October 28th, 2010, by Bastian in BeBanjo News and Announcements, Media, Movida, Video On Demand
On the 14th of October, BeBanjo won it’s second Streaming Media Readers’ Choice Award. We’d like to thank everyone in the industry who voted for us.
We are very proud of this kind of recognition, and it’s encourages us in our quest to build the world’s best back-office for teams managing video-on-demand services.
Early next year we’ll be launching our third product and we hope that it will be equally well received.
Our press release can be viewed and downloaded here.
Thank you!
-BeBanjo Team
May 12th, 2010, by Bastian in About BeBanjo, Media, Video On Demand
Day 1 at the Cable Show. Highlights and impressions:
Enjoy the pictures! More tomorrow.
-Bastian
December 9th, 2008, by Bastian in Media, Video On Demand
A content licensing deal gives the buyer (licensee) the right to display the content from the seller (licensor) for a specific period of time on an specific distribution platform in a specific country. The time during which a licensee has the right to display a specific title is called that title’s “window”
Once the deal has closed, it’s up to the licensor to ship materials (DigiBeta tapes, DVD’s, music cue-sheets, transcripts, box art, EPK’s, subtitle files, additional audio tracks etc.) This usually happens a set time before the window’s start date.
The human side of traffic
The other day I was visiting a media company at an undisclosed location somewhere in Europe and I took this picture to show you the human side of “materials traffic”. ;-)
When I asked the gentleman pushing the cart if it was OK to take the picture he mentioned that this cart was pretty empty. Usually these are filled to the brim.
I have a limited edition BeBanjo post-it pad for the first one to correctly guess where I took this picture. Your best guesses in the comments please….. I know, I know…. not so generous, but we’re still a start-up, so this is as good as it gets for now.
In the coming months I hope to write more articles about the workings behind the scenes of all these TV channels and services that millions of people watch everyday. Stay tuned.
-Bastian
October 31st, 2008, by Bastian in Media
In my last post I wrote about some of the talk at MIPCOM about the crisis. It’s a few weeks later right now, and I have to re-assess my original statement of the (non-advertising dependent part of the) PayTV business not being affected by the crisis.
The reason for this revision is that I keep hearing from friends in the industry, and reading in the news that PayTV operators are having a tough time.
However, I believe that they’re having a tough time due to problems that are more financial in nature. Many of the new CableCo’s and Telco’s took on massive amounts of debt in the past to build, upgrade and roll out their networks. Subscriber roll-out/uptake probably hasn’t been as quick as they predicted/hoped for. Most of them have gone through a bunch of re-financing rounds, and now…….. they’re out of money and in need to go through another re-financing round.
The banks obviously are asking for more guarantees and stricter measures then ever. They have to, since they’re in trouble themselves. This is why I think we’ll see more lay-offs in the PayTV industry in the future.
However, I stick to my original statement that in times of crisis, people spend relatively more money on PayTV.
Let’s see what you think:
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October 19th, 2008, by Bastian in Media
This week I went to MIPCOM. MIPCOM is a tradeshow held every October, where the worlds content sellers and content buyers come together to buy and sell content. You have all the Hollywood studios, major television production companies, loads of broadcasters, cable and IPTV platforms, Indy’s and many others there. In the words of the organizer:
MIPCOM is the global content event for creating, co-producing, buying, selling, financing and distributing entertainment content across all platforms. It provides the key decision-makers in the TV, film, digital and audiovisual content, production and distribution industry with the only market conference and networking forum to discover future trends and trade content rights on a global level.
Every year in May, there’s a show called MIPTV, which is basically the same as MIPCOM. So the worlds content buyers and sellers come together twice a year to do business in Cannes.
A lot of talk this year was around whether the crisis affects television business. My own take on that is that for freeTV (state and commercial broadcasters), it probably does. They have business models that depend on selling advertising space, and the advertisers are feeling the crisis right now. As a result, the broadcasters must also feel it.
For PayTV, PPV and video on demand however, it is a different story in my opinion. Once the man in the street (let’s call him Joe the Plumber) starts feeling the crisis, he stops going to the pub, restaurants, theater, holidays etc. PayTV is a very cheap form of entertainment compared to these alternatives, so I think that people will actually spend more money on televised entertainment rather then less. Many of the people I’ve spoken to at MIPCOM were of the same opinion. However….. I do recognize that many of us may be biased, because for our own livelihood we depend on this business.
I’m very keen to learn what others think of this. Please put your opinions in the comments.
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-Bastian