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. This report explains why transforming to a user-first business mindset is essential for CSPs to deliver an internet-like experience so essential in today’s digital services marketplace. The report looks at why a CSP’s customer management systems are grossly inadequate for meeting customer-centric business needs. It also shows how UXP Systems’...

    $3,000.00
  2. 16 Aug 2017  |  Europe

    European Over the Top (OTT) Video Services Market, Forecast to 2021

    High Connectivity and Intense Competition is Set to Bring a New Wave of Disruption in the Market; New Business Models and Converged Services Will Ensu

    Over-the-Top (OTT) video services including video on demand are already widespread in Europe as a popular option for entertainment. The market comprises over 400 services including Pay TV operators, telcos, broadcast networks and pure play OTT service providers. The market is headed towards an increasing deployment of converged bundled services. Th...

    $4,950.00
  3. 27 Jul 2017  |  Global

    Global Virtual Reality Ecosystem, 2017

    Immersive Technologies Creating New Opportunities Across Vertical Industries

    This study aims to analyse Virtual Reality (VR) and its applications across vertical industries 2017. Research Scope: The research scope of the study includes the following: • Technology Trends (which includes smartphone, tethered and all-in-one headsets, tracking technology and platforms) • Industry Trends (which includes consolidation, exp...

    $3,000.00
  4. 05 Jul 2017  |  North America

    Content Licensing Costs Too High for OTT Services to be Profitable

    Profit and Loss of the OTT Business will become Critical for all Companies in the Space.

    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 choi...

    $1,500.00
  5. 05 Jul 2017  |  North America

    Best Practices for Using A Multi-CDN Strategy

    Multi-CDN Deployments Are Getting Plenty of Traction in the Industry.

    The debate surrounding the use of a multi-CDN strategy has been gaining momentum over the last few months, with more case studies showing how it can be done. For a while now, multiple vendors have provided CDN load-balancing as a service, and in that time, customers have learned a lot about the process of configuring CDNs to improve quality and mat...

    $1,500.00
  6. 05 Jul 2017  |  North America

    OTT Growth Not A Big Driver of Revenue for CDNs

    Understanding the Impact of OTT Services on CDN’s Revenue

    The growth of OTT and all video services is having a positive impact on the CDNs, but the growth of these services is tempered by the fact that: the actual rate of growth is small, pricing for the services is low, traffic is split out amongst multiple CDNs, and the number of bits needed to view on mobile and tablets is 2/3 smaller than what’s nee...

    $1,500.00
  7. 30 Jun 2017  |  North America

    Best Practices For CDN Origin Storage

    The Emphasis is on CDN Services to Manage Production Workflows and Improve the End-user Experience.

    CDN is a highly scalable network that handles most requests from edge cache without impacting the content distributor’s origin and application infrastructure. However, the content must be available for retrieval on cache miss or when the request has to pass to the application. Whether the assets are videos, images, files, software binaries, or ot...

    $1,500.00
  8. 20 Jun 2017  |  Global

    Global Non-linear Editing Market, Forecast to 2023

    Market Forecast Tied to Industry Trends and Behavior of the Growing Professionals Segment and Vendors

    The non-linear editing (NLE) market is maturing as video editing becomes a common skill in the digital world. The proliferation of video, declining NLE solution prices, new technologies such as 4K and virtual reality, and more cloud-based options stimulate chances for market growth. However, market forecast remains tied to the growing professionals...

    $4,950.00
  9. 12 Jun 2017  |  Europe

    Over-the-top (OTT) Video/Video-on-demand (VOD) Executive Brief, Europe, 2017

    Frost & Sullivan's Tracker Finds High Level of Activity in the OTT/on-demand Video Services Market in Europe in Financial Investments, New Features an

    The Executive brief captures the key market highlights of the OTT Video Industry in Europe over the last year. With over 450+ video service providers in the region, the fragmented ecosystem has driven innovation in the form of several advanced value added features and innovative business models. The European OTT market is undergoing major transform...

    $3,000.00
  10. 24 May 2017  |  South Asia, Middle East & North Africa

    Digital Transformation in the Indian Retail, Education, Media & Entertainment Sectors, 2017

    Customer Experience is the Center of Focus with Analytics and Mobility in the Background

    Frost & Sullivan (F&S) determines digital enterprise transformation as a set of activities that will reform business processes, empower stakeholders and provide new revenue models using digital technologies (such as Social Media, Mobility, Big Data and Analytics, Cloud technologies, IoT & Automation, and Cyber Security) and by embracing new digital...

    $4,950.00