Entertainment and Media Market Research Reports

Load balancing in the cloud is not a novel concept. Akamai, Neustar, Dyn, and AWS have been offering DNS-based cloud load balancing for a long time. The cloud based approach has many benefits over more traditional appliance-based solutions, but there are still a number of shortcomings. Fastly’s recently released load balancer product takes an int...

For the last 10 years, H.264/AVC has been the dominant video codec used for streaming but with Apple adopting H.265/HEVC in iOS 11 and Google heavily supporting VP9 in Android, a change is on the horizon. Next year the Alliance for Open Media will release their AV1 codec which will again improve video compression efficiency even further. The end re...

28 Sep 2017  |  North America  |  Market Research

Global Enterprise Video Platforms Market, Forecast to 2023

Market Consolidation and Convergence in Product Offerings are Key Themes Driving Market Progression

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The enterprise video platforms market continues to grow steadily thanks to demand and investment from large, global enterprises across all industry segments looking for a better way to communicate with a younger, more dispersed workforce and also with their customers, partners, suppliers, and investors. The study offers a closer look at key drivers...

TCP is a protocol meant for stable networks, and all too often, mobile is anything but stable, with unreliable and often bottlenecked connections that conflict with TCP methodologies such as slow starts on transfers. The problem is certainly complex, when many moving pieces are involved, especially when dealing with the last-mile. However, if the p...

As CE manufacturers push the bounds on display technologies, and with 360 and VR production companies demonstrating ever more creative content, the capacity of networks will be taxed to levels much greater than seen today. For this reason, Apple's announcement at its 2017 Worldwide Developers Conference that it is supporting HEVC in High Sierra (ma...

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’...

16 Aug 2017  |  Europe  |  Market Research

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

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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...

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...

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...