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Akamai must formulate a viable strategy to succeed in an industry that is volatile with thin margins. The company has a commoditized service offering and deals with customers that compete against it. It is challenged both by cloud providers that have more scale and ways to make money, and by competitors that have distinct CapEx advantages. Akamai i...

Worldwide PC shipments have been sharply declining over the last 4-5 years. This is due to a combination of factors including market saturation; extended replacement cycles; economic instability in emerging markets; and competition from other consumer devices like smartphones and phablets. The unit shipments for the global PC market is expected to ...

This insight discusses the benefits of FEO services, how it can help in solving some of the Website efficiency challenges and the restraints in adoption. It also highlights who offer FEO services and how it is a logical value-addition to CDNs today.

From its conception in the 1950s to early 2023, artificial intelligence (AI) underwent a series of improvements, from machine learning (ML) to deep learning (DL), which enabled it to mimic human responses (conversational AI), identify images (computer vision), and generate digital text, images, audio, and video, among other content types (generativ...

Given how popular OTT services are, it isn’t immediately apparent how OTT providers are actually going to make money and become profitable. For years, it was assumed that the key to the success of any OTT business was simply to get enough scale and subscribers to cover the costs of licensing and distributing content. While there are a lot of choice...

This research analyzes the Internet media streaming platform market. Accounting for close to $600 Million dollars, this market forms the basis for video and rich media services over networks and is expected to catalyze a multifold growth of other markets it complements, such as enterprise and entertainment. With its applications extending beyond th...

4K and HEVC are exciting and the direction the market is headed towards, until AV1 takes their place. However, vendors, content owners and the media need to have realistic expectations of what is possible with 4K streaming and utilize accurate estimates when it comes to bitrates, costs, efficiencies, and Internet speeds. Based on the HEVC testing t...

Germany is Europe’s economic and technology powerhouse and epitomizes the pulse of region. It is home to a few of the biggest media conglomerates. This insight provides an overview of the video landscape in Germany with key indicators such as total population, households, penetration of TV, broadband, mobile phones and broadband, satellite TV, cabl...

This insight provides country-by-country subscriber data for DTT and forecasts for DTT equipment such as DTT-enabled set top boxes and IDTVs. It provides drivers and restraints for DTT vis-a-vis Pay TV and Internet TV alternatives. It also discusses relevant technical trends including compression formats and transmission standards.