Watch: Media Distillery CEO Roland Sars on content discovery and winning attention from YouTube.

Industry leaders have been reviewing the road to profit for SVODs and their advice spans sharp marketing and hard bundles to co-windowing and more immersive video.

Katherine Wen argues that the right pay-TV operating system is critical to growth, as international operators target new customer segments including streaming-first, broadband-only and SVOD-loving consumers.

Ampere Analysis has been crunching the numbers to see if subscription streamer bundling improves lifetime customer value. Bundling with the right partners enables mutual upsells, and a lower churn rate can have a positive overall effect.

Pay-TV operators can take super-aggregation to the next level with bundles that include discounts for popular streamers — and that could even mean free apps. Subscriptions management is another value-add.

The streaming service believes a programme guide and linear schedule will help surface some of the best content from across its VOD catalogue along with live sport for consumers who appreciate a lean-back viewing experience.

The UK broadcasters have embraced YouTube as a source of incremental audiences as the platform is promoted from a marketing tool to a strategic distribution partner.

Deutsche Telekom and Vodafone both made clear that there is a limit to how many subscription streamers they want to super-aggregate and hard-bundle.

The smart TV OS provider and its ad server partner offer reach to 30m European homes and are emphasising the power of retail data insights.

Artificial intelligence promises dramatic reductions in the future cost and carbon footprint of television as it migrates from broadcast to streaming. IBC also revealed how it will be possible to create even more TV in total, and give advertisers an inventory boost around live events.