BBC makes live 5G TV contribution. The BBC and BT have successfully made the first live TV contribution over a public 5G contribution.

The broadcast into BBC Breakfast this morning saw …

Dom Robinson on LinkedIn: "One week today Mark de Jong and Stacie Desplanques will be our 'studio' guests on SMAF! Joining me and my usual co-hosts Eric Schumacher-Rasmussen, Tim Siglin and Mark East we will as always be taking an informal gambol through the latest industry news and developments in and around the Streaming Industry! Always fun and always informative! Do follow the link to sign up for an email reminder, and tune in at 5pm UK / 12noon ET / 9am PT (pls adjust for your local time) and heckle, question or contribute through the chat room! #streaming #digitalvideo #onlinevideo #streamingmedia #ott #content #podcasting #video #technology #streams #cdn #drm #chordcutting #smadvancedforum #smadvancedforum #smaf #webcasting #broadcastcommunity #advancedtv ".

YouTube Gaming app and standalone site shutting down tomorrow. Google has announced that it will be shutting down the standalone version of Twitch-like streaming service YouTube Gaming tomorrow, May 30. The …

Netflix and Amazon score billion pound revenue in battle with UK broadcasters. Netflix and Amazon made £1.1bn in revenues from UK streaming customers in 2018, double the amounts the UK’s biggest broadcasters were able to make from their own streaming services. The figures have highlighted just how much the absence of a true British rival to the Silicon Valley giants is a …

Streaming's cancel culture problem. HBO's "Game of Thrones" may be over, but for lots of streaming media companies, winter is coming.

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Marketers may soon have a universal standard for measuring video ads across all platforms. The Media Rating Council (MRC), the de facto watchdog for media measurement, is inching closer towards implementing a single standard for measuring …

The Evolving Encoding Ladder: What You Need to Know. This article discusses the evolution of the encoding ladder from the fixed ladder presented by Apple in Tech Note TN2224 to context-aware-encoding,

SoundCloud buys artist distribution platform Repost Network. The past year has seen Spotify embark on a series of acquisitions to beef up its service, particularly on podcast content. Now it is the turn of SoundCloud, another European music startup — albeit one that had lost its way in recent years — to go deal-making: the Berlin-based company has picked up …

TikTok owner reportedly planning its own smartphone. TikTok's parent company, ByteDance, could soon be launching yet another ambitious project: their own smartphone.

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AWS Launches General Availability of AWS Ground Station. Telebras, Viasat Contract Approved by Brazilian Federal Court of Accounts

Earth to Sky Signs Launch Services Agreement With Delta Satellite …