The Growth of VOD Investment in Local Entertainment Industries

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.

whitePaper | January 14, 2020

After a day full of meetings and closing deals, you want to catch up on your favorite sports, the news of the day, or a TV series while you fly home. And the last thing you want to worry about is data allowances or overages. What if there were a way to stream your favorite shows, movies, or news over the internet without impacting your data plan? That’s where Viasat Unlimited Streaming comes in.

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 | March 13, 2020

Business transformation is an all-encompassing term, referring to organisations embarking on a path of innovation. On a granular level we can identify with the organisation successfully adopting digital technologies to rebuild a business model, existing in a particular industry, and influencing an extended ecosystem or even society with its disruptive offerings of products and services. Transformed organisations drive fundamental shifts across their markets and even peripheral ones, either intentionally or as a result of their spreading influence.

whitePaper | December 19, 2019

Today, consumers have access to a greater choice of lawful music services than ever before and can listen to music anywhere, anytime, on a broad range of devices. With these increased choices has come an explosion of sharing and creativity. From the content industry side, the Internet has also enabled new business models for creators and the emergence of new artists and music intermediaries. It has also allowed independent labels to thrive — in Adele’s producer’s own words, digital music is a “more level playing field”.

whitePaper | June 17, 2022

The metaverse promises to transform industries ranging from tourism to fashion. But the metaverse is not developing by magic. An immersive metaverse needs several building blocks to realize its potential, including artificial intelligence, extended reality, blockchain, edge computing, and more. Major product developments from companies such as Apple, Google, and Meta have cast a spotlight on these technologies