Posts Tagged ‘streaming’

October 2023, The Month Streaming Costs Ballooned

While price hikes for subscription services might seem like a smart short-term solution to boost revenue and income, they tend to become more of a gamble in times of fracturing markets. This is especially true for the subscription video, or SVoD, sector where many traditional TV networks have launched their own streaming platforms in recent years. In […]

Amazon Prime Video begins running commercials on streaming service

Amazon Prime Video began running commercials on its streaming service on Monday for users who decline to pay an extra $2.99 a month for its new ad-free option. Announcing the switch in September, Amazon pointed to its increased investments in Prime Video, which is home to dozens of movies, TV shows, Amazon Originals, premium channels… […]

Nolte: Oscar-Bait Movies are Also Flopping on Streaming Platforms

Americans are so turned off by Hollywood, Oscar-bait, and prestige films that they are not only flopping at the box office; they are being ignored at their respective streaming platforms. “While prestige films’ woes at the post-pandemic box office have been dissected at length, there’s been much less discussion of another side of the equation,” reports the far-left […]

Libraries Are Launching Their Own Local Music Streaming Platforms

If you’re fed up with streaming behemoths like Spotify, there’s now another place you can go to discover new music: your local library. Over a dozen public libraries in the U.S. and Canada have begun offering their own music streaming services to patrons, with the goal of boosting artists and local music scenes. The services […]

Sex Scandals, Sinking Ratings: CNN Imploding on Eve of Streaming Launch

CNN is betting big on its new digital streaming service CNN+ that will debut in early 2022, calling it the most important launch since Ted Turner introduced the cable network more than four decades ago. But a string of shocking internal scandals is threatening to steal the spotlight on the eve of the big reveal. With […]

Feds Plan To Broadcast Government Propaganda To Streaming Platforms

“Per the 2021 National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA), the FCC is investigating redefining parts of the national Emergency Alert System, or EAS, and Wireless Emergency Alert System, or WEAS, including developing alerting requirements for online streaming platforms.” An emergency 9/11 Act has been transformed into a 2021 privacy destroying act. The Feds want the public’s […]

On Spotify, music listens to you: Streaming platform wins patent to surveil users’ emotions to recommend music

Streaming music platform Spotify has won a patent enabling it to snoop on users’ speech and even background noise in order to gauge emotional states and location types to serve up an appropriate soundtrack. Not creepy at all! Spotify has received a patent that will allow it to use speech recognition and sound analysis to […]

Khashoggi documentary, too explosive for streaming, debuts on-demand

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Pets, jewelry, streaming: Meet the Hybrid accelerator’s Arab Israeli startups

Afaf Shehab, 27, and Basil Hawari, 32, have three things in common: they live in Haifa, they have a past in computer programming and they have a deep passion for pets. In fact, they love pets so much they set out to develop an app that will serve as an information hub for pet owners. […]

‘Jewish-American’ Streaming Service Jewzy.TV Launches in Time for the Holidays

Streaming services are booming in 2020 especially when the movie theater experience is nonexistent because of the pandemic. Netflix, Hulu, Amazon Prime and HBOMax will now have to make room for Jewzy Cinema & TV (Jewzy.TV), the newest Jewish streaming service. Founded by former Reuters and CBS-TV Senior Producer Jeremy Wootliff, Jewzy.TV aims to bring […]

A new Jewish streaming service, launched in London, aims to connect Jews

A Jewish group based in London has launched Europe’s first Jewish streaming service, with the goal of “connecting all sorts of Jews to their culture and history.”JEWZY.tv, which is currently available only in the United States — or to a computer connecting via a US-based server — on Friday announced its launch as “chicken soup […]

Streaming rights: How a beautiful kibbutz waterway became ground zero for Israel’s culture wars

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What synagogues streaming High Holiday services can learn from the political conventions

(JTA) — For months now, the rituals that mark our lives have been disrupted by the coronavirus. As the pandemic grinds on and the High Holidays approach, communities are grappling with how to organize Rosh Hashanah and Yom Kippur services that are both meaningful and safe. For most of us, that almost certainly means streaming […]

What synagogues streaming High Holiday services can learn from the political conventions

(JTA) — For months now, the rituals that mark our lives have been disrupted by the coronavirus. As the pandemic grinds on and the High Holidays approach, communities are grappling with how to organize Rosh Hashanah and Yom Kippur services that are both meaningful and safe. For most of us, that almost certainly means streaming […]

Don’t Call It Fake News! Facebook to Fully Fund Streaming Mainstream News Shows

MENLO PARK, CALIFORNIA – Facebook is pressing its ongoing offensive against “fake news” with a novel idea: it will fully shoulder the costs of producing what it claims are “high quality” news shows by a handful of mainstream media outlets. In so doing, it hopes to kill three birds with one stone: please the traditional […]

Protesters meet US military convoys streaming through Europe ‘preparing for war’

Estonia holds largest drills in its modern history with over a dozen NATO allies Destined for the three Baltic states and Poland, Romania, Bulgaria, and Hungary, the convoys are part of a brigade of 3,300 US troops, who along with their 2,500 pieces of equipment recently docked in Antwerp, Belgium. Their arrival in Europe is […]

Drake v Ninja: Twitch smashes live-streaming record in gaming session

Fortnite is an online multi-player game in which participants have to either work together or fight to the death in a zombie-ridden apocalyptic landscape. Such was the surge in interest in the unlikely duo’s session that viewers quickly surpassed January’s then-top record of 388,000. This was helped in no small part by Drake tweeting about […]

UK – Live-streaming of child sexual abuse a growing trend, charity warns

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Emmy Award Winning Storm Chaser Will be Live-Streaming from the Eye of Irma

Vic Bishop, Staff WriterWaking Times As Houston and other cities in Texas begin the long road to recovery from hurricane Harvey, category 5 hurricane Irma is fast approaching the Florida peninsula, already leaving a wake of extreme destruction in the Caribbean. It has been many years since this much anxiety, anticipation and preparedness preceded […]

10 Documentaries Streaming On Netflix That Will Change Your Perspective Of The World

Documentaries often act as amazing catalysts to not only spread awareness about important issues, but inspire action and change. They bring light to various social issues that might not otherwise be getting the attention they deserve, and provide information and education on what we can do in our own lives to help create change. Raising awareness […]

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