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Arash Amel

Arash joined Screen Digest in 2001. He specialises in digital entertainment content and technologies, and pioneered Screen Digest's Broadband Media Intelligence service. Current clients to the service include major technology companies, broadcasters, pay-TV operators, entertainment retailers, telcos, ISPs, Hollywood Studios and the music Majors.

As Head of Broadband Media at Screen Digest, Arash has overseen the development of the company's market forecasting models in the digital distribution of movies, music, TV and user-generated content. He has previously advised the European Commission on the opportunities and obstacles posed to the entertainment sector by the internet, and has also carried out a wide array of private consulting assignments on entertainment content distribution for leading global media companies. He is a regular speaker at international conferences, as well as authoring and editing over 30 market reports and research pieces on his core areas of expertise.

Arash holds an honours degree in Law from Kings College, London, where he was a Visiting Lecturer in Law, and is a non-practicing barrister.


> Recent Reports & Articles by Arash Amel
Adobe PDF Hulu Numbers Highlight Flaws in YouTube Model Hulu Numbers Highlight Flaws in YouTube Model Report locked, login or read more about how to purchase this report
Hulu, the News Corp/NBC Universal joint venture, is already generating a positive gross margin and demonstrating an online TV distribution model that is showing up the weaknesses of Google's YouTube platform. Next year we forecast Hulu will generate gross revenues of $175m - similar to YouTube but representing 26 times more revenue per stream than the Google-owned site. The crucial difference is Hulu's much greater amount of premium TV and movie content and its link to the TV schedules of its partners' TV networks.
05-Dec-08
Adobe PDF Selling online video: rise of 'value-add economics' Selling online video: rise of 'value-add economics' Report locked, login or read more about how to purchase this report
Internet and technology companies, retailers and e-commerce businesses have made virtually no meaningful financial return from selling digital movies and TV downloads direct to consumers, because of high wholesale price expectations from content owners, and low volume consumption. Entertainment hardware manufactuers like Apple, Microsoft and Sony, however, will exploit the paid-for video segment to drive other profit centers such as hardware and games. Otherwise B2B companies stand to gain the most: that is, content owners and companies enabling and providing online video.
02-Oct-08
Adobe PDF Online Sports Videos: Rights, Revenues and Forecasts Online Sports Videos: Rights, Revenues and Forecasts Report locked, login or read more about how to purchase this report
This comprehensive report includes a full analysis of the consumer market for online sports video (OSV) in the USA, UK, France and Germany. It also includes all of Screen Digest's proprietary market data and forecasts for the take up of different types of online sports video offerings, the growth of consumer broadband and the online video boom, an introduction to sports media right and an overview of technology and the infrastructure in the OSV market.
04-Feb-08
Adobe PDF Research Article Prospects for iPhone in Europe Prospects for iPhone in Europe Prospects for iPhone in Europe Report locked, login or read more about how to purchase this report
Apple partners European mobile network operators for launch, scheduled for November
22-Oct-07
Adobe PDF Online Movie Strategies Online Movie Strategies Report locked, login or read more about how to purchase this report
This report examines the current and future state of the online movie markets in Western Europe and the USA. It includes five year forecasts of consumer spending and Studio level revenues generated from online a la carte movie transactions. The report provides detailed analysis of the strategies adopted by each of the Hollywood Studios in the digital marketplace.
30-Aug-07
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