PUBLISHED ARTICLES
Paul Martin as OTT Contributing Editor @ The Broadcast Bridge
including Author of The Big Guide to OTT (2024)
https://www.thebroadcastbridge.com/about/our-team
The World of OTT series (2020-21) and the D2C Broadcaster series (2022-23) look at the technology and business realities, shifts and trends as OTT video becomes the mainstream method of consuming media content.
The OTT Big Guide series (2023-) bundles together previously published and updated articles into a new themed format. The Big Guide to OTT - The Book, a collection of 31 thought leadership articles, was published in 2024 and is being refreshed for Summer 2026.
The Streaming Tsunami series (2023-) discusses the huge wave of consumer demand moving fast towards the Media, Telco and CDN industries, and considers how we can technically and commercially solve for it.
Industry thought leaders from broadcasters, content providers, broadcast service providers and media technology businesses contribute to the published articles.
All the aforementioned articles are shown below, and link out to The Broadcast Bridge website.
The Big Guide to OTT - The Book
The Big Guide To OTT ‘The Book’ provides deep insights into the technology that is enabling a new media industry. The Book is a huge collection of technical reference content. It contains 31 articles (216 pages… 64,000 words!) that exhaustively explore the technology and business models of OTT and streaming services.
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Fixing the Internet (for Video)
There seems little doubt that the consumer transition towards streaming is on a steep growth curve, but what will the new ecosystem look like? Is internet infrastructure ready to handle the bandwidth demands of full-scale streaming?
Streaming delivery is dependent on sufficient bandwidth within strategic pathways at Origin, CDN Edge, ISP Core Network, and Access Network. The big picture challenge discussed here is that if demand for video streaming scales as anticipated, existing infrastructure does not currently have sufficient capacity. The challenges have evolved since 2023 but remain largely unresolved.
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