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Along the way as an OTT guy, Cheung Chun Ho

Author: Cheung Chun Ho

Video Content as NFT… How could it work?

Nowadays, “blockchain” has become a hot topic again following a recent big wave of Non-fungible token (NFT) in digital artwork market. With its immutability feature, the blockchain technology has helped to uniquely identify an digital artefact and therefore the ownership of it could now be proved and verified. The concept of NFT nowadays seems to be sufficient for the digital artworks and the in-game merchandises. But could NFT also work in OTT video service industry? How could it deal with piracy issue?

How Blockchain and NFT impact the OTT streaming world

Getting to 2022, more and more people in the world now believe that “Bitcoin”, “crypto currencies”, or in more generic term “blockchain technology”, is no longer a money speculators’ game. We start seeing them in daily life in many aspect. Recently, the emergence of the NFT artwork markets has brought the blockchain technology back to the spotlight.

Beat Forecast, Not Meet Forecast!

At the start of new year 2020, we all makes wishes or plans. It is always good to set a…

This Apple and That Apple

Recently we have been seeing two unrelated “Apple” companies moving on the same trend: OTT with Subscription.

Aftermath of the first wave from YouTube TV

Though the typical YouTube platform is facing some boycott from the advertising / media buyer for the reason that it fails to avoid pre-rolls to be put on those inappropriate or negative short clips, YouTube is making a new move to strike back. It is the YouTube TV.

A Box or Not for OTT?

“Should we distribute the OTT boxes or builds the apps on every platform?” That is the question.

Thoughts on Television Commerce

Recently my Google alert spotted me a post entitled "Innovating beyond the vanilla TV ad spot" from India. It listed out various innovative ways to do the TV advertising ranging from contextual advertising, themed Ad breaks…etc. Though they are all interesting, some of the measures are not “techie" and required intensive collaboration among clients, advertisers and the TV station and thus they may not be scalable. What catching my attention the most is the "T-commerce" and I would like to add some more there.

Next Disruption: Curated Online Videos on Smart TVs  – Part 2 – How Can We Do That?

In the previous article, we have covered the reasoning of why curated online video could be a new disruptive TV experience.

Next Disruption: Curated Online Videos on Smart TVs – Part 1

Disruptions are everywhere. People are looking for ‘pain points’ in daily life and try to disrupt it by providing a better solutions. We could see media industry has been disrupted rapidly and some traditional media, like TV, is deemed to be fading out from our life.

Live Events OTT: Key Take-aways from Euro 2016

With the advance of internet technology, we could see more and more use cases of serving the video content over-the-top….

Wynk Movies – the Video Department Stores

In my previous article, I have shared my observation on south-east Asia market and highlighted the advantage of Telecommunication companies…

South-east Asia Telcos Rules the OTT Video Streaming Services in the Region

In US, huge pure-OTT video platforms like Netflix, Amazon Videos and Hulu are leading the market. Recently they are challenged…

Little attempt to China’s Smart TV market

Market in China is mysterious. TV market in China is even more mysterious. There are lots of restrictions on the…

5 traps to be aware of when getting an organization from lean to structured

It took a lot to get a lean organization into a huge company with offices scattered all over the world….

US consumers spend 42% of their TV time on OTT

Famous software company Adobe joint the research firm The Diffusion Group to survey the video streamers in US. Here are…

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