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The broadcast video content marketplace in MENA is undergoing a transition in delivery technologies and platforms lately. With revenues from advertisements almost stagnant from free to air channels, broadcasters and content producers are adopting Pay TV platform for content monetization. Though Middle East and North Africa are considered as a singl...

Akamai must formulate a viable strategy to succeed in an industry that is volatile with thin margins. The company has a commoditized service offering and deals with customers that compete against it. It is challenged both by cloud providers that have more scale and ways to make money, and by competitors that have distinct CapEx advantages. Akamai i...

21 Nov 2016  |  North America  |  Market Research

Global Smart TV and Streaming Media Devices Markets, Forecast to 2021

Competition Sharply Accelerates in the Battle for Conduit to the Big Screen as Consumers Demand Quality Experiences and Ease of Content Delivery

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This study provides an in-depth analysis of the global streaming media devices market and the smart TV market. The thin client paradigm, where broadcast, pay TV, and on-demand content is delivered directly via the Internet to consumers, continues to grow. Streaming media devices, smart TVs, and to some extent game consoles and tablets, are at the f...

Scope of the Study This research study includes the following segments: Scope: Over-the-top (OTT) video viewing, live streaming, segmented by viewership, business models, smartphone usage, social media interaction Geographic scope: Middle East, Levant, GCC Revenue, subscriber analysis and forecasts, drivers and restraints, and segment-wise analys...

13 Apr 2017  |  Global  |  Market Research

Global Content Protection Market, Forecast to 2021

OTT, HTML5, and Cable IP-fication Disrupt Status Quo for Conditional Access Systems (CAS) and Digital Rights Management (DRM)

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Video service operators continue to rely heavily on content protection technologies to secure content, protect revenue, and meet content licensing obligations. However, the nature of protection technologies is expanding to encompass changing content delivery and rendering destinations including consumer electronics (CE) device apps and browsers. Th...

04 May 2017  |  North America  |  Market Research

Global Set-top Box Market, Forecast to 2021

High Demand for Hybrid Set-top Boxes and Ongoing Upgrade Cycles for Feature-rich Devices Drive Growth and Innovation

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Set-top box vendors are focused on supporting devices that enable seamless rendering of high-quality video on a powerful user interface. The global set-top box market crossed 272 million in unit shipments in 2016 and is expected to grow to 323.9 million units at a compound annual growth rate (CAGR) of 2.9% (2016-2021). The ongoing analog switch-off...

Given how popular OTT services are, it isn’t immediately apparent how OTT providers are actually going to make money and become profitable. For years, it was assumed that the key to the success of any OTT business was simply to get enough scale and subscribers to cover the costs of licensing and distributing content. While there are a lot of choi...

Scope of the Study This research study includes the following segments: Scope: broadcast trends, regional adoption index, technology solutions, live streaming, cloud adoption, compression standards, transcoding solutions, and content protection Geographic scope: Middle East, Levant, and GCC Key Questions Answered Who are the key technology ve...

The Industry Docket gauges the business opportunity for converged media services in Latin America, identifying the hottest markets for investment and scope for near term IPTV launch. It formulates a go-to-market strategy to penetrate such markets leveraging existing telecom and pay TV operators. The potential challenges of establishing triple-play ...