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NAGRA, MTM Launch the 2019 Pay-TV Innovation Forum (CDSA)

NAGRA and MTM have announced the launch of the 2019 Pay-TV Innovation Forum. The global research programme will explore the biggest challenges facing pay-TV service providers and c... More

Spotify Wants You to Listen to More Podcasts, Less Music (Fortune)

Spotify’s $340 million play for podcasts is not just an attempt to dominate every facet of your audio experience—though Spotify would certainly like that, too. Following its re... More

Netflix Will Test Character-Driven Video Previews for Its Kids Content (Variety)

Netflix is getting ready to try a new thing to help younger viewers discover new shows: The video service will start testing character-driven video previews of some of its shows la... More

Apple Announces Apple TV Plus Video Subscription Service (The Verge)

After years of speculation and on-again, off-again rumors, Apple has finally unveiled its biggest push into streaming video: Apple TV Plus. CEO Tim Cook announced the service — f... More

YouTube Bows Out of Hollywood Arms Race With Netflix, Amazon (Bloomberg)

YouTube has canceled plans for high-end dramas and comedies, people with knowledge of the matter said, a pullback from its grand ambitions for a paid service with Hollywood-quality... More

Netflix Tries Out Mobile-Only Subscription Plan in India (Variety)

Streaming giant Netflix is testing a mobile-only subscription in India that costs half of its basic plan. Netflix India’s monthly plans begin at INR500 ($7.27), and the mobile-on... More

How Netflix Wants to Take on Its Competition in 2019 and Beyond (Variety)

During the two days at Netflix’s Los Angeles offices, one number came up over and over again: Only 5% of the world’s population are native English speakers. “Historically, we... More

Google Stadia May Drastically Change the Cloud Gaming Landscape (CNET)

Playing your favorite game from anywhere and on any device is 2019's holy grail of entertainment, and based on Google's big Stadia reveal at the Game Developer's Conference this we... More

Comcast Launches Streaming Video Platform Xfinity Flex (THR)

Comcast is courting cord cutters with a new streaming video product called Xfinity Flex. The service, which will launch March 26, will serve as an internet-enabled platform through... More

Apple Jumping Into Streaming Video With a Huge Library of Shows, Films (The Verge)

Apple is getting ready to launch a TV and movie streaming service, and that means putting together an expansive catalog of original content. The company is widely expected to unvei... More

NAB 2019: NAGRA Showcases Comprehensive Approach to Pay TV Business (MESA)

At the NAB Show, NAGRA, a Kudelski Group company and the world's leading independent provider of content protection and multiscreen television solutions, will demonstrate its lates... More

Disney-Fox Deal is Complete; CEO Bob Iger’s Big Swing Could Change Media Industry (LA Times)

With the landmark purchase of Fox assets, Disney is poised to be an even bigger force in Hollywood. Disney is taking over Fox’s movie and TV production studios and the rights to ... More

Can You Hear Me Now? AI Tackles Voice, Video (Forbes)

AI may finally be realizing its true potential. This is because AI is now being applied to richer data sets—things like voice conversations and video—with more-sophisticated al... More

Addressable TV is Creating New Advertising Capabilities (Forbes)

From the advertiser’s perspective, the ability to combine data from the internet and/or hardware environment with video viewing opens the floodgates in terms of possibilities. Ju... More

Google Unveils Stadia Cloud Gaming Platform to Play Games Anywhere (Venture Beat)

Google CEO Sindar Pichai and executive Phil Harrison introduced Google’s cloud gaming platform, Stadia, at the Game Developers Conference in San Francisco. They also showed a Goo... More

Study: Nearly Half of U.S. Consumers Frustrated by Streaming Explosion (Variety)

Streaming entertainment is smacking into the wall of the paradox of choice — and the cost to consumers of piecing multiple services together.... More

Amazon Studios Plans Unscripted Push in Europe (Variety)

Georgia Brown, Amazon Studios’ head of European Prime Original Series, said Monday that the streamer is preparing to ramp up its slate of unscripted shows in France, Spain and It... More

Xbox Live Expands to Mobile in Microsoft’s Big Streaming Push (Engadget)

If rumors are to be believed, we may see a Netflix for video games as soon as this month. And like streaming video before it, the rise of on-demand gaming could mean coughing up fo... More

Streaming Music Leads Smart Speakers (Media Post)

Smart speakers can do many things, but consumers mainly want them to stream music. Of all the many uses of smart speakers, listening to streaming music services is at the top of th... More

Jeffrey Katzenberg’s Vision for the Future of TV is Snackable Movies (Quartz)

Imagine sitting down to watch a movie and only being able to watch eight minutes of it at a time. That is Hollywood veteran Jeffrey Katzenberg’s vision for the future of TV, alth... More

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