The 97-year-old media conglomerate has changed its business strategy and is focusing most of its energy on its streaming platform, Disney+.
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A battle is raging between distributors with expensive blockbusters and cinemas with empty seats.
The video game community on Twitch has taken a massive interest in chess. The young, irreverent gamers and the ancient world of chess are both transforming as their cultures collide.
Six hours of streaming video may be the equivalent of burning one litre of petrol.
If Ontario’s de-streaming of high schools isn’t accompanied with other efforts to address cultural norms and values, streaming in many other forms and guises will continue.
It may have a diverse cast but it erases the Black and Indigenous people who were there in the room and relegates women to the sidelines.
Netflix has added millions more subscribers as people practice social isolation to control the coronavirus. But service’s diverse menu of content is not an efficient business model.
The streaming giant will struggle to continue its share price march otherwise
Netflix’s competitors are multiplying, and they’re ambitious. After Amazon Prime Video, Apple TV+, and a dozen others, Disney+ has lauched, and Netflix is clearly in the crossehairs.
In an era when all sorts of music seems to be at our fingertips through streaming services for under $10 a month, who is spending their hard-earned cash on vinyl?
Movie studios are launching their own streaming apps but record labels aren’t about to do the same.
Even though a Crave produced film has become the first ever Canadian documentary to open TIFF, video streaming services like Netflix raises challenges for filmmakers looking for domestic audiences.
Apple’s decision to end iTunes for its new desktop operating system is an attempt to retain and regain market share from rival media platforms.
Something about Netflix’s business model just doesn’t add up – unless you look at the streaming service as a massive data collection company.
Some of our favourite music formats might not be as environmentally friendly as we think.
Is the Australian media industry willing to come together to fight against global streaming media companies, or will Australian media continue to battle each other?
‘Cyberlocker’ illegal streaming sites are in a constant cat-and-mouse struggle with law enforcement.
Fans have shown they’re willing to watch major sporting events on devices other than traditional TVs, but the technology is letting them down.
Fans are shifting their consumption of the World Cup online.
Disney’s veneer of innocence shouldn’t distract people from recognizing the danger of giving one conglomerate the power to control so much information.
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