Analyst Insights
Inconvenient Truths
TDG attended and keynoted the Pay-TV Show in Denver Colorado last week. Despite the usual shadow boxing by some of the larger players, a few were...
The Importance of United States v. AT&T-Time Warner
In November of 2017, much to the surprise of industry watchers, the United States Department of Justice filed a lawsuit to block the AT&T’s...
The Point of No Return
Tough news out of the legacy pay-TV industry this week, with AT&T (187K), Charter (122K) and Comcast (96K) all reporting significant quarterly...
Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning:
The NAB Show in Las Vegas included a few panels on how media companies can leverage AI and machine learning in daily operations. For example: At the...
Smart Speaker Race About to Get Noisy
The smart speaker race is about to get noisy in the coming months, and with today’s direct listing of Spotify on the NYSE, 2018 could be a...
Can Storytelling Help Propel Esports to Wider Audiences?
Rick Fox remembers the story and tells it like it was yesterday. While visiting the offices of Riot Games in West Los Angeles with his son Kyle, he...
What Are Viewers For?
Fascinating news out of Amazon this past week courtesy of our friends at Reuters. Internal documents from the Seattle giant reveal that about 26...
SXSW Offers Clues on Apple’s Original Content Strategy
At SXSW last week, Apple’s SVP of Internet Software and Services, Eddy Cue, gave a few hints on where Apple is going with its original content...
The Sky’s the Limit!
Just when most experts thought that the Disney/FOX deal was about in the books, Comcast re-entered the picture, bidding $31 billion bid to purchase a...
The Fattening of the Skinny Bundle
Live TV streaming services – such as Sling TV, DirecTV Now, YouTube TV – are stepping up to meet the demands of Cord Cutters and Nevers (Cord...