5G Broadcast Positioned As Revenue Winner For Telcos At Mobile World Congress 2023 March 14^th 2023 - 09:00 AM

Mobile World Congress (MWC) has become an increasingly relevant show for broadcasters and video service providers as more and more viewing takes place on smart phones, tablets and laptops, and as 5G networks becomes capable of delivering HD and even Ultra HD quality. This was truer than ever at the…

FAST vs. Linear TV: Part 2 - What Are The Real Differences? March 3^rd 2023 - 09:00 AM

FAST can deliver the promise of true personalization intertwined with mass market reach. This heady mix can maximize advertising revenues from the large audiences currently turning away from traditional Pay-TV services towards free streaming services.

Celebrating BEITC At NAB Show March 2^nd 2023 - 09:30 AM

As we approach the 2023 NAB Show in the NAB centenary year, we celebrate the unique insight and influence of the Broadcast Engineering & IT Conference that happens alongside the show each year.

FAST vs. Linear TV: Part 1 - What Are The Real Differences? February 20^th 2023 - 09:00 AM

FAST feels like a new name for Linear TV, just delivered over the internet, rather than involving DTT, cable, and IPTV networks. Perhaps this is why service providers and technology vendors are grappling with marketplace confusion about what FAST channels are and what they can be.

The Big Guide To OTT February 14^th 2023 - 09:00 AM

The Big Guide To OTT is a Themed Content Collection that provides deep insights into the technology that is enabling a new media industry. It is a very large scale body of content that will publish during 2023 and will exhaustively explore the technology and business models of OTT and streaming…

The OTT Lexicon For 2023: Part 2 - Should We Re-think Some Of Our Terminology? February 3^rd 2023 - 09:00 AM

While the business side of streaming has a host of terms that can confuse, the same can be said of the technology side. Sometimes the confusion stems from a lack of definition or an overuse of a term from so many different use cases that its meaning is lost. Sometimes…

Ten Years Later: NBC Sports’ Stamford Facility Grows With The Times January 30^th 2023 - 09:30 AM

It was ten years ago, in the fall of 2012, that NBCUniversal opened a new international broadcast center in Stamford Connecticut, as the home for NBC Sports. It served as a way to consolidate its growing employee base and the production activities of a number of physical assets the network owned…

The OTT Lexicon For 2023 January 20^th 2023 - 09:00 AM

The world of streaming is defined by acronyms like SVOD, AVOD, FAST, OTT and more. But this leaves gaps and confusion in what is included in our OTT services. For example, what does a service like BBC iPlayer include? What is watching the World Cup on RAIPlay called? Do we…

Sustainability Of Streaming: How Does OTT Compare With OTA? - Part 3 January 6^th 2023 - 09:00 AM

Parts 1 and 2 in this 3-part series analyzed the latest information about OTT and DTT energy consumption in the UK in the year 2021, concluding that there are important energy efficiency improvements to make in OTT, and some big decisions coming our way in DTT. Part 3 considers what some of the leading…

Streaming Will Drive Ad Targeting Across Multiple Platforms December 29^th 2022 - 09:00 AM

Philip Hunter shares his view on the key streaming trends of 2022 and where we might be headed in 2023.