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Fox to Use AWS for Cable, Satellite Broadcasts (Bloomberg)
Fox is turning to Amazon.com’s cloud to route video to the broadcaster’s cable and streaming customers, the latest Digital Age tie-up between the high-tech newcomer and big med... More
Get Ready for 5G to Make Your Phone Even More Addictive (Fast Company)
5G wireless may not change everything, as a lot of the hype around this technology loves to promise. But a new report suggests it’s going to make our smartphones even more of a s... More
Amazon, Verizon Partner to Improve 5G Speeds (CNBC)
Amazon is using next-generation 5G wireless networks to help businesses download data from the cloud faster. At Amazon Web Services’ annual re:Invent conference, CEO Andy Jassy s... More
Ampere: Netflix Pay TV Partnerships Reach 300M (Digital TV Europe)
Over 300 million pay TV homes worldwide now have the opportunity to subscribe to Netflix through their set-top boxes after the SVOD leader added 15 new partners this year, accordin... More
Why is Every Streaming Service Using the Same Pricing Model? (HBR)
Remember the not-so-long ago days when Netflix was the king of streaming services? Back then it was an easy segment for the company to command: “For the pleasure of viewing our c... More
What the Streaming Wars Mean for the Future of TV (Bloomberg)
If all goes as planned, by mid-2020 four of the most valuable companies on the S&P 500 will have introduced streaming services in less than a year. They’re spending billions of d... More
Adobe: Cyber Monday Shoppers on Track to Hit a Record $9.4B (CNBC)
Holiday shoppers aren’t headed to the store today. But they’re still spending. Cyber Monday shoppers have already spent, $473 million in online sales as of 9:00 a.m. ET, accord... More
Starz Wants Streaming App to be the ‘Edgy’ International Companion to Netflix (Digiday)
Starz has launched its standalone streaming app, StarzPlay, in the U.K., Brazil, Germany, France and Mexico. It also announced plans to expand it into 20 further international cou... More
Verizon Media’s Mick Loizou Talks Native Advertising Strategy (Exchange Wire)
Mick Loizou, senior director, product marketing, international at Verizon Media, discusses the benefits of a implementing native advertising strategy, how such approaches can be ta... More
Dolby Presents Dolby Atmos Music and J Balvin (MESA)
Dolby unveiled the second commercial of its first Dolby Atmos Music campaign featuring the LATIN GRAMMY award-winning and global chart-topping Colombian reggaeton artist, J Balvin.... More
Why Design Will Make or Break the 5G Revolution (Quartz)
We are on the cusp of a communication revolution that—depending on who you ask—should take the world by storm in the next few years. Telecom companies and hardware manufacturer... More
How Scripting Can Make or Break Localization for Simultaneous Global Release (ZOO Digital Blog)
When Kew Media Distribution (Line Of Duty, Killer In Plain Sight, Leaving Neverland) commissioned ZOO Digital as the localization vendor of choice for the international distributio... More
Disney Plus Tops 15M App Downloads, Still Hasn’t Slowed Down Netflix (Variety)
Disney Plus has been going gangbusters two weeks after its debut, notwithstanding the technical issues at launch. But the strong interest in the Mouse House’s new streaming servi... More
The Battle for Long-Form VOD Supremacy in the UK is Heating Up (eMarketer)
For UK video platforms, competition around premium content is intensifying, with digital services increasingly coming to the fore.... More
Ampere Analysis: The Unstoppable Rise of ‘Made for Social’ Video Content (BTN)
Ampere Analysis has conducted extensive research into the strategies of the digital studios – the creators of ‘made-for-social’ video. It’s a challenging, fast-paced market... More
The Ticking Time Bomb That Could Blow Up Hollywood’s Streaming Era (THR)
There's a joke circulating these days, and it isn't particularly funny: Millions of people are ditching cable because the bill is too high and no one can watch all that programming... More
Streaming TV’s Battle of the Binge: ‘Burn’ All Episodes or Take a ‘Weekly Pulse’? (THR)
Disney+ bets on a seven-day rollout, Netflix sticks to all-at-once drops and Apple TV+ experiments with both as the strategies spark a data debate and “a gut-level conversation..... More
On-Demand Audio, Video Streams Pass 1T This Year for First Time in U.S. (Billboard)
Even in an era where streaming records are seemingly broken with regularity, there are still thresholds that are worth stopping to acknowledge. And last week served up one of them.... More
Why Podcasts Could Be a Differentiator for HBO Max (Motley Fool)
The better a streaming company's tools for figuring out what people watch and why, the better positioned that streaming company is to come out with the next big streaming hit. And ... More
Why Businesses are Developing Multiexperience (Tech HQ)
Gartner calls it one of the top ten strategic technology trends for businesses in 2020.... More