< Like It or Not, The Future of Broadband is OTT Colin Dixon, Senior Partner, Advisory April 5, 2012 In the last few months, there has been a flurry of announcements from multi-channel operators regarding the fact that they had (finally) brought their PayTV services to Xbox 360. Only last week, Comcast...

Colin Dixon, Senior Partner, Advisory January 20, 2012 This week comScore released its U.S. online video rankings for December 2011. Based on this data, several news outlets reported that Google/YouTube maintained dominance in online video. Indeed, as measured by comScore, Google sites dominate in all...

TDG: A Third of PayTV Subscribers to Use ‘TV Everywhere’ Services by 2016 January 10, 2012 (FRISCO, TEXAS) – To defend against the encroachment of over-the-top (OTT) broadband video services like Netflix and Hulu Plus, incumbent PayTV operators are launching so-called ‘TV Everywhere’...

Nielsen Says Facebook Got 53 Billion Minutes of Use In May. What Does That Number Mean, Anyway? Bill Niemeyer, Senior Analyst September 16, 2011 This week Nielsen released The Social Media Report Q3 2011 (interesting report on social and worth a look). The report says U.S. Internet users spent 53.5 billion...

Turner Networks' Cartoon Network and Adult Swim Quietly Launch TVE Authenticated Video Services Bill Niemeyer, Senior Analyst September 9, 2011 In early August, Turner Networks quietly launched authenticated TV Everywhere-style video services on the website for Adult Swim (Cartoon Network's late...

The Big Ten Network announced this week the launch of BTN2Go , a "multi-platform extension of BTN" allowing viewers the ability to watch Big Ten sports live over the Internet. The service is free if a viewer subscribes to a PayTV package that includes the network. To access the service, a viewer...

This week's MediaPost OMMA Ad Networks conference examined a variety of topics related to online ad distribution. An article reviewing a conference panel caught my eye - "Ad Nets Hungry For Premium Video Inventory." Within the online video community, continued high demand for limited premium...