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Global Streaming Services Land in Korea as Local OTTs Head Overseas
Korea is becoming a major over-the-top (OTT) platform market as more global streaming services are planning to launch their platforms in Korea while domestic OTT services are preparing to expand overseas. The launch of global...
Research: U.S. OTT Access Revenue Grew 37% to $39.4B in 2021
In its U.S. Cord Cutter/Never Household Model, as of year-end 2021, Convergence estimates 47% of U.S. households did not have a TV subscription with a cable, satellite, or telco TV access provider, up from 42% at the end of...
Netflix’s New ‘Mystery Box’ is Like a Kids-focused Version of the Shuffle Button
The new mystery box feature could help kids find something new among the vast number of kids-focused titles on Netflix, much like the “Play Something” button is supposed to help adults discover new content. On “TVs around the...
Audiences Spend Record 30% of Total TV Time Watching Streaming Content
The Nielsen Gauge report for April 2022, published Thursday, revealed that audiences spent on average more than 30% of their total TV viewing time this past month consuming watching streaming video content. Overall TV viewing...
Netflix Continues Accessibility Push with Badges for Audio and Subtitle Descriptions
The impact is we’re more able to see just how many fans we have with disabilities,” she said, noting the company relies on member feedback to guide new features and content. The new badges are a small concession like that —...
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Industry Insights
LatestGlobal Streaming Shows Double Digit Growth in Q1 22
The streaming industry has begun 2022 with robust growth in overall steaming and consumption on smart TVs showing a particular increase as streaming moves to overtake linear on the big screen says the latest Conviva State of...
VideoTech
LatestCutting-Edge Video Applications for Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning
To gain insight into the unstructured data of video, there are small and large companies alike working on building machine learning models for tasks like sentiment analysis, named entity recognition, topic segmentation, text...
Content, Providers
LatestPrime Video Has Invested £1 Billion on TV, Movies, and Live Sport in the U.K.
Prime Video will work with the Lawn Tennis Association (LTA) to help girls and young women overcome barriers to play, with a focus on three key areas: coaching, equipment, and environment. The announcement, which was made as...
Advertising
LatestDisney+ Will Reportedly Limit Ads to 4 Minutes Per Hour on Ad-Supported Tier
On the ad-supported tiers for HBO Max and Peacock, viewers can expect between four and five minutes of ads per hour, while Disney’s other general entertainment streamer Hulu serves nearly twice as many commercials. Service Price...
Devices
LatestStrategy
LatestNFL Considers Creating a Streaming Service of Its Own
The NFL is developing a subscription streaming service that would include games, radio, podcasts and team content. The streaming service is nascent, and likely won’t be ready for an owners’ vote until the next meeting in May,...
Australia
LatestTen’s Bid for AFL Broadcast Rights Strengthened By $2.6B Paramount Global Investment
The hustle to secure the amplified ad revenue attached to exclusive broadcasting rights of sporting final events is mirrored in Ten and Seven West’s Media bidding war for the hotly anticipated AFL Grand Final, This year,...
Legal
LatestNetflix Continues Accessibility Push with Badges for Audio and Subtitle Descriptions
The impact is we’re more able to see just how many fans we have with disabilities,” she said, noting the company relies on member feedback to guide new features and content. The new badges are a small concession like that —...
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...
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LatestNew Comcast-Charter Streaming Joint Venture Suggests the Next Chapter of the Streaming Wars is Coming
“It’s hard for you to imagine how they’re going to be successful given the long number of years that we’ve invested in our platform and our competitors have as well,” Roku CEO and founder Anthony...