{"id":2337,"date":"2014-04-29T16:26:11","date_gmt":"2014-04-29T16:26:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/voped.com\/?p=2337"},"modified":"2014-04-29T16:26:11","modified_gmt":"2014-04-29T16:26:11","slug":"online-video-news-round-up-streaming-video-transforming-tv-africa-sees-vod-boom","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/voped.com\/index.php\/2014\/04\/online-video-news-round-up-streaming-video-transforming-tv-africa-sees-vod-boom\/","title":{"rendered":"Online Video News Round Up: Streaming video transforming TV, Africa sees VOD boom"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"color: #000000;\"><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.mediapost.com\/publications\/article\/224517\/study-digital-video-predicted-to-rival-tv-in-ad-i.html?edition=72230\" target=\"_blank\">Ad Execs: Digital Video Predicted to Rival TV In Ad Importance<\/a> &#8211; MediaPost<br \/>\n<\/strong>Within three to five years, new research suggests, a majority of brand marketers and agency executives expect digital video programming to become as important to their bottom line as TV programming.<strong><br \/>\n<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"color: #000000;\"><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.bostonglobe.com\/business\/2014\/04\/27\/video-streaming-turning-point\/VA08aXIZhUAYwV4hBjgNNO\/story.html\" target=\"_blank\">How Video Streaming is Radically Transforming TV<\/a> &#8211; Boston Globe<br \/>\n<\/strong>On Tuesday, the Supreme Court heard arguments in the case of Aereo, a company that transmits broadcast TV over the Internet without paying broadcasters for the privilege. If the high court rules that this is legal, it could devastate traditional TV companies.<strong><br \/>\n<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><a title=\"AOL.com Launches Premium Video Experience\" href=\"http:\/\/online.wsj.com\/article\/PR-CO-20140415-905668.html\" target=\"_blank\">AOL.com Launches Premium Video Experience<\/a>\u00a0&#8211; The Wall Street Journal<br \/>\n<\/strong>AOL.com is launching a new premium video experience today, bringing video to the forefront of AOL.com and better serving the AOL.com audience&#8217;s demand for premium video content.\u00a0<strong><br \/>\n<\/strong><\/p>\n<p id=\"articleTitle\" class=\"articleTitle\"><strong><a title=\"Netflix: Video speeds improved dramatically after Comcast deal\" href=\"http:\/\/www.mercurynews.com\/business\/ci_25565073\/netflix-video-speeds-improved-dramatically-after-comcast-deal\" target=\"_blank\">Netflix: Video speeds improved dramatically after Comcast deal<\/a>\u00a0&#8211; San Jose Mercury News<br \/>\n<\/strong>Netflix&#8217;s videos are streaming through Comcast&#8217;s Internet service at their highest speeds in 17 months, thanks to fees Netflix pays Comcast for a more direct connection to its network.<\/p>\n<p class=\"articleTitle\"><strong><a title=\"Africa sees VOD boom\" href=\"http:\/\/www.itweb.co.za\/index.php?option=com_content&amp;view=article&amp;id=111782:Africa-sees-VOD-boom&amp;catid=67\" target=\"_blank\">Africa sees VOD boom<\/a>\u00a0&#8211; IT Web Broadcasting<br \/>\n<\/strong><span style=\"color: #000000;\">The number of video-on-demand (VOD) users in sub-Saharan Africa (SSA) will grow by about one\u00a0million, despite the lack of broadband infrastructure in the region.<\/span><strong><br \/>\n<\/strong><\/p>\n<p id=\"node-title\" style=\"color: #141414;\"><strong><a title=\"AT&amp;T Plans $500M OTT Video Venture with Crunchyroll Majority Owner\" href=\"http:\/\/www.wirelessweek.com\/news\/2014\/04\/t-plans-500m-ott-video-venture-crunchyroll-majority-owner\" target=\"_blank\">AT&amp;T Plans $500M OTT Video Venture with Crunchyroll Majority Owner<\/a>\u00a0&#8211; Wireless<br \/>\n<\/strong>AT&amp;T and the Chernin Group today\u00a0announced\u00a0a joint venture to \u201cacquire, invest in and launch over-the-top (OTT) video services.\u201d The companies are committing $500 million toward the effort.<strong><br \/>\n<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ad Execs: Digital Video Predicted to Rival TV In Ad Importance &#8211; MediaPost Within three to five years, new research suggests, a majority of brand marketers and agency [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1280,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0},"categories":[5],"tags":[15,228,229,232,231,214,110,122,131,166,173,174,233,210],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/voped.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2337"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/voped.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/voped.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/voped.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/voped.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2337"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/voped.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2337\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2339,"href":"http:\/\/voped.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2337\/revisions\/2339"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/voped.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1280"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/voped.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2337"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/voped.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2337"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/voped.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2337"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}