Webinars

Rethink TV analysts, Alex Davies and Rafi Cohen, will discuss the findings of our latest report, ‘Live Sports OTT Security Forecast 2018-2026 ‘, followed by audience Q&A session.

“Live Sports are the last bastion of Pay TV, held in high regard by operators & broadcasters, and the last service tethering customers to their cable & satellite packages. Operators know that it is a question of when not if, for when the sports leagues pull the trigger and pursue a D2C model – leaving operators to wither on the vine.

Sports leagues are now evaluating whether an OTT application with no middleman is a better profit margin and customer experience than relying on the operators and their respective deep pockets.

Accordingly, the market for the security software and services that cater to these OTT services will enjoy strong growth through the period, reaching $452 million by 2026. There are no surprises, in terms of regional performance, but across the board, the amount of Live Sports viewing that takes place on traditional linear TV is declining.”

Building on last year’s successful webinar series, the first Faultline Video Summit ups the ante in 2021 by getting the crucial operator perspective – zooming in on how Belgian pay TV and broadband heavyweight Proximus executed its Android TV Operator Tier strategy.

Join us for an exclusive interview and live Q&A with Jim Casteele, Chief Consumer Marketing Officer at Proximus, where we’ll drill down into what makes Proximus’ video operations tick and establish how the operator has tackled core issues facing pay TV, as well as exploring where the video business is headed next as the pandemic rages on. Vendor voices will be represented by
3 Screen Solutions (Pierre Donath, Chief Product and Marketing Officer) and Synamedia (Nick Thexton, Chief Technology Officer).

Android TV has changed the game for pay TV operators in recent years, and the technology will continue to be a driving video trend in 2021 and beyond, particularly with developments such as the contentious Google Broadcast Stack arriving on Technicolor CPE.  Don’t miss the opportunity to get a head start on the competition by attending.

About the speakers:

Jim Casteele, Chief Consumer Market Officer, Proximus

Jim has been Chief Consumer Market Officer at Proximus since March 1st 2020. He assumed this post ad interim on 2 December 2019.  Jim started his career at Siemens Atea and joined the former Belgacom Group in 1997.  Before being appointed as Director Consumer Products & Solutions and Innovation in January 2017, he held several management and director positions within the Proximus Group in various disciplines such as strategy & innovation, product management, partnerships and pricing.  Jim Casteele holds a degree as Civil Engineer in Electronics (University of Ghent) as well as a degree in General Management (Vlerick Leuven Ghent Management School).
www.proximus.com

Nick Thexton, Chief Technology Officer, Synamedia

As CTO, Nick drives Synamedia’s ambitious agenda of technology innovation and investment, and leads the development and delivery of new system solutions that help customers transform their business models and accelerate their transition to IP.  He is in charge of the company’s video platform engineering, product management, architecture and marketing groups.  Nick joined Synamedia in April 2020 following a stint as Group CTO at German broadcaster ProSiebenSat.1.  His previous positions were Chief Digital & Product Officer at satellite operator Inmarsat, and CTO for UK TV platform YouView.  From 1994 to 2012 Nick worked at NDS, then at Cisco until 2014 in the position of VP and CTO of Cisco’s Service Provider Video Software Solutions.  Nick started his career working with UK broadcasters Channel 4 and Thames Television having graduated in engineering from Imperial College, London.
www.synamedia.com

Pierre Donath, Chief Product & Marketing Officer, 3 Screen Solutions

Pierre has overall responsibility for product development as well as marketing strategy and communications at 3SS. Guiding multidisciplinary teams across numerous projects, and working closely with Google, he advises 3SS’ operator customers worldwide on product integration and Android TV-based service strategies. Together with 3SS’ technical leadership, Pierre spearheaded the creation of the multiple-award winning 3READY Entertainment Ecosystem. He directs the continuing evolution of 3SS’ product framework, leveraging his knowledge from creating best-in class pay-TV experiences on all devices for operators internationally.
www.3ss.tv / www.3ready.tv

The global Customer Support Software market will reach $24.6 billion in 2026, driven by the emergence of new AI-assisted product offerings.  These new, evolved systems promise a glimmer of hope for Triple Play operators, who should see a $3.5 billion annual reduction in churn, attributed to these next-gen software products.  Join our analysts, for a walk though of our forecast data.

Rethink TV analysts, Alex Davies and Rafi Cohen, will discuss the findings of our latest forecast, “CDN and WebRTC Forecast 2020 – 2025”.

