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March 2020
Ronan de Renesse
Practice Leader, Consumer Technology, Media & Entertainment
ronan.derenesse@omdia.com
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Contents
• Catalyst
• Omdia view
• Recommendations
• Today, most attention and responses are focused on the impact that
lockdowns and social distancing measures have on consumer
demand. Increased consumption of digital content from mobile
apps to TV and gaming has already been observed in China and Italy
and can mean as much as a 50% increase in traffic. However,
segments that rely on live entertainment such as esports, music,
and cinema will suffer greatly from loss of ticket sales.
• Demonetize content on coronavirus. Brands are going to be cautious about allowing their content to appear alongside media on the
coronavirus. YouTube has already demonetized coronavirus-related content; social media platforms should do the same. Content from
authorities such as WHO, the US Center for Disease Control (CDC), and the UK National Health Service (NHS) should not be subject to
restrictions. Indeed, it should be promoted by social platforms.
• Improve detection and removal of misinformation, inappropriate ads, and opportunist sale of products hit by shortages.
Misinformation has a potentially serious impact on public health as does the encouraging of panic buying. Social platforms need to get a
grip on what content is being shared about COVID-19 on their platforms or risk the wrath of regulators already incensed by the
proliferation of “fake news.“
• App publishers should beef up their in-app offering to satisfy increased user engagement. People stuck at home in quarantine or self-
isolation are spending more time and money on mobile apps, so now is the time for app publishers to speed up the rollout of new in-app
features, content, and levels (e.g., games) to keep users engaged during this period of greater consumption.
• Like telcos, OTT communications apps should prepare to see their platforms being used to replace in-person communications.
Quarantine and self-isolation will greatly reduce personal contact. Communications apps will allow people to keep in touch with their
family, friends, and colleagues, so they must be ready to scale up their messaging, voice, video calling, and content-sharing capacity.
• OTT communications apps should also prepare for their platforms to be increasingly used as boredom busters. People confined in
quarantine or self-isolation will lean heavily on their communications apps for entertainment including creating, sharing, and consuming
content; playing games; or online shopping. The COVID-19 pandemic provides an opportunity for OTT communications apps providers to
accelerate, iterate, or innovate product development in these areas.
• OTT video platforms should promote their services. Online video platforms should take the opportunity to market their services by
promoting exclusive content or original film to encourage subscriber uptake of online video platforms. Offering free access or extended
trial periods in affected areas will help services promote the brand and gain goodwill and subscriptions.
• OTT video platforms should promote transactional options. Online video platforms should promote transactional forms of
consumption, especially for new content, as cinemas are temporarily shutting down.
• OTT video platforms should be wary of ad-supported business models. In the short term, online video platforms with AVOD and SVOD
will benefit from the situation because of increased traffic. However, if the duration is prolonged, online video companies that focused
on advertising may suffer because of economic downturns.
• Expand presence on multiple app platforms. People now have access to an array of video-consumption platforms, so it is vital for
companies to make their apps present on the major app platforms including Android TV, Metrological, Apple, Roku, Amazon Fire, and
Vewd.
• Help those unused to or new to e-commerce, particularly the elderly, onto the ladder. Make it easy to register, make sure payments are
simple and intuitive, and think of providing free delivery for physical goods during the pandemic (particularly if deliveries are likely to be
disrupted). Look at value-added services that make the e-commerce experience pleasurable and even more useful, for example, quick
and easy recipes that make the most of available ingredients.
• Convert the short-term upswing in e-commerce during the pandemic into a longer-term trend. Online service providers and commerce
players should look at how this change in consumer buying behavior can be harnessed beyond the pandemic, for example, by leveraging
personalization features more effectively, making flexible content offerings, or providing friction-free payment experience.
• Leverage technology to help your business and customers through the crisis. Analytics and predictive modeling based on machine
learning (ML) can help scenario planning and responses. AR can be used to enhance online shopping (e.g., trying clothes on, virtual
showrooms); conversational commerce (chatbots, voice, video) can be used as a sales and support tool to provide interactivity and,
ultimately, to help sustain relationships.
• Plan a logistics and fulfilment response before it becomes an issue. Benefits from an upswing in e-commerce will be seriously eroded if
commerce players do not plan for disruptions across the supply chain. Actions include everything from demand forecasting,
contingencies for delivery delays and stoppages, and planning how to minimize physical contact during the delivery process.
• Continue to focus on “shoppable“ ad formats that facilitate e-commerce and food delivery. Despite the COVID-19 pandemic, people
will still want to buy products, but they will move an increasing amount of their purchasing activity online. Brands and retailers will
prioritize driving online conversions through digital ad campaigns, which will increase the value of commerce-focused inventory.
