When access becomes complicated, alternatives become tempting. Piracy has quietly become a symptom of fragmentation rather than a fringe criminal behavior. And that changes how the industry has to respond.
Customer Expectations Soar 32%, Biggest Jump in 30 Years Loyalty Shows Outsized Profit Impact Across Brand Categories
At this year's CES, Global Tech and Data Disney produced an event that offered insight into a few of their latest public tech strategies, including how they are funneling data intelligence through their environment to provide real ROI for advertisers. The event was designed to make the case to advertisers why buying placement with Disney is so compelling. However, it was also a chance to hear...
Roadmap Details How Open, Interoperable Standards Are Being Extended With Modern Protocols to Power Agentic Systems at Scale
In unsettled economic times, young viewers are especially willing to accept advertising to save money on subscriptions.
Sports Studio Inc. today announced a major milestone for its flagship streaming platform, Free Live Sports (FLS), securing seven new global distribution deals that will extend the platform's reach to more than 75 million households worldwide
With smart stadiums, distributed production, automation, and data-driven decision-making, we're seeing a sea change in the way sports streams are produced, delivered, and consumed. None of this is a bad thing. Much of it is necessary. But it is also worth pausing to remember what sports are actually built on. Not code. Not platforms. Not dashboards. But people, emotion, and shared experience.
The next phase of sports media will not be defined by breakthroughs alone. It will be defined by decisions. About focus. About balance. And about where value really sits.
There is something special about walking into a stadium. The noise, the anticipation, the energy you can feel in your chest. For all the things technology has transformed in sports, that moment has remained stubbornly human. But stadiums are changing. Slowly, quietly, and in ways most fans never see, the matchday venue is becoming one of the most technologically sophisticated environments in...
The predictions game is a fascinating one, and one that's hard not to play at year's end, whether we're talking about what's to come in the next year or three, or what's just as likely to be gone. In the last few weeks, my own editorial inbox has filled to bursting with unsolicited but much-welcomed season's greetings from a disparate array of industry experts and thought leaders ringing in "End-...