Streaming Video Sees Wave Of Price Hikes In Apparent Bid To Mimic Cable &...
One of the major benefits of cutting the traditional TV cord and switching to streaming video services was supposed to be the lower cost of service. But because broadcasters dictate the licensing cost...
View ArticleNetflix CEO Proclaims The Death Of Net Neutrality Is No Big Deal
We’ve noted repeatedly that while Silicon Valley giants like Facebook and Google are portrayed as net neutrality supporters, that hasn’t been true for many years now. Google stopped giving a damn...
View ArticleInvestor Lawsuit Accuses AT&T Of Downplaying Streaming Video Losses
So we’ve noted how AT&T’s latest round of merger mania isn’t providing quite the returns the company expected. After spending $67 billion to buy DirecTV and another $86 billion to acquire Time...
View ArticleAT&T Can't Get Out Of Its Own Way As It Tries To 'Disrupt' Traditional TV
So we’ve noted a few times how giant telecom providers, as companies that have spent the better part of the last century as government-pampered monopolies, are adorable when they try (then inevitably...
View ArticleFormer Refrigerator Manufacturer Says Companies Using Open Source,...
Video streaming is a key part of today’s Internet world. According to research from Sandvine, it represents 60.6% of total downstream volume worldwide. The centrality of video to the Internet...
View ArticleQuibi Is What Happens When Hollywood Overvalues Content And Undervalues...
As you may have heard (and may still being bombarded by ads for) recently, a new video streaming service called Quibi launched to much fanfare. The fanfare was not around the technology or the...
View Article$1-2 Billion In Streaming Ads A Year Aren’t Being Watched Because The TV Is Off
Critics of modern tech often lean towards hyperbole when discussing “surveillance capitalism” and the seemingly omniscient power of advertisers and adtech. In reality, as journalists who cover the...
View ArticleNew York The Latest State To Ponder A Netflix Tax
Hungry to boost municipal budgets, a growing roster of states and cities have spent the last five years or so trying to implement a tax on Netflix, Hulu, and other streaming services. Sometimes (like...
View ArticleCord Cutting Trend Cable Execs Once Called A Fad Keeps Breaking Records
The cable and broadband industry spent the better part of a decade pretending that “cord cutting” (ditching traditional television in favor for streaming or antenna-based alternatives) either didn’t...
View ArticleWarner Bros Discovery Poised To Sell Off Music, Movie Catalogs Because...
We just got done noting how the AT&T—>Time Warner—>Warner Bros Discovery mergers just keep on demonstrating the absolutely pointlessness of most media mergers. The combined companies spent...
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