Entertainment and Media

Many of the common problems encountered by viewers are the result of connectivity issues, especially on mobile. Globally, many viewers are plagued by problematic cellular connections that can’t support their on-demand video needs. Studies show that viewers are increasingly impatient, and the lag or buffering that results from insufficient connect...

Reducing video rebuffering can be difficult. Going multi-CDN can provide several benefits for customers, such as better geographic coverage and, possibly, better economics. Adding live switching logic between the CDNs goes a step further and enables load balancing and redundancy in case of problems. Different layers of redundancy and different leve...

Most large broadcasters and OTT services have deployed multi-CDN solutions to improve the end-user experience for video. There have been many instances where a multi-CDN strategy was a key component in the overall OTT workflow.There are a lot of different ways to implement a multi-CDN strategy and much of it is dependent on how much the customer wa...

18 Jul 2019  |  North America

Global Media Content Delivery Networks Market, Forecast to 2024

Proliferation of Content and Increasing Consumption Spurring Growth

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Content delivery network (CDN) providers offer service-based technology and products that enable the delivery of content from their servers to the end user on the public internet. CDN vendors largely have proprietary infrastructure and use a combination of servers, network routing, and intelligent software to enable delivery of content from their n...

12 Jul 2019  |  North America

Global Content Management Solutions Market for the Media Industry, Forecast to 2024

In a Fragmented Market, Home-grown Solutions Restrict Revenue Growth and North America Remains the Primary Focus for Market Expansion

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Consumption of news and entertainment has evolved; consumers want access to information anytime, anywhere, and across devices. This is driving the adoption of CMS to deliver content across form factors. The need for this shift in media consumption habits is the result of changing expectations of consumers who are demanding news and media platforms ...

Over the top (OTT) monitoring and compliance (M&C) solutions often overlap with complementary software solutions, such as quality of experience (QoE) and quality of service (QoS) measurements for the distribution of video over streaming services. Most OTT monitoring and compliance vendors have proprietary software and use a combination of servers, ...

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...

Smart TVs are envisioned as online video consumption devices that enable centralized control of the living room entertainment experience—fragmented across smartphones, tablets, gaming consoles, and streaming media devices, among others. While the overall LCD TVs market has reached maturity and has been experiencing shipment declines in many regio...

21 Jan 2019  |  North America

Global Online Video Platforms Market, Forecast to 2023

As Delivery and Workflow Increasingly Commoditize, Live Workflows and Personalization Capabilities will be Competitive Factors for OVPs

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Frost & Sullivan defines an online video platform (OVP) as a fee-based software-as-a service (SaaS) online content solution that enables video content owners to ingest, transcode, store, manage, protect, publish, syndicate, track, and monetize online video. While video continues to form the center of this formal definition, this process also includ...