How do you prepare to live stream an event that occurs once every hundred years? Read about challenges Encompass faced and how we handled them.
Posted in: Live Events
Remember Friday night at the movies? Popcorn? Coke? Loitering in the lobby with a group of your best friends? It may be time to reimagine them. As summer draws to a close, looking at box office sales from the season and comparing them to summers past, the numbers are worth a long, contemplative look. Overall summer sales are down 14% and experts are calling it the slowest summer in 25 years. Maybe it is time to really think through the...
Posted in: OTT
The “Should I?,” “How I?” and “Where I?” About Broadcasting Live Events By Greg Jennings, VP Transportables & Production Services, Encompass Digital Media Just because you have an event coming up does not necessarily mean it needs to be live. A lot goes into planning a live event broadcast. To ensure your live event broadcasts successfully, there are key questions to ask. Let’s start out with the most basic, yet very important. Does your event NEED to be live?...
Posted in: Live Events Technology TV and Video
In market uncertainty, focus on what’s core to your business By Marco Tinnirello, Managing Director, EMEA We’re in unchartered waters. The only known is that there are many unknowns. The TV market is having its Napster moment, while broadcasters and content owners across the globe face a similar challenge. Traditional linear TV revenues are down. The previously rock-solid, ad-supported and pay-TV models are failing to deliver the expected returns, which is testing some of our channel economics. And, added to...
Posted in: OTT Technology TV and Video
Hurricanes (and other natural disasters) can wreak havoc on valuable content if you aren’t properly prepared. Do you have a reliable contingency plan in place to safeguard your assets – ad revenue, signal continuity, carriage? There is much to be considered when choosing a service provider to manage your disaster recovery needs. What type of protection do you need? Playout? Transmission? Content? Encompass is uniquely positioned to provide backup services from any of its geographically diverse facilities located throughout...
Posted in: Disaster Recovery Technology TV and Video