Cheap TVs: Last Week’s Plunge In Pay-TV Stocks Could Have Lasting Effect
Resetting valuation assumptions to pre-meltdown levels might require some restructuring of the sector. Read More …
Tag: TV Everywhere
Anvato adds instant TV everywhere syndication with live-to-VOD
The new feature is designed to allow content owners and programmers to create video-on-demand files from their live linear streams and then syndicate these files in near real time to multiple online destinations such as Netflix and Hulu, as well as MVPDs including cable operators and telcos. Source: Anvato adds instant TV everywhere syndication with Read More …
OTT & the Net New Effect
For premium programmers, over-the-top video is very much a double-edged sword. On the one hand, OTT video is creating new competitors and threatening the dearly held dual-stream revenue model that includes income both from advertising and from licensing deals with pay-TV operators. On the other hand, OTT also gives programmers a new distribution channel and Read More …
FIFA Women’s World Cup Takes Fox Sports Go to New Heights
For Team USA’s first Group Stage match — a 1-0 win over Australia on June 8 — Fox Sports registered 118,000 unique streams on its Fox Sports Go platform for desktop, tablets, and smartphones. That made it the most-streamed authenticated event ever on the app, beating out even Game 7 of the 2014 World Series. Read More …
OTT: the next stage
We are now living the second generation of OTT, with the next being one of future disruptors. This second generation, said Andrea Ruberta, pre-sales manager Accenture Digital, is dominated by Netflix 2.0, broadcasters’ standalone OTT (such as Sky’s Now TV) and MCN, with the number of IP devices now standing at over 12 billion (2014). Read More …