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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. 12 Mar 2019  |  North America  |  Market Research

    Frost Radar in the Global Video Managed Services Market

    A Measurement System to Spark Companies 2 Action (C2A)—Innovation That Fuels New Deal Flow and Growth Pipelines

    The Frost Radar focuses on the global video managed services market and the related research with a base year of 2017. Video managed services, by definition, are services where entire portions of a content provider’s digital media workflows are outsourced to a third party. Video managed services are distinct from professional services or consulti...

    $4,950.00
  2. 25 Feb 2019  |  North America  |  Market Research

    Global Smart TVs Market, Forecast to 2024

    China Remains Key; 4K and HDR will Drive Growth in this Intensely Competitive Market

    Smart TVs are envisioned as online video consumption devices that enable centralized control of the living room entertainment experience—fragmented across smartphones, tablets, gaming consoles, and streaming media devices, among others. While the overall LCD TVs market has reached maturity and has been experiencing shipment declines in many regio...

    $1,500.00
  3. 21 Jan 2019  |  North America  |  Market Research

    Global Online Video Platforms Market, Forecast to 2023

    As Delivery and Workflow Increasingly Commoditize, Live Workflows and Personalization Capabilities will be Competitive Factors for OVPs

    Frost & Sullivan defines an online video platform (OVP) as a fee-based software-as-a service (SaaS) online content solution that enables video content owners to ingest, transcode, store, manage, protect, publish, syndicate, track, and monetize online video. While video continues to form the center of this formal definition, this process also includ...

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  4. 18 Jan 2019  |  North America  |  Market Research

    Global Video Managed Services Market, Forecast to 2024

    Outsourcing Video Workflows Will be Seen as a Cost-saving Strategy Later in the Forecast Period

    The study focuses on the global video managed services market and research related with a base year of 2017. Video managed services by definition are services where entire portions of a content provider’s digital media workflows are outsourced to a third party. Video managed services are distinct from professional services or consulting services ...

    $4,950.00
  5. 24 Nov 2016  |  North America  |  Market Research

    Global Media and Entertainment Storage Market, Forecast to 2022

    Media Content and Data Creation Continues to Drive Demand for Storage Solutions

    This research service covers the global media and entertainment storage market and discusses verticals including broadcasting, managed services, publishing, and post-production. Detailed market trend analyses, including market drivers, market restraints, technology trends, and vertical analysis, are provided. Detailed revenue forecasts are also pro...

    $4,950.00
  6. 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...

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  7. 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
  8. 14 Nov 2016  |  North America  |  Market Research

    Akamai Introduces “Fast Purge” Solution Despite Concerns Over Speed and Scale

    Competitors Highlight Akamai’s Purging Limitations to Win Market Deals

    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...

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  9. 11 Nov 2016  |  North America  |  Market Research

    Twitter’s NFL Stream Challenged by Lack of Engagement and Profitable Business Model

    For the forseeable future, the NFL will not go much beyond experimenting with live streaming on platforms like Twitter.

    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...

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  10. 09 Nov 2016  |  North America  |  Market Research

    Insight on the Challenges of Implementing a QoS Video Strategy

    Lack of Solid Metrics and Real Data to Establish Quality of Service Hinders Online Video Industry

    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...

    $1,500.00