With its new ad-targeting tech, Spotify is sharpening its platform power in podcasting . By giving advertisers better targeting and better data, the streaming giant is using a weapon unavailable to the open podcast space, which still mostly sees ads as opaque MP3 files.

On Wednesday, Spotify announced what’s undoubtedly its next major step in the platform’s on-going advance into podcast ...

The appetite for live-streaming is bigger than ever . It would be easy to assume that because competition is so stiff among live-streaming platforms — for talent, for eyeballs — that the market is zero-sum. But as it turns out, that isn’t actually true.

According to a fourth-quarter report from the streaming tools provider StreamElements and the ...

The Department of Defense Is Warning People Not to Use TikTok Over National Security Concerns . In a non-classified memo, the DoD tells its employees to avoid social networks in general, but TikTok in particular.

With over 1.5 billion downloads, TikTok has become the latest social media network to capture our collective attention. Now, however, it seems as though the platform is coming under ...

Quibi Is Either a Clever Gimmick or the Future of Entertainment . Quibi is either going to be brilliant and influential to how we consume media, or we’re going to watch Hollywood and Silicon Valley shit the bed in a ...

Report: Amazon’s Twitch Not Meeting Ad Revenue Expectations . Topline: While Amazon’s Twitch dominates the live-streaming landscape, a new report from The Information citing people familiar with company financials says it only translated into a modest $230 million in ad revenue for 2018 and a midyear annual projection of $300 million for 2019.

According to the ...

Sonos Suing Google for Stealing Wireless Speaker Tech – Thurrott.com . Sonos is taking legal actions against Google for infringing 100 of its patents after Google got access to its multi-room audio tech back in 2013.

Earning Millions on YouTube Is So Easy, Children Are Doing It . The Forbes list of top earners is out, and an eight-year-old boy and six-year-old girl beat out almost everyone else.

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DAZN content consumption up 98% YoY . In a year that saw boxing’s continued global resurgence, the highly anticipated rematch between heavyweight champion Anthony Joshua and Andy Ruiz Jr ...

Roland's Go:Livecast is a livestreaming studio for your phone . If you hear the word streamer, what do you think? An expensive gaming PC, perhaps, with a decent webcam and microphone attached to a boom stand or headset. The truth is, however, that many lifestyle streamers -- those who create content around cooking, music, or sharing beauty tips -- are thriving ...

'Completely unsustainable': How streaming and other data demands take a toll on the environment . Tech firms look for solutions as data centres use huge amounts of power to fuel streaming and social media

For those of us binge-watching TV shows, ...