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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. 24 Nov 2016  |  North America

    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
  2. 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

    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
  3. 14 Nov 2016  |  North America

    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
  4. 14 Nov 2016  |  North America

    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...

    $1,500.00
  5. 11 Nov 2016  |  North America

    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...

    $1,500.00
  6. 09 Nov 2016  |  North America

    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
  7. 22 Sep 2016  |  South Asia, Middle East & North Africa

    Analysis of the Broadcast Video Content Marketplace in MENA

    Fragmented Demography and Millennial Population Present Vibrant Opportunities for Media Companies

    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...

    $1,500.00
  8. 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...

    $1,500.00
  9. 19 Sep 2016  |  Africa

    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
  10. 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

    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