OTT Video and TV Everywhere

Given how popular OTT services are, it isn’t immediately apparent how OTT providers are actually going to make money and become profitable. For years, it was assumed that the key to the success of any OTT business was simply to get enough scale and subscribers to cover the costs of licensing and distributing content. While there are a lot of choi...

The debate surrounding the use of a multi-CDN strategy has been gaining momentum over the last few months, with more case studies showing how it can be done. For a while now, multiple vendors have provided CDN load-balancing as a service, and in that time, customers have learned a lot about the process of configuring CDNs to improve quality and mat...

The growth of OTT and all video services is having a positive impact on the CDNs, but the growth of these services is tempered by the fact that: the actual rate of growth is small, pricing for the services is low, traffic is split out amongst multiple CDNs, and the number of bits needed to view on mobile and tablets is 2/3 smaller than what’s nee...

CDN is a highly scalable network that handles most requests from edge cache without impacting the content distributor’s origin and application infrastructure. However, the content must be available for retrieval on cache miss or when the request has to pass to the application. Whether the assets are videos, images, files, software binaries, or ot...

The Executive brief captures the key market highlights of the OTT Video Industry in Europe over the last year. With over 450+ video service providers in the region, the fragmented ecosystem has driven innovation in the form of several advanced value added features and innovative business models. The European OTT market is undergoing major transform...

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

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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...

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...

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...

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...