Entertainment and Media Market Research Reports

28 Feb 2020  |  North America  |  Market Research

Global Set-top Box (STB) Market, Forecast to 2024

IPTV is the Largest and the Fastest-growing Segment in the Mature STB Market; 4K, HDR, and Voice Assistants are Key Features

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The rising consumption of consumer streaming will drive the expansion of the over-the-top (OTT) ecosystem. This has prompted innovation in the global set-top box (STB) market, and streaming STBs will increasingly replace traditional devices throughout the forecast period (2019-2024). Unit shipment is expected to increase from 242.9 million in 2019 ...

Falling prices and the demand for next-generation features such as 4K and HDR continue to be the strongest drivers for smart TV sales. Even as the price of the highest-end models continues to rise as screen sizes and device sophistication at the high end continue to grow, there is falling disparity between traditional and smart TV price points at t...

Blu-ray technology vendors face significant challenges stemming from the continued momentum of over-the-top (OTT) video streaming—the fastest-growing segment of the home video market. The seemingly inevitable consumer transition from physical disc to digital video content consumption via OTT services is negatively impacting the sales of Blu-ray p...

The PC market will continue to decline over the forecast period. Market saturation in developed markets is a significant barrier to growth. Brutal price competition and ongoing pressure from competing alternative devices negatively impact the long-term market outlook. The PC market faces persistent challenges from rapidly changing consumer PC buyin...

The importance of download as a feature within OTT services and how it may be a big business opportunity for AVOD providers cannot be overstated. But this will only hold true if the technology can work seamlessly with existing apps and ad-based revenue models. More OTT services, both AVOD and SVOD, must start including downloads as an option, to en...

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  |  Market Research

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...