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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 principles – …
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 data from …
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 multiplatform experiences …
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 to other …
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 undertake a …
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 the UX designer …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 his colleagues …
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 set-top-boxes. Building on …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 models? Do …
