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Data: The center of the media industry
Aug 14 2018
The State of the Media Industry 2018 report confirmed: data is the key driver of businesses in media organizations and data-driven video is the way to go.
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Data? A growing, critical resource for the pay-TV and OTT industry
Jul 25 2017
Earlier this year, a survey of pay-TV providers by the Pay-TV Innovation Forum 2017 found that the majority of pay-TV execs believed data and analytics will be critical to pay TV direction over the next five years.
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Ooyala’s Q2 2016 Video Index: Mobile, power users rule
Sep 21 2016
Streaming video is becoming more and more mainstream, with users in virtually every demographic cutting back on traditional TV viewing and replacing it with SVOD, AVOD and TVOD content. And, again across all demographics, users increasingly are watching on mobile devices.
Ooyala’s Q2 2016 Global Video Index, released today, shows that mobile – for the first time ever – made up 51% of all video views; that’s up 204% from just two years ago.
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KT leverages big data to launch shopping service tied to IPTV
Jul 18 2016
South Korean service provider KT has rolled out a new mobile shopping service that allows subscribers to search for and buy products that are related to content they are watching on its IPTV service, Olleh TV.
KT, which is the biggest provider of IPTV service, with 6.5 million subscribers at the end of 2015, also is South Korea’s biggest fixed-line phone and broadband operator.
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Rovi buys TiVo for $1.1B
Apr 29 2016
Rovi has finally executed on its long-rumored acquisition of TiVo, with the set-top box company that had a major hand in changing how consumers watch TV being purchased – along with a treasure trove of user data – for $1.1 billion.
Rovi, which primarily provides digital entertainment guides, will pay $10.70 per share, a 13.6% premium on TiVo’s price Thursday.
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On heels of deal with comScore, Dish sets long-term deal with Nielsen for STB data
Apr 04 2016
Nielsen will integrate aggregated set-top-box data from Dish Network into its local-TV measurement in all 210 DMAs, expanding to be included in Nielsen’s national product – Total Audience strategy -- that measures marketing effectiveness and return on ad sales.
The multi-year deal comes just days after Dish made a similar agreement with Nielsen’s chief rival, comScore.
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Nielsen hopes to get social with Facebook, Twitter ‘conversation’ data
Jan 20 2016
There’s not a lot of love lost between media research firm Nielsen and TV and advertising executives who bemoan the rating company’s sampling approach to measuring the viewership of homes.
For years those execs have challenged the accuracy of basing a TV show’s popularity on the viewing habits of 25,000 Nielsen homes and even when the company recently bumped that sample to 40,000 homes – out of 116.4 million potential TV households – critics scoffed at the move.
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Which City Wins The 2015 Streaming Bowl?
Dec 03 2015
This week we launched the first iteration of an ongoing series called the Video Index Extra, where we dive into the data to show trends occurring as TV moves online. Our first free Video Index Extra is available here.
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Inside Ooyala: Dan Simon talks big data, Part 2
May 14 2015
This video is part 2 of a 2-part series. If you missed it, watch part 1 here.
Ever wonder how video providers get actionable insights on content placement, programming and advertising from the billions of bits of data at their disposal? Do you nervously pretend to know what Splunk and Hive are at Silcon Valley cocktail parties?
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Inside Ooyala: Dan Simon talks big data, Part 1
May 14 2015
This video is part 1 of a 2-part series. It's a cliffhanger, so be sure to watch Part 2 here.
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YouTube to be included in German TV ratings measurement
Apr 28 2015
YouTube has made it into the mainstream… at least in Germany where television research working group AGF says it will begin including data from YouTube in its figures.
AGF said it will be able to provide convergent TV and online video usage figures – which it will publish later this year -- through the integration of YouTube and other video platforms.
The move shows just how important – and how common – consumption of media on multiple screens has become.
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Personalized push drives mobile media engagement
Apr 17 2015
Consumption of mobile video – especially among Millennials and Gen Edge users who often see the screen as their first and sometimes only choice -- has doubled over the past year and grown more than 532% since 2012.