Webinars

Content Security Forecast 2024 to 2029

Join Rafi Cohen for a high level walk through of our recent Content Security Forecast to 2029.

This report draws from extensive industry engagement and offers critical insights for MVPDs, vMVPDs and OTT platforms alike who want to get a hold on the rising costs of protecting their content. Equally, security and anti-piracy vendors that provide such offerings will benefit from benchmark figures to assess the competitive landscape and prepare for a rocky road ahead.

Learn how Watermarking is set to revive an otherwise dwindling Content Security industry

Discover what is driving the price crunch seen across CAS, DRM and Watermarking

Explore the geographical differences in the demand and pricing for Content Security offerings

See what role Content Security has to play in an increasingly fragmented, often free-to-access media ecosystem

Find out why Content Security vendors are up against tough future, despite a burgeoning demand for their services.

You can find this report here

Open Internet Contributions Protocols

LIVE Webinar, Tuesday December 3rd, 2024 at 4pm GMT

Presented by Rethink TV Senior Analyst, Alex Davies

This webinar will introduce the key findings of our latest Contributions Forecast.

Since the acquisition of Zixi, there has been a flurry of activity and improvements behind the scenes in the Video Contributions Protocols market; in an industry that is still adapting to the meteoric rise of remote and cloud production – and the resulting need to shift production feeds around the web.

Rethink TV finds that the Video Contributions Protocol market reaches $2.57 billion in 2029 – across hardware, software, networking, and cloud segments.

Content Recommendation Engines - Prices collapse by 61% as genAI enters the fray

LIVE Webinar, Tuesday November 12th, 2024 at 4pm GMT

Presented by Rethink TV Analysts, Alex Davies and Rafi Cohen

This webinar will introduce the key findings of our latest Content Recommendations Forecast. The report draws from extensive industry engagement, and offers critical insights for anyone who wants to understand the future for content recommendation engines – a core personalization technology within video.

CDN and Media over QUIC

LIVE Webinar, Wednesday July 24th, 2024 at 4pm BST

Presented by Rethink TV Analysts, Alex Davies and Rafi Cohen

This webinar is an introduction to our CDN Market Forecast

Rethink TV’s analysts will discuss the shape of the CDN market to 2029.  We predict this sector will grow to just shy of $60 billion by 2029, as the volume of video traffic delivered climbs to 17,985 exabytes annually. Spurred by the adoption of HTTP/3 and QUIC, the developing Media over QUIC (MoQ) transport standard will begin to emerge, while alternative CDN approaches begin chipping away at the stalwart Public and Private CDN categories.

We will take questions from the audience.

The Bristol Media and Entertainment Mixer - July 2024

A short show reel of the 2nd edition of the Bristol Media and Entertainment Mixer, featuring:

• Sadie Groom, Founder and CEO, Bubble Agency & Rise
• Tanja Lichtensteiger, Director of Product Engineering, BBC
• Matt Stagg, Senior Director, MTech Sport
• Nick Fellingham, CEO and Co-founder, Condense
• Sophia Vahdati, Director of Marketing and Communications, Digital-i

Moderator: Tommy Flanagan, Editor of Faultline, Rethink Technology Research.

Hosted at the 5V headquarters in Bristol, UK.

Pan-OTT consolidation – the bird’s eye view

LIVE Webinar, Tuesday July 2nd, 2024 at 4pm BST

Presented by Rethink TV Analysts, Rafi Cohen and Alex Davies

This webinar is an introduction to FAST,  AVoD, and SVoD & Ad-Supported forecasts

Distribution and monetization models blur across streaming, paving the way for aggressive consolidation.

This webinar is critical for anyone working in OTT video, who wants to understand the changing shape of demand for long-form, ‘premium’ content. Monetization practises are blurring across streaming video, meaning the lines separating SVoD, AVoD and FAST as distinct business models are getting thinner by the day.

Our analysts will delve into the regional KPIs of the key platforms across OTT video, shedding light on the user base, watch time, and revenue of key platforms across SVoD, AVoD and FAST. This webinar is, therefore, essential for video services, technology vendors, ISPs, and pay TV operators to get a quantifiable grasp on exactly how the premium OTT market is set to warp in the coming years.

Audience questions are encouraged during the session.  If you’d like to submit your questions ahead of the event, or to arrange a private discussion, please contact us

The Bristol Media and Entertainment Mixer - April 2024

WiFi Webinar | 5-year look ahead at WiFi standards, technologies, and devices

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.

Next-gen Content Delivery Networks

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

The Unstoppable Rise of Social Media Video

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.

The commoditization of streaming analytics

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

RDK crushed on global stage between rising Android TV and insurgent HarmonyOS

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?

Metaverse: Which technologies are enabling the meta land grab?

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

Rethink TV | Quality of Experience

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.

Rethink TV | Media & Entertainment Codecs

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.

The anti-piracy economy - fight or flight?

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

FAST is the past - what is the future?

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.

Rethink TV | SVoD, AVoD & FAST

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.

Recession economies: Exploring video’s cost-conscious strategies

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.

Rethink TV | Sports Rights Forecast

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“.