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The San Francisco Giants officially added Jorge Soler over the weekend, but does it mean they're done spending money? Farhan Zaidi met with the media and said something that could be interpreted two different ways. On its face, he said that the Giants making more significant additions was "unlikely" due to where we are in the calendar. On the other hand, Zaidi said, "Anybody who's a free agent, we've theoretically had three and a half months to figure out a deal and if it hasn't happened yet, at some point organizationally, you just need to turn the page and focus on the players you have" (courtesy of The S.F. Chronicle). That comment could suggest that the SF Giants have simply been unwilling to meet Scott Boras' high asking prices.Notoriously, Boras has four of the top free agents from this class who are still unsigned: Blake Snell, Matt Chapman, Cody Bellinger, and Jordan Montgomery. It's not clear whether or not the Giants are done spending, but their current projected payroll of about $164M is right in line with where it's been every year over the last five years, except for 2023 when it was about $30 million higher. That catch? Last year, every team received $30 million from MLB due to its $900 million sale of BAMTech to Disney. So the Giants may in fact be operating under a self-imposed cap of about $165 million.Switching gears, Pablo Sandoval—yes, the Panda himself—is in major league camp as a non-roster invitee. It's a completely risk-free move and not a publicity stunt. Sandoval wants to play in the big leagues again, and he is in really good shape and has been playing professionally in Dubai and Mexico in recent years. Sandoval expressed a willing to go to the minor leagues and a desire to mentor young players such as Marco Luciano and fellow Venezuelan Luis Matos.Find and follow Locked On Giants on your favorite podcast platforms:

The San Francisco Giants officially added Jorge Soler over the weekend, but does it mean they're done spending money? Farhan Zaidi met with the media and said something that could be interpreted two different ways. On its face, he said that the Giants making more significant additions was "unlikely" due to where we are in the calendar. On the other hand, Zaidi said, "Anybody who's a free agent, we've theoretically had three and a half months to figure out a deal and if it hasn't happened yet, at some point organizationally, you just need to turn the page and focus on the players you have" (courtesy of The S.F. Chronicle). That comment could suggest that the SF Giants have simply been unwilling to meet Scott Boras' high asking prices. Notoriously, Boras has four of the top free agents from this class who are still unsigned: Blake Snell, Matt Chapman, Cody Bellinger, and Jordan Montgomery. It's not clear whether or not the Giants are done spending, but their current projected payroll of about $164M is right in line with where it's been every year over the last five years, except for 2023 when it was about $30 million higher. That catch? Last year, every team received $30 million from MLB due to its $900 million sale of BAMTech to Disney. So the Giants may in fact be operating under a self-imposed cap of about $165 million. Switching gears, Pablo Sandoval—yes, the Panda himself—is in major league camp as a non-roster invitee. It's a completely risk-free move and not a publicity stunt. Sandoval wants to play in the big leagues again, and he is in really good shape and has been playing professionally in Dubai and Mexico in recent years. Sandoval expressed a willing to go to the minor leagues and a desire to mentor young players such as Marco Luciano and fellow Venezuelan Luis Matos. Find and follow Locked On Giants on your favorite podcast platforms:

Internet pioneer, John Kosner, President of Kosner Media, a digital media and sports consultancy and investment advisor in sports tech startups on the future of Sports. His four decades of Sports media expertise include building ESPN into the world's leading digital Sports destination; he also struck ESPN's original streaming deal with Bamtech, which led to Disney's acquisition of Major League baseball's technology firm in 2016. He argues that Sports will follow gaming into the interactive world building communities around sports players on and offline as younger fans look for new ways to engage. And he advises us to follow his old Disney colleague, Steve Jobs' mantra: beware the status quo. Latest Sports Business Journal column: https://www.kosnermedia.com/news/crossing-sports-media-rubicon-one-year-laterNCAA Gender Equity Media & Sponsorship Analysis, 2021: https://static1.squarespace.com/static/5e48689ce8cf6318cdabe294/t/6149e29e8768351a56a63bcf/1632232095074/NCAA+Gender+Equity+KHF+Phase+I+Report+-+Desser+Media+%26+Sponsorship+Addendum.pdfInterview with Ben Thompson, Stratechery: https://www.kosnermedia.com/news/kosner-stratechery-interview-past-future-sports-abundance

Join Rich LaMonica on The MisFitNation Show as he welcomes Brent Kappes, a US Navy Veteran and the visionary behind Bamtech, a cutting-edge performance apparel brand. Brent's commitment to sustainability and performance has reshaped the industry. Bamtech stands out by harnessing the power of bamboo fabric and other durable materials to craft high-performance gear entirely made in the USA. Brent's journey from the Navy to entrepreneurship reflects a deep commitment to excellence and environmental consciousness. In this episode, discover how Bamtech blends innovation, comfort, and sustainability to create a range of performance apparel. Brent's insights into the challenges of transitioning from military service to business ownership provide valuable lessons for aspiring entrepreneurs. Don't miss this engaging conversation on resilience, innovation, and the intersection of military experience with sustainable business practices. Join us as we explore the inspiring story of Brent Kappes and the game-changing impact of Bamtech on the world of performance gear. #Bamtech #SustainableFashion #USNavyVeteran #PerformanceApparel #MadeInUSA #Innovation #Entrepreneurship #MilitarytoBusiness #Resilience #MisFitNationShow #HMG Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

The San Francisco Giants' payroll has been a hot topic ever since new president of baseball operations Farhan Zaidi took over following the 2018 season. Since that time, the Giants' payroll steadily decreased until is eventually stabilized at around $162 million—until this year it shot up by $30 million. The theory that's been discussed on Locked On Giants numerous times is that this $30M increase is likely explained by MLB's sale of BAMTech to Disney for $900 million, which was evenly split among the 30 teams, for a total of $30M per team.Zaidi, however, continues to claim that there's no "cap" on SF Giants spending from ownership, and that it's his job to make recommendations on players to sign and that, in theory, they'd give the green light if Zaidi makes a good enough argument. The pattern described above somewhat suggests otherwise. But there are exceptions. Bryce Harper, for example, was offered $310M by the Giants in Year 1 under Zaidi. Had they signed Harper, the payroll would've been significantly higher than it ended up being in 2019. So it does appear that, for the right player, the San Francisco Giants are likely to make an exception and spend beyond the break-even point, which has been the oft-stated financial goal by high ranking club representatives.Other questions on today's mailbag edition of Locked On Giants include:Do you think they offer Brandon Crawford a bench role next year? Does he play elsewhere? Do they offer him a front office position? Is HE the next manager?Why does Zaidi keep saying the Giants are an attractive place for free agents when they continue to miss on the top guys? Do you fault ownership, the weather, or triples alley?What do you think is the future of Blake Sabol vs Joey Bart as a backup to Patrick Bailey?Find and follow Locked On Giants on your favorite podcast platforms:

The San Francisco Giants' payroll has been a hot topic ever since new president of baseball operations Farhan Zaidi took over following the 2018 season. Since that time, the Giants' payroll steadily decreased until is eventually stabilized at around $162 million—until this year it shot up by $30 million. The theory that's been discussed on Locked On Giants numerous times is that this $30M increase is likely explained by MLB's sale of BAMTech to Disney for $900 million, which was evenly split among the 30 teams, for a total of $30M per team. Zaidi, however, continues to claim that there's no "cap" on SF Giants spending from ownership, and that it's his job to make recommendations on players to sign and that, in theory, they'd give the green light if Zaidi makes a good enough argument. The pattern described above somewhat suggests otherwise. But there are exceptions. Bryce Harper, for example, was offered $310M by the Giants in Year 1 under Zaidi. Had they signed Harper, the payroll would've been significantly higher than it ended up being in 2019. So it does appear that, for the right player, the San Francisco Giants are likely to make an exception and spend beyond the break-even point, which has been the oft-stated financial goal by high ranking club representatives. Other questions on today's mailbag edition of Locked On Giants include: Do you think they offer Brandon Crawford a bench role next year? Does he play elsewhere? Do they offer him a front office position? Is HE the next manager? Why does Zaidi keep saying the Giants are an attractive place for free agents when they continue to miss on the top guys? Do you fault ownership, the weather, or triples alley? What do you think is the future of Blake Sabol vs Joey Bart as a backup to Patrick Bailey? Find and follow Locked On Giants on your favorite podcast platforms:

Dinn Mann | Founder of Goatnet a social/streaming and IP development platformBio: Didn't mean to write this like a book. Yet, that's part of what I'm here to tell you. Our stories matter. Our qualifications matter. How we tick matters. Where we can go together is limitless if the course is charted and navigated with strengthGrandfather, Judge Roy Hofeinz - Helped develop and form the original Houston Sports AuthorityGreatest professional achievement - Build and subsequently fill the Houston Astrodome, helped develop “Astroturf”, 1967 purchased the Ringling Bros CircusAstroworld Hotel - Penthouse, known as the Celestial Suite, was home of grandfather from 1969 to 1973entertained Elvis Presley, Frank Sinatra, Lyndon Johnson, and Muhammad Ali.One of Judge Roy Hofheinz's admirers, fabled judge Leon Jaworski (Special Prosecutor for Watergate scandal), wrote in The Grand Huckster: “He was a dreamer up to a certain point, but his weren't idle dreams. They were dreams that had substance. Houston and Texas owe Roy Hofheinz muchAstros owners - The Judge & Jim Crane, Pitcher for the Central Missouri State MulesFamily “tragedies, scandals, hilarity, business lessons?” - Father, incarceration; mother's lover burned aliveLived in Kansas City in late 1990sMLBAM - MLB Advanced Media - MLB Advanced Media (MLBAM) is a limited partnership of the club owners of Major League Baseball (MLB) based in New York City and is the Internet and interactive branch of the league.spent 17 years as an executive at MLBAM and had the honor of leading hundreds of colleagues and working in a formidable brain trust that created billions of dollars of value on top of a magnificent foundation called Major League Baseball.Multipurpose ballpark metaphor - Astrodome of the 60's to MLBAM of 2000sA Who's-Who of IP royalty - WWE, HBO Max, NHL Network, CBS Sports and ESPN were among the world-class clients benefiting from our technology and associated services.Bad News Bears - Dinn turned down the opportunity to be an extraDeparture from MLBAM - “Was not without some attention.”BAMTech - Dinn was 2% owner in BamTech“Despite the fact that Mr. Mann is a 2 percent owner of BAMTech, he received no compensation when Disney recently paid approximately $2.6 billion over two transactions to purchase 75 percent of BAMTech,” the suit allegedTech purchased goes onto become Disney+ and ESPN+ for $6 Billion.  Dinn centralized digital rights and identified strategic relationshABC PodcastFacebook: https://www.facebook.com/alwaysbecoolpodcastTwitter: https://twitter.com/thebobbykerrInstagram: https://www.instagram.com/alwaysbecoolpodcast/TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@thebobbykerrYouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@alwaysbecoolSummit LendingFacebook: https://www.facebook.com/SummitLendingUSATwitter: https://twitter.com/SummitLendingUSInstagram: https://www.instagram.com/summitlendingusa/LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/summitlendingkc/YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/user/loantipskc

2Stupid2Win and ThankMeLater discuss all the announcements from Genesis Week, City Hall Updates, More car sales, Structure Ornaments, UPX For NFLPA collections, and a new city release. They also chat with BamTech about their treasure hunting grind to obtain over 10 Spark!!!The UPX Podcast is the ORIGINAL and #1 spot for news, strategy, non-financial advice, and more in Upland. Join 2Stupid2Win, ThankMeLater, TDavis, and BDag as they discuss the current events, strategies, and community of the metaverse known as Upland.Sign up for Upland using this referral code discover.upland.me/UPX-Podcast. Earn of 50% bonus on your first deposit up to $100.Follow us on Twitter www.twitter.com/upxpodcastSHOW DISCLAIMER: The views, information, and opinions expressed on The Upland Property Xperts (UPX) Podcast are solely those of 2Stupid2Win, TML, and any guests of the podcast and do not necessarily represent/reflect those of UplandMe Inc. We are not employed by, or provided insider information from the UplandMe Inc. Nor are we financial/investment advisors. All discussion about properties, types of properties, or any other NFTs in Upland to buy or sell is not financial advice. Please do your own research first. We do not guarantee any particular outcome from participating in Upland. There is potential for loss from participating in the purchase, sale, or investing in Upland and their metaverse.

