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Given the growing number of connected devices, the amount of video content available OTT, and the potential offerings from Apple and Google, IBB believes that every Consumer Electronics (CE) manufacturer, content owner, TV network, and service provider should be actively developing and executing a strategy to succeed within the changing landscape. This briefing will highlight some of the drivers in the emergence of connected devices, the potential opportunities, and the challenges that need to be addressed as connected devices emerge in the marketplace.

Connected Devices: ‘Emerging in a Living Room near you’
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This white paper is an attempt to capture content owners’ requirements for content protection and predict trends for the future, so that service providers can be more educated about their choices and responsibilities when they enter into licensing negotiations with content owners.

Content Security Requirements for Multi-Screen Video Services
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The tv and video business is rapidly transforming from walled garden-based services to online video, linking consumers with more compelling content on a broader range of connected devices. This whitepaper looks at how service providers can drive the next generation of online TV services.

Shaping-the-future-of-multiscreen-video
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The following report examines the current state of over-the-top video services in Western Europe’s largest markets of France, Germany, Italy, Spain and the United Kingdom. All represent OTT video markets flourishing in different ways and at varying speeds, providing insights applicable worldwide.

Western Europe OTT Overview
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The UK’s over-the-top content delivery market is developing at breakneck speed, propelled by a melee of interests from broadcasters and service providers to startup online aggregators, device-makers and traditional Internet players. Read this special report to discover why the UK is regarded as one of the most advanced online market

UK online video market
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The paper explains the market need for TV recommendation engines, and how an integrated approach addresses the unique challenges of the TV environment, with an integrated recommendations engine approach

An Integrated approach to TV recommendations
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White paper that looks at online TV guide strategies for launching a guide, SEO strategies, and monetization options

Online TV Guide Optimisation
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This report explains the main factors contributing to the success of CAM module-based security solutions among paid access content providers on 'broadcast networks'; describes upheavals affecting traditional providers following emergence of new market players; presents traditional providers changing needs and details the strengths of module-based solutions.

Conditional Access Modules and connected TV
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Recession takes wind from Latin pay-TV sails...but markets motor on. The following SNL Kagan Global Multichannel Markets special report examines the current state of Latin America’s top 10 pay-TV providers, exploring the impact of consolidation, telco investment and recessionary pressures on the region’s video giants.

Latin America Special Report
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This white paper will demonstrate how it is now possible for telcos to improve their position in the content--to--consumer value chain, create a more sustainable business model to value chain members and profit from escalating over--the--top (OTT) video traffic.

How Telcos and ISPs Can Learn to Love OTT
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The report examines the current state of OTT services in Brazil while exploring strategic routes for exploiting nontraditional video delivery systems targeting Brazil’s 49.6 million non-pay TV households.

Brazil OTT Report
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This Vision Paper from ACCESS explains the growing and increasingly essential role of mediating software technologies for devices and applications both inside and outside the Digital Home, enabling the interconnection of devices and exchange of content – vital requirements for a connected life.

Meeting Consumer Demand for a Connected Life
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This report surveys the current state of IPTV worldwide and presents SNL Kagan’s forecasts for the platform’s growth during a five-year period, from 2010 to 2014, in six regions: North America, Latin America, Western Europe, Eastern Europe, Middle East and Asia Pacific. Our analysis covers the top 75 media economies in these regions, and our total figures do not include smaller markets.

Global IPTV Report 2011
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How watermarking and fingerprinting technologies can help in the protection and monetisation of media content

Make TV Anywhere a business success
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This paper discusses the benefits of introducing an automated test framework for digital television receiving devices. It then focuses on three key areas for which automated testing can provide benefits that are difficult to achieve by manual testing alone: conformance testing, engineering support and resolving corner cases.

Automated testing of digital television devices
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This White Paper outlines findings from the Advanced Advertising Media Project, which has analyzed the effectiveness of advertising within free VOD television programming, offering conclusions about consumer acceptance and the impact of different ad loads.

VOD and the Consumer Advertising Experience
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