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Is it time for streaming TV to rethink monthly billing?

Blog post by Ben Woods

26 Jan 2024

streaming tv

SVOD Services

bundling

What characteristics define the streaming TV revolution? The welter of content on offer? Big budget TV shows and binge watching? Perhaps th emost important is price point and consumer flexibility? The...

Welcome to the Metaverse, where audience fragmentation reigns

Blog post by Ben Woods

8 Dec 2022

metaverse

SVOD Services

social video

In Ernest Cline’s dystopian novel Ready Player One , the metaverse unfurls as a virtual universe where choice over identity and experience are boundless. Such is the seamless experience of Cline’s...

Will Content Fragmentation Drive a New Rise of Piracy?

Blog post by Hanna Kahlert

1 Aug 2019

content spend

Innovation

Mobile content

The digital content marketplace largely has peer-to-peer content piracy to thank for the behaviours and dynamics characterising it today. Piracy itself was the forefront of the new era, quickly being overtaken...

Sports SVOD Services: The Underdogs’ Game

Blog post by Hanna Kahlert

29 May 2019

addressable audience

binge viewing

carriage partnerships

Cord cutting and “the attention economy” are the landscaping trends reshaping everything video in 2019, and sports television – despite its reliably existent fanbase – is no exception. New sports...

Why Did Facebook’s EPL Rights Deal Collapse?

Blog post by Alistair Taylor

15 Mar 2019

BeIN Sports

bidding

brand image

The English Premier League (EPL) is now back on the market with its rights for Thailand, Laos, Cambodia and Vietnam following its deal with Facebook collapsing. Back in July 2018 , the social media giant...