All OTT articles – Page 6
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Daily News
MaxBet TV picks Setplex for gambling TV network
Setplex, which provides software for OTT service providers, has been selected by MaxBet TV to launch what is claimed to be the industry’s first casino and gambling-centric television network.
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Thought Leadership
Q&A: Maintaining engagement in an era of infinite choice
Producing and protecting exclusive content is crucial to securing future revenues, says John Ward, Executive Vice-President Americas, Friend MTS
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Daily News
A silver lining for cloud playback
Building on its relationship with Los Angeles-based Crown Media Family Networks, Globecast is now providing the media company with cloud playout services for the Hallmark Channel, Hallmark Movies & Mysteries, and Hallmark Drama. Each will reach more than 150 million homes in the US.
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Daily News
Delivering consistent QoE
The OTT video industry has been growing exponentially, and the types of devices used by subscribers are highly diverse, be it the form factor, device type, or OS. The sheer variety of devices and modes of connectivity makes it very challenging for service providers to deliver consistent QoE.
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Thought Leadership
Finding content could become ‘even more important in the crowded VOD space’
Increasingly, pay TV operators are having to act as ‘super aggregators’ and make OTT an integrated part of their ecosystem, by Jeroen Ghijsen, CEO Metrological / VP Comcast CTS business affairs at Comcast
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Daily News
MediaKind and Arqiva aim to aid cloud migration
MediaKind and Arqiva are joining forces to help broadcasters migrate to the cloud. The new strategic partnership will deliver a cloud-native, fully managed service for the aggregation, processing and delivery of television services for any platform (broadcast and OTT) in any region, at any scale.
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Thought Leadership
Why users will have more choice and ‘the industry will only become more competitive’
Consumers will expect more than video as new forms of data allow for ‘tremendous engagement’ opportunities, writes Jeff Volk, head of commercial, Americas
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Daily News
OTA and OTT monitoring in complete synchronicity with new Actus offering
The new OTT Synchro and Delivery Synchro packages offer simplified but sophisticated tools for multi-viewer monitoring and quality assurance of multi-rendition OTT streams and over-the-air linear content at multi probe points in the video delivery chain.
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Daily News
Vitec expands IP streaming business with acquisition from Ateme
Vitec has enhanced its position in IP video streaming with the acquisition of the Flamingo hospitality and enterprise video delivery business of Anevia from Ateme. This builds on Vitec’s core enterprise IPTV business and, coupled with the purchase of Exterity in April, positions Vitec as a leader in enterprise and ...
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Thought Leadership
The pandemic has ‘accelerated a paradigm shift that was already underway’ for OTT
There has never been a better time to launch an OTT service, writes Adam Smith, Simplestream.
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Thought Leadership
The value of providing a ‘one-stop shop for every step of the content chain’
Our focus is on supplying a turnkey, comprehensive solution for IPTV and OTT services that is also highly flexible, writes Cees van Versendaal, MwareTV.
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Thought Leadership
Vital to ‘ensure the protection of privacy and intellectual property’ as video distribution evolves
Concurrent stream limiting can help combat password-sharing, whilst AI could be set to have a major impact on content discovery in the OTT market writes Michael Stattmann, castLabs
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Daily News
Scoring points for OTT, remote production and media supply chains
Globecast will take the opportunity at IBC to explore and explain its fresh market approach across OTT, remote production and media supply chains, featuring key partners prominently on its stand.
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Daily News
Easel TV to unveil new streaming platform
Provider of OTT services Easel TV is unveiling its latest streaming platform complete with an intuitive dashboard that the company claims delivers rich design editorial and data-driven control.
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Daily News
Axinom enables content mix and match with Mosaic
Axinom is introducing Axinom Mosaic, which it describes as a comprehensive platform for creating video streaming and OTT backends that provides all the building blocks for content-first applications through independent yet connected services.
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Industry Trends
Price emerges as key SVOD battleground
A raft of new offers and deals from streamers suggests that pricing is becoming increasingly important in the battle to win subscribers in a crowded market. Tim Dams reports
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Executive Interviews
Scoring OTT goals with sports broadcasting
Eleven Sports COO Anouk Mertens discusses ambitions to expand and innovate in both the delivery and production arms of the business.
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News
Netflix set to launch Indian “mobile-only” streaming package
Netflix has unveiled plans to launch a mobile-only streaming plan in India following a test-run earlier this year.
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Industry Trends
Introducing the new look IBC Council
IBC Council Chair Naomi Climer recently announced the new membership of the IBC Council, with most members set to serve for up to three years.