Lots Of Buzz Over Broadband Enabled TVs, But Impact Not Felt For Many Years
As the CES show in Vegas kicks off this week, the buzz and announcements around broadband enabled TVs is starting to heat up. Netflix and LG announced that come later this spring, a new line of...
View ArticleNumbers Show Consumers Are Not Cutting Cable In Favor Of Online Video
While there has been a lot of talk in our industry of consumers cutting their cable TV services in favor of online video content offerings, that's more myth than fact. Yes, some consumers who don't...
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Verizon To Keynote SM East Show: Outline Their Plans To Bring Internet Video...
Joe Ambeault, Director of Product Development and Management for Video Services at Verizon has been added as our final keynote at next month's Streaming Media East conference. Over the last 3 years...
View ArticleCable Companies Hyping Over-The-Top Video, But Where’s The Business Model?
With all the news this week about Comcast’s “On Demand Online” trial and the number of broadcasters who announced they will be offering up programming for the trial, I'm still not seeing where the...
View ArticleTV Everywhere Is All Hype: Comcast Raising Rates To Pay For “Free” Service
For the past two years now, many in the online video industry have been falling all over themselves to hype TV Everywhere services and preach about how they are the future of the broadcast industry....
View ArticleAereo Announces More Funding, For A Service No One Really Wants
On a conference call this morning, Aereo announced they have raised another $38M in funding and plan to expand to nearly two dozen cities in the U.S. this year. The Barry Diller/IAC backed company...
View ArticleTV Everywhere News Roundup: A List Of The Best Articles
There were a lot of news stories over the past week on TV Everywhere, its lack of use, deployment delays and hurdles keeping it from going mainstream. Here’s a round-up of the ones I read: TV...
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Verizon Falsely Promising Better Quality Netflix Streaming With Faster, More...
Last week I contacted Verizon to discuss the renewal of my two-year FiOS Triple Play contract which already gives me 50Mbps up/down. Three different sales reps via the phone and one via an online chat...
View ArticleThe Online Video Advertising Market Is Severely Broken, And It’s Only Getting...
As a consumer, I want a good user experience when I watch video no matter the platform or device I am using. It’s what all consumers want and something the online video industry has been promising for...
View ArticleNo OTT Service Has Figured Out How To Achieve Service & Monetization Parity...
It’s no secret that TV by appointment is giving way to OTT-centric preferences. Frost & Sullivan’s research numbers corroborate this trend at many levels such as growing rates of OTT viewership,...
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Live Streaming Of Super Bowl 52 Looking Good Across All Devices and Platforms
The live stream of Super Bowl 52 is looking great so far, across all the devices and platforms I’ve tried. I’ve tested the stream on Amazon Fire TV (NBC Sports App, SlingTV), MacBook (Firefox, Chrome,...
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UPDATED: Verizon Ditches Cable Bundles and Contracts, Offers New “Mix &...
[Updated Jan 11th: While not mentioned by Verizon, if you are a current Verizon customer you can’t make any changes to your account via phone. You have to use the Verizon website, which is HORRIBLE and...
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Webinar: Hear My Thoughts on The Top 2021 Streaming Trends and What’s Next
2020 was the year of unexpected changes, but it doesn’t stop there. Join me and Till Sudworth from NPAW — Nice People At Work, as we discuss how the streaming experience is changing in 2021. No...
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As The NFL Negotiates a New Partner for NFL Sunday Ticket, Amazon Appears To...
Last week, I talked to various individuals tied to the current negotiations between the NFL and CBS, NBC, ESPN and FOX as it pertains to broadcast TV and streaming rights for NFL content. Currently,...
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US Pay TV Losses Hit 5.6M Subs in 2020, as vMVPD Live Streaming Growth Also...
With the majority of cable and satellite TV operators in the US having reported Q4 and 2020 earnings, combined, they lost at least 5.6M pay TV subscribers last year. That number includes lost...
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Growth of vMVPD Services Stalling: Sling TV Added Only 260,000 Subs in 4 Years
In a previous blog post I detailed how the pay TV market lost at least 5.6M subscribers in 2020. While that would seem like good news for live linear streaming services like Sling TV, Hulu, YouTube...
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Paramount+: 65-75M Subs by 2024; $4.99 and $9.99 Packages; Select Films...
ViacomCBS held their big streaming service reveal for the March 4th launch of Paramount+ and the company didn’t disappoint. There was a lot of news to digest from the event, both in the volume of new...
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AT&T Sells Stake in DIRECTV to PE Firm: New Video Unit Combines DIRECTV, AT&T...
AT&T announced that it has sold a minority stake in DIRECTV to the private equity arm of TPG. The two parties will establish a new company named DIRECTV (“New DIRECTV”) that will own and operate...
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Kaltura Files S-1 For IPO: $120M in 2020 Revenue, Other Key Takeaways
Video cloud platform provider Kaltura has filed their S-1 and will be going public under the symbol of KLTR. It’s expected they will IPO sometime in Q2. I’ve read through the entire document and...
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Netflix Misses Subs Estimate: Added 3.98M Subs In Q2, Will Spend Over $17B on...
Netflix reported their Q1 2021 earnings, adding 3.98M subscribers in the quarter (estimate was for 6M) and finished the quarter with 208M total subscribers. On the positive side, Netflix reported...
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