Phil Wiser, EVP and Global CTO, Paramount, and Girish Bajaj, VP, Prime Video and Amazon MGM Studios Technology, reflected on key trends in the CTO panel this morning.
Predicting moments of disruption are very hard, but the video business seems to be at a moment of inflection point, according to Phil Wiser, EVP and global CTO, Paramount.
Speaking on the CTO Perspectives panel at the IBC conference, Wiser pointed out that the video business had taken longer to arrive at this inflection point than the music business, which, with basically a single monetisation model, had been uniquely vulnerable to the revolution initiated by Napster, with iTunes and Spotify delivering the death blows...
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