YouTube TV goes after traditional video
By Joseph Williams While Google has only waded into the over-the-top video space with its new limited YouTube TV offering, the platform could change the video advertising business as it expands. The Alphabet Inc. unit will compete with similar offerings …
“Tindering” Content: Choosing the Best Outlet for Your Story
When: 17 Oct 2016, Monday, 9:45am Where: Cannes, France Event: MIPCOM, the world’s content market Do you want to go beyond Netflix? There are plenty of niche platforms today that differ wildly from the global OTT platforms we’ve come to …
A new Hulu takes shape
By Joseph Williams OTT is growing up. Netflix Inc. has long led the way in monetizing video on demand, and many OTT companies have tried to recreate its recipe. But the first way to profit is never the only way …
Streaming Services Can Use Creative Windowing to Succeed
By Joseph Williams CBS Corp.’s Les Moonves and Time Warner Inc.’s Jeffrey Bewkes barely rang in the new year before attempting to make more over-the-top television history, it seems. Already, Moonves surprised industry observers by launching CBS All Access, the …
2015: OTT, A Year In Review
By Tom Butts Netflix, Amazon, Yahoo, Hulu… who would have thought as recently as five years ago that these services would have some of the most innovative programming on television? If you doubt the strength of OTT, you don’t have …
OTT Video Search App Launched by Yahoo
By Michelle Clancy Yahoo has released the Yahoo Video Guide for searching for movies and TV shows across more than 30 online services. Users can search Netflix, Amazon Video, Hulu, HBO Go, YouTube, ABC, CBS, Fox, NBC and others for …
Survey Concludes Consumers Prefer Alternative Viewing Platforms to Cable & Satellite TV
By Kristin Brzoznowski for World Screen The use of alternative viewing platforms by U.S. consumers is poised to eclipse cable and satellite TV, with nearly half of consumers already using streaming video services such as Netflix, Apple TV, Amazon Prime …
Discovery Embarks on OTT ‘Million March’
Discovery Networks International is launching OTT services throughout Europe. Its top executives explain how the channel operator will win streaming customers in big numbers, as it starts on its ‘March to a Million’. By Stewart Clarke When TBI was the …
FilmTake OTT Video Report Summary
Over-the-Top Video Present & Future The Latest International Distribution Data & Insights TV is taking over the Internet – not the other way around “Consumers do not care which pipe information and entertainment comes from, provided the service delivers the …