In August, we invited our friends and clients to one of our Breakfast Seminars at MTM. This one explored what consumers expect their voice controlled devices to do for them, compared with the realities of how this technology is actually being used. The session showed the ways in which voice search is being promoted, and…
The BFI film festival may have come to an end, but there is one film that still has everyone talking: a gritty character study about the events that lead Arthur Fleck to become the comic book villain, the Joker. Directed by Todd Phillips (The Hangover), Joker has already picked up a prestigious Golden Lion award…
Streaming to see sports media rights revenues hit US$85bn by 2024 The global value of sports rights is currently estimated to be around US$48.6bn. The Rethink TV report – The Sports Rights Forecast to 2024 – predicts an increase of 75% over the next 5 years due to audiences continuing to move towards direct to…
At IBC last month, MTM presented the global findings from the fourth edition of the Pay-TV Innovation Forum. Launched by MTM and NAGRA in 2016, the global research programme explores the biggest challenges facing pay-TV operators and content owners in all regions, based on surveys, interviews and seminars. Here are a few of our favourite…
5 days. Hundreds of exhibitors. Thousands of demos. And tens of thousands of steps. This may sound like a music festival, but instead it is the media and entertainment’s annual Amsterdam bonanza: the International Broadcasting Convention (IBC). IBC brings together the entire video broadcast value chain: from production to distribution, through to engagement, monetisation and…
With the fifth series of ITV2’s breakout hit Love Island now wrapped up, and after 155 contestants and 207 episodes, we at MTM have crunched the data surrounding the villa to reflect on the show so far through 7 charts: Of the 98,000 hopefuls who applied to series 5, only 6 made it into the…
Here at MTM Sport, we have barely had time to calm down from the ICC World Cup final before the men’s Ashes series started yesterday. In case you have been hiding under a rock for the last few weeks, the final provided one of the most dramatic endings to a global tournament of any sport,…
Proctor and Gamble (P&G) recently took a full page ad in the New York Times urging the United States Soccer Federation (USFF) to “be on the right side of history”, and pledging its support for pay parity by donating $529,000 to the US Women’s National Team. P&G is just the latest in a series of…
On Monday 8th July, the topic of our latest forum was the evolution of the subscription OTT market. OFCOM’s research last year year showed that the UK now has more SVOD than Pay TV subscribers; and with the likes of BritBox, Disney+, WarnerMedia and NBC Universal set to join the market, it’s clear that further…
Solving European Broadcasters’ Pain Points with Softserve MTM and SoftServe recently published a white paper that explores broadcasters’ core challenges in the European market, and considers how innovative technologies can help them thrive. This mailer provides a taster of the core findings from the white paper. The European TV Market is growing, but broadcasters must…