Entertainment and Media

The pervasiveness of media in business is a reality today, redefining the way organizations interact and engage with customers in a way not imagined in the previous decade. Business are gaining the ability to enable cross-platform repurposing and monetization of digital content, creating an extended economy based on television, video, advertising, publishing, mobile and the Internet. Innovation in technologies and system integrator partnerships is crucial to expand growth potential globally.

Frost & Sullivan’s Digital Transformation research and consulting programs look at the advent of newer technologies and their impact on organizations, disrupting old processes and enabling a new horizon of opportunities for companies to turn around old, fragmented business segments into a transformed consumer-centric service approach. Our digital media coverage spans all products and services in the content value chain-- from content acquisition to processing, management, delivery, protection, monitoring, analytics and customer experience.

We work closely with the world’s largest media networks, publishers, agencies, service operators, as well as technology providers and start-ups to help them find their footing in this sea of change. Tailored, customized solutions provide clients with the best strategies for growth, supported by the right key data points researched to meet the client’s needs and the specific engagement. Our research spans broadly across the sector and provides deep insights into specific markets in the most significant areas of IT and the digital media industry.

  1. 10 Aug 2016  |  North America

    Global Digital Broadcast and Cinematography Cameras Market

    Demand Saturation Slows Total Market; Lower-Priced, Flexible Products will Drive Purchases

    This research service examines the global digital broadcast and cinematography cameras market. Detailed market trend analyses, including market drivers, market restraints, technology trends, and segment analysis, are provided. Revenue forecasts are projected through 2020. The global market has been segmented into North America and Latin America; As...

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  2. 22 Jun 2016  |  North America

    Global Tablet Devices Market

    This market insight on the global tablet devices market discusses the possible reasons for the steep decline in tablet shipments and also suggests what can be done to arrest this fall. It provides market definitions, unit shipment forecasts, segmentation by region, and market share analysis of the key competitors in the market. The competitive envi...

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  3. The market insight provides unit shipment forecasts and market share analysis for the global digital still cameras and camcorders market. The digital still cameras and camcorders forecast covers unit shipment shares by both country of sale and country of manufacture. The base year is 2015 and the forecast period is 2016 to 2020. The study also prov...

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  4. The acquisition of Vanguard Video by Beamr in 2016 strengthens Beamr’s place in the ecosystem, complementing its media optimization solutions with core video encoding functions. The company also raised another funding round of $15 million, led by Disruptive Growth, with participation from existing VCs  - Marker, LLC and Eric Schmidt’s Innovati...

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  5. Traditionally, server-side ad insertion has been aimed at tackling the problems of ad blocking and device fragmentation. Advances in technology are now emphasising the importance of ad stitching for live and catch up TV. Client-side ad SDKs have grown in sophistication while the platforms they run have become more capable, and the transition to nat...

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  6. Comcast launched its own commercial CDN offering in 2015 and added a new live linear streaming service that it announced at IBC 2015. The new platform provides customers the ability to easily turn-up, manage, and enable ad or subscription-supported live, over-the-top, full-time channel experiences. While a lot of vendors in the market offer platfor...

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  7. HEVC has been gaining traction through 2015 and is well poised for further adoption in 2016. Natively integrated shipment numbers are up – notably for smart TVs, tablets, and mobile phones. The most egregious of royalty terms imposed by HEVC Advance have been rolled back. The chasm has been crossed, and an upswing is underway. AVC remains the com...

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  8. 02 Mar 2016  |  North America

    Impact of Licensing Costs on Next-Gen Audio Markets

    Imminent Licensing and Standards Decisions to Impact Growth, 3D Audio Critical to Sparking Wider Adoption of Not Only Next-gen Devices but also Video

    In recent years, the spotlight on video has burned so bright that next-gen audio has been covered to a much lesser extent. This relative obscurity is unwarranted, however, given both the complementarity of these two next-gen technologies and the imminence of important standards-based decisions. There have been dramatic technological improvements in...

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  9. 05 Feb 2016  |  North America

    Disruption of Live Broadcasting Markets - Ustream’s SD-CDN

    Set to be a Game Changer, Ustream's SD-CDN could Emerge as Bandwidth Exchange for Live Broadcasters

    Ustream has developed a reputation for its ability to host some of the world’s largest streaming events via its HD broadcast video platform. In 2015, Ustream created a unique solution that is the result of seven years of development—a technology called Software-defined CDN or SD-CDN. If Ustream takes what it has built and offers it as a stand-...

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