Dan Rayburn – StreamingMediaBlog.com

Hulu’s live linear streaming is too expensive.

CDN77 has raised a large funding round, with PE firm CVC taking a significant minority stake and valuing the company at around $1.9 billion.

The Hilton Hotel I am at has eight TVs in the bar and lobby, but none are showing tonight’s exclusive Netflix NFL game taking place in Australia.

Will content owners re-encode their video libraries to take advantage of the iPhone Duo’s square-like aspect ratio?

Bloomberg reports that Microsoft plans to more than triple its global data center capacity to more than 38 gigawatts by 2032, up from about 12 gigawatts today.

NFL Ticket is coming back to DIRECTV for businesses through a new licensing deal, and DAZN plans to acquire EverPass Media.

[The short URL for this blog post is cdnmarket.com] Since my last CDN market sizing post in 2023, a lot has changed.

I would have thought this would have taken place sooner.

Here’s a bulleted list of what the media and some in the industry are getting wrong about Fox’s announcement to acquire Roku, including some making up numbers.

The rumors are true.

I’m often asked for a list of in-person conferences and events in the streaming media industry, so here’s an Excel sheet you can download listing nearly 50 events worldwide.

At the NAB Streaming Summit on April 20, 2026, Robert Schildhouse, CEO of BBC Studios’ DTC business, discussed the strategic evolution of streaming and the specific success of BritBox.

At its UpFronts presentation, Netflix announced it has more than 250 million monthly active users (not subscribers) on its Standard With Ads plan, up from 190 million in November of 2025.

A company called BitMar, which promises to “stream everything legally,” is scamming people out of $150 by linking to free YouTube content via Bing search and Pluto TV.

Fastly’s stock was down 40% on Thursday, May 7th, one day after its Q1 earnings report, with Piper Sandler saying, “The disappointment was in the core delivery business that saw lower quarter-over-quarter volumes than most were expecting, as pricing remai…

A year ago, I wrote about Google’s Media CDN offering and its positioning in the market, which was primarily centered on leveraging Google’s network for large-scale video delivery.

New data from NETINT’s state of video encoding survey shows H.264/AVC sits at 84% production deployment, making the standard effectively universal and plateaued.

Due to rising costs for servers, RAM, SSDs, and energy, Akamai has notified customers and partners of upcoming interim surcharges and pricing adjustments for contract renewals.

In conjunction with Super Bowl LX, Comcast’s Xfinity announced the launch of what they call “RealTime4K”, a new ultra-low-latency technology with a 30 Mbps bitrate supporting Dolby Vision HDR and Dolby Atmos, compatible with an Xfinity X1 XG1v4 or Xi6 TV…

Netskrt Systems has carved out a meaningful foothold in the global streaming video market, particularly tier-one live events such as NFL football games, supporting both TNF on Prime Video and the recent Super Bowl on Peacock.

I’m testing DAZN’s stream of Super Bowl LX, available to NFL Game Pass subscribers outside the US for just £0.99, and the stream looks great.

I’ve been testing the Super Bowl LX stream on Sunday, starting with the pre-game stream at 1pm, across more than 25 devices and platforms, documenting video quality, latency, and other technical metrics.

Privately held CDN and infrastructure provider Gcore, headquartered in Luxembourg, is allowing me to disclose some of its financial figures, which show significant revenue growth over the past two years.

In one of the most detailed blog posts yet [3,200 words], Netflix describes the custom Origin Server it built for live.

Stats Perform acquired the assets of the ultra-low-latency tech company Phenix Real Time Solutions for approximately $7 million, including 21 patents.