A new study is forecasting subscription VOD will soar from $183 million to $1.055 billion by 2025. Africa OTT TV added that South Africa is expected to remain the subscription leader, and Nigeria to follow (Rapid TV News)
African pay-TV subscriber numbers are set to climb by 54% between 2019 and 2025 to 47.26 million despite the strong subscriber growth, there will not be a huge commensurate rise in business in African pay-TV (Rapid Tv News)
Eutelsat announces a multiyear contract with Orao Telecom Congo for CIRRUS: Eutelsat’s hybrid satellite/OTT platform. Babeleye is Eutelsat’s Cirrus partner for metadata. (Eutelsat)
Study suggests UI and Content Discovery are the most likely factors to drive willingness to consume a video service (Rapid TV News)
Eutelsat (a Babeleye client for metadata), has been engaged by the next-generation, low-cost service provider Orby TV for satellite capacity using the EUTELSAT 117 satellite… (rapidtvnews.com)
“Accurate and intuitive content discovery should be at the heart of every broadcasting platform…” think 80% of TV shows watched on Netflix come from the platforms’ recommendations engine (ecommercetimes.com)
FetchTV merges VoD and Live broadcast on the same EPG grid, simulating a VoD offer in the form of a linear channel (tvblackbox)
“Tool to help escape algorithm nightmares” in an age fueled by recommendations not made by humans (the Verge)
Voice is becoming increasingly important in the device and entertainment ecosystem… (ibc.org)
Since its creation in April 2018, AAU Tv aired its programs via social media and on its website… (Nextv Africa)
