Sling TV now has 2.2M subscribers, making it the largest internet-based live TV service. Dish-owned streaming TV service Sling TV now has 2.21 million subscribers at the end of the fourth quarter, the company announced this morning. This is the first time that Dish has broken out its Sling TV subscribers separately from its larger pay TV subscriber base, and confirms earlier estimates …

US SVoD to reach 125mi subscribers in 2018. The overall US video and Pay-TV market continues its healthy overall growth and is set to reach $140 billion by the end of 2018, according to …

Net Neutrality, Part I: What’s Old Is New Again (2007 - 2010). February 18, 2018 by Tim Siglin

It’s easy to forget that the recent debate around Net Neutrality mirrors arguments made more than a decade ago. So, is …

10 Questions With RhythmOne About Last Week’s YuMe Acquisition. YuMe brings a lot to the table for both supply-side and demand-side growth, says RhythmOne. The U.K. ad tech company explains why it made the …

Fox News To Launch OTT 'Opinion Platform' This Year. Fox News will launch Fox Nation, a streaming, over-the-top subscription video service, in the fourth quarter of this year.

The company is calling it …

BuzzFeed Had 65 Billion Video Views in 2017. But What Does That Mean for Ad Dollars? BuzzFeed was the No. 1 media company in online video last year — delivering a whopping 64.8 billion views across Facebook and YouTube. But the extent …

AirPlay 2 Features Removed From iOS 11.3 and tvOS 11.3. Early AirPlay 2 functionality, which was present in initial iOS 11.3 and tvOS 11.3 betas, has been removed from the third beta that was provided to developers this morning.

With the first betas of iOS 11.3 and tvOS 11.3, when you installed these updates on an iOS device and two or more fourth or …

Critic's Notebook: Who Is Winning the Streaming Wars? Right now, each of the players is acting smartly given its position — but all eyes are on Amazon.

Amazon Studios found its new leader, who in turn …

Race on to bring AV1 open source codec to market, as code freezes | Videonet. The long-heralded open source AV1 codec is now set for development of commercial product, with the code complete and ready to be frozen over the next …

Google has never revealed YouTube's revenue — but one analyst who thinks that's about to change says it's a $15 billion business. Alphabet, the umbrella company for Google and YouTube, has never revealed how much money it makes from YouTube — which seems crazy, as it's probably at least as valuable as Netflix.

It also doesn't formally disclose how much it makes from its cloud-services arm, Google Cloud.

Colin Sebastian, an …