Over-The-Top (OTT) streaming services distribute online audio-visual content, including music. These platforms don't make use of the typical cable or satellite feeds as traditional television does. ...Any kind of content can be delivered via the internet and can satisfy the entertainment needs of the viewers. The COVID-19 epidemic increased the level of acceptance for OTT media, even though OTT streaming just became widely used in the last ten years of this century. It evolved into a widely adopted digital trend. Since its debut, OTT has fundamentally altered how consumers access and view content. In this paper, a study is conducted on the consumption of the OTT platforms among viewers and their experience on pricing, usability, and quality of this new generation of digital entertainment. Analysis of the consumption includes determination of the OTT platforms used, time spent on them and their experience.
This article considers how established methodologies for researching television distribution can be adapted for subscription video-on-demand (SVOD) services. Specifically, I identify a number of ...critical questions—some old, some new—that can be investigated by looking closely at SVOD catalogs in different countries. Using Netflix as an example, and drawing parallels with earlier studies of broadcast and cinema schedules, I ask what Netflix’s international catalogs can tell us about content diversity within streaming services, and how this can be connected to longer traditions of debate about the direction and intensity of global media flows. Finally, I describe what a research agenda around Netflix catalogs might look like, and assess the utility of various kinds of data within such a project (as well as some methodological pitfalls).
This article explains how Netflix has transformed the ways in which we interact with media in the contemporary milieu. I argue that Netflix works through a process of planned differentiation, ...designing unique customization experiences to create a new type of media user that participates in its global and regional release and production strategies. This leads me into a discussion of how the Netflix interface manages the spectators’ experience through a series of connected features. Thus, I detail Netflix’ personalization mechanisms, proposing that, ultimately, its users ‘pay to buy themselves’, or the version of themselves its interface offers back to users upon systematically gathering data on their habits. Finally, I remark that the key characteristics of the current streaming service/spectator relationship are deceptive limitlessness, customization, the automation of content flow and ubiquity, weaving a form of audiovisual engagement that has partially and, at times completely, conquered our everyday.
•A scoping review of video-based patient education in hospitalized patients was conducted.•Many studies show positive effects of video-based education compared to standard interventions.•Video-based ...patient education is effective for improving short-term health literacy goals.•More research is needed to assess impact on long term behavior or lifestyle modifications.•Combining educational methods over an extended period may support longer-term health outcomes.
To summarize the literature on the impact of video-based educational interventions on patient outcomes in inpatient settings as compared to standard education techniques.
This review followed a scoping review methodology. English language articles were searched in Pubmed, Medline, Cochrane, and CINAHL databases. Inclusion criteria were: use of video-based educational interventions, and inpatient hospital settings. Abstracts were reviewed and selected according to predetermined criteria, followed by full-text scrutiny.
Sixty-two empirical studies were identified, with 38 (61%) reporting a significant positive effect of video-based educational interventions on patient outcomes, compared to control groups (i.e., standard education). Three different types of video-based educational intervention formats were identified: animated presentations, professionals in practice, and patient narratives. Outcome types included: knowledge-based, clinical, emotional, and behavioral, with knowledge-based most prevalent.
Video-based educational interventions are common in the hospital setting. These interventions are effective at improving short-term health literacy goals, but their impact on behavior or lifestyle modifications is unclear. Their effectiveness also depends on presentation format, timing, and the patient’s emotional well-being.
Video-based educational delivery is effective for improving short-term health literacy, however a combination of approaches delivered over an extended period of time may support improving longer-term health outcomes.
In this paper, we introduce a relatively simple and versatile analytical model to compute the performance of an IEEE 802.11-based Video-on-Demand (VoD) service for connected vehicles traveling along ...a highway or an expressway. We use a probabilistic approach to account for the intrinsic dynamics (mobility) of vehicles, the density of subscriber vehicles, the distance between Road Side Units (RSUs), as well as the video codec bit rate. Our solution delivers estimates for the attained throughput of each subscriber vehicle as well as for their interruption times in the playback of their video. We studied several scenarios to assess the accuracy of our approximate solution comparing its results with those of a discrete-event simulator with realistic vehicular traffic trajectories, video traffic, and networking protocols. Overall, our solution is found to be accurate delivering estimates in good agreement with the simulation results. Through several applications, we illustrate how our analytical solution can help in the design of a VoD service for vehicles for capacity planning purposes, or at improving its performance with the use of a blocking policy.
