OTT/Streaming

YouTube, in its biggest swing yet at the sports-media biz, landed a deal with Major League Baseball to live-stream 13 games during the 2019 season worldwide — free for viewers to... More

Bob Iger has been building relationships in the Middle Kingdom for years, and family-friendly content gives him a leg up over Netflix, but cracking the world's second-largest VOD m... More

Finally, incumbent content players have stopped passively biting their nails about the digital tech giants and figured out they can toss around their weight (and massive amounts of... More

AT&T CEO Randall Stephenson said the company was planning to provide details of its upcoming streaming service to investors at a WarnerMedia Day in September or October. Speaking o... More

Disney is taking a meticulously planned leap itself into the market for Internet video streaming, simultaneously offering new products while forgoing billions of dollars in revenue... More

Disney and Comcast are holding talks about working out a deal for Comcast’s 30% stake, according to people familiar with the matter. Comcast is now weighing the pros and cons of ... More

Movies from streaming platforms like Netflix and Amazon Prime will still be eligible for Academy Awards, the film body’s board said. The Academy of Motion Picture and Arts and Sc... More

Disney is gunning not necessarily to be a Netflix replacement but to be a companion, with the two companies providing so much value for less than the $20 per month that consumers w... More

DAZN Media has significantly scaled up its advertising platform with the launch of DAZN Dynamics, which will use the network’s real-time sports data to deliver contextually relev... More

Verizon and Google said they struck an agreement that will make YouTube TV available to Verizon customers over Fios broadband, wireless and its expanding 5G service. Verizon said t... More

Content is king — but the queen for direct-to-consumer streaming services is overall user experience, according to a new study.... More

Netflix is still the No. 1 service for streaming video users, but YouTube TV, Hulu and Amazon Prime are gaining ground while HBO Now and authenticated TV apps are in decline, accor... More

TV content delivery is one of the hot topics of discussion amongst TV execs the world over, but it has become largely inconsequential for those who are consuming that content.... More

Pankaj Kedia, Dolby: "We are looking at increasing the adoption of our technology across the entertainment ecosystem including cinema, broadcast and streaming services. Our goal is... More

Last week, Amazon and Google rolled out free music streaming services to cater to the growing base of smart speaker owners. Now, SiriusXM is going after this market, too. The compa... More

The sports industry is booming. In 2018, it generated more than $49.5 billion in media rights revenue. Unsurprisingly, most of this revenue (94%) comes from linear broadcast rights... More

More than 10 million folks regularly tune in to watch the program’s live showing rather than viewing a recording later on. Industry pundits are characterizing the show’s final ... More

The scale of the global content piracy problem was again underlined this week with the news that the first episode of the new season of Game Of Thrones was pirated almost 55 millio... More

As the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences mulls changing its Oscar season rules to make it harder for streaming services like Netflix to compete, it is developing a stream... More

As consumers increasingly turn to streaming video services to watch their TV content, they are open to both ad-free subscription services and ad-supported offerings.... More