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The Worst Acquisition in History, Again
8 Mar 2026
profgmedia.com

Warner Bros.

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Why people are buying iPods again
21 Feb 2026
axios.com

Nostalgia and digital burnout are driving a new rush for Apple's retired iPods.

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Digiday charted how YouTube is a threat to Netflix, including watch time dominance, user base and its ability to reshape viewing behaviors.

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Netflix and the Hollywood End Game
15 Dec 2025
stratechery.com

Netflix is driving the Hollywood end game, likely confident it can increase the value of IP, and fend off YouTube.

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Cord reviving isn’t common but points to discontent with today’s streaming options.

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The “subscribe to everything” era is unraveling. After years of stacking streaming platforms, delivery perks, and digital add-ons, Americans are pulling back hard. A new survey from Self Financial shows the average household cut its paid subscriptions from 4.1 in 2024 to just 2.8 this year. That’s a drop of nearly a third in twelve […]

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When the streaming giant began making films guided by data that aimed to please a vast audience, the results were often generic, forgettable, artless affairs. But is there a happy ending?

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As YouTube has risen over the past 20 years to the streaming giant it is today, the platform has changed the way people watch TV.

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The Binge Purge
23 Feb 2025
vulture.com

TV’s streaming model is broken. It’s also not going away. For Hollywood, figuring that out will be a horror show.

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Casual Viewing | Will Tavlin
20 Dec 2024
nplusonemag.com

A decade before Airbnb persuaded homeowners to transform their homes into hotels, Netflix convinced its users to turn theirs into mini Netflix warehouses. Customers who held onto their DVDs for longer meant fewer shipping costs for Netflix, and fewer DVDs for the company to manage and store. Netflix tracked heavy users of its service — labeling them internally as “pigs” — and secretly throttled their deliveries. It didn’t matter if Netflix rented fewer DVDs than Blockbuster, because the company would keep collecting its monthly fee. The difference between Blockbuster and Netflix was this: Blockbuster punished customers for being forgetful; Netflix rewarded them for being mindless.

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2024 Top Streaming Stats
4 Jul 2024
music3point0.com

We live in world where almost all the entertainment we consume is online, and these streaming stats prove it.

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YouTube is gaining share of viewership on TVs, and legacy media doesn't have a uniform strategy to deal with the threat.

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Who will survive? Die? Thrive? And how? We talked to nearly a dozen top media executives and asked them to predict what lies ahead.

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Four major TV provider companies reported collective losses of roughly 1.35 million customers during their first fiscal quarters.

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DMA® Regions | Nielsen
22 Jun 2024
nielsen.com

DMA (Designated Market Area) regions are the geographic areas and zip codes in the U.S. in which local television viewing is measured by Nielsen.

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Tubi’s free TV strategy puts it between free social video and paid streaming.

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The first installment of Digiday's two-part series on the top ad-supported streaming services provides an overview of the platforms’ offerings and an analysis of how brands and agencies distribute their ad budgets and ad placements across platforms.

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In this edition of the Digiday+ Research Briefing, we examine the top ad attributes marketers want from ad-supported streaming platforms, how brands are increasing their marketing spend on YouTube, and how Walmart and Roblox are teaming up to make virtual e-commerce a reality, as seen in recent data from Digiday+ Research.

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15 Apps for Live Streaming Video
23 Apr 2024
practicalecommerce.com

This all-new update to our popular resource features apps from social networks and live-streaming platforms to produce and broadcast solo or multi-source video.

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Disney+ to offer 24/7 channels to play Star Wars content, commercials.

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Deezer has deleted 26 million of what it terms as "useless" tracks, which could be an indicator of what's to come from other platforms.

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In 2019 Los Angeles film/TV producer Brian Morrison painted Blockbuster's logo onto an old newspaper box — and then filled it up with used DVDs. "The Free Blockbuster movement slowly gained traction," reports the New York Times — aided at times by social media — "and eventually m...

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Chinese livestream agencies promise influencers fame and money, but end up trapping them in multi-year contracts.

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How Netflix Conquered Hollywood — And Then Broke It
19 Feb 2024
hollywoodreporter.com

The inside story of how the streamer muscled its way to the top by defying the industry’s conventions — and eventually paid the price.

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Hulu and other streamers are turning to bundles, discounts and ad-supported plans as customer defections rise.

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The Rise and Fall of TV's Golden Age
16 Sep 2023
statsignificant.com

The facts and figures of "Peak TV," and why it had to come to an end.

