Global piracy nears 190bn visits in 2018. Digital piracy data analysis specialist MUSO has revealed that there were more than 189 billion visits to piracy sites throughout 2018. MUSO’s global …

Streaming subscriptions overtook cable in 2018. Spending on digital entertainment also outpaced theaters.

Cable companies have been nervous about streaming services for a while, but now they have a particularly good reason to be jittery. An MPAA report citing IHS Markit data has shown that there were more subscriptions worldwide to online video …

Two Free Video Analysis Tools; MediaInfo and Bitrate Viewer. There are two tools that I have on every computer that will run them; MediaInfo on all my Mac and Windows workstations, and Bitrate Viewer, which is …

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The State of the OTT Market 2019

Where do the video-on-demand, live linear, and live event markets stand now? And what's coming next, as …

Brexit: A Disaster in Waiting or Y2K All Over? Brexit: A Disaster in Waiting or Y2K All Over?

The British streaming media community will be largely unaffected by the UK's (eventual) departure from …

Buyers' Guide to Encoding Appliances 2019. Software encoding, especially in the cloud, is all the rage these days. Not only has cloud-based encoding reached feature-set parity with older local …

‘Subscription Fatigue’: Nearly Half of U.S. Consumers Frustrated by Streaming Explosion, Study Finds. Streaming entertainment is smacking into the wall of the paradox of choice — and the cost to consumers of piecing multiple services together.

The boom …

DAZN introduces ad division. DAZN Group, the global sports streaming service, has announced that DAZN Media is to be the new entity responsible for global media partnerships, as …

Have podcasts sold out? All you need to make it in podcasting is an idea, a laptop and a microphone. At least, that’s been the received wisdom since the medium began its current boom six or seven years ago: it’s an inherently amateur, democratised means of communication, with the vast majority available for free.

But is …

Talks 'nearly finalized' for AirPlay 2 compatibility on Roku streamers. By

Apple and Roku are reportedly on the verge of completing negotiations for AirPlay 2 support, which could greatly expand the platform's reach.

The …