Faultline and Rethink TV run a series of webinars to foster greater knowledge and discussion in the video industry.
If you are interested in joining one of our panel discussion webinars, please contact [email protected]
Our expert analysts are also available for speaking opportunities at your own webinars and events.
LIVE Webinar, Tuesday March 19th, 2024 at 4pm GMT
Presented by Rethink TV Analysts, Rafi Cohen and Alex Davies
This webinar is an introduction to Rethink TV’s WiFi Forecast
This webinar is critical for anyone who wants to understand how consumer WiFi is set to become smarter, stronger and more flexible in the next five years, as it tries to keep up with increasing demand for high quality OTT video. We will discuss how operators plan to deploy WiFi Cloud Management and Multi-AP technologies, while also examining the patterns with which WiFi standards rise and fall among CPE and consumer client devices.
This webinar will be of great value to operators who want a reasoned time frame on when they should be upgrading their CPE to stay ahead of their competitors. Equally, vendors serving the consumer WiFi market will benefit from being able to gauge the changing demand for their products over the next five years, as will consumer electronics OEMs who want to stay ahead of the curve.
Tuesday December 5th, 2023 at 4pm GMT | Panel discussion and audience Q&A
Traditional CDNs have been ripe for disruption for years, but moving away from them is a slow process. A high-level view of the CDN marketplace will explore decentralized delivery alternatives, advancements in multi-CDN provisioning, developments in self-optimization techniques, and – of course – Open Caching. It is time to broach whether Open Caching has come of age, or are there still pockets of resistance to the SVTA standard?
Moderated by: Faultline’s Tommy Flanagan
Expert Panel:
Xavier Leclercq, VP Business Development, Broadpeak
Keith Chow, Senior Product Manager, Nokia
Mark Fisher, VP Marketing & Business Development, Qwilt
Jim Brickmeier, CEO, Velocix
LIVE Webinar, Tuesday November 28th, 2023 at 4pm GMT
Presented by Rethink TV Analysts, Alex Davies and Rafi Cohen
This webinar is an introduction to Rethink TV’s report The Unstoppable Rise of Social Media Video
The past decade or so has seen Social Media platforms completely transform from communication tools, with sprinklings of entertainment, into fully-fledged entertainment hubs. This transition is still in its early days, meaning that Social Media is a key player in the power vacuum that is following the decline of Pay TV where, too often, the SVoD, AVoD and FAST branches of Long-form OTT are considered to be the only contenders.
It has been a frustrating couple of years for QoE video analytics vendors on some levels, and liberating on others. We are seeing suppliers huddle together to create something as close as possible to joined-up 360-degree holistic video analytics platforms – but what does that even mean today? What analytics insights do video providers actually want, and where are the contemporary advancements in analytics platforms coming from? We may also take a peek into the influence of emerging standards like CMCD and CMSD on the commoditizing QoE space.
Moderated by: Faultline’s Tommy Flanagan
Expert Panel:
Dr. Abdul Rehman, Chief Product Officer, IMAX
Matthew Driscoll, Director of Product Management, Telestream
Sergio Delgado, Product Manager, Velocix
Chris Ambrozic, VP Personalized Content Discovery, Xperi
LIVE Webinar, Thursday October 19th, 2023 at 4pm BST
Presented by Rethink TV Analysts, Alex Davies and Rafi Cohen
This webinar is an introduction to Rethink TV’s Set Top & TV Operating Systems Forecast
Huawei’s ambitions to become a global challenger to Android appear to have been completely neutered, since the last time that Rethink TV examined the operating system landscape of video devices. Specifically looking at the set top boxes of operators, as well as smart TVs and connected TV devices from retail sources, it is now clear that Android will achieve complete dominance over RDK on the global stage, with HarmonyOS confined to China. However, will that position, against the backdrop of a turning tide of sentiment for the Silicon Valley titans, lead to antitrust turmoil?
