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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. 30 Jan 2018  |  North America  |  Market Research

    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

    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...

    $3,000.00
  2. 17 Jan 2018  |  Europe  |  Market Research

    European Over-the-top (OTT) Video Services Market, October 2017

    European OTT Video Service Providers Pursuing Market Share Goals Through Strategic Partnerships and Technology Investments

    The European Over-the-top (OTT) video executive brief captures the key market highlights of the OTT video services market in Europe over the last quarter, based on Frost & Sullivan’s industry tracker. It gives an insight into the market scenario and growth prospects for key market participants and new entrants and the impact of triple-play and qu...

    $1,500.00
  3. 21 Nov 2016  |  North America  |  Market Research

    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

    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...

    $4,950.00
  4. 14 Nov 2016  |  North America  |  Market Research

    Akamai’s Media Pricing Cuts Fail to Address the Company’s Underlying Issues

    Akamai Should Consider Exiting the Media Business and Focus onWeb Performance and Security Product Lines

    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...

    $1,500.00
  5. 19 Sep 2016  |  Africa  |  Market Research

    Pay TV, Video on Demand, and IPTV Growth Opportunities in Africa

    Innovative Pricing and Content Bundling Boosts Growth in Kenya, Nigeria, and South Africa

    This research provides analysis of the pay TV, video on demand (VOD), and Internet protocol television (IPTV) markets in Africa, with Kenya, Nigeria, and South Africa highlighted. The study also analyzes triple play services markets and offers insights regarding provider strategies and the convergence of competition across the entertainment market....

    $3,000.00
  6. 16 Sep 2016  |  South Asia, Middle East & North Africa  |  Market Research

    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

    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...

    $3,000.00
  7. 21 Jul 2016  |  North America  |  Market Research

    Machine Learning Holds the Potential to Enhance CDN Services

    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...

    $1,500.00
  8. 04 Jul 2016  |  Europe  |  Market Research

    Virtual Reality and Video Streaming Entering the European Contact Centre

     

    For years, analysts and contact centre professionals have been talking about the obvious advantages of using video to deliver a more modern and refined customer experience. It has taken a long time for this idea to come to fruition, and video has mainly been used as a source of information for agents or as content assets to be shared with customers...

    $500.00
  9. 22 Jun 2016  |  North America  |  Market Research

    Global Tablet Devices Market

    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...

    $1,500.00
  10. 20 Jun 2016  |  North America  |  Market Research

    Apple’s Internal CDN Now Delivers the Majority of Its Own Content

    Over a period of roughly 3 years, Apple has taken a large percentage of its content delivery to its in-house CDN. It is using its own CDN for iTunes, iOS and OS X updates, music streaming, and a host of other assorted Apple content. Part of Apple’s reasoning for building its own CDN was because of performance issues with iCloud. In addition, Appl...

    $1,500.00