The Arab podcast industry is advancing rapidly, driven by growth in the region’s digital culture and a heightened desire for learning. Community-like discussions, conversational content and a sense of reliability...
‘Gone are the days of linear’ used to be the conversation. With the growth of FAST, will the conversation now be the reinvention of linear? A recent panel hosted by...
During Covid-19, have some media entities had great success even outside the OTT environment? They have, as we learned during the CEO panel at the ASBU BroadcastPro Summit last month.
With revenue from AR-generated ads estimated to hit $15bn by 2022, media houses are looking to leverage 5G-connected wearable technologies to secure a piece of the pie, especially within sports,...
The Demand for More Coverage By 2025 there will be 5.9 billion unique mobile subscribers, with mobile internet and smartphones driving most of the growth. In addition to mobile subscribers,...
With consumer viewing habits changing rapidly, traditional methods of labelling and logging metadata no longer seem to be keeping pace.
With per capita consumption of social media across the MENA among the highest in the globe, the second panel discussion on OTT and social media made for compelling listening at...
Salloum El Dahdaah, CTO, ITWorksME.Lebanon-headquartered OTT solutions provider ITWorksME speaks to BroadcastPro ME on designing, customising and deploying an online platform for Saudi Broadcasting Corporation in...
Ron Downey, CEO, Massive Interactive.Ron Downey, CEO at Massive, identifies the stand-out OTT trends in the market and urges operators to deliver a tailored experience to...
The panel discussion on internet video at the annual ASBU BroadcastPro ME Selevision Summit 2017 focused on profitability, partnerships, premium content and the scourge of piracy.Since the pre-YouTube era of...
Glodina Lostanlen, CMO, Imagine Communications.Terms like cloud-native and cloud-enabled are being used increasingly within broadcast and often interchanged by people who assume they mean the same thing....
Goran Appelquist, Chief Technology officer at Edgeware.Does a dedicated TV CDN deliver the best value when serving regional TV markets like the Middle East, or is...
Adam Nightingale isVP Sales EMEA at Accedo.A dynamic user experience can increase conversion, engage the user, reduce churn and ultimately increase revenue, says Adam Nightingale TV service...
Rodrigo Fernandes.Operators worldwide have recognised the need to build an OTT service, and have started down that road. Rodrigo Fernandes of Irdeto has some dos and don'ts...
Tim Felstead.Although there have been one-off events produced in 4K, the technology is still far from ready to be adopted for mainstream broadcast. Tim Felstead discusses...
Andrew Wajs.There needs to be greater awareness that cybercrime has evolved in recent years. In essence, the attack surface is now much bigger, making platform security...
The broadcast industry has changed dramatically over the last decade, even just over the last few years. While the viewer has certainly had a lot to do with it ...
Todays IP technology offers a best-of-all-worlds combination of increasing performance with decreasing costs, says Brad PriceWhile the transition from analogue to digital is nearly complete in all realms of professional audio,...
Ken Tankel is Product Manager at Linear Acoustic.Embracing scalable technology like AoIP will become increasingly critical if organisations want to seamlessly accommodate emerging audio requirements and...
Paul Wallis, Director of Sales, Middle East, Imagine Communications.The IT industry is massive compared with the broadcast industry broadcasters would be foolish not to take...
Understanding the dynamics of the media player, and how to efficiently integrate metadata into live streams, will help broadcasters elevate the streaming radio experience and remain competitiveThe proliferation of digital...
Sanjay Salil, Managing Director, MediaGuru.This report, jointly undertaken by MediaGuru and Arab Advisors Group, analyses the state of convergence between media, gadgets and telecom in the...
Yarod Sakhnini, Regional Director, MEMA at Brocade.A high-performance infrastructure can address many of the challenges of a multi-entity, digital media production and distribution system to deliver...
Michel Merten, CEO, Memnon.Media assets of many a broadcaster are decaying for lack of platforms to play them. They need to act fast to keep their...
Andy Rayner.As the broadcast eco-system becomes more virtual, we find out what software-defined networks really mean to broadcastersAs broadcasting moves into an environment increasingly driven by...
Glenn LeBrun.Affordable, reliable and easy to manage, Cloud Disaster Recovery is proving to be a practical and effective choice for ensuring business continuity in the event of...
Easy access to high-quality content has allowed pirates to stream copyrighted material, directly impacting the industrys revenue. Technology, however, can help combat piracy, says Mathieu BonenfantThe broadcast industry in the...
Pierre Mestrez is Market Solution Manager at EVS.Producers have to find new ways to win audiences, and at the same time, control production costs to be...
Alec Stichbury.Replacing SDI with IP offers significant benefits, not only in cost butalso in the flexibility of design that IP supports. It's high time we made...