Este artículo explora las principales estrategias de publicidad utilizadas por los operadores de servicios de vídeo bajo demanda por suscripción en el mercado audiovisual español. Metodológicamente, ...se ha realizado un seguimiento de los estrenos y las campañas publicitarias de cinco operadores (Netflix, HBO Max, Amazon Prime Video, Disney+ y Apple TV+) con el objetivo de identificar las principales obras promocionadas en territorio español. El artículo indaga en la relación entre las series de televisión y la publicidad exterior a través de dos casos de estudio: Sky Rojo (Netflix) y Falcon y el soldado de invierno (Disney+). A través del mapeo y el análisis, se descubren distintas acciones de publicidad exterior en tanto ejemplos paradigmáticos de la presencia publicitaria de las plataformas audiovisuales en las ciudades contemporáneas. Los resultados ilustran dos dimensiones clave de la publicidad exterior de los servicios de SVOD: una material, asociada al soporte, tamaño, presencia y visibilidad del texto publicitario; y una simbólica, más asociada al texto publicitario. Asimismo, se advierten conexiones entre lo offline y online, que apuntan hacia la relación entre publicidad exterior, redes sociales y medios, así como a la mercantilización y reconstrucción cotidiana de la ciudad y el espacio público.
Video summarization aims to automatically generate a summary (storyboard or video skim) of a video, which can facilitate large-scale video retrieval and browsing. Most of the existing methods perform ...video summarization on individual videos, which neglects the correlations among similar videos. Such correlations, however, are also informative for video understanding and video summarization. To address this limitation, we propose V ideo J oint M odelling based on H ierarchical T ransformer ( VJMHT ) for co-summarization, which takes into consideration the semantic dependencies across videos. Specifically, VJMHT consists of two layers of Transformer: the first layer extracts semantic representation from individual shots of similar videos, while the second layer performs shot-level video joint modelling to aggregate cross-video semantic information. By this means, complete cross-video high-level patterns are explicitly modelled and learned for the summarization of individual videos. Moreover, Transformer-based video representation reconstruction is introduced to maximize the high-level similarity between the summary and the original video. Extensive experiments are conducted to verify the effectiveness of the proposed modules and the superiority of VJMHT in terms of F-measure and rank-based evaluation.
Traditional media are being surpassed by Internet media content, which can be accessed by multiple Internet-enabled devices, when and where ever, often even during night-time. The constant ...availability and widespread use of these streaming media or video-on-demand services have led to changes in media consumption and usage patterns and video viewing behaviour. This study explores the temporal media consumption patterns of different video-on-demand services in Finland by analysing search engine queries, with the aim to investigate when prime-time for these services occurs. The data for this study were obtained from Google Trends, between 30 September and 1 December 2017. Results show that there are clear and recurring temporal patterns for video-on-demand service interest and media consumption in Finland. Popularity in Google searches for the different video-on-demand services start to rise in the evening and peak during night-time and clear troughs are visible during the morning hours and during the day. These strong diurnal characteristics point to a strong media behaviour and makes it easy to predict trends. It is evident that peaks in primetime for streaming media services are visible at night-time and have replaced the television set prime-time. These findings on behavioural patterns and habits might have new and disruptive implications in the post-television era, both on an individual and societal level.
Using the media industry studies approach, this article provides a history of the industrial discourses surrounding Netflix’s audience data. From Netflix’s entry into the streaming market in 2007 ...until late-2018, the company did not publicize information about viewership. During this time, executives’ public discussions of proprietary data are understood in relation to multiple organizational goals: differentiating the streaming platform from the traditional television industry, denigrating traditional television industry practices, and deflecting criticism. In late-2018, the company began selectively publishing viewership numbers for a small number of original titles to highlight the popularity of the platform’s original content. Although the company maintains its anti-transparency policies, the shift toward selective data releases has significant implications regarding Netflix’s relationship with the traditional television industry. This analysis concludes with a discussion of streaming audience data that situates in the emerging realities of ‘popular’ television in the context the medium’s broader transformations and continuities.
This discussion focuses on one approach and methodology for developing openly available (e.g. Youtube) short lecture nuggets enabling in-class discussions and handson learning experiences (e.g. ...experimental measurements). These video nuggets give space for interactive student learning in the available faculty-student classroom time. From developing lecture nuggets and using these nuggets in multiple ECE classes over the last five years, classroom time can transform toward focused on interactive faculty and student conversations as well as creating space for interactive hands-on laboratory experiments and related opportunities. This discussion focuses on this author's experience, strategies, and methodology developing open-source lecture nuggets for a wide range of nominally ECE courses.
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