White Sox General Manager Rick Hahn addressed the media at the 2022 Winter Meetings in San Diego on Tuesday. You will hear from Hahn with his thoughts on the trade market, their activity in the free agent market, and how the shortstop market could affect their dealings. Join Sean Anderson and Herb Lawrence as they react to what the Sox next move could be. TIMESTAMPS 2:40 - Winter Meetings heating up. Cody Bellinger signs with the Cubs 9:06 - Will Aaron Judge hit as many homers in San Francisco as he did at Yankee Stadium?  12:05 - Did MLB help Aaron Judge hit 62 homers? Did they turn a blind eye to steroids too? 17:09 - Did Rick Hahn intimate that Tim Anderson might be available? Or are they about to acquire another shortstop?  28:00 - Will the White Sox spend the BAMTech money?  30:50 - Is Liam Hendriks getting traded away?! And why 40:10 - CHGO Beat Reporter Ryan Herrera joins the show from the Winter Meetings in San Diego to talk about what GM Rick Hahn & White Sox Manager Pedro Grifol had to say 47:41 - Cubs sign Cody Bellinger to a 1-year deal 48:23 - Josh Bell signs with the Cleveland Guardians  51:15 - Which team is better, Cleveland Guardians or Chicago White Sox? Sean Anderson & Herb Lawrence debate position by position (and rotation) BUY WHITE SOX TICKETS HERE: https://gametime.hnyj8s.net/c/3442941... TAILGATE WITH US: https://bit.ly/3SRS03z  SUBSCRIBE: https://www.youtube.com/c/CHGOSports WEBSITE: http://allCHGO.com/ BUY MERCH:  http://CHGOLocker.com  FOLLOW ON SOCIAL:  Twitter: @CHGO_Sports Instagram: @CHGO_Sports Use Code: CHGO for 50% off 2 or more pairs at https://ShadyRays.com - Buy One, Get One Free. Check out pinsandaces.com and use code CHGO to receive 15% off your first order and get free shipping. GET OUR FREE NEWSLETTER:  http://www.allchgo.com/newsletter Check out FOCO for merch and collectibles here https://foco.vegb.net/CHGO and use promo code “CHGO” for 10% off your order on all non Pre Order items. Athletic Greens is going to give you a FREE 1 year supply of immune-supporting Vitamin D AND 5 FREE travel packs with your first purchase. Just visit https://athleticgreens.com/CHGOSox Visit https://dkng.co/chgo to sign up for DraftKings Sportsbook using the code “CHGO” If you or someone you know has a gambling problem, crisis counseling and referral services can be accessed by calling 1-800-GAMBLER (1-800-426-2537) (IL/IN/LA/MI/NJ/PA/TN/WV/WY), 1-800- NEXT STEP (AZ), 1-800-522-4700 (CO/KS/NH), 888-789-7777/visithttp://ccpg.org (CT), 1-800-BETS OFF (IA), 877-8-HOPENY/text HOPENY (467369) (NY), visit OPGR.org (OR), or 1-888-532-3500 (VA). 21+ (18+ NH/WY). Physically present in AZ/CO/CT/IL/IN/IA/KS/LA(select parishes)/MI/NH/NJ/ NY/OR/PA/TN/VA/WV/WY only. $150 in Free bets: New customers only. Min. $5 deposit. Min $5 pregame moneyline bet. Bet must win. $150 issued as six (6) $25 free bets. Ends 12/31/22 @ 11:59pm ET. Stepped Up SGP: 1 Token issued per eligible game. Opt in req. Min $1 bet. Max bet limits apply. Min. 3-leg. Each leg min. -300 odds, total bet +100 odds or longer. 10+ leg req. for 100% boost. Ends 1/8/23 @ 8pm ET. See eligibility & terms at sportsbook.draftkings.com/footballterms. When you shop through links in the description, we may earn affiliate commissions. Copyright Disclaimer under section 107 of the Copyright Act 1976, allowance is made for “fair use” for purposes such as criticism, comment, news reporting, teaching, scholarship, education and research. Fair use is a use permitted by copyright statute that might otherwise be infringing. #WhiteSox #ChicagoWhiteSox #ChangeTheGame Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

We get an inkling on what WB-Discovery will rename HBO MAX. Plus, Netflix is expanding at-home focus testing, a Last of Us trailer, and Disney finishes the buy-out of BAMTech. All that and more on Cordkillers! With special guest Willie Scott. This week on It’s Spoilerin’ Time: The White Lotus (206), Rick and Morty (609), … Continue reading Cordkillers 434 – The Hunt for Comedy (w/ Willie Scott) →

We get an inkling on what WB-Discovery will rename HBO MAX. Plus, Netflix is expanding at-home focus testing, a Last of Us trailer, and Disney finishes the buy-out of BAMTech. All that and more on Cordkillers! With special guest Willie Scott. This week on It’s Spoilerin’ Time: The White Lotus (206), Rick and Morty (609), … Continue reading Cordkillers 434 – The Hunt for Comedy (w/ Willie Scott) →

We get an inkling on what WB-Discovery will rename HBO MAX. Plus, Netflix is expanding at-home focus testing, a Last of Us trailer, and Disney finishes the buy-out of BAMTech. All that and more on Cordkillers! With special guest Willie Scott. This week on It’s Spoilerin’ Time: The White Lotus (206), Rick and Morty (609), … Continue reading Cordkillers 434 – The Hunt for Comedy (w/ Willie Scott) →

The Bundle is our regular series on the sports media and streaming market with co-hosts Yannick Ramcke and Murray Barnett, both fresh from appearing at SportsPro's OTT Summit in Madrid. Yannick is head of OTT at One Football and Murray is director of the DTC Consultancy, founder of 28West Sport and formerly of F1, World Rugby and ESPN. Today, we talk about the return of Bob Iger to Disney, what that might mean for ESPN and why they've just bought the remaining bit of BAMTech they don't yet own. Then it's onto what 2023 holds for Warner Brothers Discovery, what that brand means, why FuboTV is getting out of betting, Amazon are getting into NFL talk shows and what the price of Apple's first MLS Season Ticket might mean for the market for sport.Unofficial Partner is the leading podcast for the business of sport. A mix of entertaining and thought provoking conversations with a who's who of the global industry. To join our community of listeners, sign up to the weekly UP Newsletter and follow us on Twitter @UnffclPrtnr

We get an inkling on what WB-Discovery will rename HBO MAX. Plus, Netflix is expanding at-home focus testing, a Last of Us trailer, and Disney finishes the buy-out of BAMTech. All that and more on Cordkillers! With special guest Willie Scott. This week on It’s Spoilerin’ Time: The White Lotus (206), Rick and Morty (609), … Continue reading Cordkillers 434 – The Hunt for Comedy (w/ Willie Scott) →

Alex and Bobby grin and bear the news that Jacob deGrom is leaving the Mets to join the Texas Rangers, before recapping a quick hits list of news items from the past two weeks, including: José Abreu signing with the Astros, Disney purchasing the remainder of BAMTECH for $900 million, the Brewers dumping all salary, and the Rays pivoting to real estate. Links: Join the Tipping Pitches Patreon Tipping Pitches merchandise Songs featured in this episode: U2 — "Sunday Bloody Sunday" • tiny deaths — "Ever" • Booker T & the M.G.'s — “Green Onions”

With the Winter Meetings kicking off in San Diego this week host Herb Lawrence talked about his expectations for the White Sox. Herb also discussed the BAMTech payout to MLB owners and how the White Sox not going after the top free agents is ridiculous while they are in their contention window. Lastly, Mike Clevinger signing became official on Sunday so Herb offered his thoughts on how the (soon to be) 32-year-old righty fits into their starting rotation. BUY WHITE SOX TICKETS HERE: https://gametime.hnyj8s.net/c/3442941... TAILGATE WITH US: https://bit.ly/3SRS03z SUBSCRIBE: https://www.youtube.com/c/CHGOSports WEBSITE: http://allCHGO.com/ BUY MERCH: http://CHGOLocker.com FOLLOW ON SOCIAL: Twitter: @CHGO_Sports Instagram: @CHGO_Sports Use Code: CHGO for 50% off 2 or more pairs at https://ShadyRays.com - Buy One, Get One Free. Check out pinsandaces.com and use code CHGO to receive 15% off your first order and get free shipping. GET OUR FREE NEWSLETTER: http://www.allchgo.com/newsletter Check out FOCO for merch and collectibles here https://foco.vegb.net/CHGO and use promo code “CHGO” for 10% off your order on all non Pre Order items. Athletic Greens is going to give you a FREE 1 year supply of immune-supporting Vitamin D AND 5 FREE travel packs with your first purchase. Just visit https://athleticgreens.com/CHGOSox Visit https://weberinc.sjv.io/CHGO_Traveler to get yourself the best grill for tailgating from Weber Grills! Visit https://dkng.co/chgo to sign up for DraftKings Sportsbook using the code “CHGO” If you or someone you know has a gambling problem, crisis counseling and referral services can be accessed by calling 1-800-GAMBLER (1-800-426-2537) (IL/IN/LA/MI/NJ/PA/TN/WV/WY), 1-800- NEXT STEP (AZ), 1-800-522-4700 (CO/KS/NH), 888-789-7777/visithttp://ccpg.org (CT), 1-800-BETS OFF (IA), 877-8-HOPENY/text HOPENY (467369) (NY), visit OPGR.org (OR), or 1-888-532-3500 (VA). 21+ (18+ NH/WY). Physically present in AZ/CO/CT/IL/IN/IA/KS/LA(select parishes)/MI/NH/NJ/ NY/OR/PA/TN/VA/WV/WY only. $150 in Free bets: New customers only. Min. $5 deposit. Min $5 pregame moneyline bet. Bet must win. $150 issued as six (6) $25 free bets. Ends 12/31/22 @ 11:59pm ET. Stepped Up SGP: 1 Token issued per eligible game. Opt in req. Min $1 bet. Max bet limits apply. Min. 3-leg. Each leg min. -300 odds, total bet +100 odds or longer. 10+ leg req. for 100% boost. Ends 1/8/23 @ 8pm ET. See eligibility & terms at sportsbook.draftkings.com/footballterms. When you shop through links in the description, we may earn affiliate commissions. #WhiteSox #ChicagoWhiteSox Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

In this week's episode, podcast co-hosts Eric Fisher and Chris Russo interview Adam Davis, managing director of North America for Two Circles. Fisher and Russo also discuss Merritt Paulson's move to sell the National Women's Soccer League's Portland Thorns, the National Basketball Association's embrace of new sources of team investor capital, accelerated plans to expand the College Football Playoff, Major League Baseball's sale of its BAMTech equity stake, the Boston Red Sox's jersey patch sale, and the departure of Lenny Daniels from Warner Bros. Discovery.

In this What's On Disney Plus Podcast episode, Roger and James discuss all of this week's Disney+ news, including Disney buying the remaining control of Bamtech, the new content announced during the Disney Content Showcase in Singapore, the new trailers revealed during the Brazillian Comic-Con Experience. They also share their thoughts on "Willow", "The Santa Clauses", and "much more. If you enjoy our podcast, please consider supporting it via our Patreon or as a YouTube Channel Membership from as little as $2 a month and get access to exclusive content and much more.

In this What's On Disney Plus Podcast episode, Roger and James discuss all of this week's Disney+ news, including Disney buying the remaining control of Bamtech, the new content announced during the Disney Content Showcase in Singapore, the new trailers revealed during the Brazillian Comic-Con Experience. They also share their thoughts on "Willow", "The Santa Clauses", and "much more. If you enjoy our podcast, please consider supporting it via our Patreon or as a YouTube Channel Membership from as little as $2 a month and get access to exclusive content and much more.

In this What's On Disney Plus Podcast episode, Roger and James discuss all of this week's Disney+ news, including Disney buying the remaining control of Bamtech, the new content announced during the Disney Content Showcase in Singapore, the new trailers revealed during the Brazillian Comic-Con Experience. They also share their thoughts on "Willow", "The Santa Clauses", and "much more. If you enjoy our podcast, please consider supporting it via our Patreon or as a YouTube Channel Membership from as little as $2 a month and get access to exclusive content and much more.

