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  • Northern Waves TV conference unveils 2024 agenda

    Northern Waves TV conference unveils 2024 agenda

    Mumbai: Northern Waves TV, the streaming TV conference in the Nordics, has announced its agenda featuring speakers from various broadcasters and streaming service providers. Scheduled for Thursday, 24 October 2024, in Oslo, the conference will include keynote speakers from Viaplay, NRK, SVT, NBCUniversal, TalkTalk, and others. Hosted by Oslo-based Norigin Media since 2018, including virtual formats during the pandemic, the event will highlight business, products, and innovation in the streaming TV industry.

    The unique keynote format and day-long conference boasts a line-up of global speakers including:

    ●    Google, head of video partnerships Northern Europe, Tim DuBois  

    ●    Telia, CTO of TV & streaming, Marius Haugen  

    ●    Mediavision, CEO, Marie Nilsson  

    ●    NBCUniversal, director of creative products, Shannon McKenzie  

    ●    NRK, head of distribution, Bjarne Andre Myklebust  

    ●    Elisa Estonia, TV product owner, Brigita Brjuhhanov  

    ●    Allente Nordic, CTO, Jon Espen Nergård  

    ●    ViaPlay Group, product manager streaming, Niklas Hammarbäck  

    ●    Sýn-Vodafone Iceland, head of TV development & platform, Kristjana Thors Brynjólfsdóttir  

    ●    TalkTalk UK, head of sustainability & ESG, Will Ennett  

    ●    SWR / Südwestrundfunk, distribution strategy, Dr. Roland Beutler  

    ●    Hub Entertainment Research, founder and principal, Jon Giegengack  

    ●    Altibox, head of TV technology, Jarle Johnsen  

    ●    DPP, CEO, Rowan de Pomerai  

    ●    SVT, manager engineer AI, Johan Lindén  

    ●    IABM, head of knowledge & insight, Chris Evans  

    ●    VGTV, Schibsted, product manager video, Kristin Nyland

    The agenda features engaging 25-minute-long presentations across a range of topics showcasing the most relevant innovations, technologies, case studies, and trends within the ever-evolving streaming TV industry. The finale includes a panel with CTOs from Norwegian distributors Altibox, Telia and Allente.  

    Norigin Media CEO Ajey Anand said, “This conference is unique because we put this agenda together with all the speakers who share unseen insights with dedicated keynote presentations. I take this as a responsibility to ensure the streaming TV industry shares knowledge amongst ourselves while preparing a great deal for the future of TV. I look forward to welcoming all delegates to Oslo.”

    NBCUniversal’s McKenzie will present the hottest topic fresh off the Paris Olympics: A case study in cross-platform experience design, while Ennett of PXC, TalkTalk will speak to sustainability and achieving net-zero in the TV and telecom industry, and ViaPlay Group’s Hammarbäck will highlight issues around piracy, what causes it, and how we can mitigate its impact going forward.

    The event is sponsored by Norigin Media with media partners IABM, DPP, and Streaming Media Magazine.

  • Disney+ captures 1.2 million Nordic homes in 12 months

    Disney+ captures 1.2 million Nordic homes in 12 months

    NEW DELHI: Netflix and Disney+ have been massive hits in the Nordic market, attracting half of more than three million additional streaming subscriptions purchased in the last 12 months, as revealed by a recent Mediavision report. Disney+ alone has been subscribed by close to 1.2 million Nordic households, rendering a household penetration of 10 per cent in the region. 

    The rapid growth of Disney+ has outperformed all other competitors thus far, and the service has immediately climbed up the Nordic top-5 list – joining Netflix, Viaplay, HBO Nordic and C More.

    Local Nordic streaming actors have also grown substantially, with approximately 1.5 million added subscriptions collectively. Each Nordic country has at least one local streaming service. In total, these homegrown services now amass more than 5.6 million subscriptions.

    The biggest player is Viaplay, partly explained by it being available in all four Nordic countries. Among the strictly domestic services, TV2 Play in Denmark is the largest, followed by TV2 Sumo in Norway.

    Nordic households have also increased their spend on paid streaming. This entails that a paying streaming household now spent approximately 19 euros per month for an average of 2.1 services in fall of 2020. This represents an increase in spending of approximately 10 per cent in one year.

    The Nordic market today boasts of 13.6 million subscriptions in total.