The 2024 edition of Streamticker, recapping the streaming industry's most momentous mergers and acquisitions of 2023, kicked off with Disney's gobbling up the last extant portions of Hulu, as Comcast ceded its remaining 33% stake. But if the late-2023 deal marked only the quiet conclusion of an already-silent partnership, the much noisier news of Jan. 6, 2025, found Disney absorbing sports-centric streamer Fubo and merging it with Hulu Live + TV. Here we'll review this and other done (or more nearly done) M&A deals that reshuffled the streaming industry in 2024.
Adrian Pennington //
21 Mar 2025
Due to limited growth in the size of the market, the solution to increasing profitability in the corporate video space has been consolidation and cost-cutting. After some signs of movement in acquisitions in 2023, 2024 finally saw the larger companies in the space getting acquired or beginning to look for formal partnerships or acquisitions.
Jake Ward //
21 Mar 2025
In this expansive interview with Simon Crownshaw, Microsoft's worldwide media and entertainment strategy director, we discuss how Microsoft customers are leveraging generative AI in all stages of the streaming workflow and how they're using it in content delivery and to enhance user experiences in a range of use cases. Crownshaw also digs deep into how Microsoft is building asset management architecture and the critical role metadata plays in effective large-language models (LLMs), maximizing the value of available data.
Nadine Krefetz //
15 Oct 2024
The 16th annual Streaming Media European Innovation Awards competition - formerly known as the Readers' Choice Awards - returns with 12 categories. With more than 9,000 votes, who are the finalists? And who are this year's winners?
Steve Nathans-Kelly //
27 Aug 2024
In this interview, MainStreaming CEO Tassilo Raesig discusses the ongoing challenges facing global CDN services in their efforts to deliver broadcast-grade streams that meet client expectations for performance, scale, and monetisation.
Streaming Media Editorial Staff //
26 Mar 2025
MWareTV's COO discusses the easy way for non-specialists to build apps for all platforms.
Streaming Media Editorial Staff //
30 Aug 2024
Alexander Leschinsky talks data sovereignty, sustainability and the state of the streaming industry.
Katherine Allen //
19 Aug 2022
Despite the comeback of in-person events in 2022, online audience engagement remains important with a steady demand for interactivity in live streaming.
Streaming Media Editorial Staff //
05 Sep 2022