Global consumer spend on online video has exploded in 2011, according to the latest research – Global OTT Video Forecast: Q4 2011 – from Strategy Analytics. Global online video spend will soar to $3.5 billion in 2011. While transactional revenue growth is slowing in maturing territories, subscription revenues driven by specialists – such as Netflix …
Tag Archive: Video
Nov
25
Pay TV Industry Under Threat From New Options
New technologies and players in the video distribution industry are threatening the viability of the pay television sector. Independent telecoms analyst firm Ovum, in a new report released on Thursday, pointed out that as a result of the new forms of competition, pay-TV subscription growth has slowed down in several Australian markets. The competition includes …
Nov
18
India’s first mobile movie portal from Vuclip
California-based mobile video service provider Vuclip today launched India’s first independent mobile movie portal — Starlight Cinema. This would offer users the option of watching shortened feature films, movie clips, songs, reviews and trailers. Movies can be downloaded on low-end feature phones as well, without the need to download any application. Offering 9,000 movie clips …
Nov
09
Over-the-top influence spreading
Over-the-top content providers are successfully breaking into new consumer electronics devices, leading to a significant increase in transactions. A new report from IMS Research suggests that in 2016, connected CE devices in the home will account for 27% of all OTT video transactions, up from 6% in 2010. One of the key drivers behind this …
Nov
09
Global OTT video worth €22bn in 2015
IDATE has released its report “Online Video: Uses, Markets, delivery technologies/CDN” which studies both the online consumer and video delivery market. “We expect the worldwide online video market to grow at an average rate of 35 per cent per year between 2010 and 2015 to reach €21.7 billion in 2015, some six per cent of …
Nov
08
Convergence Review mulls global internet content rules
Google, content aggregators may get caught. Convergence Review chairman Glen Boreham has suggested the Government “name and shame” offshore content providers that try to skirt planned Australian regulations. Boreham told delegates of the Communications Policy & Research Forum that enforcement represents a key challenge for regulators, particularly when dealing with large international players like Google. …
Oct
28
YouTube enhances its on screen experience
YouTube has made a few enhancements to its ‘user experience’, the company writes in his official blog, including the launch of the WeVideo online video editing platform. The online video portal added the cloud-based video editing platform WeVideo as a partner to YouTube.com/Create. This gives loaders more options to edit and touch up their videos. …
