Netflix is rolling out paid password sharing in Canada, New Zealand, Portugal and Spain as the company looks to reap revenue from a practice it long encouraged customers to engage in at no charge. They can also “buy an extra...
Like any major technology refresh, the transition to IP-centric media systems has experienced a few bumps along the way, but overall progress has been steady and new products are filling in the few remaining gaps needed to...
When a program is available simultaneously on a subscription video on-demand (SVOD) streaming service and a live TV channel, adult U.S. SVOD viewers are on average more than twice as likely to prefer the former option. Only...
Solan Strickling, Senior Director of Streaming, Hartbeat, says that they look at UX KPIs in two different ways: the number of unique visitors and the level of retention. “What we’re thinking of from a KPI standpoint is how...
To the disappointment of my family, I decided to convert my living room into an experience centre with three TVs, a mixture of smartphones and tablets, and a few other devices to compare the difference between matches broadcast...
LONDON – February 2, 2023 – Leading video software provider Synamedia today unveiled research analyzing the impact of sports and entertainment piracy across seven countries and the potential revenues that would result from...
Rue Aguete said 2020 was a boom year for online video streaming, due to the pandemic and subsequent outdoor limitations, which resulted in more than 300 million new global subscription online video services. “Moving on from the...
The network then re-sells those consumers’ residential IP addresses to its customers — companies or users who want, for whatever reason, to appear as if they’re residential IPs within a specific region. This past summer, the FBI...
Even amongst the most challenging use cases, such as measurement and attribution, there are in-market examples PETs and clean rooms that are already enabling new privacy-safe ways to approach this use case. As most often they...
The country’s voluntary transition to the NextGenTV over-the-air (OTA) television broadcasting standard seems to be moving along relatively slowly, some have argued, in part because of sparse number of television sets sold in...
The NFL is developing a subscription streaming service that would include games, radio, podcasts and team content. The streaming service is nascent, and likely won’t be ready for an owners’ vote until the next meeting in May,...
Foxtel-owned sport streaming service Kayo has confirmed a price rise for customers on its most popular plan. The cost increase for Kayo comes after the streamer has recently renegotiated massive new costly broadcast deals for...
Netflix is rolling out paid password sharing in Canada, New Zealand, Portugal and Spain as the company looks to reap revenue from a practice it long encouraged customers to engage in at no charge. They can also “buy an extra...
Keywords: HTTP Adaptive Streaming, ABR Algorithms, Quality of Experience, Crowdsourcing, Subjective Evaluation, Objective Evaluation, MOS, (ITU-T) P.1203 Abstract: Adaptive BitRate (ABR) algorithms play a crucial role in...
“Our long-term aspiration for Peacock is to balance out our overall media business,” Shell said during NBCU parent Comcast ’s third-quarter earnings call today. Assessing how the various parts of Comcast’s overall video business...