At the beginning of 2022, when planning our webinar series for the year ahead, we laughed off the idea of a metaverse session, on the notion that metaverse experiences are ill-defined and the underlying technologies too nascent. Now, in October 2023, things are different. Is the metaverse finding its feet, and which technologies are enabling the meta land grab – in the battle from encoding, to silicon, and the all-important hardware? One thing is certain, for the conceptual metaverse to succeed, experiences must either break free from the shackles of VR headsets, or headsets themselves must evolve.
Moderated by: Faultline’s Tommy Flanagan
Expert Panel:
Jan Outters, Director Technology & Standards, Ateme
Yiannis Andreopoulos, CTO, iSize
Guido Meardi, CEO, V-Nova
LIVE Webinar, Tuesday September 5th, 2023 at 4pm BST
Presented by Rethink TV Analysts, Alex Davies and Rafi Cohen
This webinar is an introduction to Rethink TV’s ‘Quality of Experience Market Forecast 2023-2028’.
Amid the unstoppable rise of OTT, it is too often forgotten that IP-delivered video still has a long way to go when it comes to catching up with the reliability of linear, Pay TV networks. In many ways, this poor user experience is the final obstacle to OTT wiping out Pay TV altogether.
LIVE Webinar, Tuesday August 15th, 2023 at 4pm BST
Presented by Rethink TV Analysts, Alex Davies and Rafi Cohen
This webinar is an introduction to Rethink TV’s ‘Media & Entertainment Codecs Market Forecast 2023-2030’.
We will examine the adoption timeline for codecs in the media and entertainment landscape, focusing on the arrival of VVC, AV1, and eventually AV2. As well as the expected timeline, we will discuss the expected royalty revenues generated by the patent pools that have formed around these video compression tools, which we expect to reach $2.4 billion in 2030.
A wide-ranging discussion on the piracy economy will tap into the latest techniques being employed by content pirates and the bleeding edge of combative anti-piracy technologies. Is live sports still the holy grail for anti-piracy? How is the creator economy impacting content rights? Are password sharing clampdowns actually working?
Moderated by: Faultline’s Tommy Flanagan.
Expert Panel:
Mark Mulready, VP Cyber Services, Irdeto
Simon Brydon, Senior Director Sports Anti-Piracy, Synamedia
Sébastien Lhommelet, VP Security Sales, Viaccess Orca
Eric Bolten, VP Business Development, Zixi
24i | Agile Content | Harmonic | Penthera
LIVE Webinar, Tuesday July 11th, 2023 at 4pm BST
Moderated by: Tommy Flanagan
Every 2023 prediction had FAST services down as explosive property, while ad-funded tiers are widely expected to become a staple feature of traditional SVoDs. Mid-way through 2023, how have those predictions shaped up? Are FAST services more or less economically viable than this time last year? Are few success stories patching over numerous FAST failures? Is there any innovation left in the advertising pipeline, or is it time for video service providers to look outside the monetization box?
Listen in and quiz our panel of experts.
LIVE Webinar, Tuesday June 27th, 2023 at 4pm BST
Presented by Rethink TV Analysts, Alex Davies and Rafi Cohen
The scale of the SVoD and AVoD markets poses a difficult question for the new kid on the block – should you care about FAST? The answer is complex, and complicated by the differing definitions of these terms in the video industry, and the blurring of the lines between them, as SVoD platforms roll out advertising wings, and AVoD platforms continue to win subscribers. So, how does FAST fit in?
The new forecast from Rethink TV reveals the answers, and charts the future growth of OTT video services, and their expected impact on each other.
This webinar is an introduction to the forecast, which can be found here.
Amino | Cinedeck | Harmonic | LiveU
LIVE Webinar, Tuesday June 6th, 2023 at 4pm GMT
Moderated by: Tommy Flanagan
Cloud and remote production technologies were the undisputed stars of the Covid-19 era. But which technologies are rising to the task of guiding customers through recession-hit economies in the post-pandemic era? Cost-cutting RFPs have gone into overdrive, so where should streaming services, broadcasters, pay TV operators, and traditional media companies be making technology cost savings? Crucially, how is that achievable without obliterating your workforce?
