OTT Question Time

OTT Question Time Live 2025 is now officially sold out! With nearly 300 guests, 68 speakers, 16 fireside chats, 10 panels and one brilliant presentation, this is the biggest OTTQTL we've ever organised and we couldn't have done it - couldn't even have been close to doing it - without the help and support of many, many people. So, big thanks to everyone who makes the show what it is - our speakers and their excellent comms teams; our moderators and interviewers; the venue and all their staff; and our core group of industry friends who have been there all the way with their suggestions, introductions, and pep talks. And a special shout out to all our sponsors. Please take a look at the products and solutions from these expert companies and reach out to see how they might be able to help you build, sustain and monetise your OTT services: - Bedrock Streaming - TiVo - ContentWise - FX Digital - Yospace - Bango - Amagi Corporation - Edge Video - Nexxen - Friend MTS - British Association for Screen Entertainment (BASE) - CTAM Europe - OTTRED See you next week!

There's more at stake than ever before in the accelerating contest to control that iconic flat panel in our living rooms. Will the young pretenders to the TV Crown win out over the legacy gatekeepers? How will the complex dynamics of #data, #AdTech, #subscription, #content & #aggregation play out? Find out as I discuss this titanic battle with industry leaders Fahad Durrani of Google, Hilary Goldsmith of Nexxen, Gabriel Cosgrave 📺 🚗 🎬 🎧 of Xperi Inc. & Rose Hulse of ScreenHits TV. See you at Kauser Kanji's OTT Question Time next week https://lnkd.in/erjP9HhD

Am only about 1/6th of the way through the prep calls for our 26 fireside chats and panels at OTT Question Time Live 2025 so far but I've had some fascinating conversations already! With Justin Gupta of Google about making TV ads smarter; with Olivier Jollet of Pluto TV and Marion Ranchet about the trends and opportunities in free streaming television; with Kiaran Saunders of Paramount about the upcoming relaunch of Channel 5 and its OTT service My5; and with Leena Patel of Channel 4, Kasia Jablonska of BBC Studios, Tim Sewell of Yospace and Sri Hari Thirunavukkarasu of Amagi Corporation about the economics of ad-supported TV and OTT. Join us at the show in London on 28+29 January where you'll also hear from, amongst others, Prime Video & Amazon MGM Studios, the BBC, ITV, BritBox International, Everyone TV, NBCUniversal, NOW, OpenAI, Vue , Warner Bros. Discovery and YouTube. See you there! https://lnkd.in/e7CEKWxi

What a panel! Talking all things content at OTT Question Time Live 2025 are Tushar Jindal, Head of Content, Prime Video UK & Ireland, Katheryn Needham, MD STUDIOCANAL UK, Tim Richards, co-founder & CEO, Vue and Ewa Voigt, Director of Digital Distribution & International Licensees, Warner Bros. Discovery. Our moderator is the brilliant Liz Bales, CEO of British Association for Screen Entertainment (BASE). Come join us and engage in the conversation - final few tickets left! https://lnkd.in/e7CEKWxi

The new website for OTT Question Time Live 2025 is now online! Join us at the British Museum in London on 28 + 29 January where, together with a lineup of brilliant speakers, we'll be discussing hot industry topics including: - Profitability vs. growth - Adopting Broadcast 1.0 strategies to make OTT more successful - Engaging younger audiences - The economics, prospects and sustainability of AVOD - UI and UX innovations - Aggregation and bundling - The Big Consolidation - And, of course, artificial intelligence A big thanks in advance to our excellent moderators, Ben Keen, Lydia Fairfax, Marion Ranchet, Maureen Kerr, Linette Zaulich and Kate Dean. ** More speakers announced soon ** Look forward to seeing you there! https://lnkd.in/erjP9HhD

The video of our OTTQT session last week with Ben Keen, Amanda Groom and Anwen Griffiths about the dynamics and future of film and HETV financing is now live on the VOD Pro website! https://lnkd.in/eaJHsjwX Ben presents slides from his recent report on the topic from about 05:30 in the video. You can download the report for free (no registration needed) from the British Screen Forum https://lnkd.in/eRj8T8fY

The brilliant Ben Keen recently published a report about the state of UK film financing for the British Screen Forum in which he outlined some of the trends he’d spotted over the past 10 years including total spending across all film and High-End Television (HETV) production, the average budget of inward investment vs. domestic (British) films, the number of films funded by public service broadcasters and the key role they play in talent incubation. Germane to OTT, Ben also talked about films backed by legacy Hollywood majors vs. those part, or fully, financed by the global streamers. For example, over the four years to 2022, Netflix was involved in the financing of more UK films than Warner Bros, Disney and Universal combined. We’re going to discuss some of some of these findings at this Thursday's OTT Question Time Online (24 October, 4pm UK / 5pm CET). Together with Ben, Anwen Griffiths, Head of Legal & Business Affairs at BBC Films, and Amanda Groom, founder of The Bridge, we’ll also explore: - Some of the acronyms, terminology and financial incentives involved in content production (especially useful, perhaps, for those of us from a pure OTT background!) - Applying a wider lens, the film & HETV markets in South Korea, the US, Asia and LATAM - Content production business models - The impact on investment of the streamers now increasingly focusing on profits rather than growth - And the outlook for content producers worldwide over the next five years Season 5, Episode 6 of OTT Question Time Online will be streamed live at 16:00 UK / 17:00 CET on Thurs 24 October. Register to watch live and engage in the conversation! https://lnkd.in/e2Qch-9u

Hello world! Just a reminder in this first post on the new OTTQT LinkedIn page that we'll be hosting Season 5, Episode 5 of OTT Question Time Online at 4pm UK / 5pm CET today. Together with Julie Mitchelmore, VP Product & Commercial Partnerships, Hearst Networks EMEA, Emma Keith, Managing Director, Digital, at the National Theatre, and Mike Sid, co-founder and Chief Strategy Officer at Whip Media we'll be discussing the types of relationships viewers have with OTT services - emotional, functional, transactional etc. Register to watch live and engage in the conversation! https://lnkd.in/ea56a99v