While a proliferation of devices enables the delivery of premium content to far more consumers, it also makes content more vulnerable to illegal use. According to security experts, the bigger...
As demand for TV everywhere grows, broadcasters must face the reality of providing an immersive experience to viewers, which means better connectivity and improved online services A decade ago, broadcast commentators...
Mohamed Hamed is Head of Business Development & Sales at Piksel.OTT opportunities abound in the Middle East, thanks to the high uptake of smartphones and tabs....
Meghali Sharma, Intigral.Thanks to a world of ever-evolving smart applications, television viewership has become a multiscreen experience. The disruption has become the new industry norm, and...
HEVC was developed in response to the growing need for higher compression of moving pictures. While it has much promise as a compression technology, HEVC is probably not the wisest...
With evolving broadcast technology, disaster recoveryhas taken the software approach and broadcasters are investingin multi-site operations for data to be synchronised across the globeWeve all heard the phrase Disaster Recovery...
Eleuterio Fernandes, Exterity.Security is key in professional IPTV and is likely to become more important as the reach of these services grows. Eleuterio Fernandes sheds light...
Julián Fernández-Campón.In todays digital world, MAM offers much more than a database and has transitioned to a content management system thats fully integrated with the entire...
Traditional pay-TV and telco companies are losing subscribersand revenue to the open internet and OTT players. They need to adapt quickly to stay in the game, says Ben KinealyYouTube channel...
Owing to the proliferation of second screen and social media, the traditional living room TV model is changing. What does this phenomenon have in store for the broadcasters? The continued...
Luc Doneux, Executive Vice President Sports Division, EVS.Smart devices, coupled with ubiquitous broadband connectivity, is transforming the way we consume media and this is something that...
Rino Petricola, COO and GM at Front Porch Digital.With growing appetite among consumers for connected TVs, direct online publishing that is connected to the cloud makes...
It is only by reimagining archive as a unified repository of assets, which are integral to production, preparation and delivery workflows, that its value can be unlocked, says Raoul CospenContent...
Ian Trow is Senior Director of Emerging Technology and Strategy at Harmonic.While NHK and the Japanese government have been very proactive in promoting 8K, the format may...
Michael Shore is Co-founder of Pronology.When choosing an appropriate MAM solution, the user needs to understand that each companys MAM needs are different. While some may choose...
John Ive is Director of Business Development & Technology at IABM.Although it is still early to predict how quick the adoption of higher resolutions will be,...
Chuck Meyer, CTO, Core Products at Miranda Technologies.The key to designing a facility that can successfully implement an IP-based system lies in fully understanding the technology,...
Shibu Vahid, Head of Technical Operations, R&M Middle East, Turkey and Africa.As fast-growing traffic continues to stretch the capacity of 3G networks to their limit, fibre...
OTT opens up new opportunities and revenue streams for television channels but comes with its own set of challenges, says Safia RanaThe Middle East has witnessed an explosion in the...
Embracing a cloud-based CSM system can provide a media company with the benefits of content storage management while sparing them the headache of operational costs, says Rino PetricolaMedia assets are...
OTT offers innumerable opportunities that also come with a host of challenges. With more viewers taking to the second and third screens, broadcasters want to grab a share of the...
OTT in the Middle East offers a unique opportunity for broadcasters, who need to understand that a modular approach to these solutions is the way forwardNot so long ago, we...
Stuart Brown, Cobham.In a highly competitive broadcast environment, small but powerful broadcast technology benefits from customer-driven requirementsIn a see-it-now world, you have to figure out how...
As consumers viewing habits continue to change with second screens becoming more prevalent, broadcasters need to adopt smart strategies to monetise content thats available to them, says Johann SchreursAs smart devices,...
It is vital to know the cost of delivering content on multiple platforms in order to develop a monetisation strategy. Tony Taylor discusses the challenges facing broadcasters today and recommends...
Its the right time to tap into the multiscreen viewing opportunity in emerging markets as online viewing gains momentum, says Jennifer BaischMarkets such as the Middle East hold enormous potential...
Live PipelineThe trend has been to separate encoding from the packaging and encryption functions to provide greater flexibility. Depending on the resilience of the design (N, N+1 or 2N encoders per live...
Tom Jahr is EVP Products & Partners at Conax.While a growing range of new consumer devices, video and distribution formats continue to create demand for more...
The rapid and global growth of the handheld device market, the emergence of more robust network infrastructures, and the drop in the cost of bandwidth is causing a shift in...
Chris lennon, President and CEO, MediAnswers.Well-known industry names, Chris Lennon and Peter Storer have launched a consulting firm in the run up to NAB.MediAnswers is a...
The BBC has commissioned a drama strand exclusively for its iPlayer platform, in an extension of its strategy to bolster its digital content portfolio.The new drama strand comprises a joint...
