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Sports Rights: Operators Evolve the Pay TV Proposition as Costs Go UpAugust 21, 2015Premium sports rights remain of crucial importance to many pay TV operators’ businesses, for building and retaining customers of multiple products, not just TV. Rising costs are putting increasing pressure on service providers to maximise the value of rights, though. Innovating sports broadcasting for traditional pay TV customers is essential, but operators must also seek growth by unbundling access to their sports content, via more-flexible, standalone over-the-top (OTT) video services.Subscribers Only
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State of the Latam pay TV operator market Q1 2015 - Low penetration means big opportunityAugust 13, 2015Unlike more developed media markets, Latin America (Mexico, Chile, Argentina, and Brazil) offers significant room for video subscriber growth: pay TV penetration reached 45.5% in Q1 2015.Subscribers Only
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Football rights go through the roof, againFebruary 20, 2015The latest auction for rights to the Premier League, which saw a 70% increase in the value of live rights from 2016/17, underlines the continuing importance of premium sports in driving pay TV. If there were any doubts about whether Sky could maintain its leadership of the UK pay TV market without exclusive rights to the league, they were removed by Sky’s willingness to hike its contribution to the new deal by 85% to prevent rival BT from increasing its share. The question now is how Sky will fund the new deal, and how BT’s pay TV strategy will be affected. The report also compares the UK to five other European markets to identify where live league football sits among the offerings of the leading pay TV platforms.Subscribers Only
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Frosty times for Russian pay TVFebruary 17, 2015Pay TV operators and channels operating in Russia are facing changes in regulation which are certain to affect negatively their business over the next two years: an amendment to the media law restricting foreign ownership of Russian media companies which came into effect at the beginning of the year, and a ban on advertising on pay TV channels.Subscribers Only
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Q1 2014 TV Everywhere network app and portal authentication - Live streaming out of home more of a realityMay 07, 2014TV Everywhere is a robust solution to a growing problem, being intended to offer a compelling alternative to cutting the cord, and to attract newly forming households to pay TV. As of March 2014, 92 networks offer an authenticated app or web portal. Networks are incentivized to create apps because they will potentially capture advertising dollars through traffic on their web portal or app, which would have normally gone to pay TV operatorsSubscribers Only
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3DTV: Dead in the water?April 23, 2014Global 3DTV channel closures have begun to outpace channel launches, largely owing to a lack of consumer uptake. The overall growth profile of 3D and HD channels is beginning to diverge significantly when pegged to start year. This report offers an analysis of 3D channels from the emergence of the format and provides some insight on the future of 3DTV.Subscribers Only
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Movies on Basic Cable 2013 - Growth in the consumption of movie content continuesApril 11, 2014Cable networks are consuming more movie content, accounting for 14.9 per cent of all airtime on basic cable in 2013, an increase of 1,180 hours over 2011. They are seeing the benefit of airing movies that get better non-primetime ratings than some TV fare during the same timeslot.Subscribers Only
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YouTube Original Channels in EuropeOctober 25, 2013This report analyzes YouTube's European advance-funded channels in terms of growth, viewer numbers and the metrics of channel brand success and viewer loyalty.Subscribers Only
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Content Wall represents biggest roadblock to direct to consumer OTTAugust 27, 2013 Subscribers Only
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State of the Canadian pay TV operator market: Q4 2012: Pay TV penetration on the declineApril 24, 2013 Subscribers Only
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State of the US pay TV operator market 2012 - Fewer video additions pressure operatorsApril 11, 2013 Subscribers Only
