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Videomind RSSGlobally, subscription video on- demand (SVOD) is on a rocket trajectory and Latin America is deeply in the mix. While Netflix, Amazon and Hulu have been the leaders of subscription video on- demand growth, an increasing array of subscription services – there are more than 1. U. S. and Canada alone – are seeing fast subscriber growth and adoption across demographic groups. The combined number of subscribers worldwide to “other” SVOD services vastly outnumbers the number of subscribers to the “Big 3” in the U. S. market. That gap is expected to widen as SVOD become the norm in the market. In Latin America, a recent report from Digital TV Research posits that SVOD will dominate the over- the- top movie and TV episode segment (OTT), with an expected 6.

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The overall OTT market is pegged at $4. The report forecasts the region to have 3. SVOD subscribers, up from 1.

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Brazil’s SVOD share of SVOD subs is expected to be 3. Mexico second at 2. As in the rest of the world, Netflix will have a major piece of the subscriber pie, but it’s expected to decline in share to 5. Amazon Prime Video which is just beginning to solidify its Lat. Am rollout plans, is expected to climb to 3. Blim could hit 3.

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Claro Video 2. 7. HBO 1. 0. 7 million. In Mexico, the region’s second- largest economy after Brazil, OTT is booming. A recent report from the country’s Competitive Intelligence Unit (CIU) said OTT is the fastest- growing segment of the video entertainment industry in Mexico with streaming platforms now being used by 7 million users. While satellite pay- TV (1. CIU said OTT grew 2. Y/Y in Q1, compared to satellite (up 3.

Exclusive content available to be consumed everywhere on- demand has boosted OTT subscriptions. OTT’s market share is of 2. TV’s (3. 1%),” the report said. Mexico’s telecom authority, the IFT, last quarter said rising pay- TV prices have driven a burst of cord cutting, with operators in the first quarter losing virtually all their subscriber gains from 2. The result has been more subscribers to SVOD services where more options “can deliver the same experience as pay- TV,” said Analyst and former IFT member Abel Hibert. Mobile delivery will be a major driver. Mobile services are expected to play a larger role in the expansion of SVOD services than they do in more developed markets.

In Brazil, for example, smartphone penetration is the highest in the region, with more than 6. Overall Internet penetration sits near just 6. Latin America, but more than three- quarters of Latin Americans who are connected to the Internet watch content online. Reports say more than half watch via a mobile device like a smartphone or tablet.

Ooyala found in its 2. Q1 Global Video Index – which interprets more than 2 billion anonymized data points from its customers to paint a picture of what’s happening in the online video industry – that more than 5. Latin America, during the quarter, was in line with the rest of the globe in terms of videos watched on mobile devices matching the world’s 5. Again, mobile network expansion will be the driver of expansion to new audiences. Wireless carriers are leveraging the relative low- cost of mobile network expansion, which is far less expensive than trying to run fiber to the home (FTTH), coax or copper (DSL). In the first quarter of 2. Latin America, about 6.

DSL remained dominant at 5. But, by 2. 02. 0, it’s expected the region will see 1. Internet subscribers, far overshadowing fixed Internet expansion.

One example: Samsung Electronics and America Movil announced this week said they would partner to bring 4. G mobile network to Mexico and other Latin American countries. Ooyala, in its Q1 2. Video Index, also found that long- form content, for the first time ever, made up the majority of time watched on all devices, connected TVs, computers, tablets and even smartphones.

That shift is a huge opportunity for providers, especially in regions like Latin America where wireless infrastructure expansion is accelerating. The migration of longer- form content to mobile devices also means that content providers need to be sure that the experience they offer on smaller screens is at least as good as the experience they offer on traditional screens, especially when you consider that the most avid consumers of that content are young and will be customers for a very long time. Original content will be key.

Original content continues to be a major selling point for consumers looking to turn away from traditional pay TV and more broadcasters and content owners are looking to stream content direct to consumers, eschewing pay- TV middlemen, creating a market that will give consumers multiple sources of content in an a la carte setting, a “create your own” bundle that’s likely to include live sports and other live events. Again, niche content will have a significant role in the ecosystem with smaller studios and content owners gaining access to an increasingly willing- to- stream audience.

