Webinars

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.