By Dan Goikhman, CEO, Unreel Once perceived as the less-reliable brother to subscription-based powerhouses, ad-based on demand (AVOD)...

For an odd year, when there are normally fewer high profile sports events, 2019 has been blessed with a full summer of sport – and...

By Juliet Walker, chief marketing officer, Globecast There’s no avoiding the trials and initial deployments of 5G networks: they’re the...

We all want everything, everywhere at all times – from classics to the cutting edge. Yet this means that providers need to have masses of...

Even though there has been a large uptake of sets capable of receiving and playing out 4K/Ultra HD content, the number of services across...

Having access to massive content libraries doesn’t mean anything if you can’t guarantee a good experience in playing it. This means if...

Until recently server-side dynamic ad insertion was only considered for live monetisation, but now it’s crossing over to VOD as well....

High dynamic range is being touted as the key element that will ensure the proliferation of 4K TV. Leading Ultra HD consultant Ian Nock...

There’s no question that the subscription economy is here to stay. However, balancing the competing requirements of acquiring, monetising...

The continued growth of OTT services will inevitably make people wonder just how to cash in. TJ Sullivan, EVP of sales at Digital Remedy,...

More content is being consumed on more platforms than ever before. But how can service providers ensure that customers’ increasing...

The mechanism of commercial trading of channel numbers has been an unexpected success. As a consequence, says Ed Hall, managing partner...

Exclusive to Rapid TV News, Adriana Waterston, senior vice-president, Insights & Strategy at Horowitz Research, offers her thoughts on...

This year’s Oscars saw the usual amount of haute couture and tears as the gongs were given to the great and the good. What it didn’t see...

Fast, reliable and reasonably priced live streaming has been the Holy Grail for broadcasters because not one solution has been able to...

As another CABSAT comes and goes for another year, what state of health is the Middle Eastern TV market in? A thriving one, says Giles...

2018 is undoubtedly the year when all broadcasters and service providers must turn their big pushes in growing subs into big revenues....

Access to an essentially free code base is dramatically reducing software development costs in terms of development cycles, due to system...

Using cloud-based technologies to secure content and analyse its uptake is not new. Yet, as reveals Verimatrix CEO Tom Munro, the...

There are a number of technological trends that we can expect to see in 2018, from the boom in multiscreen OTT viewing and...