The 2023 Streaming Media 100: The Top 100 Companies in the Streaming Media Universe

The Streaming Media 100 is back?welcome once again to Streaming Media’s annual list that foregrounds the industry’s most innovative and influential technology suppliers, service providers, platforms, and media and content companies, as acclaimed by our editorial team. Some are large and established industry standard-bearers, while others are comparably small and relatively new arrivals that are…

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How Will Premium Streaming App Subscriptions Evolve?

Navigating today’s streaming apps and subscriptions can seem unnecessarily complicated, particularly as paid subscription and free service apps from major content companies often sit side by side, even appearing to compete with each other. Is this a necessary condition, what factors are driving it, and how is it likely to change? Warner Bros. Discovery’s Daniel…

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Backward Design for Educational Video Production

Software developers are trained in accessibility issues for front-end development and basic concepts like labeling control elements and reporting state changes to assistive technology?screen-readers?are part of a professional developer’s code testing procedures. Despite this progress, two very different forces are swirling with the potential to push back on the trend towards better technological inclusion of…

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Review: ViCueSoft CodecWar

CodecWar is an analysis service created by?ViCueSoft, the developer of?codec analy?sis tools VQ Analyzer, VQ DVK, and VQ?Probe. As currently?configured, the site’s ideal users are researchers who?are looking for a convenient way to compare codecs using relevant datasets and codec developers who are looking for a structured way to benchmark their codecs against others. In?contrast,…

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Everything in Streaming Has Its Price

This column isn’t meant to be a downer, especially because the overall economy seems to be plugging along. But it is meant to ask those of you in the industry to share anecdotes and stories about the pain points you’re facing. We know that everything in streaming has its price, but you are in a…

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Amazon Prime Adds Ad-Supported: Not Too Late for Tiers

September 22 brought the unsurprising news that Amazon will soon join Netflix, Disney+, and Max by adding an ad-supported subscription tier for viewing its premium content in the U.S., the U.K., Germany, and Canada. Prime being Prime, it’s slightly inverting the approach its fellow top-tier titans have taken. Instead of offering a reduced subscription price…

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