Can you believe Redbox has been around for 20 years? The company, that like Netflix, started as a physical media distributor marked its 20th anniversary in 2022. Over the past few years Redbox has branched out into streaming providing both a free streaming service and paid video-on-demand options. Today it announced the most-watched movies in 2021…
The streaming world got more crowded, got more consolidated, and more mainstream in 2021. Many issues made their way into the headlines this year but only a select few are really transformative. There are others that we could get into, but we feel that this list represents the top stories in the streaming industry for…
The Disney YouTube TV standoff ended the way things like this almost always do. Everything fell into place within days of the deadline. In this case, the agreement came on the other side of the deadline. But along the way I observed something curious. I saw a lot of YouTube TV subscribers cheering the idea…
Well OK folks here we are. I guess it’s now time to start truly wondering if we’re going to see a black out between Disney and YouTube TV. Unlike the more recent disagreements between YouTube and Roku, which were hashed out a day before the deadline here we are on the day of without an…
The latest carrier issue in streaming, fresh on the heels of “the great Roku crisis”, is the announcement that Disney could pull its numerous channels which include ESPN’s channels, Free Form and ABC-owned affiliates off of YouTube TV. Will the channels get pulled? As with the YouTube TV/Comcast tug of war earlier in the year,…
