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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. 10 Aug 2016  |  North America

    Global Digital Broadcast and Cinematography Cameras Market

    Demand Saturation Slows Total Market; Lower-Priced, Flexible Products will Drive Purchases

    This research service examines the global digital broadcast and cinematography cameras market. Detailed market trend analyses, including market drivers, market restraints, technology trends, and segment analysis, are provided. Revenue forecasts are projected through 2020. The global market has been segmented into North America and Latin America; As...

    $4,950.00
  8. 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
  9. This Frost & Sullivan report focuses on the current state of the MVPD market, the rise of OTT video services, how consumers view each market, and what service providers need to do to retain subscribers.

    $5,000.00
  10. 13 Jul 2016  |  North America

    Analysis of the Global Media Content Delivery Network (CDN) Market

    This study provides revenue forecasts, segmentation by region, and market share analysis for the global media content delivery network (CDN) market. Analysis includes revenues from media (video and software downloads) delivery only and does not include revenues from value-added services such as security and dynamic site acceleration. The regional f...

    $4,950.00