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As YouTube marks one year as Nielsen's top US streaming service, a Q&A with YouTube VPs Nicky Rettke and Tara Levy on the NFL, ad innovation, creators, and more (Dade Hayes/Deadline)
https://deadline.com/2024/02/youtube-nie…

As YouTube Marks One Year As Nielsen’s Top U.S. Streaming Platform, Senior Execs Nicky Rettke And Tara Walpert Levy Talk NFL, Ad Innovation And How Creators Invaded The Living Room
As YouTube marked 12 straight months as Nielsen's top-rated streaming platform, Deadline spoke with two top execs about how the video giant got there.

As YouTube marks one year as Nielsen's top US streaming service, a Q&A with YouTube VPs Nicky Rettke and Tara Levy on the NFL, ad innovation, creators, and more (Dade Hayes/Deadline)
https://deadline.com/2024/02/youtube-nie…

As YouTube Marks One Year As Nielsen’s Top U.S. Streaming Platform, Senior Execs Nicky Rettke And Tara Walpert Levy Talk NFL, Ad Innovation And How Creators Invaded The Living Room
As YouTube marked 12 straight months as Nielsen's top-rated streaming platform, Deadline spoke with two top execs about how the video giant got there.

Video #Streaming Wars Escalate As #Sports Focused Internet Channel Aggregator #Fubo Fails To Secure Deal With David Zaslav's WB #Discovery Netwo…

Fubo drops Discovery networks and blasts WBD for abusing its power
Fubo has dropped over a dozen Warner Bros. Discovery networks, including Discovery, HGTV, and the Food Network. The TV service says WBD isn’t playing fair.

Towards Low-Latency and Energy-Efficient Hybrid P2P-CDN Live Video Streaming
Reza Farahani, Christian Timmerer, Hermann Hellwagner
https://arxiv.org/abs/2403.16985

Towards Low-Latency and Energy-Efficient Hybrid P2P-CDN Live Video Streaming
Streaming segmented videos over the Hypertext Transfer Protocol (HTTP) is an increasingly popular approach in both live and video-on-demand (VoD) applications. However, designing a scalable and adaptable framework that reduces servers energy consumption and supports low latency and high quality services, particularly for live video streaming scenarios, is still challenging for Over-The-Top (OTT) service providers. To address such challenges, this paper introduces a new hybrid P2P-CDN framework …

Indian streaming service JioCinema launches an ad-free subscription plan with the lowest tier costing $0.35/month for a single device, undercutting rivals (Manish Singh/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2024/04/24/jioc

India's JioCinema launches Rs 29 premium tier featuring ad-free, 4K viewing | TechCrunch
JioCinema introduced new monthly subscription plan on Thursday, with the lowest tier costing just 35 cents.

Efficient Digital Twin Data Processing for Low-Latency Multicast Short Video Streaming
Xinyu Huang, Shisheng Hu, Mushu Li, Cheng Huang, Xuemin Shen
https://arxiv.org/abs/2404.13749

Efficient Digital Twin Data Processing for Low-Latency Multicast Short Video Streaming
In this paper, we propose a novel efficient digital twin (DT) data processing scheme to reduce service latency for multicast short video streaming. Particularly, DT is constructed to emulate and analyze user status for multicast group update and swipe feature abstraction. Then, a precise measurement model of DT data processing is developed to characterize the relationship among DT model size, user dynamics, and user clustering accuracy. A service latency model, consisting of DT data processing …

Omdia: South African streaming company Showmax had 2.1M subscribers in Africa at the end of November 2023, ahead of Netflix's 1.8M and Amazon Prime Video's 300K (Damilare Dosunmu/Rest of World)
https://restofworld.org/2024/showmax-subscription-africa-netf…

How an African streaming service dethroned Netflix
Showmax sits at the top of the market with a vast library of local content, partnerships with Comcast and HBO, and exclusive access to the biggest football leagues in the world.

Amazon CEO Andy Jassy's letter to shareholders: Prime Video now reaches 200M monthly viewers, and streaming TV advertising is growing quickly (Todd Spangler/Variety)
https://variety.com/2024/digital/news/amazo…

Amazon Prime Video Reaches More Than 200 Million Monthly Viewers
Amazon CEO Andy Jassy put a new number on Prime Video's audience, saying the premium video service has more than 200 million monthly viewers.

Amazon CEO Andy Jassy's letter to shareholders: Prime Video now reaches 200M monthly viewers, and streaming TV advertising is growing quickly (Todd Spangler/Variety)
https://variety.com/2024/digital/news/amazo…

Amazon Prime Video Reaches More Than 200 Million Monthly Viewers
Amazon CEO Andy Jassy put a new number on Prime Video's audience, saying the premium video service has more than 200 million monthly viewers.

An End-to-End Pipeline Perspective on Video Streaming in Best-Effort Networks: A Survey and Tutorial
Leonardo Peroni, Sergey Gorinsky
https://arxiv.org/abs/2403.05192

An End-to-End Pipeline Perspective on Video Streaming in Best-Effort Networks: A Survey and Tutorial
Video streaming continues to captivate attention of users and service providers, dominate in Internet traffic, and form a vibrant research field. Taking a pragmatic approach to reviewing recent research in the field, this paper considers the most dominant streaming paradigm, the main aspects of which include transmission of two-dimensional videos over the best-effort Internet, support from content delivery networks, and client-side bitrate adaptation. To make the survey more accessible, we inco…

Omdia: South African streaming company Showmax had 2.1M subscribers in Africa at the end of November 2023, ahead of Netflix's 1.8M and Amazon Prime Video's 300K (Damilare Dosunmu/Rest of World)
https://restofworld.org/2024/showmax-subscription-africa-netf…

How an African streaming service dethroned Netflix
Showmax sits at the top of the market with a vast library of local content, partnerships with Comcast and HBO, and exclusive access to the biggest football leagues in the world.

An End-to-End Pipeline Perspective on Video Streaming in Best-Effort Networks: A Survey and Tutorial
Leonardo Peroni, Sergey Gorinsky
https://arxiv.org/abs/2403.05192

An End-to-End Pipeline Perspective on Video Streaming in Best-Effort Networks: A Survey and Tutorial
Video streaming continues to captivate attention of users and service providers, dominate in Internet traffic, and form a vibrant research field. Taking a pragmatic approach to reviewing recent research in the field, this paper considers the most dominant streaming paradigm, the main aspects of which include transmission of two-dimensional videos over the best-effort Internet, support from content delivery networks, and client-side bitrate adaptation. To make the survey more accessible, we inco…

Alibaba takes a ~$1.2B impairment charge against its video streaming service Youku, acquired in November 2015 and attributed a $5.5B valuation at the time (Patrick Frater/Variety)
https://variety.com/2024/tv/news/alibaba-writes-youku-loss-mak…

Alibaba Makes Writes Down on Youku, Loss-Making Streamer
China's Alibaba takes a $1.2 billion write down against Youku, its loss-making video streamer, as the group's quarterly profits take a dive.