“In 2018, the leading services will be competing based on original content, and companies are already shelling out millions on content creation; and that trend will continue,” Brett Sappington, senior director of research at Parks Associates, told NAB Show Daily News.
From the article "NAB 2018 Day Two: Online video, trends in sports business, could podcasts create TV content?" by Jenny Priestly
Pay-TV operators are seeing a "slow erosion of the core business," analyst Brett Sappington at Parks Associates said. "After years of attempts to be more than just a 'dumb pipe,' pay-TV operators h...
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