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GROWING TREND OF BROADCAST TO OTT DELIVERY: INSIGHTS FROM IPLAYER

September 10, 2024 Tech Ben Gidley
IBC is just around the corner, which means it’s time for my annual exercise in
asking the BBC how the transition from broadcast to OTT delivery is going. This
is something I’ve been doing since 2019 as I was curious to see how it
progresses and given the BBC ‘unique’ model of funding it’s a good indicator of
how consumers want services to behave ( once you take away paying for it).
Continue reading
Ott Video


IPLAYER TRENDS

August 31, 2022 Tech
For several years I’ve been tracking the usage of iPlayer as I think it’s a
great ‘bellwether’ for consumer behaviour in the TV industry. iPlayer is a
unique proposition that has (nearly) ubiquitous device coverage, premium content
consumers want to watch and is free (at point of usage). This lets consumers
behave as they would naturally do, if you remove commercial pressure like
bundling and content rights being split between services. Continue reading
Ott Video


GOOGLE CLOUD MIGRATION PART3

May 10, 2022 Tech
Continuing from Part 1 I had a change of heart… I decided I really wanted my
wild-card mail boxes (it’s a great way to manage spam) and I also noticed
Cloudflare had launched their inbound mail relay service. The new plan is
Inbound mail goes to Cloudflare who redirect it to whoever it’s for gmail
account The gmail accounts are set up with an alias and a SMTP server (AWS SES)
for gidley. Continue reading
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GOOGLE CLOUD MIGRATION PART2

January 22, 2022 Tech
Continuing from Part 1 the next task is to migrate email archives from Google
Workspace email to the destination. I decided to Use iCloud as the new primary
domain Use Outlook.com as a backup for my old archive I split it like this as I
have email going back a long time and frankly searching them is becomming a
hassle. Migrating a Mailbox Migrating the mailbox is pretty straight forward - I
decided to use imapsync running on a ‘free’ Google cloud instance. Continue
reading
Google


GOOGLE CLOUD MIGRATION

January 20, 2022 Tech
I’ve been a user of Google Workspace for ‘gidley.co.uk’ email for me and my
family pretty much since it launched. At launch it was ‘free’ for small users
and over the decade I’ve been using it they have slowly moved it over to a paid
service putting us ’legacy’ users on a special (still free) plan. Google have
finally decided it’s time to stop us freeloaders… so it’s time to migrate.
Continue reading
Google


MICROSOFT TEAMS VIRTUAL BACKGROUNDS

April 14, 2020 Tech
I was excited to see Microsoft Teams have now enabled virtual backgrounds - but
they’ve missed a key feature. How to set your own images. A quick fix is upload
files to Library/Application Support/Microsoft/Teams/Backgrounds/Uploads And
presto you can use them in teams
Microsoft


ISOLATION - WHAT CHANGES ARE LIKELY TO STICK?

March 24, 2020 Tech
We’re now entering week 2 of the UK’s recommended social isolation and people
are adjusting to being at home. It’s early days yet - but I think it’s going to
accelerate some longer term changes in our lifestyles. The first two that struck
me were working from home and shopping! Driving / Commuting Many people have
never worked at home for an extended period - after 3-6 months of doing it
(based on at least 12 weeks as cited by Borris! Continue reading
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