"Certainly the fault is with Telecom Italia,” says François, who thinks that the streaming snags are solvable in the long run.
“It’s just that [at present] it doesn’t look good, commercial wise marketing wise,” Godard adds, noting that “when you have technology problems, people don’t rush to buy your product.”
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Tom Harrington was quoted in Wired on the BBC's plan for data-driven personalisation
29 September 2021As well as presenting quality entertainment, it’s in the BBC’s remit to expose its audience to a broad range of content. “If personalisation or recommendations are making people's access to any content difficult,” says Tom Harrington ”and therefore [limiting their exposure to] new ideas, programmes that are socially important ... the BBC is failing at one of its core jobs.”
Tom Harrington was quoted in The Drum on "How the Channel 4 outage proves the relevance of linear television"
29 September 2021Tom said "It is a testament to the rarity of problems with DTT/satellite transmission that this got so much attention – compare that to IP delivery of video, which can still often be somewhat dicey, especially with live events.”
Netflix's new golden ticket: Games!
27 September 2021Netflix’s decision to launch games as part of the subscription bundle is smart business: rewarding current subscribers, leveraging its IP, and signalling that subscription is the best long-term revenue model in the games space.
Expect technological innovation to be central to Netflix’s ambitions with games. Netflix will make it easier for different game experiences to occur, and ways to attract external developers will inevitably follow.
For Disney, Netflix just made the battle for customers more difficult and more expensive. Disney will need to make hard decisions about how to approach the games business—something it has shown before it finds difficult to do.
Karen Egan was quoted in Telecom TV on "UK FTTH/P sector set for inevitable consolidation, reckon operator execs"
24 September 2021Karen said “You can have two networks in most areas, some can support three, but after that it’s an accident waiting to happen... We don’t think all the current players will survive."
James Barford was quoted in ITPro on "Half of UK premises now have gigabit broadband"
24 September 2021James said Virgin Media O2 is “the main driver” behind the achievement. “People who didn’t have great speeds are now leaping up to gigabit capability."
Consumer magazines: No single playbook
22 September 2021The pandemic accelerated the print revenue decline of consumer magazines in the UK, plunging 12% in 2020; less than half of 2020 industry revenues are due to print. Larger publishers and established titles (e.g. The Economist) will survive the UK’s journey through the pandemic whilst ecommerce, a growing revenue stream for publishers, booms under work-from-home
Publishers now distribute content across multiple channels and reader touchpoints, blurring the lines of what a magazine is today. A focus on the reader economy has finally emerged, enhancing other revenue streams for brands in the right verticals. Execution relies on investment in the tech stack
Future is the UK star, led by its ecommerce revenues from surfacing products and services to readers. This prime position has allowed it to build further scale and consolidate titles from TI Media and Dennis. Despite Future’s successes, there is no single industry playbook as heterogenous titles and portfolios forge their diversified, digital paths
Claire Enders was quoted in The Telegraph on "Nadine Dorries's comeback risks culture clash with BBC chairman Richard Sharp"
20 September 2021Claire said a deal baked into an inflationary rise of 2.5pc a year “would be a very good day for the BBC, Richard Sharp and Tim Davie”, adding that it would be a £25bn deal.
She added “I think we are in some kind of suspense. And the simultaneous disappearance of Dowden and media minister John Whittingdale is not a good day for the BBC. Those two were very heavily involved in that negotiation."
Douglas McCabe was quoted in the Financial Times on Murdoch set up TV station because he ‘wanted something to watch’
20 September 2021Douglas said “It’s not a business that you go into to make money. Making money from newspapers is hard enough. Making money from TV news is even harder.”