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Report: Content best positioned to profit from OTT disruption

October 17, 2016 Jim O’Neill

OTT has become the fastest-growing method of video content consumption, and that growth is putting content owners in the best position to capitalize on the increasing audience fragmentation being caused by the rise of on-demand Read More

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Liberty Global shows Netflix some love, opening door for OTT growth

September 15, 2016 Jim O’Neill

There have been a lot of fluttering hands over the past two quarters concerning Netflix’s international growth potential. But the streamer’s deal this week with Liberty Global to put Netflix on the pay-TV operator’s next-gen Read More

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The perfect UI for TV? A crucial moving target

September 13, 2016 Jim O’Neill

Here’s an acronym that, if you’re not familiar with it now, you will be soon, because it increasingly describes vendors in the media industry: B2B4C… business-to-business for the consumer. Call it part of the consumer Read More

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Hooq sees original content as key ingredient to India’s OTT mix

August 30, 2016 Jim O’Neill

Is original content the recipe for online video success? Netflix, which plans to spend at least $5 billion on original content in 2016 and another $5 billion next year certainly thinks it’s one of the Read More

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Cable net Pivot, citing changing market, to shut down

August 17, 2016 Jim O’Neill

Participant Media today said it was shuttering its nearly four-year-old standalone cable network, Pivot, citing a changing media landscape that has become more difficult for independents. “We have been evaluating how we fulfill our mission Read More

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Number of scripted shows continues to rise, as do costs associated with them

August 10, 2016 Jim O’Neill

By 2017, Hollywood could be producing as many as 500 scripted TV shows, a 20% increase from last year’s record 417, according to FX Networks CEO John Landgraf, who told a Television Association Critics gathering Read More

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Netflix plans to top $6 billion content budget in 2017

July 28, 2016 Jim O’Neill

Netflix is planning to increase its investment in original and licensed content beyond the $6 billion it spent this year, Chief Content Officer Ted Sarandos told the Television Critics Assn. in Beverly Hills Wednesday. “It’ll Read More

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Dish bows Sling Orange and Sling Blue, with more content to boot

June 30, 2016 Jim O’Neill

Dish Network’s OTT service, Sling TV, continues to tweak its offerings as it looks to push subscriber numbers higher and maintain its lead in the virtual MSO space. Its new multi-stream service, which has been Read More

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Amazon Prime ups HDR content availability, promises more; 4K? What 4K?

June 28, 2016 Jim O’Neill

Don’t have a 4K/UHD TV yet? Not to worry, there’s really not that much content available for it yet, anyway. What there is, is an increasing flow of HDR content, juiced up content that looks Read More

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AMC partners with Machinima for SVOD gaming channel in Spain, Portugal

June 22, 2016 Jim O’Neill

AMC International Networks Iberia is partnering with many2many programming service Machinima to launch a gaming, eSports and heros SVOD channel for Spain and Portugal. The channel will be available via pay TV, smart TVs and Read More

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Videomind is edited by Brightcove Principal Analyst Jim O’Neill, a journalist with more than 30 years of experience, including more than 10 years in the online video space as a writer, editor and analyst.

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