• AI can help online service providers and commerce players protect consumers in uncertain times. The increase in consumer online
activity during the pandemic will open the door for opportunistic and unscrupulous behavior, for example, disinformation, fake news,
exploitative advertising and trading, commerce scams, and fraud. AI can be harnessed to help combat these issues (e.g., biometrics for
enhanced security, ML for fraud detection and to monitor for disinformation about COVID-19).
• Give consumers AI-enhanced services to help them through the crisis in ways more standard applications cannot. AI can bring
capabilities to services and applications that can be particularly relevant and useful during the COVID-19 pandemic, including remote-
working apps, enhanced entertainment, and videoconferencing to name a few. A specific examples could be leveraging geo-intelligence
that could help keep track of the viral spread or, for areas not on lockdown, providing travel information, updates, and safety advice.
*Duration up to the period mentioned. This is an estimate based on whether the impact is purely driven by quarantines or lockdowns, continues for longer because of a post-pandemic recession, or simply accelerates an ongoing trend
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Demand for • Demand for information, news, and talk shows increase as
children’s, family, workflow shifts to remote, decentralized work environments.
and news content • Demand for children’s content grows because of school closures.
• Families at home together spike demand for family content.
grows
Increased
• People sign up temporarily to new services.
consumption at • Increased demand on home broadband bandwidth to
home/increased accommodate OTT video consumption.
uptake of OTT • People try new services and business models.
services
Growing demand for • Increase in uptake of both generalist and specialist services.
• Increased levels of viewership for children’s and family content.
children’s and family
• Increased demand for content might negatively affect smaller
content services unable to offer wide library of content.
• Netflix, Disney+, DAZN, and others will all benefit from people’s
SVOD subscriptions staying at home; Amazon Prime’s offer of fast delivery and SVOD
makes for a particularly attractive consumer proposition.
will grow • As consumers increasingly become more frugal, pay-TV
subscriptions will transition to online video services.
• AVOD players with large content libraries (e.g., Tubi.tv and Pluto.tv)
AVOD services can experience a rise in viewing.
capitalize on • AVOD can attract brands increasing digital spend (e.g., food
increased viewership delivery) and unmet demand from brands blocking inventory
associated with COVID-19 content.
Facilitate content navigation (e.g., up-to-date electronic programming guide, or EPG). Public/commercial FTA TV broadcasters and TV device
vendors
Launch/promote flexible advertising campaign packages. Advertisers, commercial FTA TV broadcasters
Ramp up children’s, family, and news TV content sourcing and creation. Media companies and TV/OTT video service providers
Replace live reality, sports, and other event content with previous-season replays. Content rights holders
Invest in and develop AVOD catch-up TV services. Advertisers, OTT video platforms, commercial broadcasters
License old catalog to beef up content lineup for catch-up services. Commercial FTA TV broadcasters, OTT video platforms
Promote light virtual pay-TV packages for price sensitive subscribers. Pay-TV operators, OTT video platforms
Introduce flexible bring-your-own-device (BYOD) plans to avoid the need for installer visits. Pay-TV operators, hardware vendors
Facilitate self-installation via mailouts of set-top boxes and creation of instructional videos. Pay-TV operators, technology companies
Embrace new technologies (e.g., virtual crowd simulation) for live no-crowd sports. Broadcasters, software developers
Communicate with hardware vendors to understand the impact on the supply chain. Pay-TV operators, hardware vendors
Offer consumers the ability to increase broadband speeds and network capacity over the Broadband operators
outbreak period for a fee.
Expand presence on multiple TV OS platforms to maximize widest possible reach of OTT video platforms, content owners
audiences.
Offer consumers a bundled media-streaming device and the ability to increase broadband Broadband operators, media-streaming vendors
speeds and network capacity over the outbreak period for a fee.
Leverage increased connected-TV consumption metrics and flexible pay-as-you-go models to Advertisers
spur interest from reticent prospects.
Diversify supply chains geographically to be shielded from adverse events. Many non- TV technology vendors
Chinese vendors are reliant on chipsets or specific hardware that come only from China or
certain other markets.
Virtualization of hardware has been a niche in the vendor space; this is the time for wider TV technology vendors
experimentation.
Disney OTT service provider / Europe Delayed launch event promoting streaming service in Europe.
content owner
MGM, Universal, Hollywood studios UK The James Bond film No Time To Die has been delayed until November 2020.
and Bond producers
Bona Film Group, China studio, online video China Theatrical release of Enter the Fat Dragon was canceled, and the movie was
Tencent Video, iQiyi platforms made available on Tencent Video and iQiyi on February 2020.