While San Francisco Giants fans range from hopeful to skeptical about the team's chances of landing Aaron Judge, MLB Network reporter Jon Morosi said on Thursday "There's a legitimate chance that Aaron Judge becomes a San Francisco Giant." Judge's favorite player growing up, Rich Aurilia, went on KNBR on Wednesday and said that Morosi told him the Giants' odds of landing Judge were 50 percent, whereas the combined odds of the Yankees plus everybody else equaled 50 percent. That would mean, in essence, that Morosi views the SF Giants as the most likely team to come away with Judge. Morosi also said that the Giants would need to prove to Judge that they can win around him, but all indications are that that is their intention. He also said that the Giants might need to get closer to $40M per year to come away with Judge. As has been suggested on this show, something like 8/$320M ($40M AAV) could possibly get a deal done. The Yankees' reported offer on the table to judge is 8/$300M ($37.5M AAV).If the San Francisco Giants are able to land Aaron Judge, what else would they do around him? It all depends on how high they're willing to push their payroll. Adding Judge would push them beyond where they've been in recent years, but they also have a lot of future flexibility with almost no guarantees on the books for 2024 and literally $0 committed in 2025 and beyond. So it's not out of the question that that could carry a $200M+ payroll in 2023, and they could go lower in 2024 if they wanted to. The Giants are set to receive $30M from the sale of BAMTech to Disney. The first luxury tax threshold is $233M in 2023, and the SF Giants are nowhere near it. Adding Judge, Carlos Correa, and Carlos Rodón at roughly their predicted AAV's would push the Giants to about $225M, still underneath the first luxury tax threshold.Find and follow Locked On Giants on your favorite podcast platforms:

While San Francisco Giants fans range from hopeful to skeptical about the team's chances of landing Aaron Judge, MLB Network reporter Jon Morosi said on Thursday "There's a legitimate chance that Aaron Judge becomes a San Francisco Giant." Judge's favorite player growing up, Rich Aurilia, went on KNBR on Wednesday and said that Morosi told him the Giants' odds of landing Judge were 50 percent, whereas the combined odds of the Yankees plus everybody else equaled 50 percent. That would mean, in essence, that Morosi views the SF Giants as the most likely team to come away with Judge. Morosi also said that the Giants would need to prove to Judge that they can win around him, but all indications are that that is their intention. He also said that the Giants might need to get closer to $40M per year to come away with Judge. As has been suggested on this show, something like 8/$320M ($40M AAV) could possibly get a deal done. The Yankees' reported offer on the table to judge is 8/$300M ($37.5M AAV). If the San Francisco Giants are able to land Aaron Judge, what else would they do around him? It all depends on how high they're willing to push their payroll. Adding Judge would push them beyond where they've been in recent years, but they also have a lot of future flexibility with almost no guarantees on the books for 2024 and literally $0 committed in 2025 and beyond. So it's not out of the question that that could carry a $200M+ payroll in 2023, and they could go lower in 2024 if they wanted to. The Giants are set to receive $30M from the sale of BAMTech to Disney. The first luxury tax threshold is $233M in 2023, and the SF Giants are nowhere near it. Adding Judge, Carlos Correa, and Carlos Rodón at roughly their predicted AAV's would push the Giants to about $225M, still underneath the first luxury tax threshold. Find and follow Locked On Giants on your favorite podcast platforms:

Bernie looks at how the Cardinals can benefit from the $30 million it will receive from MLB's sale of BAMTECH. Bernie uses this as further support to his argument that the Cardinals can't afford to be cheap if they want to improve at shortstop and catcher as well as bolster the pitching staff.

Disney completes its acquisition of BAMTech, the Coyotes proposed arena deal will go to a vote and the Race Team Alliance is looking into exhibitions outside of NASCAR.

Our anchors begin today's show with ServiceNow CEO Bill McDermott sharing his outlook for software as we kick off day three of Cloud Week, and CNBC's Dom Chu breaks down the Street's expectations ahead of Fed Chair Jerome Powell's speech on the economy this afternoon. Then, HPE CEO Antonio Neri breaks down the enterprise edge-to-cloud company's Q4 results, and Intuit CEO Sasan Goodarzi joins after delivering stronger-than-expected earnings. Next, our Julia Boorstin reports on Disney buying Major League Baseball's remaining stake in streaming firm BAMTech, and CNBC's Diana Olick covers Airbnb partnering with several major landlords to allow tenants to list their apartments. Later, CNBC's Kate Rooney covers the shutdown of crypto exchange Bitfront, and CNBC's Seema Mody looks at the impact of Covid lockdown protests in China on the broader markets.

Alexa te inventará historias, Disney adquiere BAMTech y se cancela el Smash World Tour 2023. Puedes apoyar la realización de este programa con una suscripción. Más información por acáNoticias: -Coinbase anunció que dejará de admitir a varias criptodivisas en su aplicación Wallet a partir del 23 de enero de 2023. -Disney reveló que ahora posee el 100% de BAMTech, liquidando la participación de las Grandes Ligas al pagar $900 millones de dólares para comprar su parte.-Los organizadores del torneo de videojuegos Smash World Tour para Super Smash Brothers de Nintendo, anunciaron la cancelación del campeonato y la gira planeada para 2023, a solicitud de Nintendo. -Twitter actualizó la sección referente al COVID19 de sus páginas de transparencia para indicar que “a partir del 23 de noviembre de 2022, Twitter ya no aplica la política de información engañosa sobre COVID-19”. -En Estados Unidos, Amazon lanzó una nueva función de “Crear con Alexa” para sus dispositivos Echo Show. Análisis: Delegando la creatividad a las IAs¿Prefieres leer las noticias? ¡Suscríbete a mi newsletter y te llegarán todos los días!   Become a member at https://plus.acast.com/s/noticias-de-tecnologia-express. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

SportsPro chief executive Nick Meacham and community lead Chris Stone sit down with Kenny Gersh, Major League Baseball's (MLB) executive vice president of business development, to mark the 20th anniversary of the MLB.TV streaming platform. Two decades after MLB became the first professional sports league to live stream a regular season game, Gersh discusses how the organisation went on to build BAMTech Media, a robust streaming technology business that was eventually acquired by Disney in 2017. Gersh also outlines MLB's media rights distribution strategy today, how it differs from other sports, and its decision to put some live games on Apple+. There's also time to look to the future, with Gersh explaining how streaming helps MLB reach younger audiences, the role of Web 3.0, and the league's international growth strategy.

2 de diciembre | Nueva YorkHola, maricoper. Queremos saber de ti. ¿Puedes responder esta breve encuesta para saber cómo adaptarnos mejor a tus intereses (y a tu tiempo)? Si participas, entrarás en el sorteo de una taza de La Wikly como esta:Bienvenido a La Wikly diaria, una columna de actualidad y dos titulares rápidos para pasar el resto del día bien informado. Si quieres comentar las noticias en nuestra comunidad privada de Discord, puedes entrar rellenando este formulario.Puedes compartir esta newsletter a amigos y familiares que *no* estén suscritos. No podrán escuchar el podcast, ¡pero sí leer la newsletter! Y así nos ayudas a que nos conozca más gente. Puedes hacerlo con este botón:Leer esta newsletter te llevará 6 minutos y 56 segundos.Accurate description of the Zendaya/Holland situation. Bienvenido a La Wikly.

Le chinois #Tencent est propriétaire du jeu League of Legends, un jeu phénomène qui n'est plus simplement  un jeu video, mais également un monument de la Pop Culture actuelle. Dans cet épisode, vous apprendrez :   Comment copier le meilleur jeu au monde sans procès ? Comment faire d'un jeux video un concurrent aux Jeux Olympique ? Combien représentent les droits de diffusion de LOL ? Quel est le nombre démentiel de joueurs quotidien de LOL ? Quels sont les chiffres fous de la diffusion des meilleures parties de LOL ? Il s'agit d'un extrait de l'épisode  Pour garder le contact LA NEWSLETTER : asieinnovations.fr/anticiper les comptes twitter : @FredPanchaud et @AsieInnovations

Joe and Tom are joined by Dinn Mann, partner at Turn 2 Equity Partners and former long-time executive at MLB Advanced Media. A journalist at heart, Dinn rose through the ranks at several renowned newspapers before joining MLBAM and helping to spearhead one of  sports' most successful digital pioneering efforts as head of media. The group shares some of their favorite stories and discusses some of the biggest hits and misses in media and technology over the past few decades. Lastly, Dinn shares how he is bridging the gap between athletes, media, and technology through the Playrs platform and Goatnet. || @mooseoutfront || The CUSP Show is a production by the faculty of Sports Management at Columbia University. You can get in touch with the program on Twitter @CU_SPS_Sports. Our presenters are Joe Favorito (@Joefav) and Tom Richardson (@ConvergenceTR). The show is produced by Tom Cerny (@Tom_Cerny19), Taylor DeBernardo '21 (@TDeBernardo33), and Ben Walsh '21, with Cameron Morris '21 (@CameronM0rr1s) managing social media efforts.

Mark Stone, a St. Louis, Missouri native, studied Speech Communications and Radio/TV/Film at the University of Missouri at Columbia, where he graduated in 1981. He has since worked in Broadcast Operations and Engineering at CNN, ABC, CBS, EchoStar, and MLB.com (BAMTech), and even earned an Emmy in 2020. Mark now works at NBC Sports in Connecticut, and one constant thread throughout his life has been practicing and performing magic.

Patrocinador: Orange tiene nuevos episodios de Ahora Más Cerca, una serie de entrevistas a empresarios que cuentan cómo han transformado digitalmente su negocio en medio de la pandemia para salir más fuertes y ganar más clientes. ... pero nadie se fía del motivo / Wandavision tira Disney+ / Un pueblo llamado Starbase / Un millón de Raspberry Picos / El éxito de Protón / Square compra Tidal / Uber y Cabify podrán llevar paquetes  Google dejará de utilizar cookies para rastrear a usuarios cuando navegan por Internet. Los múltiples servicios de Google incrustados en sitios web que visitas dejarán de fijar en tu navegador estas balizas de seguimiento en breve, según la empresa. Una decisión compleja, que debo desgranar:  Tened en cuenta que Google te rastrea desde casi cualquier elemento: cuando visitas una web con Analytics, obviamente, pero también cuando carga una tipografía desde Google Fonts, un anuncio desde sus plataformas, o incluso cuando hay un vídeo de YouTube incrustado. Ahora promete eliminar este seguimiento en sitios ajenos.  Otros grandes navegadores estaban ya bloqueando estas cookies "de terceros", cargadas por contenido ajeno al dominio principal que estás visitando. Y Chrome seguramente iba a tardar poco en ser obligado por presión industrial, de relaciones o de gobiernos, para hacer lo mismo. De momento Chrome mantiene las cookies de terceros. Este cambio no es un tema del navegador.  Pero Google seguirá tus pasos a través de Internet igualmente de múltiples formas: a través de sus aplicaciones propias en tu móvil, especialmente en Android, y de código de analíticas insertado en una infinidad más. Y también a través del relativamente nuevo sistema de cohortes para la web.  Este sistema de cohortes es el que más preocupa, porque llegados a 2021, todos sospechamos de cualquier movimiento de Google en este sentido. Es un método a través del cual a los usuarios, nuestros navegadores nos asignarán de una forma relativamente anonimizada en diferentes grupos o perfiles (cohortes) para categorizarnos como visitantes.  Será al visitar una web, que recibiremos anuncios basados en ese perfilado, y no en un perfilado individual. Este sistema tiene algunos agujeros que pueden "desanonimizar" esos grupos, así que quizá acabemos igual en unos años.  ¿Quién sale ganando y perdiendo? Google quizá tenga un impacto inicial en el rendimiento de parte de su publicidad, pero otras redes de publicidad y medios de comunicación con menor capacidad, con el tiempo pueden ver sus anuncios perder rendimiento. De momento todo queda en el aire.  Wandavision rompe temporalmente los servidores de Disney+. Horas tras el estreno, cuando amaneció en la Costa Oeste de EE.UU., muchos teletrabajadores parece que entraron más tarde a mirar su correos para ver primero el episodio, y tuvieron problemas para de ancho de banda. — Disney+ corre sobre BAMTech, una compañía de streaming super sólida. El aluvión ha debido ser gigante.  Las ventas de Raspberry Pi Pico alcanzan el millón de unidades poco más de un mes tras su lanzamiento. A pesar de sus 264 KB de memoria RAM, el muy versátil y muy barato controlador moderno es todo un juguete para entusiastas, estudiantes y profesionales, y todo un éxito para la empresa británica.  SpaceX quiere incorporar su propio municipio: Starbase. Necesita primero conseguir permisos y autorizaciones judiciales y estatales, pero permitiría expandir sus instalaciones en la costa de Texas más allá de Boca Chica, y mantener su propio reglamento municipal: desde casas para empleados hasta normativas de ruidos.  Las tiendas sin cajeros de Amazon llegan a Europa. La primera abre en Londres ante una avalancha de compradores curiosos que hacían colas en las afueras para poder probarlo. Ya tienen 20 en EE.UU. — En Reino Unido no han funcionado bien en el pasado. Veremos.  El éxito silencioso de Proton lleva más de 7.000 juegos en Linux. La herramienta de código abierto de Valve diseñada para ejecutar títulos de Windows en Linux sin necesidad de configuraciones ni cambios supera los 7.000 juegos que funcionan perfectamente, y otros tantos que funcionan muy bien o están en proceso. La mayor incompatibilidad siguen siendo sistemas DRM o anti-trucos.  La empresa de pagos Square compra Tidal. Al menos una "participación mayoritaria" en esta aplicación musical que sigue pasando sin pena ni gloria, a pesar de una mayor calidad de audio y hasta ahora, estar en manos de un grupo de artistas emprendedores. ¿Para qué? Para "crear un ecosistema financiero para los artistas", pero no queda claro cómo.  Twitter sigue con la ametralladora de funciones. Parece que han aprendido a programar estos meses y las funciones nuevas llegan sin parar: Espacios ahora funciona bien en Android, añaden soporte para tarjetas de compra (que no compras directas), y trabajan en un botón que retrasa el envío de mensajes unos segundos para darnos tiempo a cancelarlo.  No va a haber edición de tuits nunca. Igual que no puedes editar un correo electrónico tras enviarlo, aunque no por los mismos motivos técnicos obviamente. No lo pidamos más. Si te equivocas borra el tuit y listo. Es un tuit, no las fotos de tu boda.  Apple aclara cómo funcionara Siri con reproductores de música y podcasts. No podremos elegir uno como predeterminado per se, pero Siri respetará nuestra decisión inicial para cada tipo de reproducción que elijamos (música, podcast, audiolibros, películas) y luego, de vez en cuando, nos preguntará otra vez. Es casi lo mismo a nivel práctico, me vale.  Ubers, Cabifys y demás VTC podrán transportar paquetes en España. La agencia de competencia española da el visto bueno a la propuesta, que abre el camino a servicios más o menos relevantes de reparto de paquetería de urgencia en los maleteros de los coches. Lo que hemos hecho muchos con taxis desde hace décadas.

