Industries

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...

Akamai is well aware of the major content purging limitations of its platform and has been building a new system, which allows purging within a few seconds. Accordingly, Akamai’s new “Fast Purge” solution enables its customers to invalidate or delete their content from all of Akamai’s Edge servers through API and UI in “approximately 5 se...

Despite some of the positive commentary about the quality of Twitter's NFL live stream, there has been much less discussion about the user interface experience or the fact that Twitter can’t cover its licensing costs via any advertising model. What Twitter is doing with the NFL games is interesting, but it lacks engagement and is a loss leader fo...

Content owners make claims about the quality of their over-the-top content (OTT) offering without having any metrics to verify them. Some established OTT services such as Netflix and Amazon have built their own platforms and technology to measure QoS, but typical OTT providers need to use third-party providers. Although new QoS vendors are entering...

The broadcast video content marketplace in MENA is undergoing a transition in delivery technologies and platforms lately. With revenues from advertisements almost stagnant from free to air channels, broadcasters and content producers are adopting Pay TV platform for content monetization. Though Middle East and North Africa are considered as a singl...

As many forms of technology and entertainment, the use of pay TV and Video on Demand is rapidly expanding across Africa with the growing adoption and acceptance of the digital media. Providers across the continent are leveraging increased connectivity rates and last mile investment to gain access to customers and strengthen the vendor/customer rela...

The TV broadcast industry has evolved significantly over the last decade characterized by growing business models, increased competition, changing regulations, and above all a significant shift in consumer preferences. The TV industry in India is also undergoing a lot of changes as a result of digitization mandates. Low entry barriers and an ease...

Although CDNs play a vital role in how the Web works, the volume, variety, and velocity of the log files that CDNs generate can cause issue detection and mitigation to become exceedingly difficult. To overcome this data challenge, it is necessary to first have an understanding of normal CDN patterns before identifying activities that deviate from t...

This market insight on the global tablet devices market discusses the possible reasons for the steep decline in tablet shipments and also suggests what can be done to arrest this fall. It provides market definitions, unit shipment forecasts, segmentation by region, and market share analysis of the key competitors in the market. The competitive envi...