But content creation and distribution can be both difficult and expensive, especially if companies hope to leverage regional (even country- by- country) differences. Assuring the highest return on investment will require a technology solution that helps by compressing time- to- market, reduces overhead through automation and tracks content as it goes from concept to production to distribution. What do you need to not just survive, but thrive in a booming SVOD marketplace??

The key is engagement and loyalty, delivering an experience that’s enjoyable enough to keep your subscribers coming back for more. The ability to deliver a smooth, TV- like experience to your users that includes great recommendation and discovery, easy navigation, regularly refreshed content and the willingness to treat streaming video as a new business with a new business model.

Now is not the time to reach back to your old business model for “new” ideas. And remember, if you don’t act now, someone else will. Stay tuned. Jim O’Neill is Principal Analyst and Strategic Media Consultant for Ooyala. You can follow him on Twitter @Jim. ONeill. Media and on Linked.

Blog Research 1 Media. Welcome to R1. M September blog, featuring the new Cairns Aquarium, driving to nowhere with driverless cars, Dutton’s $$ chest II A way out for Gaza, eurozone fightback and the amazing Ms Merkel  II Tweets abound & Airbnb special and Rover Thomas. CONGRATULATIONS are due to young local entrepreneurs, Daniel Leipnik and Andrew Preston, who this week achieved their vision with the opening of the Cairns Aquarium. Featured this week in the Australian Financial Review, reporter Larry Schlesinger said, “A reviving local tourism market has boosted the value of the newly opened Cairns Aquarium to around $1. Pictured sharing a special milestone, Leipnik and Preston open the valves to begin filling the 1. Oceanarium. Showcasing more than 1. November 2. 01. 5.

The three- level, 7. Leipnik and Preston at a cost of $5. It took them six years to bring the ambitious project to fruition, with its opening marking the first new aquarium developed in Australia since the Melbourne Aquarium opened 1. I first covered the plans for the Aquarium in my blog October 2. Key to its development was securing construction finance through a $3. Gieldan Capital, a joint venture between prominent investment banker Mark Carnegie’s private equity firm, M H Carnegie & Co and fixed income dealer FIIG Securities.” Cairns is a dynamic tourism focussed city.

This year Dubai- based Syrian billionaire Ghassan Aboud began developing a third hotel in Cairns having bought a motel and office building on the Cairns Esplanade. Mr Leipnik told local media he expected around 7.

Again a link to a previous blog – October 2. Tom Volling reporting in the Cains Post last week confirmed Powerlink are about to start construction of a 2. V substation to connect the 1. Mt Emerald Wind Farm to a transmission network.  Fifty three turbines will be constructed initially, and the $3.

The farm will supply about one third of the Far North’s power needs. Expect to see giant blades on the local roads from the port to Walkamin. Pictured is the base of one of the turbines in construction. Driverless cars ? Business Insider Intelligence predicts fully autonomous driverless cars on the road by 2.

Catalyst last night,  I think it might take a while longer and who wants them anyway?  The pluses for businesses are no employees,  they’re a disrupter.  We won’t need taxi drivers, or uber drivers,  or pizza delivery boys or food delivery people period.  If we want to tour London and don’t know the streets,  hey well,  just hire a driverless car on your mobile and it will turn up at will anywhere just like an Uber car does now, except no driver.  Its robot will talk you through your trip,  find you a toilet,  take you past the Tower of London,  and even look for a hotel room in your budget range. Driverless cars require a massive uptake of data to make them safe and knowledgeable and companies are hoping their artificial intelligence insemination will help to avoid death by collision, miscalculation and or code deficit.  Now if you want to talk about electric cars,  that’s a different story.  Bring them on, lessen carbon emissions, batteries will propel them upwards, sideways and hopefully forwards. Pictured: Ford’s driverless test car). Companies involved in cartech revolution – companies manufacturing electric cars are Tesla, Panasonic, Ford and General Motors, but it’s the Renault- Nissan alliance which has moved nearly 3. Tesla.  Source: Bertal Schmidt, Forbes 2. Companies involved in manufacturing driverless cars are more diverse and with many more partnerships due to the requirements of high- end technology in both software and sensor technology. Google’s Waymo is developing just that. Audi is also in the race with Nvidia (graphic card maker) aiming for Level 4 autonomy by 2.

