US Scripted TV Distribution

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 | April 2, 2020

As digital interfaces become more immersive, game design is the paradigm we need to adopt to best serve our customers. A bold statement, yes, but the evidence is in accelerating trends on user engagement, ubiquity of technology, and maturity of experiences. Video gaming leads all other forms of entertainment For a dramatic illustration of how important game design has become, just check the high scores. The medium has outpaced all other entertainment categories in revenue and profit, pulling in $116 billion globally in 2017, compared to $105 billion for TV and streaming TV, $41 billion for movies, and $17 billion for music.

whitePaper | December 15, 2022

The Web 3.0 is the concept of next generation internet. It brings decentralization to content, application, and infra layers. The users will be able to create, own and carry their assets, avatars, collectibles from one platform to another for various purposes, including trading, integration of their new business, and gaming. On the other hand platforms can provide services/APIs/storage that can be used across dierent metaverse platforms to provide seamless experience e.g. avatars as a service, crypto wallet service

whitePaper | February 25, 2020

To advance in this fast-paced, evolving landscape, companies need efficient and agile operations that move at the speed of innovation. Aligning process and industry expertise, intelligent automation and artificial intelligence (AI) is a constant challenge. Success requires personalizing engagement, advancing content delivery and applying intelligence to improve operational performance. Cognizant brings together industry expertise, digital platforms and business process transformation. We help media and entertainment companies.

whitePaper | May 28, 2021

In times of a shortage of skilled workers, the ongoing training of one‘s own employees has a decisively competitive advantage. However, conducting seminars on-site, sometimes lasting several weeks, is a noticeable financial burden especially for companies with several locations. Virtual Reality offers a practical solution here: the technology not only increases the feasibility of training and further education programs, but also helps to improve the memorability and internalization of the imparted knowledge - in favor of more efficient employee development and a faster ROI.

whitePaper | April 14, 2022

The gaming world is evolving daily with new projects, both big and medium scale, gradually tilting towards the gaming domain. Also, the introduction of metaverse contributed to the boost, with Facebook announcing to join the moving training. According to statistics, gamers account for about 30% (i.e., over 2 billion people) of the world's population, with a yearly growth of 10-15%, with people joining the trend daily. Thanks to the increasing number of Gen-Zs. As of 2019, the gaming industry has generated $151.9 billion, with a higher chunk of the money going to the creators and developers and not the players who help generate that much revenue.