The Faultline Podcast is an audio companion to Rethink Technology Research's Faultline service, a weekly news service that examines the video market – focused on Pay TV, OTT, SVoD, and the technology that supports them. Occasionally, our Rethink TV research wing stops by, to talk about upcoming forecasts and macroeconomic trends we're seeing. Hosted by Alex Davies, Tommy Flanagan, and Rafi Cohen, The Faultline Podcast hits the most important points from the last week's news. If you're in the business world and deal with video content, Faultline is a service you'll want to pay attention to. Find out more at: https://rethinkresearch.biz/product/faultline/ We're on Twitter too: https://twitter.com/_Faultline_ And LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/showcase/faultline/

TikTok «se roba» al máximo responsable de Disney+ y lo convierte en su nuevo CEO* Kevin Mayer, máximo responsable de streaming de Disney, abandonó las filas de Mickey Mouse para convertirse en el nuevo CEO de TikTok. La noticia sorprende todavía más porque [Disney Plus](https://disneyplus.bn5x.net/kqWQx) está teniendo un recibimiento espectacular desde que vio la luz el pasado noviembre. Según los datos proporcionados por el gigante del entretenimiento, la plataforma alcanzó los 54,5 millones de usuarios a principios de noviembre. Fue Mayer la mente maestra que permitió alcanzar el éxito en menos de un año. Durante 2016 y años posteriores *lideró la adquisición de BAMTech*, la empresa cuya tecnología hizo posible a [Disney Plus](https://disneyplus.bn5x.net/kqWQx) y otros servicios de streaming. -- *Uber despedirá a otros 3.000 empleados y cerrará oficinas debido a la pandemia* La pandemia del [coronavirus](https://hipertextual.com/tag/coronavirus) sigue causando estragos a *Uber* y otras tecnológicas. Tras anunciar un [recorte del 14% en su plantilla](https://hipertextual.com/2020/05/despidos-uber-coronavirus) hace dos semanas, la empresa *despedirá a otros 3.000 trabajadores*. De acuerdo con [The Wall Street Journal](https://www.wsj.com/articles/uber-cuts-3-000-more-jobs-shuts-45-offices-in-coronavirus-crunch-11589814608?mod=djemalertNEWS) , Uber envió un correo electrónico a sus empleados avisándoles la decisión. --- *Microsoft reconoce su error respecto al ‘open source': «Estábamos en el lado equivocado de la historia»* Brad Smith, actual presidente de Microsoft, ha reconocido que la compañía estuvo en el lado equivocado de la historia en lo que se refiere al mundo open source. “Microsoft estuvo en el lado equivocado de la historia cuando las iniciativas de codigo abierto explotaron a principios de siglo”. Esa sencilla pero contundente afirmación corresponde a Brad Smith, actual presidente de Microsoft. El ejecutivo norteamericano *pronunció esas palabras durante un evento organizado por el prestigioso Instituto Tecnológico de Massachussets (MIT).* --- *Zoom ya vale más en bolsa que las siete aerolíneas más grandes del mundo juntas* Pese a que no conocemos el mundo que quedará tras el COVID-19, y a que la pandemia puede alargarse, sí sabemos que Zoom ha sido uno de los “ [ganadores](https://www.xataka.com/aplicaciones/zoom-microsoft-teams-grandes-ganadores-esta-cuarentena-apps-videollamada-arrasan-millones-nuevos-usuarios) “ de la cuarentena. La famosa plataforma de videollamadas ha [visto sus cifras disparadas](https://www.genbeta.com/actualidad/zoom-sigue-imparable-pese-a-sus-problemas-privacidad-seguridad-10-a-300-millones-usuarios-cuatro-meses) , pasando de *10 millones de sesiones a 300 en apenas cuatro meses*. --- *“Tengo 17 años, no necesito 8 millones de dólares”: un joven crea un popular tracker sobre el COVID-19 y rechaza todo tipo de ofertas* Si algo hemos aprendido en esta pandemia es a *estar atentos todos los días a las cifras*, para [saber cómo evoluciona](https://magnet.xataka.com/en-diez-minutos/mejor-forma-seguir-evolucion-coronavirus-tiempo-real-todos-paises-mundo) el número de contagios en cada zona y saber si la situación está mejorando o empeorando. Por Daniel Atik Sitio Web: http://la.azotea.co Síguenos en: https://twitter.com/LaAzoteaCo https://instagram.com/LaAzoteaCo https://facebook.com/LaAzoteaCo

