Basics of Streaming explains how rights windows determine where content appears, disappears, and reappears across streaming platforms. Studios and rights holders use windows to monetize the same title across theaters, PVOD, TVOD, SVOD, broadcast, AVOD, FAST, international markets, and specialized…

From the Archives revisits how Amazon’s “Customers Who Bought This Also Bought” feature helped turn recommendation engines into core internet infrastructure. Amazon’s item-to-item collaborative filtering showed that behavior could outperform metadata, creating a discovery model that now powers streaming, music,…

Paramount’s EU talks show the regulatory cost of its $110 billion Warner Bros. Discovery merger could be manageable, with a potential exit from its Universal Pictures international distribution JV on the table. That concession would address competition concerns while preserving…

Hollywood’s fight with Big Tech is shifting from a battle for screen time to a battle over control, as tech giants increasingly influence distribution, data, advertising, production tools, and the economics behind entertainment. The Everything Era is forcing studios to…

From the Archives revisits TiVo Suggestions, one of TV’s earliest recommendation engines and a preview of how discovery would become core to streaming. TiVo used viewing behavior and feedback to predict what users might like, proving that understanding taste could…

Harmonic completed the $145 million sale of its Video Business to MediaKind, sharpening its focus on broadband infrastructure while giving MediaKind greater scale across video delivery, streaming workflows and live media operations. The deal reflects a broader shift in streaming…

Los Angeles is losing film and TV production as studios and streamers cut spending, chase stronger tax incentives and move shoots to markets with lower costs and fewer operational headaches. The county’s motion picture workforce fell by roughly 42,000 jobs…

Neymar's FlareFlow deal turns his licensed identity into a 16-title AI-assisted microdrama franchise timed to the FIFA Men’s World Cup. COL Group's testing whether celebrity likeness can become scalable content inventory, using Neymar’s reach to bring sports audiences into microdrama…

Basics of Streaming explains how CTV ad fraud turns fake impressions, spoofed devices, app impersonation, and weak SSAI workflows into premium-priced inventory. Fraud prevention’s become a core monetization issue because advertisers need verified supply, cleaner paths, and trusted measurement before…

From the Archives revisits Netflix's $1 million Netflix Prize competition, which challenged researchers to improve its recommendation algorithm and helped accelerate breakthroughs in machine learning and personalization. The contest reinforced a principle that still shapes streaming today: helping users discover…