Mobile

Mobile will provide 40% of the global total of SVOD subscriptions by 2025, claims a new report. There will be a total of 1.16 billion SVOD subscriptions by 2025 around the world �... More

Annual forecast ups outlook for 5G growth, despite current North American lethargy.... More

Smartphone gross SVOD subscriptions for 138 countries will double between 2019 and 2025 to 170 million, according to the latest report published by Digital TV Research. The total w... More

Each month, more than 100 million U.S.-based users watch YouTube content on their TV screens. That stat was chief among the figures YouTube revealed this morning at Brandcast, its ... More

The Apple AirPods Pro are getting a hefty firmware upgrade with iOS 14, which will allow for Dolby Atmos spatial audio, bringing immersive 3D sound to your true wireless earbuds. A... More

All-new podcasts starring Batman, Wonder Woman — or Bugs Bunny — could be streaming to your headphones soon. In the latest move to punch up its podcast biz, Spotify inked a mul... More

If any social media site has “won” the COVID-19 pandemic and lockdown it’s TikTok. Now, the site is taking some steps to grow up and become a major player. As such, it repres... More

As part of its deal with Disney, Snap will continue to curate customized highlights for ESPN’s SportsCenter Snapchat channel and will look to triple the number of NFL highlights ... More

To mark the resumption of competition, the PGA Tour is planning what it calls a “first of its kind” nine different video streams multicast on Twitter. The Twitter Multicast wil... More

Another troubling report for the smartphone industry this week. This time the numbers come from IDC, which puts shipments at an 11.9% year-over-year decline for 2020. The number re... More

Cellular data consumption on smartphones surged 75% in March from a year earlier and was up 27% from the prior month as people used their mobile devices more often during pandemic ... More

YouTube is making it easier to navigate longer videos with its new “chapters” feature, the video streaming site announced. After receiving positive feedback on chapters during ... More

Kevin Mayer, the Disney executive who oversaw the launch of the streaming service Disney+, is leaving his post at the entertainment giant to become CEO of the fast-growing social m... More

Illumio added a feature to its segmentation software that lets application teams build software-defined perimeters around individual application instances. Segmentation, or microse... More

There is a tremendous amount of confusion around cloud gaming: what it is, why it matters, what it will allow, who can deliver it, how much it will grow the market, etc. This is fu... More

For years, the evolution of image sensors has been about packing in more pixels and slimming down their size to fit into smaller devices. Now, they're about to get smart.... More

The impossible-to-ignore, 2 billion strong platform is leveraging a massive sheltering-at-home audience hungry for new content to draw A-listers and turn its homegrown roster into ... More

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

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

After months of positioning itself as a premium subscription platform, Hollywood streaming service Quibi is now making some of its shows available for free on YouTube. The move com... More