OTT Video and TV Everywhere

30 Jan 2018  |  North America

Global Blu-ray Media and Players Market, Forecast to 2023

Alternate Streaming Media Devices and OTT Services will Challenge Blu-ray Technology; 4K/HDR are Growth Drivers

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While physical discs remain a key revenue generator in the home entertainment business, the growing revenue from digital services and the rise of download and over-the-top (OTT) streaming services such as iTunes and Netflix have negatively impacted physical disc sales in the last 4-5 years. Therefore, an overall gradual decline in disc sales throug...

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...

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...

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...

Scope of the Study This research study includes the following segments: Scope: Over-the-top (OTT) video viewing, live streaming, segmented by viewership, business models, smartphone usage, social media interaction Geographic scope: Middle East, Levant, GCC Revenue, subscriber analysis and forecasts, drivers and restraints, and segment-wise analys...

21 Nov 2016  |  North America

Global Smart TV and Streaming Media Devices Markets, Forecast to 2021

Competition Sharply Accelerates in the Battle for Conduit to the Big Screen as Consumers Demand Quality Experiences and Ease of Content Delivery

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This study provides an in-depth analysis of the global streaming media devices market and the smart TV market. The thin client paradigm, where broadcast, pay TV, and on-demand content is delivered directly via the Internet to consumers, continues to grow. Streaming media devices, smart TVs, and to some extent game consoles and tablets, are at the f...

Akamai must formulate a viable strategy to succeed in an industry that is volatile with thin margins. The company has a commoditized service offering and deals with customers that compete against it. It is challenged both by cloud providers that have more scale and ways to make money, and by competitors that have distinct CapEx advantages. Akamai i...

16 Sep 2016  |  South Asia, Middle East & North Africa

Over the Top (OTT) Video Market Update, India, 2016

OTT to Energize the Indian TV Market; Intensify Competition, and Create Strategic Partnerships and Subscription Models

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This research study provides an analysis of the over-the-top (OTT) video consumption in India. It gives an insight into the market scenario and growth prospects of key market participants, new entrants and the impact of telecom services in bringing about a drastic change in the way television is consumed in India. A competitive analysis of the stak...