OTT operators need heightened awareness of how to manage the threat of piracy. But OTT also offers a promise: with the right legal framework, the available technical solutions could bring video piracy to dramatically lower levels.
This is a story about the COO of a media business, that shines a light on the thinking underway at the leading edge of the media industry, where the balance shift from Linear Broadcasting to D2C Streaming is firmly underway.
OTT is driving the next great rebundle. After years of D2C streaming, unbundling and fragmentation, we are now reaching a stage where we have so many D2C Apps that consumers are looking for simplicity and convenience again.
OTT offers an amazing promise – to significantly increase the return on advertising spend by targeting consumers more effectively.
Poor quality streaming loses viewers at an alarming rate especially when we consider the unintended consequences of poor error reporting on streaming players.
A D2C streaming service requires an understanding of satisfaction with the service – the quality of it, the ease of use, the style of use – which requires the right technology and a focused information-gathering approach.
The last 56k dialup modem I bought in 1998 cost more than double the price of a 28k modem, and the double bandwidth was worth the extra money. New Wi-Fi 7 devices are similarly premium-priced because early adaptation of leading-edge new technology is nearly always expensive. The 6 GHz Wi-Fi band was introduced in 2020 as Wi-Fi 6E (aka IEEE 802.11ax) and it covers from 5.925 to 7.125 GHz. Recently introduced Wi-Fi 7 (aka IEEE 802.11be) is the first standard to actively aggregate the new 6 GHz band with the 2.4, and 5 GHz bands.
Broadcast service providers delivering live production, contribution, playout and transmission services have observed the continuous and accelerating movement towards OTT services.