RAIN to Produce 2nd Annual RAIN Podcast Business Summit. Chicago IL, USA — With advertising spending on podcasts estimated to reach $500M by 2020, RAIN (Radio, Audio, Internet News), the leading knowledge …

Amazon's streaming service Twitch is pulling in as many viewers as CNN and MSNBC. • Amazon-owned Twitch is now pulling in as many monthly viewers as cable news networks.• 
In January 2018, Twitch had nearly a million people watching at any given point.• 
Twitch primarily features live video streams of people playing video games, but the service has added other types of content …

5 Cable-Cutting Problems You Probably Didn't Think About. As alternatives to live television ― such as Sling TV, YouTube TV and Hulu Live ― improve and other streaming services ― like Netflix and Amazon Prime ― add better original programming, it’s become increasingly tempting to cut the cord.

But cord-cutting isn’t quite the obvious choice just yet. There …

Eurosport gives like to Facebook to boost Winter Olympics coverage. As the games begin, Eurosport is looking to get the most of its huge investment in broadcasting rights for the Olympic Winter Games and is now …

Nearly half of American online shoppers pay for streaming-media services — 15 percent have e-commerce box subscriptions. Both are growing.

Some 46 percent of online shoppers in the U.S. pay a monthly subscription for online streaming media, like Spotify or Hulu, according to a new survey by consulting firm McKinsey.

Fifteen percent had subscribed to at least one e-commerce delivery service like Dollar Shave Club, Blue …

Citrix Acquires Cedexis. Citrix Acquires Network Traffic Management Leader Cedexis to Optimize App and Content Performance in Hybrid-Multi-Cloud WorldThe shift to internet …

BBC iPlayer clocks up record breaking audiences through 2017. BBC iPlayer has gone from strength to strength over the course of 2017 after recording a 11% increase in audiences from 2016 with some 272m streaming …

BBC on Course to Produce Live Sport Entirely in the Cloud. Throughout the winter’s biggest sporting competition, which began this week in South Korea, premier broadcasters, pay TV providers, and over-the-top …

Amazon Prime overtakes Netflix in India with more subscribers. This is not quite unlike the Pepsi vs Coke battle market after market. Amazon Prime Video and Netflix are squaring off against each other and in the …

OMNIVORE: From owning songs to streaming them. The Internet will power the next music revolution