Vimeo Announces Support for AV1 Codec, Starts With Staff Picks. Video sharing site Vimeo announced today that it now supports the AV1 codec, which it believes will let it deliver videos at a reduced bitrate but …

18% of OTT advertising inventory is fraudulent - report. MadHive recently took a look at OTT advertising requests in the open marketplace, and discovered that a large percentage of them were …

Streaming Officially Bigger Than Cable and Satellite TV in US, Research Shows. New Deloitte study shows that 69 percent of Americans now pay for at least one streaming service

Traditional TV is slowly headed the way of the …

Streaming accounts for more than half UK record label income. Music streaming services generated more than half of the income earned by record labels in the UK last year, as CD sales continue to plummet.

Subscription streaming platforms operated by Spotify, Amazon Music and Apple Music, made revenues of £468m in the UK last year, 54% of the £865.5m total …

Ofcom gives provisional green light to 12-month BBC iPlayer plan. UK media regulator Ofcom has provisionally given the BBC a green light for its planned changes to BBC iPlayer, subject to certain conditions and

Amazon secures WTA tennis for UK and Ireland. Amazon has secured exclusive rights to Womens Tennis Association matches in a four-year deal for the UK and Ireland, giving Prime members exclusive

PwC: Kids digital ad market worth $1.7bn by 2021. In 2017, PwC released its Kids Digital Media Report, which estimated that the value of the global kids digital advertising market would hit $1.2 …

Report: BT in Britbox talks. BT is reportedly in talks to join the shareholders in Britbox, the UK version of the streaming service being launched by ITV and the BBC.

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The Splinternet is here and your company needs to be ready. We are entering a new era, a battleground of sorts between nations, that some government and industry watchers have termed the “Splinternet.” The Splinternet is, essentially, the splitting up of the internet into country-specific and region-specific internets, creating a ‘balkanization’ effect.

Why …

Andy Jassy is the most powerful Amazon executive not named Jeff. In 2006, Amazon Web Services was a cute little startup hatched inside of a fast-growing online retailer.

Today, it’s the most powerful cloud computing company in the world: It was a nearly $26 billion business last year, with profits on par with that of Amazon’s retail business, which has nine times …