Sports Streaming Interest in the U.S. by State
2 Jul 2023
visualcapitalist.com
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Why in 2023 is streaming TV such a terrible experience?

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Spotify Live is getting the ax.

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Despite ambitious bets like 'Daisy Jones & The Six' and the upcoming 'Citadel,' insiders complain that there’s still "no vision for what an Amazon Prime show is." But chief Jen Salke says they are missing the point: "You don’t reverse-engineer true creative vision."

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Free 4K HDR broadcasts are out there... you just can’t find them.

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Go from NBA obsessive to Criterion-and-chill at the touch of a button.

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Bela Bajaria, who oversees the streaming giant’s hyper-aggressive approach to TV-making, says success is about “recognizing that people like having more.”

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YouTube chief product officer Neal Mohan tells us the steaming giant is making a big bet on TVs, where it’s seeing the fastest growth.

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The purpose of this tutorial is to install PipeWire on Ubuntu Linux. PipeWire is a sound server that can handle playback and capturing of audio and video streams. It is a worthy replacement to other…

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The company has struggled to earn enough from streaming to make up for losses from its traditional cable business. It is a story widespread in the industry.

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Hacker News
13 Nov 2022
ctrl.blog

Why I uninstalled Plex Media Server after over a decade and migrated my movie and TV show collection to Jellyfin instead of Emby.

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2013-era server offers rare peek under the hood of Netflix’s Open Connect network.

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Understanding legacy and modern streaming protocols will enable you to make an informed choice for...

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The best streaming services in 2024
5 Sep 2022
tomsguide.com

Our picks for the best streaming services and cable alternatives for those considering cord cutting

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[OC] The Most Watched Netflix Shows
5 Sep 2022
reddit.com

33K votes, 2.3K comments. 21M subscribers in the dataisbeautiful community. DataIsBeautiful is for visualizations that effectively convey…

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The Streaming TV Bloodbath
5 Sep 2022
slate.com

Streaming platforms like HBO Max and Netflix are axing staff and removing shows from their platform, all in search of profitability.

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Our guide on what Plex is and what you can stream on it

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For the first time in Italy, a major event - the Serie A football championship - is being broadcast exclusively via the Internet. In this article, we share some considerations the phenomenon of streaming football in Italy, looking at things from the operator’s point of view

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How Artists Get Paid From Streaming
13 Jul 2022
pudding.cool

We explain how your money gets from you to a streaming platform, and finally to an artist.

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It’s a crisis that has left, by some estimations, billions on the table unpaid to musicians

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Amazon and Apple TV are betting big on live sports streaming, and Netflix may be next.

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How Netflix Reverse-Engineered Hollywood
2 Jun 2022
theatlantic.com

To understand how people look for movies, the video service created 76,897 micro-genres. We took the genre descriptions, broke them down to their key words … and built our own new-genre generator.

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The dominance of Netflix and Disney in streaming has forced many companies to join forces. So far, Paramount has gone its own way.

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Livestream e-commerce is a $100 billion industry in China, with influencers selling everything from cosmetics to fast food.

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The Netflix executive says he — and the company he helped build — will survive a bout of bad earnings numbers.

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Ahhh the app dance. You know the one—where you sit down with the best intentions of watching a movie but...

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Stitcher and Earwolf are beloved by fans — then they started losing hosts and talent.

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We analyzed eight months of Netflix viewership data to determine what is and isn’t working on the world’s most popular TV network.

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Apache Kafka
13 Dec 2021
kafka.apache.org

Apache Kafka: A Distributed Streaming Platform.

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Why Netflix never goes down - The Verge
19 Nov 2021
theverge.com

Netflix’s secret to success is happening behind the scenes.

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Spotify’s Surprise
1 May 2021
stratechery.com

Spotify’s new subscription podcast offerings embrace the open ecosystem of podcasts in multiple ways.

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Jellyfin
19 Feb 2020
jellyfin.org

The volunteer-built media solution that puts you in control of your media. Stream to any device from your own server, with no strings attached.

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Netflix or Hulu? HBO or Showtime? Disney Plus or HBO Max? Here’s help

Subsonic
12 Feb 2019
subsonic.org
Enabling signal processing over data streams
8 Jun 2018
blog.acolyer.org
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Ten years after Silicon Valley remade TV, it’s become clear how the streaming revolution distorted our collective viewing habits — and sense of the culture.

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The inside story of Roku’s TV program
24 Oct 2010
fastcompany.com

How a scrappy startup upended the U.S. TV market.