All OTT articles
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Daily News
Custom data visualisations made simple with TAG
At IBC, TAG will be demonstrating how users can now create custom dashboard visualisations to suit their exact requirements.
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Thought Leadership
Ensuring Secure Streaming from Backend to App: A Holistic Approach to Protect User Data, Content, and Service Infrastructure in OTT and PayTV Services
In the realm of streaming services, the constant battle to safeguard digital content from piracy and cyber threats persists. While Digital Rights Management (DRM) was once at the forefront of content protection, today’s landscape demands a broader, more holistic security approach. As hackers continually refine their tactics, securing OTT/PayTV streaming ...
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Daily News
Cloud DVR makes debut on Ateme stand
Claimed to be the world’s first such deployment, Ateme’s Cloud DVR is a service that allows viewers on an IPTV or OTT network to record selected content for later viewing. A buffer allows users to pause during a live stream, replay or start over, with potentially unlimited recording and access.
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Executive Interviews
Interview: Ajit Thakur and the Power of ‘Glocal’ Streaming
Ajit Thakur, co-founder of fast-growing Indian OTT service aha, looks forward to an IBC2023 conference session that will explore the company’s future content production and diversification plans.
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Thought Leadership
Unlocking customer happiness: The Power of Remote Management
The video streaming industry has been experiencing significant growth while at the same time consumer expectations have continued to rise, and competition has become ever more fierce. The industry is at a point of inflection where only those service operators who can transition to satisfy the consumer demands while controlling ...
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Thought Leadership
The day content providers became ads managers, or how FAST is changing content providers’ business and pushing them to get new skills
Professional press, analysts, and even media agreed that FAST should be seen not as competition, but as an additional source of revenue to SVOD and broadcast licensing. Everybody is jumping into this new distribution model by leveraging massive dormant catalogues of old content, from small boutiques to independent network and ...
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Thought Leadership
Enhancing Decision Experience (DX) for Content Choice: A Path to Resolving Video Consumption’s Paradox
Matthew Wilkinson, CEO at Magine Pro delves into the concept of ‘Decision Experience (DX)’ and its potential to solve the paradox of too much choice in video consumption. With an ever-growing expanse of content to choose from, the challenge of decision-making is now more critical than ever. Read on to ...
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Thought Leadership
There´s code behind every click: Engineering Truths behind UI/UX
Creating great Developer Experiences should be a goal considered first, or at least in tandem with creating outstanding user experiences.
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Thought Leadership
Broadcasting’s Shifting Terrain: Insights on Industry Challenges
The broadcasting industry is going through a rapid and significant change, driven by new technologies and shifts in how people consume content. The global video-streaming market was valued at $455.45 billion in 2022 and is projected to grow to $1,902.68 billion by 2030, while traditional viewership is decreasing. Audiences need ...
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Thought Leadership
Scaling Up Without Breaking the Bank: 6 Ways every Streamer can Cut Costs with New Technologies and Business Models
Savvy streaming companies are turning to innovative strategies and modern technology to cut costs while maintaining quality. By leveraging the latest tools and creative methods, streamers can slash their expenses without compromising performance.
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Daily News
Launch channels with SaaS and confidence with evertz.io
Broadcasters can create new channels and monetise content across a variety of platforms using evertz.io, a new Software as a Service (SaaS). The system uses ‘hyper-scalable serverless microservices’ which the company says helps channel owners reduce time to market and avoid the costs and learning curves associated with using cloud-native ...
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Thought Leadership
True OTT Ad Monitoring Requires Real Testing Devices
With advertising-based streaming video booming, AVOD and FAST channels rising in popularity and top subscription-based streaming services adding cheaper ad-supported tiers, these advancing trends come with their own frustrations. Dynamically inserted ads are often riddled with errors, leaving customers, advertisers, and service providers unhappy. In this opinion piece, Witbe’s Yoann ...
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Daily News
Two stages and 150 exhibitors: Content Everywhere celebrates a decade at IBC
This year marks the tenth year of Content Everywhere as the heart of IBC’s coverage of the ever-expanding OTT scene. Over the past decade, Content Everywhere has experienced continuous growth as online distribution has grown to supplement and complement traditional linear broadcasting.
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Thought Leadership
Can your underlying OTT architecture support the sizzle of new technology at IBC?
With Generative AI in the spotlight this year, having the right architecture to expedite deployment is essential. The industry is at a technology inflection point: OTT providers whose platforms lack flexibility, agility and scalability will be left behind in the race to deploy the new technology. Providers need to ask ...
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News
‘Few Young People Know How to Find Creative Industry Work’, Says Study
Three quarters of young adults want to work in the UK’s creative industries but are deterred from entering the industry by a lack of knowledge about roles available as well as a perception that the industry is hard to get into.
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Daily News
Future Tech: XR Sport Throws its Hat in the Ring
The most cutting-edge innovations in the XR Sport world will be showcased this year as one of the Accelerators projects share their comprehensive tech solutions and vigilant experimentations on the Innovation Stage at IBC2023.
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Daily News
Roku partners with TO THE NEW
Digital technology services company TO THE NEW was officially recognised as an accredited third-party development partner by Roku.
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Daily News
Amagi partners with TCL
Cloud-based SaaS technology specialist Amagi was selected by consumer electronics company TCL to support its new streaming options for TCL TV users in the United States.