Amazon’s FireTV unveiling comes on the eve of the National Association of Broadcasters annual convention in Las Vegas, where one of the main focuses will be on making traditional TV platforms… Read more »
The shift from fixed to mobile platforms has the potential to disrupt the TV advertising economy by enabling new ways to aggregate, measure and engage with audiences beyond the exclusive control… Read more »
The shift in consumer media consumption from fixed, dedicated platforms to open, IP-based platforms caused problems for both in the second quarter. The period also saw a courtroom showdown between Apple… Read more »
In my Weekly Update this week I give Microsoft its props for its latest digital living room moves. But there is plenty more connected-TV action to come. Apple’s Worldwide Developers… Read more »
The Internet is expanding the amount of available content at almost incomprehensible rates, but the difficulty of navigating through all of that content has quickly soured the TV-viewing experience. To understand… Read more »
The case for leveraging consumers’ existing investment in TV service through DVR technology remains as strong as ever for Apple.And with last week’s TiVo Stream announcement, Apple seems to be growing… Read more »
Set-top box shipments will climb past 135 million in 2012 and will clear 150 million by 2015, according to iSuppli, which means the device has a critical presence in the living… Read more »
The first quarter of 2012 featured several high-profile legal and regulatory battles over privacy, antitrust and copyright that could eventually reshape digital markets, including the pay-TV business and online advertising. It… Read more »
This week’s announcement from Apple indicates more clearly than ever that the company’s path to disrupting the pay-TV ecosystem runs not through the living room but through mobile devices and the… Read more »
As Steve Jobs famously noted two years ago, the problem facing Apple in trying to crack the TV business was not a matter of technology but the lack of a viable… Read more »