The NAB Streaming Experience website can be found hereLearn about NAB Streaming Summit hereDan Rayburn LinkedIn profileRelated episode: What happens when content owners go directThe Video Insiders LinkedIn Group is where over 1,600 of your peers are discussing the latest news and sharing information of interest. Click here to joinWould you like to be a guest on the show? Send an email to: thevideoinsiders@beamr.comLearn more about Beamr TRANSCRIPTION (Note: This is machine generated and may have been lightly edited)Dan Rayburn: 00:00 There's seven, eight years ago when we were all playing in this arena and trying to really figure out the business model today, this is big business. We have tens of billions of dollars at stake. This stuff has to work. It has to be right and there is a lot of pressure on these new conglomerates to make sure that the video workflows, they're building out work properly because it is truly the future of their business. And I think the great way to really drive that point home is just remember all the services that Dan Rayburn: 00:25 launched say five years ago in the market. When the services came out, one, there was no investor day because investors didn't care what you were launching because at the time you weren't spending that much money and it was still a newish experience from a quality standpoint. Today, every single service that's launching is having an investor day where before the service is even out they're projecting to investors of when these services will become profitable. Talk about a shift in our industry. Announcer: 00:53 The video insiders is the show that makes sense of all that is happening in the world of online video as seen through the eyes of a second generation codec nerd and a marketing guy who knows what I frames and macro blocks are. And here are your hosts Mark Donnigan and Dror Gill. Mark Donnigan: 01:07 Welcome to another super exciting episode of the video insiders. We have Dan Rayburn with us again. Uh, this is part two. Yeah, it's amazing. And his first interview was one of the most popular ones on our podcast. We have to say it's the most downloaded and we have a lot to talk to talk about because since the last podcast episode where Dan was interviewed here on The Video Insiders, a lot has happened in the OTT space. I mean, really a lot. Yeah, a lot. So Dan, you know, welcome back to The Video Insiders. Thanks guys. Thanks for having me. You know me, I always have lots to talk about, so I love chatting about the industry. Well you do, you are an easy guest to host, that's for sure. Dan Rayburn: 01:53 I've always got stuff to say, right? I have an opinion on everything, but uh, it's, it's an exciting time in the space. And since we last talked to your point, we've got, we've got Disney out, we've got Apple plus out, we've got some new announcements from, from NBC regarding Peacock. We've, got a lot going on in the industry right now. A lot of confusion as well though. Dror Gill: 02:11 So let me ask you, when you, when you to watch some TV in the evening, can you really focus on the content or are you always looking for kind of artifacts, HDR levels? You know, stuff like that. Dan Rayburn: 02:26 I really don't want to think about the business because I do so much of that when I am reviewing the services from a business or content standpoint, you know, to your, to your point in terms of yeah, I am constantly looking at bitrates. I am looking at, okay, what's coming through my router because I want to see what the maximum stream is that I'm getting from the Mandalorian. You know, I probably have 40 different streaming services here at home and I've got anywhere between 10 and 12 TV's set up. Just sort of a lab environment and plus all the iPads, iPhones, MacBooks, like it's ridiculous, like a Best Buy here. I'm not the average consumer obviously, but, uh, I think like the average consumer in many cases, we are all looking at where the content is. So I've got some friends who, huge Rick and Morty fans and the new Rick and Morty season is out and this and that. Dan Rayburn: 03:10 And I said to him, you know, Hey, next year you're going to be able to stream this. And they're like, yeah, but I can't figure out where. Well, that's a great point. They can't figure out where, because where it's currently is and where it's currently at right now is going to be removed because AT&T has said that this is going to be exclusively under the new HBO Max brand. The average consumer isn't going to know that. So we're still going to have content fragmentation problems. So as a consumer, I think that's the biggest thing that we look at is just what content do we want to watch? Mark Donnigan: 03:39 You bring up something really interesting Dan, and this is a huge hole that I see in reporting on all the new services. It seems like so much of the press is writing about, you know, this service killing the next service. Dan Rayburn: 03:53 The problem is, look, the problem is the vast majority of people who are writing about our industry don't actually use the product. Mark Donnigan: 04:00 Yeah. They don't have 12 TV set up in their house, you know, like you do. Dan Rayburn: 04:03 They don't have one. All of these major platforms that are either telcos, carriers, wireless operators, content owners, distributors, whatever, whatever you want to call them, they're all creating brand new digital platforms for the future. And by that I mean this, when you think of what's taking place in the market right now with mergers, Viacom, CBS, Pluto, right, CBS All Access, CBS sports, CBS news, they are now all going to be converging and building out a new platform for all of these different products and services. That's one. Now throw in NBC sports, NBC news, Playmaker, Peacock, a, what do they also own? New England sports network. One of the other sports things. Throw all those guys in. That's now a brand new stack in the ecosystem. Now let's move on to AT&T. AT&T, Warner, Turner, HBO Max. That's now a whole system. Oh, and I forgot SKY when you're talking about NBC, you got to throw SKY in there too. So think about some of the largest companies that we have out there that are now creating a brand new stack end-to-end to fuel all these different new properties that they have. The biggest thing that you need there when you do that is what? Expertise, Mark Donnigan: 05:22 there might be some cues here because of course news just came out literally a couple of days ago. Fox signed with AWS a a very large deal. Now, um, I was reading some analysis on this and you know, it's because 21st Century Fox when they were acquired by Disney, you know, so there was a split, right? So the studio was acquired by Disney and all of those technical services actually went with you know, 21st Century Fox and of course then being a part of Disney. And then with BAM, now you've got this huge, you know, service organization that's available. And then here was Fox, the TV studio, the sports, you know, the sports side of Fox that needed a complete, you know, service provider. And it appears that they have selected AWS for even more than just, you know, on demand instances. So it's even more than a data center play. Um, and, and so that would seem to give credence to what your saying that, you know, BAM is far more than just a streaming service that, you know, there's, there's a lot of technical expertise and services they're providing Disney. Dan Rayburn: 06:36 Yeah, there's a huge amount and people, you know, really don't understand. I think a lot of people, even in our industry, don't understand what goes into all these services. Just the amount of beacons that are deployed, right. Just the amount of APIs you have to check. All the QoS and QoE reporting that has to come in and the analytics. And that's before you're doing any advertising. So anything advertising based obviously has more complexity tying into all the ad flows. And if you're doing live, okay, now you're talking about stream stitching for inserting ads into a live stream- that adds complexity. You have to think about latency and different ways to do chunked encoding. There's things you can tweak with HLS. There's just so much going on with these workflows and platforms that you really have to have that expertise. And some companies, you know think of Discovery, right? Dan Rayburn: 07:19 We heard from Discovery six, seven months ago when they announced they were going to hire 200 people to build a new streaming department to run all of Discovery's properties. So in some cases you have companies like that go, we want to own this, we want to build it, we'll bring it in house and it'll take them some time to get to market with that expertise. But they'll get there. And then you have other companies like Fox here where they signed that deal with Amazon and you know what they're really using AWS for is a couple of different things on the Cloud Front side, it's to deliver Thursday night football. Amazon already does live football. They kicked off the Premier League a what, two days ago? Three days ago from when we're talking now. So Amazon obviously has expertise in live streaming. The Premier League went off well with no major hitches. Dan Rayburn: 08:01 You did have some users complaining about latency, but that wasn't a problem Amazon was trying to fix just like we saw with the past Superbowl. That wasn't something where they were like, okay, we want to get latency to the same as broadcast. That was not the goal. So I don't see that as a problem. So they're using AWS for video workflows, editing and graphic storage, but also for this new product AWS calls Local Zone that puts cloud computing hardware closer to the edge and the edge is a broad term. Netflix has also signed on to be one of one of the first customers for this new AWS Local Zone service as well. So, it's super important, you know, we as consumers, we all want a good quality service and we expect it and now we're paying for it. So today this is big business. We have tens of billions of dollars at stake. This stuff has to work. It has to be right. And there is a lot of pressure on these new conglomerates to make sure that the video workflows, they're building out work properly because it is truly the future of their business. Dror Gill: 08:58 We're done with experimenting. Now we need to show the money. Dan Rayburn: 09:01 That's right. And you're spending a lot of money to do this. Look at how much money Disney's lost so far just on Hulu and then the acquisition of BAMTech. But they've already said to investors, here's one, we're going to make it back. Here's where we're going to become profitable. So you saw AT&T do that in their, in their HBO Dan Rayburn: 09:17 Max day. And NBC just announced they're going to have an investor day in January for Peacock. We're in a different era. Mark Donnigan: 09:22 Now for, you know, almost the first time, what is being done in engineering and R&D, can actually move a stock price. You know, meaning that the decisions that are made, whether that's technology choices, um, you know, codecs, certain stacks, architectures... If It doesn't work, like the stock is gonna move. And when the stock moves, it has the attention of everyone, you know, up until this point, you know? Yeah. The tech blogs, you know, would, would "dis a service" for an outage or for, you know, poor quality or you know, so yes it would get coverage but it never moved a stock price. You know? Or maybe there was a one day blip and you know, but, but basically it was kind of a non-event. Now that is no longer the case. Right? Dan Rayburn: 10:13 The bottom line is you have to think about profitability. And it's interesting that we're talking about this at a time when, if you think about Uber and WeWork, and some of these other services, what are investors clamoring for now? Profits, forget all this Amazon model of getting big, fast and burn as much money as possible. Thank God we seem to be getting out of that from a investment standpoint right now and in the streaming space, even more so also, look who's getting into the space? AT&T I think right now is the most heavily indebted US company right now. I mean it's insane how much debt that they have. So you also have companies, some of these that are already very deeply in debt that investors want to see anything new that they get into where they're spending billions of dollars to do it. They better turn a profit pretty quickly. Dror Gill: 11:03 But, but uh, Dan, let's look at the other side of the coin. A company that has tons of money, um, in the, in the bank and now they need to find some creative ways to use it in order to get those profits, uh, coming in again. And of course we're talking about Apple. Um, after selling a, you know, so many devices and now they, they've realized that services would be a much larger part of their revenues moving forward. So they, they really in a, in a spending mode and uh, the real question is will they be successful in catching up to the existing services and competing with all this new stuff that is coming out? Dan Rayburn: 11:47 Well, see I don't think they have to catch up though. That's the difference cause their, their business model is different. That's the other thing is people don't look at the business model of these services. You know, if you think about Apple services revenue, it was twelve and a half billion dollars, um, in the last quarter, which is pretty amazing. Their services business grew 13% year over year, so they're certainly doing a good job there. And Apple TV Plus, you know, the whole deal of that is just drive more usage on Apple's platform and services. But the unique thing with Apple of course is, well they own the hardware as we know, but they also own the OS. They own the browser, they own the store, they own the entire ecosystem. What does Netflix own? They don't own anything except content, right? So it's two different business models and everybody throws these, these folks in together and people go, Apple didn't have a successful launch. Dan Rayburn: 12:38 Well they did. They weren't trying to license back catalog. They weren't trying to launch with a hundred shows. That wasn't the goal of their platform because they're driving revenue in different ways. So it's the same way right now that Roku doesn't make a lot of money on their hardware, their seeding it out in the market to obviously drive the advertising business and the Roku channel, you know, the platform business. And Amazon pushing out Amazon fire TVs is what, $20 on black Friday for those sticks. They're not making much money in that either. So I think it's always bad when you see all these services compared to one another in the media and this horrible term streaming war because it's not a war- hate that term. Uh, and a lot of these services are not competing with one another. They don't see each other as competition. Apple is not trying to do the same business model as a Netflix, nor do they need to because it's a different type of company. Mark Donnigan: 13:31 It's excellent you brought up Roku. I'm looking at their Q3 numbers. They just came out like three weeks ago, um, or early November, I believe. And they're advertising revenue for the period was just under 180 million, 179.3 million. It was up 79% from the previous year's quarter, almost double and their device revenue was up 11% so that's good. But it was 81 million. So the point is their advertising was more than double their device revenue, you know, and their, and their numbers are showing on the advertising platform side, you know, just tremendous growth. And of course that's ultimately what they're really reporting around. I mean, yes, their device revenues are significant enough, you know, they're reporting that. Dan Rayburn: 14:22 Yeah, they shifted their business model. Right. I mean Anthony was smart. Keep in mind, Anthony came out of, came out of Netflix, that's where the Roku was born. Yeah, it was incubated there. Initially. Right. And that's where they got some of the money from and, and they realized longterm, I'd say two things were really smart. In the beginning Roku realized Netflix realized they didn't want to be invested in any one hardware company because then they couldn't be Switzerland. They couldn't be neutral. So that was smart to diverse, diversify from the Roku investment that they have. But then Roku also realized, they were smart to realize the writing on the wall here, you're not going to compete longterm on the hardware side. Hardware pricing always gets pushed down and back then if you remember all the different devices, I mean at one point we had 20 different streaming players in the market. Dan Rayburn: 15:03 It was ridiculous how many were out there. Even Vizio had one. Uh, but then really, I think what changed was when Amazon came into the market. Because we all know Amazon pushes pricing, pricing down on everything and we're, we're at a point soon of where I, I, this isn't official, Amazon hasn't told me this, but I will pretty much bet anything that at some point you're going to sign up for prime and you're going to get a stick for free because at $19 now on black Friday, this thing is getting close to being free. And if you're in the hardware business, do you want to be competing with Amazon on something like that? Absolutely not. So Roku realized that Roku had to become not a hardware device, but a platform. And the key thing there was obviously them getting their platform into smart TVs and especially a lot of smart TVs that are not the high end ones, not that TCL, doesn't make some good "high-ender" TVs. Dan Rayburn: 15:54 But you know, the average Roku enabled TV that's being sold is probably $300. Hisense, TCL, some of the others. So they're getting more of them out there. And, and that's really what Roku has become is that platform and their, their latest acquisition of Dataxu. You know, that's interesting because that is a platform that basically will allow Roku advertisers to better plan and optimize their ad spend across TV and OTT providers. And, and that's really smart of Roku. Uh, because this is the future of the company. You're talking about a company that's doing over a billion dollars a year now, in 2019, if I remember that number correctly. So you have to think about how Roku can capture a larger share of the market because as well known as a brand that Roku is, they still have a very small percentage of total households in the U S when you look at the numbers of, they don't call it consumers anymore, devices. Dan Rayburn: 16:55 Um, you know, which is good because like I have a bunch of devices in my house, but I'm one person. So they're growing, but that's something that they have to continue to do. Their monthly active users has to continue to go up. But yeah, Roku is in a really interesting spot in that regard. Their, their stock is incredible in terms of how much volatility it has in any given day or week. Sometimes. Uh, I think the Roku channel is an interesting thing where, you know, they go out and they're starting, they start offering content for free just like Tubi and Pluto and you know, IMDB TV by Amazon and that market is getting very crowded. And frankly, I don't quite understand that market because the content on those platforms is just so old and outdated. I really don't know who's clamoring to see Gilligan's Island. Mark Donnigan: 17:37 Well, Dan, so how should services be measured, you know, from a QoS standpoint? Dan Rayburn: 17:43 Uh, boy, that's a great question. Uh, I think first and foremost you have to look at what the methodology is. Methodology is the key for anything. So, you know, as an analyst, I don't frankly care about opinions so much. I care about data. I think companies should base how a service is doing, whether that's financially, whether it's technically, whether how it's scaling. They should base that on data because data can't be argued with really in most cases. Uh, so I, I think first and foremost is the methodology. And I think what you have to understand there is different companies have different ways of measuring performance. When I go out and do surveys to CDN customers on how they measure, some go, I care all about time to first frame or startup time. Others go, no, I only care about rebuffering. Some go, well, to me latency is most important. Dan Rayburn: 18:25 Well, none of those are more important than the other. It depends on who the customer is. And what their business model is. So as an industry we have to continue to think about these services as, as isolated services as opposed to every throwing everybody in this group of, Oh, you're a video service, you should measure your video quality this way. Not necessarily. So I think methodology first and foremost is most important. I think sharing that methodology is key as well. Uh, but, but I think you should always value a service based on quality over quantity. And we hear that a lot. The opposite of that in the advertising side where everybody talks about how many ads were delivered. But the question I always then ask is to a brand, would you rather deliver fewer ads and have a better viewing experience or do you just care about how many ads you pushed out there? Dan Rayburn: 19:16 And we have to think about that the same way on services that are not ad based. So I think what we obviously know from consumers from all these reports that we've seen, and frankly I don't think we need any more. I don't know why people keep pushing out more reports saying that if the video doesn't start up quickly, consumers are unhappy. Yeah, thanks. We know that. I think measuring quality has to first and foremost come down to what is the experience that you want a consumer to have with your content. That's the first thing. Once you define that experience, now how do you actually decide how to achieve that? Well, there's different ways to do that. We know that some of the basic ones are startup time. We know that customers get frustrated when something takes long to start. We also know rebuffering is a huge issue as well, which is obviously why we use adaptive bit rate encoding hopefully to relieve those issues. Dan Rayburn: 20:03 But it's interesting when you look online you don't see a lot of complaints honestly around rebuffering you see more with just initial startup time, but the biggest complaint you see actually doesn't have to do with the video. It has to do with just getting to the video. So you're having all these other issues in the stack before it actually gets to delivering the video bits and those are the things that really have to be solved. Those are the things that really have to be scaled because scaling the video is not that hard for someone like Disney Plus. Disney Plus launches that day, let's say it was 10 million actual individual subscribers and let's say they were all watching at the same time, 10 million streams across the five CDNs that Disney was using. That's not a big deal at all. It's 2 million streams a CDN, that's nothing. That's not hard, so people always think it's the CDN. Dan Rayburn: 20:56 I think when you're determining quality first and foremost you have to have a good understanding internally at your company, what you think good quality is to you for your service based on your business model, based on your consumers and also based on the type of device they're watching on is the vast majority of your content on mobile. And the reason I say that is as an example, when Quibi comes out next year, it's a hundred percent mobile focused. Do you think their methodology to measure quality should be the same as a Netflix? Because we know everything's going to be viewed on a small screen in short form content for Quibi. It's a different way to measure. I think there's lots of good