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I’m Kauser Kanji and I work with broadcasters, content owners, streamers and vendors on their OTT products, technologies and commercial strategies.
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OTT Question Time S5, Ep 5 – OTT Service Feels
When you think, or talk, about various OTT services, what reactions do they evoke? Are they functional (catching up with Strictly Come Dancing on BBC iPlayer)? Transactional (Prime Video comes with my [...]
OTT Question Time Online, Season 5, Ep 4 – Olympics Debrief
Everything about the Olympics and Paralympics is at a gargantuan scale. The logistics, the venues, the ticket sales. The sponsors, the travel, the security. The inspiration, anticipation and the sheer spectacle of [...]
OTT Question Time Online S5, Ep3 – The Value of Content
One of the things that made the old TV model so successful was the relative scarcity of content. If you missed something when it was broadcast you’d have to wait for it [...]
OTT Question Time Online S5, Ep2 – IBC Preview
At this week’s OTT Question Time Online, Thurs 12 September, 4pm UK / 5pm CET, we’ll be talking about IBC – the industry’s biggest annual trade show in Europe. But fear not, [...]
OTT Question Time Online S5, Ep1 – Back to the Future
OTT Question Time Online returned on 29 August and in the first episode of Season 5 we debated whether, with streamers increasingly adopting broadcaster characteristics, the old broadcast model was right all along. [...]
Ad Tiers & Password-Sharing Crackdowns Go Hand-in-Hand
What happens when a streamer starts cracking down on password sharing? Some back-of-the-envelope thinking: Password-sharers (i.e. those not paying a subscription themselves) ignore messages and continue using the service for as long [...]
50 VOD Professionals 2024
** 2024 list now live! **
Nominated by you, adjudicated by a specialist panel, tell us about the most influential people working in the UK’s OTT industry over the past 12 months.
Featuring Amazon, Apple, the BBC, BritBox, Channel 4, DAZN, Everyone TV, Google, ITV, Metaphysic, Netflix, NOW, Pluto TV, Samsung, Sky, STUDIOCANAL, TiVo, Virgin Media, Warner Bros Discovery, YouTube and a range of independent streamers, vendors and service-providers.
