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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

NAB 2019: Signiant Introduces Jet, the Newest Product on its SaaS Platform (MESA)

At NAB 2019, Signiant Inc, a long-time leader in intelligent file transfer, is introducing Jet, a new SaaS solution that makes it easy to automate and accelerate the transfer of la... More

AT&T to Revamp DirecTV Now With New Plans (TechCrunch)

AT&T CEO Randall Stephenson said in December the company would soon adjust the content mix on its DirecTV Now streaming service and raise the monthly subscription to around the “... More

Disney’s Acquisition of Fox Expected to Close Next Week (TheWrap)

We finally have a date for Disney’s official takeover of most Fox assets: The media landscape’s latest mega-deal should officially close next Wednesday. “The acquisition is e... More

30 Years on, Reports of the Web’s Death are Exaggerated (Wired)

Today's web wasn't what Tim Berners-Lee envisioned 30 years ago when he pitched the idea of a "distributed hypertext system" to the European Organization for Nuclear Research, bett... More

Spotify Premium Subscribers Can Get Hulu for Free (Engadget)

After bundling Hulu's ad-supported plan with Spotify Premium for an extra $3 per month, the streaming giant is going a step further. For a limited time, Spotify will offer that Hul... More

The Evolution of Technology Continues: What’s Next in 2019 (Digitalist)

3. IT organizations enter NoOps in a serverless world. With the growing reliance on cloud providers, IT organizations are now seeking to create a “NoOps” (no operations) landsc... More

The War for Cinema’s Future (Variety)

We no longer have to watch a movie, even a great one, in a movie theater; that hasn’t been necessary for close to 70 years. Before streaming we had DVDs, and before DVDs we had V... More

Free Content Could Be Key for Apple Streaming Strategy (Variety)

Apple has yet to give a glimpse of its upcoming video streaming service, but that’s likely to change soon. The Cupertino-based tech giant is expected to unveil its new offering a... More

Survey: Podcast Growth is Popping in the U.S. (NY Times)

The number of podcast listeners has increased sharply this year, according to a new report. More than half the people in the United States have listened to one, and nearly one out ... More

Ooyala Drives Efficiencies for Media Prima (MESA)

Ooyala is powering content management, syndication and distribution for Media Prima Berhad, Malaysia’s largest integrated media company, bringing greater efficiencies and cost sa... More

Old People in the U.S. are Watching a lot More TV (Quartz)

Americans worry about limiting the screen time of their children. They might be worried about the wrong generation. In 2017, the average American over 65 spent about four hours and... More

Sports Programming; The Hot New Digital Media Commodity (Forbes)

It took less than 24 hours after AT&T's massive restructuring of its $85 billion WarnerMedia investment for one of the surviving top executive to point where his part of this empir... More

PwC Survey: Consumer Data is the Most Highly Valued (Forbes )

The results of a survey conducted by PwC published today suggest that data will be the most important consideration in 2019 and that consumer data is the most valuable for companie... More

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