Tag: ai

Amazon Web Services is moving deeper into live sports production with Elemental Inference, an AI system that automatically reframes live and on-demand broadcasts into vertical video and generates highlight clips within six to 10 seconds of latency. Fox Sports and…

Apple reported record Q1 results, with revenue up 16 percent to $143.8 billion and EPS hitting $2.84, driven by record iPhone sales and a strong rebound in China. However, shares fell after management warned that global memory chip shortages will…

Streaming economics are shifting from content-driven strategies to control over systems like discovery, access, and monetization. With rising marginal costs in areas like cloud gaming and AI, ads are reappearing at points of access rather than within core experiences. Discovery…

Spotify is launching Prompted Playlist, a new AI-driven tool that lets Premium users in the U.S. and Canada actively shape music discovery through detailed prompts and scheduled refreshes. The feature shifts discovery from passive recommendation to user-directed curation, adding transparency…

Kirby analyzes last week’s biggest stories, highlighting how strategic restraint is outperforming big spending. Netflix and Sony leaned into global windowing for consistency and leverage. Gap’s new Chief Entertainment Officer reflects a move to internalize cultural relevance. Apple licensed AI…

Cineplex has integrated Rokt’s AI into its digital checkout, inserting third-party offers during ticket purchases to unlock new revenue without raising prices or altering the flow. This move monetizes millions of annual transactions and offloads operational complexity to Rokt, while…

Ask Skip calls out the overreliance on AI as a fix for content discovery, arguing it's a cop-out for the lack of programming strategy. AI can help organize and personalize, but it can't replace the need for editorial vision and…

Apple is licensing Google’s Gemini models not out of weakness but as a strategic move to maintain control over the user experience while sidestepping the unsustainable cost curve of frontier AI development. Rather than compete in the commoditized model layer,…

Streaming services spent 2025 abandoning old growth narratives and confronting economic reality. Scale stopped hiding inefficiencies, bundling reduced churn by removing decisions, and advertising became a strategic constraint. Sports rights demanded precision, while AI rewired workflows and forced tradeoffs. Success…

The Streaming Wars recaps the ten most impactful stories of the year, highlighting industry-defining moments that shaped executive strategy across streaming, tech, and media. From Disney's AI licensing framework and YouTube’s reclassification as TV, to Netflix’s creator push and critical…