services out there to help you measure there. There's, there's newer ones coming to the market in terms of what's being measured. You've got services that are measuring how well API's are doing versus how well streaming servers are doing versus ad servers and ad platforms and exchanges. Dan Rayburn: 21:43 And then you think of their traditional stuff that's been out there in terms of telcos and carriers, last mile providers, how they're doing transit providers. When you put all that together, it gives you a much better holistic view of what QoS looks like across the internet from end to end, from glass to delivery. Uh, but we still have a ways to go in terms of really showcasing that. And unfortunately none of these companies after the fact ever share any sort of methodology and they don't ever share any kind of numbers. You know, I worked on those Superbowl was CBS this year and I can't talk to the, you know, the numbers. I know, but you know, it's too bad. CBS doesn't put out from their Conviva dashboard and Mux and all the other services being used here was the rebuffering rate because you know what, it was really, really, really low. Like why not put that out? It shows a great quality service. Mark Donnigan: 22:32 You made a good point earlier that it's very interesting that now, all these big companies are actually staging investor days, or investor conferences around their services, which is like has never happened previously. I wonder if this methodology is going to begin to make it in, you know, to some of the public disclosures, you know, in some way? Dan Rayburn: 22:55 Sounds great. But, come on, if you deal with investors, you know that you start talking even bit rate calculations with them and they can't figure it out. Right? I mean, so no, investors aren't worried about that stuff. They don't understand it. Um, I mean it's amazing how many people just just on LinkedIn alone, let alone the media, was comparing the success of Disney Plus based on the metric of when Netflix launched and it just, it boggles your mind, right? Because I stuck up on LinkedIn just real quickly, and this is all factual information you can easily look up, which you know, the media doesn't want to do. The year Netflix launched, there was only 34 million iPhones in the market. That's it. Now, smart TVs didn't exist at all. And two years later, in 2012, only 12 million were connected to the internet. And at the end of the first year of Netflix, Apple had sold 7.5 million tablets. So now you're going to compare Disney Plus launching in an era with over a billion iPhones alone and I don't know how many Apple iPads, smart TVs, and you're going to compare that and go, we've now deemed this a success because it's beaten something that launched nine years earlier. Yeah. The methodology is flawed, and forget bandwidth. I mean bandwidth back then compared to now. It's night and day. Mark Donnigan: 24:22 I was there. I was there in 2007 we were just launching VUDU and you know, on a dedicated set top box because that was the way that we could bring a guaranteed experience to the home. You know, it wasn't because, you know, VUDU wanted to be in the hardware business. Uh, and ultimately, you know, the company of course pivoted, you know, to an app on devices. But um, I can, I can remember having to think that that the average broadband capacity in the US in most markets was around two megabits. Dan Rayburn: 24:57 It was a different time, comparing something that long ago. But here's the biggest thing. The media doesn't write for accuracy like we talked about before. They write for one thing, headlines. So the moment you say this kills Netflix and this crushes Netflix or this did better than Netflix, what happens? People click on it because everybody's heard of Netflix. Cause the only way these guys make money is page views. So that's a whole different discussion. We're not going to get into, cause that's a whole different podcast. But the entire model for news on the internet is broken. And has been broken for years. When, it's based on just here's how many page views you have. So let's cram out more articles that are 800 words or less instead of actually telling us. Mark Donnigan: 25:38 So I think it's a interesting, you know, to talk about devices and since we are talking a little bit about history now, you know, there was a time where it was really critical that you got your service on a device and I'm kind of, you know, using "air quotes" there. Um, because if you were on a device that was widely sold, then you, you know, you had, um, you had an ecosystem you're a part of now with SDKs and API APIs and, and it's far more ubiquitous, you know, HTML5 apps and things like that, you know, with the app stores being clearly defined. Um, you know, basically you need to be in the, uh, Apple app store. You know, you need to be in the Google, uh, store, you know, for Android. Um, you need to be on about half a dozen connected TV platforms and then Roku and you've covered like 99% of the market. Right. Um, so what's your perspective of, you know, even like Nvidia launching, you know, the, Shield TV. Dan Rayburn: 26:43 And you know, just the role of devices. What are you, um, uh, you know, what are you seeing there? Well, you know, I think over time devices play less of an important role. And the only reason I say that is to your point, it's really about the platform now and it's about ecosystems and people pick certain devices or services because I'm already in the Apple ecosystem already. And the Android ecosystem, I already have a, you know, an Xbox one. Typically people who have an Xbox one is they're not going to then go out and buy a PS4 just because of a new service. So what we've seen over the years is no longer have services launched with exclusives on platforms. Like we saw when HBO Now launched, it was only available for the first 90 days on Apple TV. That's actually a disservice to the service. Dan Rayburn: 27:28 It's getting in fewer people's hands. So I think the devices we have in the market, I don't see that changing at all. Right. I think you have the major devices between Xbox, PlayStation, Chromecast, Apple TV, Roku, Amazon. Uh, who am I missing? Those are the seven major ones. I look at something like the Shield TV, which now has two new models from Nvidia, which I've, I've tested and played with. Yeah, it's a good device cause it's super fast. And the fact that it's built on Android, you know, you, you can go in there and you can install a Plex server on it, which works really well. It's a great device for Plex media server. Uh, but who's the video really targeting with the device? It's $200. Dror Gill: 28:09 People who like a nice design. I mean look at the shield TV. It's a cylinder shape. It looks exactly like the Roku Sound Bridge come to think of it. Dan Rayburn: 28:18 So the lower end model does, that's the one that's $149, the $199 model, which has storage in it and two USB ports. The original one you're talking about has no USB port, so you can't add additional storage, which is kind of a problem. Uh, you know, $200. Your really targeting the person who wants to build something at home. The enthusiasts, right? That's who you're targeting. I think that's great. Like there's nothing wrong with that, but I, you know, I questioned like, is that Nvidia's core business? No, it's not. But since they're making the chip inside, I get it. Their cost to produce that hardware is probably much cheaper than others because they're not paying for the chips since they own it. Um, but I don't think the hardware changes going forward. I, I do think we've seen an amazing amount of progress with smart TVs over the last five or six years. Dan Rayburn: 29:04 They actually work. Um, if you remember five or six years ago, you never wanted to launch an app on your smart TV cause you didn't know how long it would take a load. Now they work really well. They're pretty seamless. I mean, the new LG device that I just got the remote's really well thought out. It's smart. Uh, it's clean and simple. There's not a lot of bloatware on it. That's the other thing is a lot of these smart TVs used to have so much bloatware, especially Samsung, they've gotten much better at reducing that with removing what used to be mandatory ads. So I think the smart TV has gotten much better there. And I think for a lot of people that continues to be a device that grows down the line because it's all integrated into one. And that's also part of the, the reason Amazon came out with the cube and now the second generation cube, you know, really cool device that is voice-based and will automatically, when you say turn on Hulu, will know how to change your input know how to turn on your TV. It can also control your lights. We're starting to see more streaming services on these platforms that are being combined into the connected home. Dror Gill: 30:05 Right. And you see this with a, with Nvidia shield TV, right? It connects to your, uh, um, uh, nest to the Phillips Hue, to Netgear, all of that. Dan Rayburn: 30:14 I think that that's the future where some of this is going is they're no longer these companies and platforms and no longer looking at streaming services as an isolated service. It's one of multiple services in your house. It provides entertainment or lighting or something of that nature. And the Cube is a really cool device. I've spent a lot of time with the Cube. Um, we recently at the NAB streaming summit in October, we had one of the executives on stage doing a fireside chat with me. Really talking about the technology that went into it. And audio is really hard and I don't think people understand in the audio side just how hard it is to do things on the voice side and actually have it work on the back end and have it worked quickly and in real time. Uh, I would say right now Amazon is by far leading the market when it comes to the technology that they have for voice enabled applications. And you see that with the Cube, especially from first gen, the second gen, and on black Friday the price was down to $90. What do you think is going to be next year? Right. It's probably going to be 70 bucks, you know, just keep dropping. So yeah, I think that's pretty neat to see in our industry, just how streaming is now thought of as a one of many things in the home that we're using for entertainment. Yeah. Dror Gill: 31:24 And, and people are using voice actually they got used to talking to their devices? Dan Rayburn: 31:28 Well, from what we're hearing and the data we've been given. Dan Rayburn: 31:30 Hulu at the show said that uh, people who were using voice to find content tied into Amazon's products were watching 40% more Hulu and it makes sense because people know how to use their voice and they know what to say. When you're doing a search in, um, one of these services, do you put in the title? If the title is not perfect, what you put in, do you still get the right results? Many times? No. Whereas with your voice, it's much more natural in terms of how you're going to search for content. Dror Gill: 32:00 The LG remote, you mentioned earlier, it has like a single button. Then you talk to the remote and it automatically searches on all the applications that you haven't stalled on the TV and finds the content very simple. Dan Rayburn: 32:12 Also, if you don't want to do that, the pointer system's very simple. If you don't instead want to have to type stuff in, they give you flexible options, which I like as consumers, we will all want options and I think options are good. The downside to options obviously is too much choice, too much confusion, not sure what the business model is. And that's why a lot of consumers are going to jump amongst these services in 2020 because when you can try them for a week or 30 days, why wouldn't you? Mark Donnigan: 32:38 Well, Dan, I know you were telling us before we started recording about something really exciting you're doing at the NAB show, um, around devices. So, um, why don't you tell us, you know, what you got planned. Dan Rayburn: 32:52 Yeah. So this, this is pretty cool. Um, and we're going to have some, we're going to have some information on the website up pretty soon and you'll see me announce it sort of everywhere. Dan Rayburn: 32:59 But one of the problems I've always seen at conferences talking about our industry is we're all there talking about video, but nobody is showing it. We're talking about devices, but nobody's getting hands on with them. Nobody can see these platforms in action. And the three of us on the phone, we eat, sleep and breathe this industry. So we see all this stuff. We use all this stuff, but we're not the average consumer. We're not the average industry participant. So my idea here was the NAB show is, is the largest collection of people in the video world. Maybe not all streaming, obviously a lot of traditional broadcast, but those are the people we actually have to educate even more than people in our industry. So what we're going to do in April is for anybody who walked into the North hall lobby, if you remember, there wasn't really much in the North hall lobby. Dan Rayburn: 33:45 There's some little booths and some other things. Well, we're going to take over the North hall lobby and we're going to call it the streaming experience. And we're building out 12 living room style, uh, seating with large screen TVs. And every single TV in all 12 locations is going to be XBox, PS4, Apple TV, Chromecast, Roku, uh, what did I forget? It's basically gonna be every hardware device in the market today of the seven that we talked about earlier. And then on each one of those, there's going to be 50 different OTT platforms that you can test and these will be pay services, these will be AVOD services, these will be authenticated services. Think like a CBS sports or something like that. And any attendee to the NAB show can walk right in and say, you know, I really wanted to see what Netflix, HDR looks like here compared to you know, Amazon HDR or I want to see what bundling of content looks like. Dan Rayburn: 34:41 I want to see what UI and UX is compared to these services. I want to see how the ad supported services are doing pre-roll. I want to see what live sporting personalization looks like. I want to actually test an Amazon Cube and see how good it is in terms of understanding voice recognition. So we're calling it the streaming experience. We're going to have it out for three days. It's going to be a place where people can also just come to get questions answered about these platforms. I'm going to personally have my folks manning every single one of the stations. Uh, and in addition we're going to be giving away every single piece of hardware that we are installing during the event. We're going to be giving that away after. So, it's about $10,000 in gear, not including the TVs, which those are rentals, but everything else, uh, that we're buying, we're going to be giving away. Dan Rayburn: 35:33 So you're going to be able to get into some amazing raffles, some really good gear. And then in addition to that, we are also going to have a location in the middle of that area. The streaming pavilion, Oh, sorry. Streaming experience where you're going to be able to also test these streaming services on phones and tablets. Oh, that is awesome. And because we have to bring that experience in as well we can't only think large screen and if all works out, hopefully we might even have 5G demos. So these services working across 5G. So think of every service in the market, you know, all the live linear services, the on demand services, the free services, the authenticated services. I basically challenged people to come to the streaming experience and find a service that we don't have on on those devices and we'll have, we will have services from other countries. Dan Rayburn: 36:26 It's not just going to be the US I won't have everything. Obviously there's, there's some of these services that only work based on certain geo-fencing and certain locations. But we also already have some OTT providers who were saying, Hey, we're going to give you special accounts so that the services work for you as a demo even if it's not available in that region. So we have a lot of OTT companies that are working with us. We've got some that are partnering with us on a sponsorship level to really promote the service. And the other thing we're going to do is for the companies that really wants some feedback, we're going to have a, an attendee who comes up and let's say they use Hulu's service for a couple minutes and then they walk away before they walk away. We're going to say, Hey, fill out this quick card that has five questions on it. Dan Rayburn: 37:09 Would you buy this feature functionality? And then we're going to dump all that data back to the OTT platforms. Because now they're going to collect thousands, hopefully of real world feedback from customers who are using the service or thinking about using the service. So we want this to become a focal point for the show where people can come and just talk about these services, see them, compare them, test them. Win Some of this product, uh, get your questions answered. And then also use it as a way to collect data for the industry to share with the platform providers what is actually taking place. So I don't know of any other show that's doing it. It's something that I've been wanting to do for quite some time at this size and scale. And when you have the NAB behind it and once they start promoting it and we've got dedicated bandwidth for it. Dan Rayburn: 37:55 So we're making sure the experience is really good and I'm curating the entire thing so I am going to make sure everything works beforehand. We're there days in advance, I've already bought all the devices for the, for the event for months prior, right were we had them like it's about 2,600 accounts you have to set up across all the devices. It's a big undertaking. This is, this is serious, but it's going to be a good as we're calling it experience. So whether you're in the advertising market and you want to see what ads look like or you're in the compression business and you want to look at artifacting from one service to another, you want to look at 4K and lighting and HDR. You want to come. I think UI and UX is super important. So all those people that come to the NAB show that are doing design or creative UI and UX will come compare how they work and work between mobile and larger screen. So really whatever industry you're in and the NAB gets a lot of different people from different verticals and industries and regions of the world, this is going to be relevant to you in some way, shape or form and you're going to be able to see it free of charge. Dror Gill: 38:59 This really sounds amazing Dan. It's kind of a combination of a, of a playground that everybody wants to play with and also a way to experience, uh, all of this tests, right? And, and the way to experience a lot of things that you don't have access to because nobody can buy all of that gear and get access to all of those services at the same time. So you can really come in and experiment and see video quality as you said, UX, advertising, integration, everything. And also be able to talk to people who are, who are experts in this and can walk you through it. And the fact that you're feeding back the information and the comments from, uh, from the visitors, you know, back to the services is, is really a great service to the industry because then you can finally get those comments and uh, and information back. Dan Rayburn: 39:49 And we're also going to share it with the industry as a whole. We're definitely going to share here are some of the highlights we've seen from what consumers have been saying. And the other way I'm looking at this too is it educates two other portions of the market that are really important. It educates the media because now it's going to happen is when somebody wants to do an interview with Hulu who speaking at the show and you know, wants to talk about the platform. Somebody from Hulu is going to be able to walk them to the streaming experience and actually show it to them, which means hopefully they actually get the coverage accurate. So it's really important that the media sees the stuff. And second, the other market that we have at the show is investors. There's a lot of investors at the NAB show, institutional investors, and they don't get to see this stuff. Dan Rayburn: 40:29 So when they're making predictions about stock and about revenue and loss and capex and OPEX and all these other things that they use to determine success or failure of companies, the best way to do that is to actually see the product in action. So now you're also going to have investors who are going to be able to get hands on with this stuff even from a high level, which is going to benefit them. So I think overall it just benefits the industry. It benefits the platform providers, the consumers, the media, the investors. Those are really the five vertical markets that I'm trying to target. Dror Gill: 40:57 We need something like this. Um, you know, as an installation permanently somewhere. Dan Rayburn: 41:02 Yeah, maybe. I mean, I'm doing this with the NAB and that's, that's the exclusive, you know, group I'm working with now. I'm certainly not going to bring this to other conferences, but this is something that you're going to see now moving forward at NAB show in Vegas for sure. New York is much more difficult to do this only because of unions, some other, some other rules around that. But, uh, in Vegas, this is, you know, this is DnaB also planting a stake in the ground going, listen, you know, last year you walked into the North hall lobby and it was still so much of a focus on broadcast and traditional TV. Well, users are in for a, you know, wake up when they walk in this time and go, wow, what is all this streaming stuff? Mark Donnigan: 41:38 This is an amazing service that you're providing Dan. Uh, and we're gonna promote it and encourage everyone, uh, you know, our customers and those that are in, you know, in our sphere of influence, uh, to check it out, you know, really, cause this is, this is amazing. Dan Rayburn: 41:52 I'm excited for it. It's a lot of work and it's a huge undertaking. It is a lot of work. Yeah. It scares me at times. Just cause to do it right. It's, it's a lot of work. Um, but I'm going to have a good, I'm going to have a good team. I'm going to be flying in some, uh, some of my buddies from the special operations community who are, who are tech guys and they're, they're going to come help me in the booth and whatnot. And, uh, it's, it's going to be a good three days. Well, Mark Donnigan: 42:18 Dan, uh, this is, uh, you've been yet another amazing interview. Thank you so much for coming on the video insiders. Dan Rayburn: 42:26 Thank you for having me again. As you know, I can talk all day about this stuff. So it's a good thing you have to edit this down into something shorter. Mark Donnigan: 42:30 The next time we have you on, uh, I think, uh, will time, the timing will be good with some new, uh, things you have going. Dan Rayburn: 42:41 There'll be some other new things in the new year that I can't talk about now, but yeah, yeah. The, the, the idea of wanting to inform the market more and providing more resources for the community. That's, that's something that's coming up. Dror Gill: 42:51 Great. So thanks again. Thanks again for joining us today. Dan Rayburn: 42:54 Thank you guys. Announcer: 42:55 Thank you for listening to The Video Insiders podcast. A production of Beamr Imaging, Ltd. To begin using Beamr's codecs today, go to beamr.com/free to receive up to 100 hours of no cost HEVC and H.264 transcoding every month.

