TechCrunch reports: “Streaming aggregator Reelgood capitalized on the overabundance of streaming services available today by offering consumers a universal dashboard where you can track what you’re watching and discover your next binge.”
Forbes reports: “Stop the presses: Cord cutting may finally be easing. A new report finds that the percentage of pay TV users remained steady in 2019, rather than dropping, as it has the past few years. The PwC state of streaming and pay TV study finds that 68% of respondents have pay TV, compared to 67% in 2017.”
TechCrunch reports: “Ten years after its debut, 300-million-monthly-user Imgur is one of the last massively popular yet unpersonalized home pages on the internet. Because everyone sees the same upvoted posts when they open Imgur, it creates a shared experience full of inside jokes and running gags.”
VentureBeat reports: “If you watch a popular livestreamer on Twitch, YouTube, Mixer, or Facebook, it might seem like they are juggling a lot at once. They are often playing a game, talking to their audience, and managing a suite of tools that provide chat interactivity, overlays, and more.”
Hollywood Reporter reports: “Kelly Luegenbiehl, VP of International Originals at Netflix, also discussed new streaming rivals, binge viewing and Baby Yoda.”
Hollywood Reporter reports: “The “streaming wars” between Hollywood giants could lead to a homogenization of television content, Sarah Barnett, president, AMC Networks Entertainment Group and AMC Studios, warned at a London TV conference on Thursday.”
Variety reports: “Shares of the newly combined ViacomCBS were off in early trading, a sign that Wall Street continues to look for new signs of growth after two of the best-known names in entertainment merged to vie with bigger rivals.”
gamesindustry.biz reports: “Streaming platforms such as Google Stadia are set to be game changers in the coming years, especially when combined with subscription-based, flat-rate business models. For developers and publishers, they are yet another way to bring games to a bigger audience. But they also bring new legal issues, especially those relating to licensing agreements.”
Variety reports: “Reddit has grown its user base by 30% year-over-year, according to new data released by the company Wednesday. The self-proclaimed front page of the internet now reaches 430 million monthly active users, who collectively have created 199 million posts and 1.7 billion comments.”
TechCrunch reports: “Instagram is done playing dumb about users’ ages. After 9 years, Instagram is finally embracing more responsibility to protect underage kids from the problems with social media. It will now ask new users to input their birthdate and bar users under 13 from joining.”