Boston start- up, nu. Tonoy, a robot taxi now in service in Singapore.  You can take a free trip in nu. Tonoy (see pic) or try it as a self driving car. And in today’s news (2.

September 2. 01. 7) featured in the Cairns Post is Dubai’s ‘Hover taxi” developed by a German drone company.  Drone firm Volocopter describes its flying taxi as resembling a small two seater helicopter with 1. The Hover taxi has a maximum 3. Airbus, Kitty Hawk (backed by Google) and Uber are all working on flying taxis. They’re a little behind Brazil who have had chopper taxis since 1.

In fact Sao Paulo has the world’s largest helicopter fleet (4. And a chopper obviously has more power than a drone, should you need to leave that meeting in a hurry! Business Insider, with Navigant Research today published a leadership grid for self driving cards.  Navigant ranked the 1. The German auto supplier ZF is high on the list having commercialised Nvidia’s PX2 processing platform Pro. Ai,  PSA (Peugeot and Citroen) are using ZF also and had four of its self driving cars drive 3. This was early.  Volvo is test driving its cars with families in Sweden.  Waymo (Google’s self driving car) was launched in 2. Waymo has driven over 2 million miles autonomously in the US.  Partnered with Fiat Chrysler,  Waymo also had a partnership with Lyft, Avis and Intel.  BMA has advanced driving assistance right now in its luxury models and has teamed up with Intel and Mobileye.  Volkswagon and Audi are in the mix as is Daimler forecasting 2.

The Renault Nissen Alliance has pro. PILOT, a self drive feature that lets production cars drive autonomously on highways in Japan.  General Motors is said to be ready for mass production, its self drive cars will all be electric.   But the leader is Ford, it has an automous test fleet of 1. In February Ford invested a further $1 billion in Argo AI, a secretive artificial intelligence start up in Pittsburg…  that says to me that things still aren’t quite right. Image opp. shows how a driverless car using LIDAR perceives its surroundings. But driverless cars are coming… and how much will they be?

For starters, there is LIDAR, the highly sensitive laser sensor that is the core of almost all autonomous vehicles that’s about $8. Ouch! (Source: Business Insider, Denielle Muoio Sept 2. Dutton’s money chest – the Hon Peter Dutton, Minister for Immigration and Border Protection has  been on a spending spree to get help restructuring his ‘super’ department.  Over the past two years $2. Boston Consulting to provide both strategic and advisory services.  Most recently as reported in The Australian (Sept 6) one of BCG’s contracts to restructure Dutton’s department was upgraded from $3. Nauru still hangs in the balance while Manus is closing.  The operation of both refugee camps has cost the tax payer $2. Department that the Minister should be capable of restructuring on his own merit,  wouldn’t you think so?

AND I thought we had a budget deficit ! Headlines of Impact. Slashing Human rights – The Philippines President Duterte has slashed the budget of the Human Rights Commission from $A1. A2. 5. 0. 0.  Nothing less than an insult. Also reported in the Guardian Weekly on the 2.

September, the entire police force of 1. Caloocan. Hamas and Fatah to shake hands – a power sharing unity government in Gaza and on the West Bank.

Any conciliatory action on relieving the living conditions of Palestinians is welcome.  Reporting on the 1. September (SBS News & AFP) Fatah official Azzam al- Ahmad said a bilateral meeting with Hamas would be organised to begin working out a way forward.

The Gaza Strip has been under an Israeli blockade for around a decade, while its border with Egypt has also remained largely closed in recent years. The statement comes after Hamas leaders held talks with Egyptian officials last week. Gaza is facing a mounting humanitarian crisis. Pictured above, a Hamas security guard stands near the border between Egypt and Gaza.

Hamas, the Palestinian Islamist group has agreed to dissolve its Gaza administration and hold general elections to end its long feud with Egypt’s Fatah movement.