John Carter, CEO Noah Basketball discusses the latest innovation around shot tracking as teams ramp up their data analytics. Bruce Hamburger is the Associate Head Coach at Farleigh Dickinson where mid size programs try to use video technology to keep up with the bluebloods. Eric Prisbell from Sports Business Journal talks about the MLB decision to move away from their BAMTech platform. 

Our guest is Stadium CEO Jason Coyle a network that is growing in popularity by the day. Stadium is a Chicago based 24/7 sports network that has a very impressive group of partners. Silver Chalice, Sinclair Broadcast Group, BAMTech, the NHL, the PGA TOUR, and Meredith Corp have invested in the network.Stadium, ( www.watchstadium.com ) can be found free on over the air television as well on a number of free streaming services Pluto TV, The Roku Channel, STIRR, also via FireTV, Apple TV Chromecast, XBOX Sling TV with more to come. Plus, you can download their Stadium app, the Stirr app along with the Pluto TV app at either the App Store or Google Play so you can take them with you anywhere. Promotional consideration for Stream On with Jim Williams comes from Boom Media. For all of your streaming media needs, they have you covered. It does not matter if you are just cutting the cord and need some hand-holding they have what you need.If you need assistance picking the right streaming box or stick that meets your needs they will help. Looking for the best live streaming service at the lowest price? Consider it done!Meanwhile, if you are an old hand at streaming they got you covered as well! Check them out at boommedia.org for all of your streaming video needs. Have questions or comments? No problem just ask away on social media Twitter @JWMediaDC Instagram – Jimwilliams200 and email at jimwilliamsmedia@gmail.com

There wasn't a lot of direct movie news this week. Most of the news revolved around Disney as a corporation. Still, there is plenty to chew on as Redbox responded to Disney's lawsuit over copyright infringement. Also, the Disney Board will no longer have representatives from Facebook and Twitter due to conflicts of interests. On the Star Wars front, we realized we have four months left until Solo: A Star Wars Story and we have yet to see a poster or a teaser. This begs the question, does Star Wars actually needs marketing? Redbox Responds To Disney's Lawsuit Back in Episode 159 -- when we briefly discussed Disney's lawsuit against Redbox -- this seemed like an open and shut case. Redbox was buying Disney Blu-Rays and DVD's and offering the accompanying digital download codes at a significant discount. Redbox does not have a distribution agreement with Disney. so it is forced to buy the movies to fill its kiosks. The download codes are just a bonus. Disney sued in December to stop Redbox. The suit said Redbox is violating the terms of sale of the combo packs, which usually include a warning that “Codes are not for sale or transfer.” Case closed, right? Not even close. Redbox Strikes Back Redbox struck back this week arguing that the codes should not be treated any differently than the physical discs. Redbox is entitled to distribute the DVD's and Blu-Rays just like Blockbuster, Hollywood Video and any other video rental business was. But the real power in Redbox's argument comes with the “first sale doctrine.” This states that a copyright owner cannot prohibit a purchaser from reselling a copy of a work, such as a used book. Redbox argues that customers are simply redeeming the copy of the film that has already been sold to Redbox - a copy that Redbox says it can do whatever it wants with. Redbox also says it can't be overlooked that Disney is starting its own streaming service that will contain many of the movies Redbox is selling. It's a very strong argument and could form a precedent for the way digital files are treated. I recently cleaned out some of DVDs and plan to donate them to a used bookstore, but there are no (legal) used bookstores for internet movies. If someone gets me a digital copy of The Good Dinosaur, I just have to sit and endure it for the rest of time. What Could Go Wrong? As much as I want Redbox to win this lawsuit, the alternatives terrify. Disney could stop including digital download codes with its Blu-Rays and only provide digital copies through its new streaming service. It's not terribly likely, but it's also not terribly unlikely. Similar to Adobe, Disney could run its intellectual property off a subscription model, where the user is tied to the company and not the product. Physical discs could become a thing of the past as Disney moves to put a stranglehold on your wallet. https://youtu.be/nDVNlhNZbWM Twitter, Facebook Out On Disney's Board Disney is tying up the loose ends in its business as it prepares to enter the world of streaming. It started this week with an announcement that Facebook Chief Operating Officer Sheryl Sandberg and Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey are stepping down from the Walt Disney Company's board of directors.  In a statement, Disney said, “Given our evolving business and the businesses Ms. Sandberg and Mr. Dorsey are in, it has become increasingly difficult for them to avoid conflicts relating to board matters.” Over the past few years, Twitter and Facebook have bid on and won the rights to stream live sporting events, which directly conflicts with ESPN and the BAMTech sports streaming network Disney will be launching this year. Securing the Future of BAMTech Speaking of which, Disney's BAMTech Media hired former Apple and Samsung executive Kevin Swint to launch the new service. Swint will serve as General Manager of the Video on Demand service and ultimately run the company's upcoming Netflix competitor. Most recently, Swint worked as VP product/content & services for Samsung and before that, he worked at Apple, heading the worldwide iTunes movie business. Swint has a large task ahead of him, but it's good to know that he is comfortable in the digital arena. His hiring also shows that Disney is struggling to find digital media expertise inside its own walls. That inexperience could rear its ugly head when the platform launches, but Disney is trying to get experience promoting a new network. Leaving YouTube to go to Twitch Disney is pulling four of its biggest creators from YouTube to give exclusive content to Twitch. The creator partners — Markiplier, Jacksepticeye, LuzuGames and Strawburry17 — are under a multiyear pact with Disney Digital Network. Each creator will broadcast live and create exclusive on-demand content. This is a good deal for Twitch because it gives them the firepower of Disney. Honestly, who even knows what Twitch is? For Disney, the net gain is much more subtle. They get a chance to extend the reach of digital talent beyond YouTube, sure. But they also get a chance to see what it takes to make a streaming network successful when it has a fraction of the size of YouTube. I imagine Disney will be taking copious amounts of notes that it can apply to its own streaming service when it launches in 2019. Does Disney Need to Market Star Wars? Consider these two facts. Solo: A Star Wars Story will be released in less than four months.  There hasn't been a public trailer or poster released for Solo: A Star Wars Story Despite all of the troubles for Solo - and there have been many - you'd think Lucasfilm would be able to come up with at least a one-line teaser that pairs old footage from Star Wars with one line by the new Han Solo, Alden Ehrenreich. Instead, all we have is a vague synopsis. Board the Millennium Falcon and journey to a galaxy far, far away in ‘Solo: A Star Wars Story,' an all-new adventure with the most beloved scoundrel in the galaxy. Through a series of daring escapades deep within a dark and dangerous criminal underworld, Han Solo meets his mighty future copilot Chewbacca and encounters the notorious gambler Lando Calrissian, in a journey that will set the course of one of the ‘Star Wars' saga's most unlikely heroes By this point in Rogue One's marketing cycle, we'd already had the first teaser trailer and poster, even though it had several rounds of reshoots.  Even with some critics providing a positive reception to early footage, Disney should be cautious on banking on a nostalgia that it destroyed in The Last Jedi. A Lesson From China What's more, Star Wars may be a much more American franchise than Disney might have hoped. The Last Jedi seriously bombed in China, becoming the worst-performing blockbuster in China since Disney's The Lone Ranger. (Coincidentally, The Lone Ranger has a higher score on Rotten Tomatoes, though there is no way The Last Jedi is worse than that pile of hot garbage). Roughly 10 percent of Chinese theaters have kicked Star Wars off their schedule after just a 15-day run. In an article from the South China Morning Post, cultural commentator Luo BeiBei summed the flop up to Disney being tone deaf on the Chinese culture. We are surfing on the same internet, but living in two completely different worlds,” she said. Disney and Lucasfilm may be displaying that same tone deafness with fans now. Solo is a nostalgia play. It needs the fans who built the franchise to make it successful. Younger moviegoers have plenty to see in 2018 including Avengers: Infinity War - which comes out three weeks before Solo - and Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom - which comes out two weeks after Solo. Both of those opening weekends will easily approach or eclipse $200 million. Disney will need to get its act together by the Super Bowl and move faster than the Millenium Falcon in the Kessel Run for Solo to have an outing that moves the needle. Fast Flicks Here are a few official synopses of upcoming filmes: Christopher Robin Christopher Robin is stuck in a job where he is overworked, underpaid and facing an uncertain future. He has a family of his own, but his work has become his life, leaving little time for his wife and daughter, and he has all but forgotten his idyllic childhood spent with a simple-minded, honey-loving stuffed bear and his friends. But when he is reunited with Winnie the Pooh, now tattered and soiled from years of hugs and play, a spark is rekindled, and he is reminded of the endless days of childlike wonder and make believe that defined his youth, when doing nothing could be considered something. Following an unfortunate mishap with Christopher Robin's briefcase, Pooh and the rest of the gang including Piglet, Eeyore and Tigger, step out of the forest and into London to return the crucial possessions…because best friends will always be there for you. “Disney's Christopher Robin” is directed by Golden Globe® nominee Marc Forster (“Finding Neverland”) and written by Oscar® winner Tom McCarthy (“Spotlight”), Alex Ross Perry (“Golden Exits”) and Oscar nominee Allison Schroeder (“Hidden Figures”) based on characters created by A.A. Milne. Incredibles 2 Everyone's favorite family of superheroes is back in "Incredibles 2" – but this time Helen (voice of Holly Hunter) is in the spotlight, leaving Bob (voice of Craig T. Nelson) at home with Violet (voice of Sarah Vowell) and Dash (voice of Huck Milner) to navigate the day-to-day heroics of "normal" life/ It's a tough transition for every one, made tougher by the fact that the family is still unaware of baby Jack-Jack's emerging superpowers. When a new villain hatches a brilliant and dangerous plot, the family and Frozone (voice of Samuel L. Jackson) must find a way to work together again – which is easier said than done, even when they're all Incredible. Phallic Costuming in Ant-Man and The Wasp The internet is gonna do what the internet is gonna do. And recently the internet saw the costume of The Wasp in Ant-Man and The Wasp and thought it looked like a penis. Personally, it looks like every other super heroin costume I've ever seen. I can see what they are talking about, but I doubt it deserves the attention it's getting. Take a look for yourself below or click the play button listen to this week's Podcast to get our thoughts on all this week's news. Did nobody notice this when they were designing Wasp? pic.twitter.com/Rd669maE8P — Nicholas Levi (@NicholasJLevi) January 17, 2018

