Inside The Stream

Peacock is supposed to be Olympics central for online viewers, but finding a timely replay or clip or live stream of a favorite sport is an exercise in frustration. Is this a missed opportunity for NBCU?

Netflix survived Q2 2021 with only a small loss of subscribers in the US and Canada. But if investors were hoping for a new revenue stream for the company, they were out of luck. There will be no ads for Netflix, not even in the company’s new games services.

Black Widow had a huge opening weekend, with premium VOD playing a significant role in its success. Will Hollywood allow PVOD to dominate, or will theater-going return to its former central role?

Independent buy-side ad platform Innovid is about to go public. We talk with the company’s co-founder and CEO, Zvika Netter, to understand why now and why fragmentation is the industry’s greatest challenge.

JW Player closed a $100 million financing round this week. We talk with the company’s co-founder and CEO, Dave Otten, for the inside scoop on the deal and how he plans to use the money.

There was plenty of swagger in the step of AVOD and Fast providers at the Connected TV Ad Summit last week. And why not, when the CTV flywheel effect looks to be spinning the industry to new heights.

Last November, Bloomberg launched Quicktake, a 24/7 streaming news network. The head of Quicktake tells us why the company morphed a social news project into a full-blown TV news channel.

Original shows have been the engine driving SVOD growth. Now AVOD players are getting into the crowded and costly originals game. Can they make money, and what else do they hope to gain?

Amazon is buying MGM for $8.5B, making the deal second only to its $14.5B purchase of Whole Foods. Is Jeff Bezos just looking to bolstering Prime Video, or does MGM bring other value to the etail giant?

AT&T is spinning off WarnerMedia just three years after buying it. We look at why the deal never made sense from the start and if the combination with Discovery is a better idea.