Here are few interesting numbers from the world of online video that have emerged in the last few weeks. These numbers reflect the strong growth in online video engagement, advertising in online video, and the continuing market dominance of Apple’s iPad in the tablet device category. Americans watched an average of 18 hours of online [...]
TORONTO – TIFF announces the election of four new members to the TIFF Board of Directors: Chetan Mathur, Geetu Pathak, Rod Phillips and Wayne Purboo. “We are delighted to welcome four dynamic and professional individuals to our Board of Directors,” said Paul Atkinson, Chair, Board of Directors, TIFF. “Each of our new directors brings a [...]
Here are three links that show the impact of smartphones and video consumption on mobile data use. Smart Affection: Smartphones seems to be the darling CE device of the majority of owners. “Overall, 72% of smartphone owners used a positive word (such as “good”, “great”, “excellent” or “convenient”) to describe their phones, 16% used a [...]
Multiscreen TV services are strategically important to pay TV providers due to the growing consumer demand for them. Research by Alcatel-Lucent indicates over 70 percent of young consumers are highly interested in multiscreen services. QuickPlay’s own surveys of mobile subscribers in both the UK and the US indicate that over 48 percent are interested in [...]
Explosion of Tablet Market: It seems that the tablet market will continue to grow at an exponential rate. DigiTimes predicts that 54-56 million tablets will be sold in 2011 and that this number will hit 98-100 million tablets in 2012. Forrester has also published their latest figures, forecasting that 48 million tablets will be sold [...]
In this post I present three links that provide some interesting statistics regarding factors that will positively impact consumption and delivery of premium video on IP connected devices. Smartphones are selling like hot cakes. By 2016 Juniper forecasts that smartphone shipments will increase from 302 million in 2010 to 1 billion annually. This will be [...]
During the 2011 Cable Show in Chicago, TV Everywhere was on every attendee’s mind, but not yet available everywhere. At the show it was evident the cable industry was feeling the pain from the lack of consensus within its ecosystem as to how to effectively execute on the TV Everywhere promise. In this post we [...]
The significant amount of press coverage of Over The Top (OTT) services such as Netflix, Hulu, and Apple TV have led to the perception that cord cutting is happening on a large scale and that it is disrupting the established players in the ecosystem. This is not the reality. During the Cable Show in Chicago, [...]
The word “app” is part of our everyday vernacular and is on every major consumer electronic company’s product plan. On July 7, 2011 Apple announced the iTunes App Store had crossed the 15 billion app download mark. After dominating our mobile screens, it should be no surprise…
Deal for facility is part of company’s U.S. and global expansion plans By George Winslow — Broadcasting & Cable Toronto, Canada-based QuickPlay Media is acquiring the network operations center assets of FLO TV, the mobile TV services owned by Qualcomm that was shut down earlier this year. Terms of the deal for the 30,000-square foot [...]
