OTT Question Time Live 2023 — The new OTT Frontier? Going Small is the New Going Big!
Kate Dean, VP Direct to Consumer at Universal Pictures talking to Simon Danker, Founder & MD of Glandore Media, at OTT Question Time Live on 31 January 2023. To watch the video please login or register with VOD Professional. (This page will refresh once you’ve logged in. The [...]
OTT Question Time Live 2023 — Driving Engagement, Discoverability and Personalisation in a FAST World
Peter Docherty, Co-Founder & CTO at ThinkAnalytics in conversation with Hari Thirunavukkarasu, SVP Sales & Business Head EMEA at Amagi, at OTT Question Time Live on 31 January 2023. **
OTT Question Time Live 2023 — Licensing – The New World
Imrun Islam, Head of Film & TV Licensing UK at STUDIOCANAL in conversation with Lydia Fairfax, Founder & MD of Triple Crown Consulting, at OTT Question Time Live on 31 January 2023. To watch the video please login or register with VOD Professional. (This page will refresh once [...]
OTT Question Time Live 2023 — Samsung TV+
Oliver Davies, European Product Lead at Samsung TV+ talking to Lydia Fairfax, Founder & MD at Triple Crown Consulting, at OTT Question Time Live on 31 January 2023. To watch the video please login or register with VOD Professional. (This page will refresh once you’ve logged in. The [...]
OTT Question Time Live 2023 — Content co-Productions as the New Normal for OTT?
Marc Lorber, former SVP International co-Productions at Lionsgate in conversation with Ben Keen, independent analyst and board level advisor, at OTT Question Time Live on 31 January 2023. To watch the video please login or register with VOD Professional. (This page will refresh once you’ve logged in. The [...]
OTT Question Time Live 2023 — The Booming OTT Scene in India
Pranab Kapadia, Director of Moviegoers Entertainment in conversation with Clare Kandola, CEO The Vidya Collective, at OTT Question Time Live on 31 January 2023. To watch the video please login or register with VOD Professional. (This page will refresh once you’ve logged in. The video will appear below!) [...]
OTT Question Time Live 2023 — The State of the OTT Industry
Gulliver Smithers, former CTO Product & Technology at Sony Pictures, hosted an all-star panel at OTT Question Time Live on 31 January this year. Together with Kerensa Samanidis, Head of International, Channel 4, Rose Hulse, CEO, ScreenHits TV, Will Harrison, former MD BritBox UK and Richard Lindsay-Davies, CEO, [...]
OTT Question Time Live 2023 — The Launch of ITVX
Deep Bagchee, Chief Product Officer at ITV talking to Matt Simpson, MD at Candyspace, at OTT Question Time Live on 31 January this year. [/pp-logged-users]
OTT Question Time Live 2023 — The Engagement Paradox
A presentation from Jonathan Kelly, Experience Director at Candyspace. To watch the video please login or register with VOD Professional. (This page should refresh once you've logged in!) ** **
OTT Question Time Live 2023 — The Missed Opportunity for UX-First Thinking in OTT
At OTT Question Time Live 2023 (London, 31 Jan 2023) With new technologies and distribution paradigms all the rage at the likes of IBC, NAB and of course OTTQT, Justin Fyles, MD of Skylark, asks, "When did we start putting user experience second?" To watch the video please [...]
Webinar – The Streaming 100 Report
To misquote Shakespeare, all the world’s a stream especially when it comes to our evolving media consumption habits. OTT video, music, gaming, social, sports, editorial as well as arts and culture streaming services, all vie for our attention. But which ones are the most popular, have the best [...]
The Streaming 100 Report
Digital product experts Candyspace today launch The Streaming 100 — a report detailing the top 100 streaming platforms across multiple verticals in the UK - in partnership with VOD Professional. The paper evaluates over 200 digital products that each have a significant streaming element to their product from [...]
In OTT Discovery is now King
With subscriber growth stalling, streaming businesses need to invest more in the experience of discovering content, writes Candyspace’s Creative Partner, Martin Brierley “Dark clouds are gathering for the streaming industry” warned Fortune magazine back in April. And with news in October that 1m British households have opted [...]
OTT Question Time #67 – The Most Popular OTT Devices
Take a look back at the history of the most popular devices for watching online video and a fascinating picture emerges. In 2011, for example, 67% of the BBC iPlayer’s 1.9 billion TV requests were made from computers (PCs, laptops and Macs). That’s no huge surprise – smartphones [...]
Catch me if you can: How to ensure your VOD team moves with your subscribers
Candyspace Partner, Martin Brierley, explains how media companies can fast track their product development roadmap in the middle of a global talent crisis During the COVID pandemic, Video-on-Demand (VOD) platforms benefited from substantial growth. For instance, Netflix saw an uplift of 28 million new subscribers in the [...]
OTT Question Time #66 – Analysing OTT ARPU
In our recent OTT Question Time about Disney vs. Netflix, Alan Wolk of TVREV told us that although technically Disney had more subscribers than Netflix (222.1m vs. 220.7m) that might not be the best metric for comparing the two companies. Why? Because over a quarter of Disney’s customers [...]
OTT Question Time #65 – Innovations in OTT Pay Models
At this week’s OTT Question Time (Thursday 29th September 2022) we talked about established OTT pay models - PVOD, TVOD, SVOD, SVOD-lite, AVOD, BVOD and FAST - and explored the spaces in between. Could we see new tiers, for example, just for habitual binge-watchers? Or for digital-premieres? [...]
OTT Question Time #64 – IBC 2022 Review
After an absence of three years, IBC – the International Broadcasting Convention – was back last week. This was a chance for the industry to come together, share knowledge, exhibit technologies and solutions, and meet people for the first time who they might previously only have seen [...]
OTT Question Time #63 – Disney Overtakes Netflix?
Breathy headlines last week as Disney – now with 221m streaming subscribers – was reported to have edged past Netflix as the world's biggest SVOD. And they did it in less than three years! And Disney is still growing fast! Netflix dethroned! But is that an accurate [...]
OTT Pay Model Innovations
Until now, at least here in the UK, OTT pay models have remained relatively simple. We have PVOD, TVOD, SVOD, AVOD and paid-by-licence-fee. Am I missing any? None of the biggest players have experimented with AVOD-lite like Hulu. Companies like Channel 4 and ITV have, instead, encouraged viewers [...]