Thursday Impact – How Technology Impacted the Media/Entertainment world this week

Technology’s impact on the media and entertainment world?

1) Forcing everyone (from upstarts like Apple TV to Disney) to focus on the user interface (when you get this right, it makes it easier for your audience to search and play the content they want to see).

This digitaltveurope.com article sums it up:

https://www.digitaltveurope.com/2019/10/15/ui-more-important-to-ott-users-than-content-claims-report/ and

2) Canada Netflix stats from Solutions Research Group (SRG):

A) 55% of all online households stream Netflix

B) it increases to nearly 70% (18-49 demo)

Stats found from this article:

https://business.financialpost.com/telecom/media/cbc-will-no-longer-work-with-netflix-to-produce-shows-says-catherine-tait

Have a great weekend!