Martin Gibson recently joined the ActiveVideo team, and will lead all device ecosystem efforts worldwide. Martin will build out ActiveVideo’s client engineering and integration initiatives, and will define a partner integration and certification program, helping scale the number of devices that can access AppCloud.
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We're introducing a new series of insights from the ActiveVideo team - the Business of OTT. Hosted by Chris Linden, our COO, the Business of OTT introduces and explores some of the hottest trends, biggest themes and latest challenges for the OTT marketplace.
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Quibi will shut down on December 1, five weeks after co-founder Jeff Katzenberg announced that the short-form video streaming service was not viable. This is death without resurrection: the company will be liquidated, the cash refunded to investors, and the content IP returned to its creators after four years. Six...
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We recently took part in a webinar discussion hosted by Digital TV Europe looking at TV as an app. Kicking off the discussion, Omdia analyst Sam McLaughlin painted the picture of a crowded, disaggregated OTT market. He shared two options available to address disaggregation chaos: re-aggregate - with operators...
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When it comes to OTT content, original series are often what drives people to a particular platform or service. This means that not only do OTT providers want to secure the rights to the most potentially popular shows, they are in many cases producing their own content (Netflix for example) or in the case of...
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How do OTT providers battle for shelf space on the operator set-top box? The short answer is - they no longer need to face that battle. The slightly longer answer is outlined below, but let’s first set the scene...
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Working at ActiveVideo requires us all to be fully immersed in the world of OTT content. We obsess day in, day out about the very best ways to get the wealth of OTT video that’s out there to consumers in the most efficient way possible. It’s no longer about the 4 or 5 established apps. Yes, Netflix, Prime Video...
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