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This is podcasting’s boom time. There are now more than 900,000 podcasts to choose from. In the US, 22% of the population listens to at least one podcast every week and 51% to at... More

With millions of Americans still stuck at home amid coronavirus shutdowns and stay-at-home orders, Comcast said it’s seeing shifts and new behaviors in television viewing pattern... More

ViacomCBS CEO Bob Bakish outlined planned summer changes to the CBS All Access streaming service, saying it will be beefed up with a broad array of Viacom programming and a "critic... More

Sonos is finally making its long-awaited push into Dolby Atmos home theater audio. That effort starts with the new $799 Arc, a premium soundbar that replaces the Playbar in Sonos�... More

Peacock just got some game: NBCUniversal inked a deal for the streaming service to be available on Microsoft’s Xbox One console family when Peacock is scheduled to make it nation... More

Alamo Drafthouse, the cinema chain that largely popularized in-theater dining, is launching a video-on-demand platform called Alamo on Demand. Alamo On Demand, which was created in... More

The time people spend in front of TV’s has been on the decline for years, replaced by mobile media browsing but the Covid-19 outbreak and the subsequent lockdowns around the worl... More

On the back of the surge in streaming viewing generated by the mass lockdowns in countries around the world, premium video-on-demand, that is the showing of films on an when they w... More

Home is now firmly where our entertainment hearts are, and certain trends – like never leaving our living rooms to watch our favorite films – have accelerated as a result of th... More

A look at what’s happening within and across subsectors of TMT tells us that not only are changes and responses morphing rapidly, but numerous conundrums have also arisen. Indeed... More

Cutting the cord with cable or satellite TV used to mean a cost savings. But with the growing number of streaming services on the market, many consumers are finding that becoming a... More

Peacock, NBCUniversal’s streaming service, will spread its wings over Apple’s family of devices for the national U.S. launch this summer. Under a deal between NBCU and Apple, P... More

With live events sidelined by COVID-19, an emerging category finds itself as the only game in town.... More

The Premier League could make some of the 2019/20 season’s remaining matches free via its broadcast partners' YouTube channels as part of plans to resume English soccer’s top f... More

As Hollywood sets sit empty because of the Covid-19 pandemic, streaming-video apps that were just getting off the ground are now running out of fresh movies and TV episodes. But th... More

WarnerMedia is set to roll out new streamer HBO Max into Latin America after completing a deal to take full control of all HBO-branded services in the region. WarnerMedia has acqui... More

EY released a new study, “10 Ways the COVID-19 Crisis is Changing the Digital Home Experience,” that surveyed over 3,500 US households on their attitudes and behaviors toward d... More

Like all sectors, the media and entertainment industry continues to be massively disrupted by COVID-19, and it may fundamentally change it forever. Veritone takes an in-depth look ... More

There is a lot that can be said, and has been said, about the impact of the pandemic as of today, so the main focus of this blog is to provide some current insight that has been pr... More

Streaming providers Netflix and Amazon Prime Video are investing more in local content in international markets with an increasing focus on Asian markets such as Japan and India, w... More