Churn is an unavoidable fact of life for streaming services, and much of the strategic thinking that goes into trying to make SVOD profitable focuses on how to minimize its impact, whether by offering more content, incorporating ad tiers, or entering into various bundling scenarios. So what s working in 2024 and what isn t? Five leading M & E analysts-ESHAP s Evan Shapiro, Erickson s Paul Erickson, Dataxis Ophelie Boucaud, TVREV s Alan Wolk, and Hub s Jon Giegengack-discuss current strategies to ward off churn-pocalypse in this clip from Streaming Media Connect 2024.
The CTV viewing experience continues to evolve as new UX developments arise. Still, many experts and users agree that the experience is essentially broken, with too much choice and too little personalization as users #1 complaint, far from where it needs to be. According to Google TV Senior Director of Engineering Shobana Radhakrishnan in her Streaming Media Connect Keynote, the critical challenge is understanding what viewers want and letting that drive other decisions.
How significant will telco-centered superbundles-where the likes of T-Mobile or Verizon package streaming channel subscriptions with their services-prove in the expansion of the streaming ecosystem in the years to come, and what types of partnerships is it likely to include? Bango s Anil Malhotra, Starz Rob Collins, Revry s LaShawn McGhee, and Reality Software s Nadine Krefetz discuss in this clip from Streaming Media Connect 2023.
An inevitable question for any streaming strategy or workflow is Will it scale? When it comes to incorporating interactivity, promoting it, and delivering interactive experiences that are satisfying both for large-scale streaming audiences and the brands behind them, this question is more mission-critical than ever. In a recent panel at Streaming Media Connect 2023, B Live s Jay Kopelman, Bulldog DM s John Petrocelli, and LiveX s Corey Behnke break down the problem and the challenges facing streamers and brands when it comes to making streaming interactivity is popular and profitable for all its stakeholders.
Pursuing a multi-CDN strategy is critical to reliable and high-performance edge delivery when streaming at scale to disparate audiences in multiple regions. But what do large-scale streamers need to know about multi-CDN decisioning and traffic-shaping to optimize performance? Harmonic s Jeff Gilbert, Paramount s Sean McCarthy, and Live X s Corey Behnke offer last-mile best practices in this clip from their panel at Streaming Media East 2023.