The boost from the pandemic accelerates what was already predicted to be a rapid expansion of WebRTC.  We clarify the current state of the market, and paint a macro picture of the uptake of CDN technologies, and how this will impact global revenues.

You will have the opportunity to put your questions to our analysts, during the audience Q&A session.

If you wish to purchase the full report ahead of the webinar, please go here or contact [email protected]  for further details.

Long Form, Social Media, and Gaming Online Video grow to $171.5 billion market by 2025, as core pay TV market continues decline

Rethink Technology Research finds that long-form video from outside the traditional pay TV ecosystem will grow aggressively, as new generation of viewers strays farther from reach

Our latest Rethink TV forecast demonstrates the slow decline of pay TV, and the rise of the OTT market – both SVoD, and this new sector. So while the growth in SVoD that stems from the conventional TV and movie industry does more than offset the losses we see in pay TV line, what Rethink TV wanted to do was quantify ‘the other’ – long-form video content that does not originate from TV and film studios, that isn’t delivered over pay TV infrastructure, and that is often available freely to viewers.

Defining this sector has been difficult, but we chose to focus on three constituent parts – Long Form online video, Social Media video, and Gaming video. Collectively, for the purposes of this forecast, we’ll refer to them as LSG.

Our research shows how LSG grows faster than SVoD, and is on track to close the gap with pay TV within a couple of decades. That event could be the end of pay TV as we know it and of course sports rights, as they de-couple from pay TV could have a huge part to play in that, and we have already published a forecast on those.

This webinar draws on Rethink’s TV latest report on SVoD titled “Subscription VoD peaks, as Covid-19 lockdown drives sales”, and will be run by the author and Rethink TV’s lead analyst, Alex Davies.

We will provide an overview of the forecast, present our findings and answer questions raised by those who attend.

As Android TV Operator Tier has taken much of the world by storm in recent years – and the technology has even begun to make its mark in the US – overlapping pools of vendors have formed, each wielding a disparate set of keys to the Android TV treasure trove.

How can pay TV operators better navigate these contrasting partner ecosystems? Should vendors just join as many initiatives as possible, or pick wisely? Who will be the winners and losers from this vendor-led fragmentation? Is this market becoming a case of keep your friends close, but your enemies closer?

Faultline aims to answer these questions and more during our Android TV Arms Race webinar.

Presented by Tommy Flanagan, Editor of Faultline, and featuring:

Michael Lantz, CEO | Accedo
Mark Seidenfeld, Head of Android TV Business Development APAC | Google
Anthony Smith-Chaigneau, Senior Director Product Marketing | Nagra
Sascha Prüter, Chief Product Officer | Vewd
Pierre Donath, Chief Product & Marketing Officer | 3 Screen Solutions

Two things will be dearly missed from NAB 2020 – Faultline’s provocative presence on the show floor and the annual champagne-popping that revolves around the SRT protocol.

In this webinar, we were joined by executives from Beamr, Haivision, RIST Forum and Wowza to discuss what really would’ve happened in Las Vegas – talking heightened rivalries, blossoming partnerships and projecting the future of video streaming.

Android TV will emerge as the dominant OS for set tops over the next five years, everywhere by in North America, where RDK will remain strong for some time to come. But Android’s rise will be much less successful on smart TVs. The continued presence of proprietary OSs on major smart TV brands, notably Samsung with Tizen and LG with WebOS, will hold Android back there, as will China’s growing adoption of Huawei’s Harmony as the national video OS.

The trade dispute between China and the US, with resulting concerns over access to Android updates, has galvanized the Chinese government to push for a major independent national OS, with Harmony the overwhelming hot favorite which will become the ubiquitous cross platform OS for China, and which will spill over into other parts of the Asia Pacific and into some Latin American countries.

The resulting forecast is part of our Rethink TV service and this webinar gives headline conclusions and some data insights.

Towards the close of 2019, there was something of a war of words in the WiFi software space between a handful of vendors, resulting in a series of heated and well-received articles in Faultline. This got us thinking. Instead of playing the messenger and publishing the opinions of technology vendors, why don’t we get these competing companies in the same place at the same time in the form of a webinar – giving each a chance to give a short pitch followed by a Q&A session from ourselves and the audience.

This will provide an opportunity to help attendees better understand the WiFi technology industry but, more importantly, offer a chance to directly address claims from rivals – setting us up perfectly for an exciting 2020 for WiFi.