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Keep essential ffmpeg commands close at hand, from stream inspection and lossless remuxing to CRF encoding, filters, subtitles, and GPU acceleration.

Spotify Just Hit 300 Million Subscribers. Here’s What We’ve Learned.

Gustav Gyllenhammar, Spotify’s Senior Vice President, Markets & Subscriptions, reflects on the journey.

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Can Netflix Become (More Like) YouTube Faster Than...

YouTube is poised to unify the streaming championship belts...

BitTorrent’s disastrous, legendary, and controversial story

The file-sharing app launched 25 years ago and unleashed a wave of piracy that would shake Hollywood to its core.

YouTube Now Worlds Largest Media Company, Topping Disney

The influential financial research firm MoffettNathanson suggests that the Google-owned video platform passed Disney's media business in 2025.

Why streaming sponsorships are the most efficient buy in TV

Discover how streaming sponsorships boost response rates, conversions and efficiency, and learn why brands are buying direct.

The case for and against clipping

Clipping is the creator growth hack of the year, but there are strong arguments for and against the practice. We break them down.

FFmpeg: The Incredible Technology Behind Video on the Internet | Lex Fridman Podcast #496

Jean-Baptiste Kempf is lead developer of VLC and president of VideoLAN. Kieran Kunhya is a longtime FFmpeg contributor, codec engineer, and the person behind...

The Death of Spotify: Why Streaming is Minutes Away From Being Obsolete

Jimmy Iovine just called the Death of Spotify. He might be right.

The next generation of independent music tastemakers

Music streaming has an echo chamber problem. Curators with distinctive taste and compelling visual stories are filling the void.

The Worst Acquisition in History, Again

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Why people are buying iPods again

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

Why YouTube is a genuine threat to Netflix

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

Netflix and the Hollywood End Game

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

Cable nostalgia persists as streaming gets more expensive, fragmented

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

The Subscription Era Is Over. The Purge Has Begun in America.

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…

Bland, easy to follow, for fans of everything: what has the Netflix algorithm done to our films?

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?

How YouTube redrew the TV map - in graphs

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.

The Binge Purge

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

Cost of internet streaming and cell phone bills

Casual Viewing | Will Tavlin

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…

2024 Top Streaming Stats

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

YouTube dominates streaming, forces media companies to adapt

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

A Closer Look At The Growth In Ad-Supported Streaming - Antenna Blog

The Future of Netflix, Amazon and Other Streaming Services

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

TV Companies Losing Subscribers As Sports Rights Deals Continue to Rise

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

DMA® Regions | Nielsen

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.

Why Tubi CEO Anjali Sud thinks free TV can win again

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

Digiday+ Research: A guide to ad-supported streaming services, from the top

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.

Research Briefing: Frequency capping matters most on streaming platforms

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…

15 Apps for Live Streaming Video

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.

The lines between streaming and cable continue to blur | Ars Technica

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

The Streaming Purge Has Started As Deezer Deletes 26 Million “Useless” Trac

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.

Tired of Streaming? Home-Grown 'Free Blockbuster' Libraries Are Trying to O

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…

Want to stop livestreaming? That’ll be $42,000

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

YouTube Dominates TV Streaming In US, Per Nielsen's Latest Report

How Netflix Conquered Hollywood — And Then Broke It

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

Americans Are Canceling More of Their Streaming Services

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

The Rise and Fall of TV's Golden Age

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

From Netflix to HBO, the terrible design of streaming is ruining TV

Why in 2023 is streaming TV such a terrible experience?

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Spotify shows how the live audio boom has gone bust - The Verge

Spotify Live is getting the ax.

Inside Amazon Studios: Big Swings Hampered by Confusion and Frustration

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."

The future of TV is up in the air - The Verge

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

The VICE Guide to Streaming Services

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

How Much More Netflix Can the World Absorb?

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

Why YouTube spent the money on NFL Sunday Ticket

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.

How to install PipeWire on Ubuntu Linux - Linux Tutorials - Learn Linux Con

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…