This Week's News - Media

May 17, 2024

Note: I inadvertently published this under the wrong newsletter heading earlier. My apologies for the confusion

A weekly newsletter mainly focused on streaming and Web3. If you find this interesting, I’d really appreciate it if you could share the love and pass it on to others who might enjoy it as well!

• With streaming now more mature in the US market, it’s beginning to take on more and more of the aspects of traditional media business models?
• The Re-Reinvention of Television: Streamers Dust Off Some of the Old Broadcast Playbook for a New Era (Variety)?
• Comcast to Launch Peacock, Netflix and Apple TV+ Bundle at a ‘Vastly Reduced Price’ (Variety)
• Netflix Signs NFL Deal, Two Live Christmas Day Games Coming to Streaming Service (Next TV)
• Research: Olympics to spark US streaming boom (Advanced Television)
• However, television as a media is now part of a much more complicated media ecosystem with more competitors for consumer attention? How Television Advertising Lost Its Relevance (Wall Street Journal $)
• Now, tech over content?? TV companies flaunt ad tech and AI to persuade advertisers to spend (Reuters)
• Cautionary tale on the very real threat posed by misuse of deep fakes? CEO of world’s biggest ad firm targeted by deepfake scam (The Guardian)
• And some skepticism about companies promising solutions? Fooled by AI? These firms sell deepfake detection that’s ‘REAL 100%.’ (Washington Post $)??
• From AI generated video to video casting in cars, latest from Google? Your Google I/O entertainment tech cheat sheet (Lowpass)
• Bit of a cautionary tale in an early use case of AI? vMVPDs in jeopardy, Sports fans pay more, error-prone AI captioning! (nScreen Media)
• Further evidence of consumer economic pressures on streaming services? Research: 21% UK homes have cancelled SVoDs due to price (Advanced Television)
• First win for Sony’s in car movie service? VINFAST World’s First to Launch Sony’s In-Car Entertainment Service RIDEVU (Press Release)
• Will be interesting to see if TikTok takes this further? TikTok tests 60-minute video uploads as it continues to take on YouTube (TechCrunch)
• “In a bid to make the metaverse more accessible and user-friendly, the layer-1 blockchain and metaverse protocol Somnia announced it was bringing the metaverse straight into users’ web browsers”? The metaverse is coming straight to your web browser: Here’s how (CoinTelegraph)
• UK will keep digital TV broadcasting on life support for at least 10 years? UK commits to DTT for next decade, eyes managed transition for IPTV future (StreamTV Insider)

• This week’s other Web3 highs and lows
• Daily New Addresses Dealing with NFTs Hit New Record (NFTGators)
• Oasys Expands Crypto Gaming Presence in Japan With SBI’s NFT Market (GG)
• Ethereum NFTs Dip as Blur Season 3 Winds Down (The Defiant)
• Param Labs Secures $7M Round to Build New Gaming Ecosystem Governed by the Community (NFTGators)

Miscellaneous

• Hating to think where this might end up? Meme Coin Devs Are Doing Wild Things on Livestreams to Pump Tokens (R\Scene)

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