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Articles for Brian Ring

TikTok, friction, and the future of video shopping

At Streaming Media 2025 in Santa Monica, my panel with Dallas Lawrence (Telly), Sarge Sargent, Bryan Moore (TalkShopLive), and David Grant (Favored.Live) explored the hottest video shopping trend around, and it's not what TV techies have been building.

New Q1 survey data: interest in multi-view; what value privacy; the grocery retail promise

While multi-view isn't new, the way YouTube TV has executed it is. And it's cool! It's a great way to watch sport and I've used it for news and weather too, at least during periods of intense activity.

SMNYC: Four Debates, Two Topics, One Educational Day

On Monday, May 20, Streaming Media NYC hosted four debates on two topics that represented a fantastic programming win for the conference. The first half of the day was dedicated to AI and covered the full range of topics from authorship to copyright to privacy and more. The second half of the day featured two panels debating the definition of premium content, the value of social media as well as the question of how CTV measures up against mobile as an advertising platform. Read on to get caught up.