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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 [...]

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 [...]

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.

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

Come on this designer's journey of discovery of A/B testing, a greatly misunderstood and often maligned tool. This is not simply about testing button colors and page layouts, but applying it at a strategic level to inform design from concept to shipped product and see how this is [...]