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Viewers Are Spending Less Time Watching TV, Movies
LOS ANGELES— Consumers are spending less time watching TV and movies and more time playing video games and listening to music and podcasts, according to new research by Interpret, which is resulting in an increased diversity in...
Why Didn’t Comcast Pull the Trigger on Selling Its Stake in Hulu?
Some observers had suggested the seemingly routine carriage negotiations might make a well-timed and convenient container in which to resolve Hulu ownership and programming, especially given that the two companies’s executives...
VRIF Publishes First Guidelines for Volumetric Video Streaming
By providing advice end-to-end, the VRIF hopes that the delivery of volumetric video streaming will be improved, but also that it will encourage adoption and interoperability. The Virtual Reality Industry Forum (VRIF) has...
Scaled-Back CES Returns to Vegas After Pandemic Hiatus
As the tech industry returns to Las Vegas after the 2021 show was cancelled, visitors will find that the electronics extravaganza (formerly known as the Consumer Electronics Show) has continued its metamorphosis into a broader...
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Industry Insights
LatestS05E11: Game of Streams (Can You Afford Not to Be Energy Efficient)
Making relatively small changes to your workflows you could reduce the energy use of the distribution and viewing of video content and at the same time improve your business. Making things more efficient will not only reduce the...
VideoTech
LatestiPhone ProRes Video is Another Video Production Milestone
ProRes enables multistream, real-time editing performance of iPhone video while delivering professional image quality. Apple’s ProRes is a lossy video compression format for use in post production that supports video resolution...
Content, Providers
LatestTikTok Adds Creator Monetization Features, Including Tips and Video Gifts
While already, the short-form video platform allowed creators to accept virtual gifts from fans during TikTok LIVE videos, a set of new features will allow creators to accept payments and gifts when they’re not livestreaming...
Advertising
LatestDeloitte: Addressable Targeting Gets the Hype, But Reach Will Deliver the Value
“Until unified measurement is widespread, advertisers will need to wrestle with one set of viewing data for broadcast and digital video recorder (DVR) views and a separate set for on-demand views, including those from...
Devices
LatestStrategy
LatestCIMM Developing Guide to Converged TV Measurement Providers
CIMM is working with The Project X Institute and TVRev on the guide, which aims to provide profiles and objective comparisons of the capabilities and services offered by all industry players offering cross-platform TV and video...
Australia
LatestDigital Advertising Continues to Boom, up 42.1% for Q3 Year-on-year
Overall though investment in digital advertising market continued to impress, with the September quarter increasing 42% on the COVID impacted September 2020, but also increasing 36% compared to the 2019 September quarter.” Video...
Legal
LatestEU Warns Adtech Giants Over ‘Legal Tricks’ as it Moots Changes to Centralize Privacy Oversight
And while the regulation has attracted huge international attention, as other regions grapple with how to protect people in an age of data-mining giants, the problem for many GDPR critics, as it stands, is that the law...
Webinars
LatestUnderstanding Quality of Experience of Heuristic-based HTTP Adaptive Bitrate Algorithms
Keywords: HTTP Adaptive Streaming, ABR Algorithms, Quality of Experience, Crowdsourcing, Subjective Evaluation, Objective Evaluation, MOS, (ITU-T) P.1203 Abstract: Adaptive BitRate (ABR) algorithms play a crucial role in...
Vendors
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LatestMore Than 8 Million Australians Stream YouTube on Connected TVs
Google Australia’s Managing Director of Sales, Rhys Williams, said Australian YouTube viewers who tuned in on TV screens in March 2021 engaged with videos that were 30% longer than those viewed on mobile and desktop – and...