IPTV Business
Development News
IPTV, Broadband Internet TV and Telco
TV services are still in their early stages of development, however
new businesses are starting to emerge more rapidly now. It is
important for those planning to start or restructure their existing
businesses to keep abreast of such developments. This sections
points you to recent news items that focus of business development
in this area.
Should you require a more in depth
competitive analysis or assistance in developing your future
business strategy or business plan, please contact Peter Bates on
+44 1353 667973 or pjb@pjb.co.uk.
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Keeping it
personal – TV’s challenge for 2009
Every TV trade show
brings up the same questions, year on year – “What’s new? What’s the
next big thing?" Each event or conference looks at the next new,
bigger and better technology platform, with IBC or NAB being marked
by a focus on one core theme. For some time, these discussions were
dominated by mobile and HD TV, but with implementations of these now
being rolled out to the consumer in various stages of maturity, once
again, we’re on the lookout for the “next big thing" in TV.
November 2008
Thomson
demonstrates new personalised TV and targeted advertising solutions
at IBC 08
Thomson has introduced
new personalised TV solutions at this year's IBC, currently taking
place in Amsterdam, designed to add new levels of personalisation
and interactivity to IPTV services and deliver targeted advertising
prospects. 14 September 2008
Internet TV revenue to grow nearly 14-fold by
2011
The market for Internet TV services will rise to $5.79 billion
in 2011, expanding by a factor of 13.7 from $422.7 million in
2006, technology research company iSuppli Corp predicts in its
report, Internet TV: Revenue and Network Demands for Online
News, Sports and Entertainment Video. 61% of Americans “agreed”
or “strongly agreed” that they wanted the ability to connect the
internet to their TV, according to research from iSuppli. Male
respondents were even more favourable with a 71% “agreed” or
“strongly agreed” response. While the early market for Internet
TV delivered to PCs has created growth and excitement, the real
disruptive opportunity is yet to come. As more consumer
electronic devices like TVs, DVD players, game consoles, iPods
and portable gadgets become web-connected, Internet TV will leap
from computer screens into the consumer’s primary media
environment: the living room TV. 26 June 2007
Some 80% of 18 to 24 year-old male Internet users in the U.S. watch
online videos at least once a week, and 35% on a daily basis,
according to a national online Magid Media Futures survey conducted
the last week of March. Overall, among 12 to 64 year-old Internet
users, daily usage of online video rose by 56% over the last year.
This year, 14% reported using online video every day--up from 9% in
2006. Weekly usage also rose 18% over last year, with 52% of the
Internet users viewing online video once a week or more, compared
with 44% in 2006 19 June 2007
Internet video is expected to generate $5.8 billion by 2011
Internet video is expected to generate $5.8 billion by 2011, with
ad-supported streaming to PCs and TVs accounting for $1.7 billion,
while consumer spending on movie and TV downloads will top $4.1
billion -- up from $111 million last year -- according to a new
report from Adams Media Research (AMR). The firm sees a period of
experimentation between 2007 and 2009, during which the ad-supported
model will dominate. But as more consumers connect their PCs to
their TVs, spending on downloads will expand rapidly and exceed ad
spending by 2011. 21 February 2007
Tiscali UK targets 5 million IPTV homes
Tiscali UK has unveiled plans to extend the availability of its IPTV
service to five million homes by the end of this year. The Italian
broadband provider is using last September’s acquisition of
Homechoice to act as a springboard into the UK’s major cities. 5
February 2007
Four in ten adults in the United States have watched a video on
YouTube. Of those that visit the video clip web site frequently, one
in three said they are watching less television as a result. Three
quarters of them said they would visit the site less often if
adverts were shown before each video. 4 February 2007
Roland Collection art films available over
broadband
An invaluable archive of films on art is being made available over
broadband through a collaboration with BT. The Roland Collection is
the result of a lifetime project by film director and former art
dealer Anthony Roland. 1 February 2007
The internet
will
revolutionise
television within five years. That was the prediction of Microsoft
chairman Bill Gates at the World Economic Forum in Davos,
Switzerland. 28 January 2007
Nielsen Analytics have released a new report
“Whatever,
Whenever, Wherever: How Broadband is Redefining the Economics of
Television”, revealing that advertisers and television
programmers are finding new and more lucrative advertising
opportunities with broadband video. The study also determined that
the use of broadband video actually extends the reach of traditional
TV, and that broadband consumers are young, affluent, highly
educated, and tend to have high speed web access virtually 24/7,
making it an integral part of their lifestyle. 24 January 2007
BBC plans to
provide broadband audio and video services with its iplayer have
received a cautious recommendation from the communications regulator
following a market impact assessment. Ofcom anticipates that linear
television viewing may fall by up to 30% over the next five years as
a result of video-on-demand and similar services. 23 January 2007
RealNetworks to offer free streaming of independent full-length
movies
RealNetworks has
announced that its new film and entertainment information site,
Film.com is introducing the Film.com Movie of the Week, which
includes free streaming access to full-length movies along with
information, interviews, and background on the movie and its
creators. Film.com will showcase established and up-and-coming
filmmakers and their films throughout 2007.
