Delivering the Entertainment Platform of the Future for Liberty Global

whitePaper | October 6, 2022

As part of the ongoing transition to Internet Protocol (IP) networks for media workflows, the media and entertainment industry has developed new IP standards for transporting broadcast signals. This white paper offers guidance to help broadcasters and media organizations transition to IP, and demystifies common misconceptions when using the Society of Motion Picture and Television Engineers (SMPTE) 2110 standards and associated IP infrastructure. It provides details explaining why organizations transition from traditional Serial Digital Interface (SDI) to IP workflows using SMPTE 2110 standards and covers important topics related to workflow design, synchronization, and clocking, including relevant standards to support uncompressed contribution. It also provides details around Networked Media Open Specifications (NMOS) registration and discovery on an IP network.

whitePaper | January 11, 2023

In 2023, indications show that change in the media and entertainment business is likely to continue. Studios and video streamers face the reality of their own market disruption, trying to find profits in a less profitable business. They compete with not only each other for attention, time, and revenues, but also with social media, user-generated content, and video games. The latter have evolved more quickly, staying close to younger demographics.

whitePaper | January 31, 2020

As a result of consumers continuing to move more towards streaming music, ondemand stream consumption now represents 85% of all music consumption in the United States; a 7.6-point jump over 2018 (77%). On-demand audio stream consumption in 2019 set a record high with 705 billion streams, up 32% over 2018’s 534.6 billion audio streams. While album sales and song sales continued to decline, 23% and 26% respectively, vinyl album sales in 2019 experienced another double-digit growth year; up 10.5% over 2018. The 2019 BuzzAngle U.S. music report is filled with many more stats on all forms of consumption. We hope you enjoy this year’s report and we welcome your feedback.

whitePaper | July 25, 2022

In the history of technology, truly groundbreaking developments become household names. For the last decade, people have been using ‘Google’ as a verb, asking whether or not there is an app, and saying ‘post’ when they mean publish online. Blockchain technology led to the most famous acronym in a generation: NFT or Non-fungible Token. Now, combined with Virtual Reality (VR) units, the same technology has created two more increasingly popular neologisms: metaverse and web3

whitePaper | January 11, 2023

This is the Metaverse. There is no doubt that Web3 is here to stay given the widespread adoption of the Metaverse sparked by the involvement of the largest technology players in the world, including Microsoft and Google, as well as business and societal titans such as Nike, Disney and so on.

whitePaper | November 22, 2019

Benchmark and understand Direct Brand media planning/buying decisions .This report would not have been possible without the collaboration and financial support of our Direct Brands Initiative Strategic Partners and supporting sponsor, listed below. Online survey executed by Ipsos among 330 direct-to-consumer brand media professionals. Responses were anonymous and aggregated.