Huanxi Media, China studio, online China Huanxi Media canceled theatrical release of Lost in Russia and sold digital rights
Bytedance technology company to ByteDance.
Naver V Live Live-streaming platform South Korea Live theatre performances and concerts were canceled and made available via
live streaming on V Live.
Avex, YouTube Online video platform, Japan Avex canceled live performances and released about 100 live videos from artists
entertainment company belonging to Avex Management for a limited time on its YouTube channel.
Amazon OTT service provider/ Italy Amazon Prime Video had been offered free to the “Red Zone“ region until March 31, but
content owner the offer was pulled back after the whole country had been put on lockdown.
RAI Broadcaster Italy RAI is increasing the quantity of kids and teens content on linear broadcast and its
streaming platforms RAI Play and Rai Play Yoyo.
Infinity TV OTT service provider Italy Infinity TV is offered from free for two months from March 7 for new customers only.
Normally, new customers get one month free.
Telefónica Telco Spain Telefónica offers an additional 30GB each month for Fusion customers and Movistar mobile
customers, free of charge for two months; free access to Movistar Junior app for Movistar
Fusión customers; and free access to Movistar+ Lite app, available to both Movistar clients
and nonclients.
Amazon, Apple, Broadcasters, cable Worldwide Halted scripted TV and movie production, including tentpole series for OTT SVOD services
BBC, NBCU, Disney, channels, OTT service such as Apple TV+’s The morning Show, Netflix's Stranger Things, and Hulu’s The
Netflix, Warner providers, Hollywood Handmaid’s Tale; suspended production of late night talk shows, including The Tonight
Media, ViacomCBS, studios Show Starring Jimmy Fallon and The Late Show with Stephen Colbert.
and others
This research was conducted by gathering insights from Omdia’s Consumer team upto March 24, 2020. The revenue impact estimations are based purely on
analyst insights and expectations. Wherever possible, this has been validated by hard data sourced from various members of the industry. The situation on
COVID-19 is evolving rapidly, and the Omdia team will look to spin out this report into a market tracker. This will help monitor the progress of the outbreak and
its impact on consumer services over the coming months.
Ronan de Renesse, Practice Leader, Consumer Technology and Media & Guillermo Escofet, Principal Analyst, Media and Entertainment
Entertainment guillermo.escofet@omdia.com
Ronan.deRenesse@omdia.com
Pamela Clark-Dickson, Practice Leader, Communications and Social
Tom Morrod, Senior Director, Consumer Electronics & Video Technology pamela.clark-dickson@omdia.com
Thomas.Morrod@omdia.com
Charlotte Palfrey, Senior Analyst, Communications and Social
Maria Rua Aguete, Executive Director, Media, Service Providers, and Platforms Charlotte.palfrey@omdia.com
Maria.RuaAguete@omdia.com
George Jijiashvili, Senior Analyst, Media and Entertainment
Michael Philpott, Senior Practice Leader, Consumer Services, Ovum george.jijiashvili@omdia.com
Michael.Philpott@omdia.com
Ismail Patel, Senior Analyst, TV & Consumer Tech
Mariana Zamoszczyk, Senior Analyst, Smart Living ismail.patel@omdia.com
mariana.zamoszczyk@omdia.com
Rishi Kaul, Analyst, Consumer Technology
Eden Zoller, Distinguished Analyst, Smart Living rishi.kaul@omdia.com
eden.zoller@omdia.com
Simon Dyson, Practice Leader, Music Jun Wen Woo, Research Analyst, Online Video and Platforms for OTT
Simon.dyson@omdia.com Junwen.woo@omdia.com
Matthew Bailey, Senior Analyst, Media & Entertainment Kia Ling Teoh, Senior Research Analyst, Advertising and Channels and
Matthew.bailey@omdia.com Programming
Kialing.Teoh@omdia.com
Nicole McCormick, Practice Leader, Broadband and Multiplay
nicole.mccormick@omdia.com Aled Evans; Senior Research Analyst, Advertising and Channels and
Programming for AD
Steve Bailey, Senior analyst, Games Aled.evans@omdia.com
steven.bailey@omdia.com
David Hancock; Research Director Cinema
Chenyu Cui, Senior analyst, Games David.hancock@omdia.com
chenyu.cui@omdia.com
Alzbeta Fellenbaum, Principal Analyst Broadband
Louise Shorthouse, Analyst, Games Alzbeta.fellenbaum@omdia.com
louise.shorthouse@omdia.com
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