Gulliver Smithers, former CTO Product & Technology at Sony Pictures, hosted an all-star panel at OTT Question Time Live on 31 January this year.

Together with Kerensa Samanidis, Head of International, Channel 4, Rose Hulse, CEO, ScreenHits TV, Will Harrison, former MD BritBox UK and Richard Lindsay-Davies, CEO, DTG, they discussed …

Deep Bagchee, Chief Product Officer at ITV talking to Matt Simpson, MD at Candyspace, at OTT Question Time Live on 31 January this year. 

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A presentation from Jonathan Kelly, Experience Director at Candyspace.

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At OTT Question Time Live 2023 (London, 31 Jan 2023)

With new technologies and distribution paradigms all the rage at the likes of IBC, NAB and of course OTTQT, Justin Fyles, MD of Skylark, asks, “When did we start putting user experience second?”

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To misquote Shakespeare, all the world’s a stream especially when it comes to our evolving media consumption habits. 

OTT video, music, gaming, social, sports, editorial as well as arts and culture streaming services, all vie for our attention. But which ones are the most popular, have the best …

Digital product experts Candyspace today launch The Streaming 100 — a report detailing the top 100 streaming platforms across multiple verticals in the UK – in partnership with VOD Professional.

The paper evaluates over 200 digital products that each have a significant streaming element to their …

With subscriber growth stalling, streaming businesses need to invest more in the experience of discovering content, writes Candyspace’s Creative Partner, Martin Brierley  

“Dark clouds are gathering for the streaming industry” warned Fortune magazine back in April. And with news in October that 1m …

Take a look back at the history of the most popular devices for watching online video and a fascinating picture emerges. In 2011, for example, 67% of the BBC iPlayer’s 1.9 billion TV requests were made from computers (PCs, laptops and Macs). That’s no huge surprise – smartphones were …

Candyspace Partner, Martin Brierley, explains how media companies can fast track their product development roadmap in the middle of a global talent crisis  

During the COVID pandemic, Video-on-Demand (VOD) platforms benefited from substantial growth. For instance, Netflix saw an uplift of 28 million new subscribers …

In our recent OTT Question Time about Disney vs. Netflix, Alan Wolk of TVREV told us that although technically Disney had more subscribers than Netflix (222.1m vs. 220.7m) that might not be the best metric for comparing the two companies. Why? Because over a quarter of Disney’s customers …