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Local content is key to streaming audiences globally… that’s creating opportunity

May 5, 2020 Jim O’Neill

A new study says Netflix and Amazon Prime in particular are looking to grow their international markets by ramping up their local content mix. Ampere Analysis reports markets like Japan, India and China are getting Read More

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Streaming revolution comes of age at this year’s Emmys

September 24, 2019 Jim O’Neill

Let’s see… an Emcee-less Emmy Awards Show? No big deal. The top awards won by a trio of ad-free networks that you pay a monthly fee for? Now, that’s next-gen TV. The streaming revolution has Read More

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OTT

Fresh content is key strategy for SVOD growth in EMEA

August 15, 2019 Jim O’Neill

A steady stream of fresh content is a key strategy some of the largest subscription video players are using in the battle to gain supremacy in the EMEA market, a new study shows. Between 14% Read More

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Report pulls video piracy from the shadows

June 26, 2019 Jim O’Neill

A new study says video piracy cost the US economy $29.2 billion in lost revenue during 2017
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EMEA

Amazon gives Spanish viewers a peek at Prime Instant Video

November 30, 2016 Jim O’Neill

Spanish subscribers to Amazon Prime are getting a sneak peak of Amazon’s Prime Instant Video SVOD service. Following on the heels of HBO’s deployment of its own streaming service in Spain, Amazon this week started Read More

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Cloud TV

A marriage on the rocks: HBO reportedly looks to dump BAMTech

November 30, 2016 Jim O’Neill

After much ado about a big investment in developing its own streaming TV platform that didn’t go as expected in time for its launch, HBO turned to BAMTech for its April 2015 rollout. But, as Read More

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PlayStation Vue nabs HBO, Cinemax

September 15, 2016 Jim O’Neill

File this in the “If you build it they will come” file. HBO soon will be available on PlayStation Vue, Sony’s virtual MSO that’s now available across the U.S. HBO Now is also part of Read More

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Amazon Fire TV adds Netflix, HBO Go, HBO Now to universal search

September 7, 2016 Jim O’Neill

One of Amazon Fire TV’s best features is its ability to search outside Amazon Prime Instant Video. Yes, the search still prioritizes its master’s content, listing availability on Prime Instant Video and Prime’s electronic sell Read More

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LatAM

HBO ups its HD game for Chilean pay-TV subscribers

May 5, 2016 Jim O’Neill

Basic pay-TV subscribers in Chile who have HD encoders and TV sets and also subscribe to the basic HBO package will be treated to a free upgrade to the premium HD HBO package. HBO’s premium Read More

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Content

Canada embarks this week on a short path to true a la carte pay TV

March 2, 2016 Jim O’Neill

The era of true a la carte pay TV has begun to roll out in Canada, putting conventional wisdom that the bundle is the best deal for consumers to the test, and setting up the 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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