Daniel Rühmann, Simply.TV
Andy Waltenspiel, Waltenspiel Management Consulting
Peter Wassong, Deutsche Telekom
Elena Petrova, A1 Telekom Austria AG





We explore the value of Pay TV providers as long-term partners to content owners who are wholly or increasingly focused on their streaming apps as the gateway to their content. To what extent can operators help bind viewers to streaming app services, whether through marketing or data collaborations, or bundling and discounting? This panel considers the challenges when hard bundling, including how to cope with the possibility of wholesale price rises. As more TV is streamed, will operators be competing directly with Smart TV OS providers for super-aggregation, and how do they ensure theirs is the best one-stop-shop holistic content discovery experience? What role for FAST on a Pay TV platform, or YouTube, or TikTok? We ask for operator priorities over the next two years. We want to know where AI can help them most, and what impact improved anti-piracy solutions can have.
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