21 January 2007
The Venice
Project, the peer-to-peer broadband video platform devised by the
founders of voice network Skype, has a deep-pocketed rival. Italian
telecommunications mogul Silvio Scaglia is backing Babelgum, which
like Venice, aims to combine the internet's interactivity and global
reach with TV's lean-back experience. 16 January 2007
US-based
internet TV firm Brightcove has closed a USD 59.5 million strategic
funding round which will allow the company to accelerate
international expansion. The funds will also solidify the company's
position as the internet TV market matures and consolidates in the
coming year. The round was led by AllianceBernstein, Brookside
Capital and Maverick Capital, and included funds from The New York
Times and Transcosmos Investments & Business Development. 17
January 2007
Note:
pjb Associates was a beta tester for the Brightcove so please
contact us if you want further information)
Netflix to offer
‘instant’ online video
Netflix the
world's largest online movie rental service, has introduced a new
feature that allows people to immediately watch movies and
television series on their personal computers and said it will make
the new feature available to its subscribers in a phased roll-out
over the next six months. Subscribers will continue to receive DVDs
by mail from the company's market-leading catalogue of over 70,000
titles and will have the additional option of instantly watching
about 1,000 movies and TV series on their PCs. The new feature will
be included in subscribers' monthly membership plans at no
additional cost. 16 January 2007
Apple TV is the product name for Apple's 'iTV' initiative, first
announced in September. Costing $299 in US or £199 in UK and
available from February 2007. The Apple TV set-top box connects to a
widescreen TV and allows consumers to watch programmes and movies
downloaded via iTunes and stored on a PC or Mac on the TV screen.
10 January 2007
Note:
pjb Associates has bought an Apple TV set-top box for evaluation
purposes, so please
contact us if you want further information)
Bill Gates
reaffirmed that convergence is at the heart of Microsoft's strategy
in a keynote speech at the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas
where the software giant demonstrated a range of convergent media
devices including a Microsoft Xbox 360 games console that doubles up
as an internet protocol television (IPTV) set-top box. 8 January
2007
Broadband-Enabled Televisions to Reach 162 Million by 2011
According to
"Broadband
Video: Redefining the Television Experience",
The Diffusion Group's latest report on IP media, the number of
broadband-enabled TVs - those capable of directly or indirectly
receiving broadband video content - is expected to exceed 162
million households globally by 2011. 6 January 2007
Sling Media, the
company that pioneered the concept of place-shifting television from
the home for remote viewing over a broadband connection, is planning
to provide a companion product to bring internet video to the
television. 6 January 2007
Two thirds of
viewers are interested in watching on-demand programming on their
television over a broadband service. A quarter expects mainstream
broadcasters to struggle against a wave of smaller niche programming
providers. That’s the message from broadband service provider
Tiscali, which is planning to roll out a broadband video service in
the United Kingdom. 5 January 2007
Tiscali is targeting 455,000 customers for its
UK internet protocol television (IPTV) service, Tiscali TV, by the
end of 2010. 5 January 2007
Herb Scannell, a former vice chairman of MTV Networks and former
president of Nickelodeon Networks, unveiled Next New Networks on
Thursday. The new company plans to put more than 30 of what it calls
"micro-television networks" on the Internet. 4 January 2007
The founders of Skype are close to launching a global broadband
television service promising viewers, content owners and advertisers
"the best of the internet with the best of TV". 18 December 2006
(Note:
pjb Associates is a beta tester for the Venice Project so please
contact us if you want further information)
BT is targeting between 2m and 3m customers for its long awaited
digital terrestrial and on-demand television service. 4 Dec 2006
Kazaa, Skype, and
now "The Venice Project"
Niklas
Zennstrom and Janus Friis, the entrepreneurs who created the
pioneering Web applications Kazaa and Skype, are working on a new
communications venture, BusinessWeek.com has learned. The pair plans
to develop software for distributing TV shows and other forms of
video over the web. 24 July 2005
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