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Adobe Plans to Launch Illustrator App for iPad After Photoshop (Bloomberg)

Adobe has picked Illustrator as the next major application it will put on Apple Inc.’s iPad, the latest effort to create a version of the software maker’s top desktop products ... More

Inside Apple’s High-Flying Bid to Become a Streaming Giant (Wired)

With Ron Moore’s space-race drama For All Mankind, Apple is betting on marquee names and lush production to get its TV+ service off the ground. Can it achieve orbit?... More

Akamai Reaches New Milestone for Web Traffic Delivered (MESA)

Akamai announced that traffic on its global content delivery network reached a new peak last week of 106 Tbps (terabits per second). It was the first time in the company’s 20-yea... More

Verizon Adds Home 5G Internet Service in One More City (CNBC)

Verizon is extending its wireless home Internet service to Chicago starting next week, the first addition to its in-home 5G push since last year. Starting on Oct. 24, residents in ... More

AVOD: Opening Up the Vault (Digital TV Europe)

Streaming, which dominates so much of conversation around content distribution currently, is set for a massive step change in scale and scope with the launch of multiple new subscr... More

AMC is Launching Its Own On-Demand Movie Service (Engadget)

If you can't beat them, join them. AMC Entertainment, the largest theater chain in the world, will soon be offering movies to stream at home. The movie theater industry has tried a... More

Analyst: Apple TV Plus ‘Will Have Over 100M Subscribers in Its First Year (TVB Europe)

Apple’s forthcoming streaming service will have over 100 million subscribers worldwide in its first year, according to Barclays. Apple TV Plus launches on 1st November in over 10... More

Sports Rights Now Make Up 26 Percent of Global Content Spend (THR)

TV broadcasters and streamers invested $38 billion in sports rights in 2018, nearly double the $20 billion spent in 2012, according to new research from Ampere Analysis. ... More

CBS All Access is Only as Big it Needs to Be (FierceVideo)

CBS All Access has more than four million subscribers. By 2022, CBS expects it to have 25 million combined with Showtime. It's big growth but that doesn’t mean CBS wants it to gr... More

Bob Iger Bets the Company – and Hollywood’s Future – on Streaming (THR)

Disney+ leads a wave of billion-dollar Netflix competitors that are transforming the entertainment industry and launching a new age of ambition (and anxiety) as Iger, Kevin Mayer a... More

Twitter Partners With Discovery, Eurosport for Tokyo 2020 Olympics (THR)

The deal will see Twitter bringing Eurosport's digital coverage of the Summer Games to its users across Europe.... More

5G Heralds ‘Next Layer’ of Digital Disruption for Media (Digital TV Europe)

5G is the next coming layer on top of the digital disruption of the media distribution chain, according to Mary Kay Evans, chief marketing officer, Verizon Media. It will provide n... More

Disney+ Reveals Every Movie, Show Coming to the Streaming Service (Polygon)

Disney unveiled the full list of movies and television shows that will be available on Disney Plus at launch by way of a extremely long Twitter thread. Thanks to a European beta te... More

Are These End Times for Binge Culture? (LA Times)

As the number of original scripted programs closes in on 500, and four new streaming platforms prepare to enter the market in the next six months, the scramble to stand out has led... More

Verizon Media Expands Shortform Video Business (THR)

Verizon Media is expanding its shortform video business with the launch of the In the Know Network, which will offer up bite-sized updates on everything from the latest on positive... More

Netflix Goes All Out to Wow Children as Streaming Wars Intensify (NYT)

Netflix has been a force in children’s entertainment for years, its usefulness as a digital babysitter helping it grow into a streaming behemoth with 152 million subscribers worl... More

Salesforce Adds Integrated Order Management System to Its Arsenal (TechCrunch)

Salesforce certainly has a lot of tools crossing the sales, service and marketing categories, but until today when it announced Lightning Order Management, it lacked an integration... More

PGA Tour to Live Stream Every Shot From The Players Championship (Golf Channel)

The PGA Tour is expanding its live video coverage of The Players Championship as far as it can go – every shot by every player in every round. In a first for golf, and most likel... More

Sony Confirms PlayStation 5 Name, Holiday 2020 Release Date (The Verge)

Sony has confirmed that its next-generation console will be called the PlayStation 5, and it’ll be out next year, launching in time for “Holiday 2020.” The company also annou... More

Netflix Loves Music Content – But Also All Other Content (NPR)

Netflix's recent forays into music-related film and television feature a laundry list of stars and splash, even in the last year alone. In the last few years, dozens have exploded ... More

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