1. Television & OTT
Future TV 2025
Gilles FONTAINE
Deputy CEO
Tel: +33 (0) 467 144 460
Mail: g.fontaine@idate.org
This study includes:
- a complete report
- and a PowerPoint slideshow
Disruption scenarios and their impact
on markets and the industry
Abstracts
M13212MRA - September 2013

2. Contributeurs
˃ Gilles FONTAINE, Directeur général adjoint
Gilles Fontaine is IDATE’s Deputy CEO and is also in charge of IDATE Business Unit dedicated to media
and digital content.
During its 20 years experience in the Media sector, Gilles Fontaine has become an expert of the media
economics and of the impact of Internet on content. He directed numerous studies for both public and
private clients, including the EC, governments and local authorities, telcos and TV channels.
Recent assignments have included a participation in the future MEDIA programme ex-ante
assessment, the analysis of new video internet services economics, a long term forecast project on the
future of television. He has also monitored the impact of digitization and online distribution on other
media, radio, press and music.
Mr. Fontaine holds a degree from the highly reputed French business school, HEC (Ecole des Hautes
Etudes Commerciales, 1983) and from the Institut MultiMédias (1984).
g.fontaine@idate.org
˃ Jacques BAJON, Director of research, Head of the Video distribution practice
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3. Future TV 2025
TV and video: services will be the money makers
• Linear TV as lost leader for on-demand services
• The tablet as the 1st screen of choice
• The end of control over managed networks

4. Disruptions & Innovations
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5. “Business as usual” scenario
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6. The alternative scenarios
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