If you work in product, operations, or revenue at a streaming platform, you’re probably already tracking fill rates, CPMs, and demand quality. But the biggest revenue losses often happen elsewhere, quietly, invisibly, and without triggering a single alert. A growing body of technical guidance, operational reports, and publisher best practices reveal much quieter threats to … The post Where Ad Dollars Quietly Break: Beyond the Obvious in Streaming Monetization first appeared on Streaming L...| Streaming Learning Center
I recently interviewed David Ronca, who you probably know from his work at Meta and Netflix, but who’s now running his own company, RoncaTech. We discussed the upcoming release of VCAT (Video Codec Acid Test), a tool that benchmarks video playback performance on Android devices. By way of background, I reviewed an earlier version of … The post David Ronca Unveils VCAT: An Open Benchmarking Tool for Android Playback first appeared on Streaming Learning Center.| Streaming Learning Center
More than 80 media executives met in New York last week under the IAB Tech Lab banner to address unauthorized AI content scraping, which enables AI companies to harvest publisher content for model training without compensation. While Google and Meta participated, the AI companies most implicated, OpenAI, Anthropic, and Perplexity, declined to attend. The industry’s … The post AI Scraping and Publisher Revenue: The Great Content Robbery first appeared on Streaming Learning Center.| Streaming Learning Center
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Learn the business models, technologies, systems, and services that power modern streaming platforms Learn how streaming services build profitable and sustainable businesses by combining strategy, technology, and execution. The course begins with the core business models: subscription, advertising, FAST, vMVPD, and hybrid. You’ll see how each model drives decisions about pricing, packaging, and content. From […]| SVTA University