Group items tagged

‘Operator as an app’

Over-The-Top Swipe

ability to ‘swipe’ content from one screen to another

March 7, 2012 b

500,000 TiVo customers

completely changed how these homes discover content.

On-demand Services Business Models: Video, Games & Over-the-Top – 2011 edition

Samsung’s TV Apps Store

App Store surpassed 10m app downloads in September

50,000 app downloads per day

Freemium game

65% of all revenue generated

elative distributions of time and money spent by age group

two years an Android-based smart set-top box which people can use by simply connecting it to their TVs to optimize requirements of cable TV operators

re-conceptualize how one thinks about TV

TV is the last screen to fall as a computing platform

argest computer monitor in our lives,

YouTube Leanback,

cash-strapped young are leading those shunning cable subscription

sector lost more than 700,000 subscribers in the US in the second quarter of the year

partly because of competition from satellite operators and telecommunications

monthly subscription fee of €25. Until now, it was a free add-on to top tier subscribers to the platform.

satellite and telecom companies’ combined video subscriber numbers fel

living without the set top box is clearly becoming more than a theory

rise of the digital video recorder, used in 1 per cent of US homes in 2006 and 37 per cent now

global TV advertising market

oogle TV service,

turised version of his Apple TV

y Roku that p

Netflix service on its new $99 Apple TV set-top box.

Netflix-capable Blu-ray players,

y 8Gb of storage, c

160Gb in the previous version

streaming media player

, let’s take a look at specific applications. I encourage examining the apps themselves to understand what exactly went into them. The production values, complexity, niche, and pricing determine why they produced either excellent or p

he average total number of units sold was 101,024 copies within an average period of 261 days. The average number of units sold per day was 387. The average price was $5.49, although the data skews due to the $49.99 outlier. In most cases, the price point was $0.99. The average number of updates released was 3.89, with the average total development cost amounting to $6,453. Several developers omitted development costs and most did not include their personal time in these figures. It is safe to assume the cost would be at least five or ten times more when using a contracted team. But on average here, iPhone developers are seeing a return of more than 15 times their initial, albeit small, development costs.

However, when the top 10% of the most successful apps are removed from the data set, the numbers skew much lower, giving a far better impression of what the iPhone industry looks like for most developers. In this scenario, the average sales were 11,625 total units, averaging 44 copies/day. Approximately 23% of apps sold less than 1000 units from launch (ranging from 12 to 370 days in the App Store). Further, 56% of apps sold less than or equal to 10,000 units, while 90% sold less than 100,000 units, with the remaining 10% achieving sales of 127,000 – 3,000,000 units.

Lovefilm, which claims to handle half of the UK’s DVD rentals, is hedging its bets on the digital future.

Lovefilm can afford to be agnostic about online and offline customers because both pay a regular subscription,

All those top-tier new release movie rights are universally held by Sk