Listen in and quiz our panel of experts.
In this LIVE webinar – on Tuesday April 11th at 4pm GMT – Rethink TV analysts, Alex Davies and Rafi Cohen, will guide you through the findings of our latest report, “Sports Rights Forecast 2023-2033“.
3SS | AMD | Brightcove | ThinkAnalytics
LIVE Webinar, Tuesday April 4th, 2023 at 4pm GMT
Moderated by: Tommy Flanagan
Is super aggregation dead?
As a marketing buzzterm, many hope so, but as a fundamental mechanism for video service providers to reduce churn, far from it. The aggregation needle is moving, as the pay TV fabric is fraying. This discussion will range from the aggregation and standardization of underlying content metadata, to how simple browser-based HTML code can improve the discovery flow of an operator’s UX. Simplification comes into conversation a lot, but is there such thing as oversimplification when it comes to delivering video?
Listen in and quiz our panel of experts.
Enghouse Networks | Orange | SoftAtHome | S&T Iskratel
LIVE Webinar, Tuesday March 7th, 2023 at 4pm GMT
Moderated by: Tommy Flanagan, Editor of Faultline
Why are ISPs stalling on simple sustainable broadband initiatives? Is there are a way around impacting the end user experience while powering down home gateways or other devices, with slow wake up times or reconnection issues? Are these decisions ultimately and overtly influenced by Big Tech – the Apples, Amazons and Googles that own the connected home – who absolutely do not want their always-on devices drifting into a deep slumber?
These are some of the questions facing the broadband industry as, still, almost a year since Orange introduced its revolutionary Deep Sleep Mode that slashes WiFi gateway power consumption to under 1W, the French operator is in a league of its own.
Listen in and quiz our panel of experts on where we are with sustainability in broadband.
In this LIVE webinar – on Tuesday February 28th, at 4pm GMT – Rethink TV analysts, Alex Davies and Rafi Cohen, will guide you through the findings of our latest report, “Global SVoD Market Forecast 2023-2028”. The webinar comprises analyst presentation, followed by Audience Q&A.
Accedo | BBC | Greening of Streaming | Open Broadcast Systems
LIVE Webinar, Tuesday February 7th, 2023 at 4pm GMT
Moderated by: Tommy Flanagan, Editor of Faultline
Is broadcast greener than streaming? Is on-demand greener than live? Is subscription-based greener than ad-supported? These are some of the questions facing video companies that frankly no one has definitive answers to. The only way we can get anywhere close to clarity, is by continuing to have these kinds of discussions with experts, while encouraging collaboration to flesh out the data required to meet sustainability goals and – importantly – to call out greenwashing.
Listen in and quiz our panel of experts on where we are with sustainability in streaming, a year on from our last discussion on the topic.
In this LIVE webinar – on Tuesday November 29th, at 4pm GMT – Rethink TV analysts, Alex Davies and Rafi Cohen, will guide you through the findings of our latest report, “Video Delivery Market Forecast 2022-2028”. The webinar comprises an analyst presentation, followed by Audience Q&A
Ateme | Kiloview | Velocix | Wowza | Zixi
LIVE Webinar
Consumers are waking up to the differences between latency and connection speed – forcing ISPs to pay attention to the issue, as first in the firing line if latency reaches unacceptable levels. What kind of tools are operators and streaming services implementing to guarantee low-latency? While low-latency discussions tend to focus on the transport protocol layer – SRT, RIST, Zixi, etc. – we will try to look at the bigger picture, from CPE, to last mile networks, and maybe even a smattering of 5G.
IdeaNova | MediaKind | Synamedia | V-Nova
LIVE Webinar
There is never a dull day in the world of video codecs. From developments in artificial intelligence, mud-slinging over patents and politics, or growing concerns over which is the most sustainable video codec strategy. We will hear about the latest compression techniques from the video technology vendors on the ground, while attempting to predict the winners and losers in the house of codecs.
