Managing More Than 80 Rights Is Very Costly
Administering and keeping track of rights management is a nightmare for content distributors, especially the studios. It was simple when there were only a few rights to sell and windowing (…)
Armed Against Alarming Social Media Threats
What began as a means of communication intended to bring people from around the world together has grown into a vehicle for instilling fear. The recent Oscars mishap and subsequent (…)
Best and Worst TV Days of The Week Worldwide
In many countries, for traditional television viewership, the best part of the week is made up of only five days. At the most, it’s six, but Sunday is a TV (…)
For Canadians, TV Trade Shows’ Attendance May Vary, But They’re Still Essential For Business
In the past few decades, communication has changed dramatically between buyers and sellers of TV shows, movies, and new media. Yet, looking at preliminary attendance numbers for MIP 2017 — (…)
IPTV Does Not Mean Internet Television. Streaming Does Not Always Mean Internet
On a technical level, VideoAge considers Netflix a streaming service because it is carried over the Internet using encoded audio and video signals in a container such as MP4 (from (…)
Anticipating New Trends: U.S. TV Will Be More Diversified
In a highly competitive U.S. television marketplace, what does it take to be the best? At the recent Television Critics Press Tour, each of the U.S. network presidents talked about (…)
LATAM TV: Restricción para empresas
¿Cómo encarar la inversión en marketing, en dónde enfocarla en este 2017? ¿Los presupuestos para el año nuevo han aumentado o están en baja? ¿En qué difieren respecto a las (…)
Is Trumpism Good For The TV Biz? Opinions Vary
It looks as though the American and most of the international media is up in arms about the upcoming Donald J. Trump presidency. It was certainly not expected, even though (…)
Football’s economics: Asia’s interest in Western teams, games and Western shortfalls
Football (or soccer, as it’s called in North America) is famous for being one of the least efficient sectors of the sports/ entertainment industry. Recent investment, however, has led to (…)
U.K. Groups Now Go To NATPE For Latin, European TV Business
NATPE has been a familiar fixture on the TV distribution calendar for 37 years, but the TV industry has changed, and so has the event. Originally designed to serve the (…)