gone from being proud new parents, giving their products all the TLC in the world, to uncertain guardians of fragmented, diversified teenage rebels who are keen to take on as many [...]
VUIX 2016 – Charles Dawes – Trading Up … Sharing our Journey to Update the TiVo Experience
Since 1999 TiVo has been leading the world in user experience solutions for digital video recorders. In this session, Charles Dawes will share insights from the company in how they developed their latest generation of the iconic TiVo UX for a new set of customer requirements that extend [...]
VUIX 2016 – Gulliver Smithers – Creating the Always-On Consumer Experience
The Sony Crackle AVOD service is currently published in three languages, across twenty countries and is available on twenty eight devices. The service has been live since 2007 but in recent years the Crackle product team recognized that consumer consumption patterns had shifted dramatically. The response was to [...]
VUIX 2016 – Ryan Wilkerson – The Agony and the Ecstasy of Virtual Reality: HBO Explores the UX of VR
In Ryan Wilkerson's own words: Virtual Reality (and its AR/MR cousins) are poised to not only revolutionize content platforms but also expand the opportunities for storytellers in ways that we can hardly yet fathom. The popular adoption of this nascent medium poses an exciting set of challenges to [...]
VUIX 2016 – Oliver Davies – Notes from the VOD Frontline
Oliver Davies, UKTV’s Head of Digital Products, takes a look at the evolution of the broadcaster's video-on-demand services. From Dave OD in 2011 to today’s award-nominated UKTV Play, it has taken a reinvention of the team along the way to achieve the product's current strong position. Davies and [...]
VUIX 2016 – James Jackson – On-Demand for Everyone
James Jackson explains how the UK’s biggest TV service is opening catch-up and on-demand to new audiences, helping tackle digital divides and setting new standards for connected TV. Freeview Play delivers free access to VOD services from the UK’s leading broadcasters through a growing range of TVs and [...]
VUIX 2016 – Paul Kanareck – OTT Product Development: Drivers & Decision-Making
One year on from the launch of ITV Hub, Paul Kanareck, ITV’s Group Director of Online, evaluates some of the key creative and commercial choices faced by broadcasters and OTT service-providers when it comes to product development: how much experimentation is possible when testing new products and price [...]
