Powerful New Google Assistant Actions and Cloud-to-Cloud Integration for Android TV™ Now Enabled by 3READY
Latest advances through partnership with Google galvanize 3SS’ leadership as go-to Android TV enabler
DEG, EMA and MovieLabs Release Updated Specifications for use by Studios, Retailers and Service Providers
DEG: The Digital Entertainment Group (DEG), the Entertainment Merchants Association (EMA) and Motion Pictures Laboratories, Inc. (MovieLabs), together with member studios, retailers, and service providers, have approved and released four updated supply chain specifications for digital distribution of film and TV. The specifications were developed and reviewed jointly ...
Eleven Sports UK Faces Closure
Eleven Sports, the OTT service which holds the rights to stream football from Italy's Serie A and Spain's La Liga leagues, as well as the Ultimate Fighting Championship, is facing closure just four months after launching in the UK according to the Guardian. Eleven Sports, which is currently ...
Supplier Evaluation Spreadsheet
Evaluating five vendor proposals to build new VOD apps on HbbTV and games consoles. Spreadsheet includes CAPEX and OPEX spend as well as a 4-year Total Cost of Ownership model.
Hopster Launches VOD Service on Sling TV
Subscription costs $5 a month; service available to Sling customers on Roku, Amazon and Android devices.
IAB Europe launches Connected TV White Paper
Paper examines key opportunities and challenges such as growth of advertising, measurement and creativity
We’re Now into the Fourth Major VOD Product Cycle
Do you remember the first time you heard about video-on-demand? My introduction to the concept was in 1998 when I was working at Nettec PLC, an early internet consultancy, and I visited the offices of a potential client, Bryan Morrison, a music producer and agent, in London. A ...
Viewer Relationships… Not Data Strategies, Steve Forde, ITV
ITV is enhancing the direct connection it now has with its viewers - through its digital and real world experiences - into a mutually beneficial relationship. It views data as the enabler and by-product, but the viewer relationship is the focus. Data is cold and transactional. Relationships engage ...
Beyond Catch-up – When VOD Steps out the Shadow of Linear TV, Kristian Waneck, DR
As viewers – especially younger audiences – turn their backs on linear TV, DR is repositioning DRTV from being a catch up service to a destination in its own right, targeting users that missed not just a particular show but DR’s linear channels altogether. DR is relaunching DRTV ...
Personalisation, Prioritisation & other Product Management Challenges, Sarah Milton, Channel 4
All 4’s unique proposition combines a vast catalogue of premium TV boxsets with live broadcast channels, 30 day catch up and a growing collection of exclusive shows, all completely free and available on over 20 different platforms. s. With this offering come some unique - and some not ...
Confessions of a Professional Couch Potato, Ashley Grossman, Liberty Global
Liberty Global is the world's largest TV and Broadband company with over 25 million customers in 30+ countries. This talk will follow its journey of developing an ambitious new TV experience for a diverse audience in a rapidly evolving industry landscape where exciting new features like voice and ...
Creating Moments that Matter, Christoffer Kittel, Viaplay
As the VOD industry comes of age and matures, how do services differentiate beyond technical excellence? How can brands align around a big vision, find their identity and competitive edge? By focusing on brand position and a principles framework, Viaplay is on a journey to define itself and ...
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 ...
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 ...