00:02:37 EsportsGuy Intro 00:06:02 ESPN+ & BAMTech 00:16:10 How to call in 00:18:20 More EsportsGuy 00:20:28 Cons: Needed Esports Degrees 00:26:04 Sushi: Can NA Split into Regions 00:38:55 Scar94: Communicating with non-endemic sponsors 00:53:30 OmenByHP 00:57:50 Izento: ESPN+ should make a noob friendly stream 01:19:34 supicasupica: sponsorship money going to franchises 01:33:55 qazaqwert: Clash Crash 01:49:26 galbatorix93: TL will do well at Worlds 02:01:23 Outro Thanks for watching Hotline League and supporting our sponsor! Follow OMENbyHP: http://twitter.com/omenbyhp Support Travis: http://travisgafford.com/support Patreon: http://patreon.com/travisgafford

In episode 056 of the Pixar Post Podcast, we discuss Disney's additional stake in BAMtech, Cars 3 box office results, Coco news, and much more. Listen to the Podcast using the player embedded below or direct on YouTube. Be sure to subscribe and enjoy directly on iTunes, Stitcher, or Overcast. SHOW NOTES: Kicking off the show we start with some Pixar trivia — asking, what are the similarities between WALL-E and R2-D2 from Star Wars. Disney Streaming — we dive into the we news of Disney purchasing additional stake in the company, BAMtech. We talk about what this means for the Netflix deal Disney signed a few years ago and how it fits into the overall streaming arena. Cars 3 Box Office — We talk about the somewhat perplexing box office numbers for the film — we look at our website statistics, Rotten Tomatoes ratings, comparisons to Cars and Cars 2, and an article from Variety which talks about the summer box office slump overall.  Cars 3 Blu-ray — We also discuss the home release for the film and look at what we believe may be the DVD & Blu-ray cover art as well as talk about the release date possibilities. Coco Press Teaser — Although Julie doesn't share any details, we discuss her time visiting Pixar for the recent press event to cover the film. Coco international trailer and TV Spot — We talk through the wonderful Spanish trailer for the film as well as the 30-second TV advertisement. Between the two, there are some great new moments of footage and we discuss them both. Coco release dates & books — We talk about why we love the fact that the film is being released in Mexico before the U.S., and which of the upcoming books (as highlighted in our post), we're excited for the most (hint, it's the "Art of" and "Family Tree" books). SIGGRAPH — we also note that a forum user who was at SIGGRAPH is really eager to chat about his excitement towards Smash and Grab (a film tied to Pixar's experimental short program). If you were there, let us know in the forum. Be sure to let us know your thoughts on the podcast by leaving a comment on iTunes, writing a comment below or sending us an email — we'd love to hear from you. Pixar Post - T.J. & Julie

It's Time D-Heads! This week we go into our imagination and talk to invisible friends on the Disney Sunday Movie as we welcome JOE REGALBUTO (Disney's Fuzzbucket, Murphy Brown, Street Hawk, Actor, Director of Wizards of Waverly Place) to the show! Joe stops in and talks about the Disney Sunday Movie Fuzzbucket, his time on Murphy Brown, the short lived Street Hawk, Directing TV Shows and so much more! In addition no show is complete without the D-Team and Domenic stops in with his Disney Short Leash to give you some tips and tricks for a quick Disney World Trip when you are short on time and money and you ask the questions and Erin has the answers in I Want To Know! We have Paige fresh from the Walt Disney World Resort with a symphony for your ears in the Magical Music Review and let's not forget a Blu-Ray, DVD, or Stream from The Vault with Jason! There is news fresh off the D-Wire with the latest news about Walt Disney World, The Grand Floridian Resort, Epcot, the International Food and Wine Festival, Figment, Captain Phasma, Marvel Comics, Bug Juice, the Disney Channel, Netflix, BAMTech, Disney Online Streaming, the Haunted Mansion and more! So it's time to Put on Your Ears, Give it a Little Bibbidi Bobbidi Boo, and get ready to Relive the Magic, Memories and Appreciation from Your Lifetime of Disney with our New Kind of Disney Show!

It's Time D-Heads! This week we go into our imagination and talk to invisible friends on the Disney Sunday Movie as we welcome JOE REGALBUTO (Disney's Fuzzbucket, Murphy Brown, Street Hawk, Actor, Director of Wizards of Waverly Place) to the show! Joe stops in and talks about the Disney Sunday Movie Fuzzbucket, his time on Murphy Brown, the short lived Street Hawk, Directing TV Shows and so much more! In addition no show is complete without the D-Team and Domenic stops in with his Disney Short Leash to give you some tips and tricks for a quick Disney World Trip when you are short on time and money and you ask the questions and Erin has the answers in I Want To Know! We have Paige fresh from the Walt Disney World Resort with a symphony for your ears in the Magical Music Review and let's not forget a Blu-Ray, DVD, or Stream from The Vault with Jason! There is news fresh off the D-Wire with the latest news about Walt Disney World, The Grand Floridian Resort, Epcot, the International Food and Wine Festival, Figment, Captain Phasma, Marvel Comics, Bug Juice, the Disney Channel, Netflix, BAMTech, Disney Online Streaming, the Haunted Mansion and more! So it's time to Put on Your Ears, Give it a Little Bibbidi Bobbidi Boo, and get ready to Relive the Magic, Memories and Appreciation from Your Lifetime of Disney with our New Kind of Disney Show!

Tyler Dunne discusses the hottest topics in soccer in America and aboard. The biggest news is that Neymar moved from Barcelona to PSG for a whopping 265M American. Tyler talks about the MLS All Star Game and why it is needed. Bein Sports losing TV rights to a company called BAMTECH. USL season expansion, and Miami in the final stages of getting an MLS team.

On the heels of LionTree’s Private Company conference at the New York Stock Exchange, featuring the CEO’s of three unicorns (WeWork, Warby Parker, BAMTech), Alex Michael sits down with author and angel investor Jason Calacanis to get the inside scoop on his new book, “Angel: How to Invest in Technology Startups—Timeless Advice from an Angel Investor Who Turned $100,000 Into $100,000,000.” Hear about Calacanis’s biggest wins (and losses) and get tons of insight into technology investing. For more information and content from the show, follow us on Twitter and Instagram (@KindredCast). Please read before listening: www.liontree.com/podcast-notices.html

Bob Bowman, Major League Baseball's president of business and media, talks about the changing landscape of the game's audience, the challenge of courting millennials and how the league's experiment with a pay-one-price monthly pass seems to be working. He also talks about baseball's technology arm and why he can't get a decent meal in his office.  Bowman is charged with overseeing revenue-generating and media rights activities across MLB's array of assets, including MLB Advanced Media and MLB Network. Bowman created BamTech, a $3.5 billion spinoff one-third owned by The Walt Disney Company. Last year, The Sporting News named Bowman as the 14th most influential person in sports.

Gary Bettman has presided over the National Hockey League since 1993, making him the longest-tenured commissioner among the four major U.S. sports. He is the architect of the league's media strategy, which includes an ownership stake in BAMTech, the digital media company spun off by Major League Baseball. According to Forbes, NHL teams in 2016 were worth an average $517 million, which is about what Bill Foley paid to put an expansion team in Las Vegas. Bettman speaks with Bloomberg Business of Sports co-hosts Scott Soshnick and Michael Barr about the business of hockey, sitting out the Olympics and where, oh, where, will the New York Islanders call home.

Join the Acquired Limited Partner program! https://kimberlite.fm/acquired/ (works best on mobile)   Ben and David continue Acquired’s “tech and sports” mini-series with Disney’s 2016 acquisition of a minority stake (with the right to purchase a majority stake at a later date) in BAMTech, the internet streaming company originally founded as part of Major League Baseball in the early 2000’s. However the importance of this story goes deeper than just sports, with major ramifications for nearly every major technology company from Amazon to YouTube. Even if you’re not not sure if baseball’s played on a diamond or a gridiron, tune in as we swing for the fences in predicting the future of TV!    Topics covered include: What is BAMTech, and why is it, according to The Verge, "the future of television”? BAMTech’s origins as part of Major League Baseball's Advanced Media division ("MLBAM)”) MLBAM’s founding CEO Bob Bowman’s decidedly “non-tech” background, and growth into one of the most important tech leaders of the past 15 years Initial technology struggles and learnings from early streaming efforts (including a botched audio package of Ichiro Suzuki’s games with the Mariners for fans in Japan) Landing on a streaming model that works with the launch of MLB.tv in 2002/2003—three years before YouTube is founded!  Improvement of the MLB.tv service and MLBAM’s streaming expertise over the next ten years through the rise of mobile, and simultaneous growth of MLBAM’s revenues to over $1B annually MLBAM’s initial deals to expand its streaming services beyond baseball, starting with ESPN in 2010, then WWE, the PGA, HBO and the NHL The importance of media rights, and MLBAM’s transition from a simple tech/infrastructure provider to a full-fledged media company  The decision to initiate a spin-off process for BAMTech from MLB in August 2015, and Disney’s $1B investment into the newly created spin-out company in August 2016 Disney’s subsequent announcement that they’ll be working with BAMTech to create a direct-to-consumer ESPN streaming service BAMTech’s $300M deal with Riot Games in December 2016 for the media rights to League of Legends eSports content  Bob Bowman’s announcement in February 2017 that he’ll be stepping back to from a day to day role, and hiring of former Amazon VP of Video Michael Paull as BAMTech’s new CEO   Followups & Hot Takes: Facebook’s struggles with Instant Articles Microsoft killing Wunderlist (David is VERY sad) Instagram continues its torrid growth, passes 700M MAU Amazon’s new Look  The Cloudera IPO Confirmation the ride sharing wars are far from over: Didi raises $5.5B in the largest private funding round ever   The Carve Out: Ben: NYT’s 4th Down Bot David: Wait But Why on Elon Musk’s “Wizard Hat"

Ioris Francini is Co-President of agency giant WME | IMG. He joined IMG, the granddaddy of the sports agency world, in the early 2000s through its Trans World International events arm. In 2007, he was made Head of Sales for the EMEA region for IMG Media. By 2010, he had been made a Senior Vice President and Head of Sales worldwide at IMG Media, and in 2012 he was made an Executive Vice President with the added responsibility of heading up acquisitions, a not inconsiderable show of trust given the risk inherent in rights arbitrage. When the William Morris Endeavour (WME) agency bought IMG in December 2013, Francini was on the rise again, becoming president of IMG’s events and media division, before, last year, taking a new role as Co-President of the whole shebang. In a wide-ranging discussion, Francini covers: - Last year's acquisition of the UFC in a reported $4 billion deal. How will WME | IMG make a return? - How the decision-making process works at the global agency, between himself and the organisation's other Co-President, Mark Shapiro, and its high profile Co-CEOs, Ari Emanuel and Patrick Whitesell; - A new method for doing business in China: WME | IMG's 2.0 approach to the region; - OTT, Amazon, DAZN, and BAMTech; the blurring of the traditional media rights and distribution boundaries; and the unbalancing of an industry; - How the agency is progressing with its relationships in cycling, its commercial link-up with Giro d'Italia organiser RCS Sport, and its plans to re-engineer cycling's early season spring classics; - How WME | IMG shook up Euroleague basketball and reaped the rewards; - The rumours that WME | IMG is heading for an IPO.

Alex and Amanda turn again to the business of internet-distributed television to reflect on Amanda's refusal to say OTT, what moves by CBS with Star Trek: Discovery suggest about its strategy for CBS All-Access, ABC's launch of its own portal, Disney's big spend for a share of BAMTech, and a variety of Hulu news.

BAMTech currently provides the streaming infrastructure for the MLB, NHL, WWE, and even HBO -- Disney and ESPN will soon be the latest names to join that list. We also revisit the drama surrounding Viacom and the fight for control of the company.  

This week Magic Kingdom officially welcomes a new princess which could change everything for Disney royalty, Disney spends a billion dollars in an effort to fix its ESPN problem and no one seems to care. Now that the Olympics are over, we compare our favorite Olympians to Disney characters. For the week of August 22, this is episode 96 of the Disney Movie Review.   Here is princess Elena's "welcoming" ceremony. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9zWRVy6PaCs Check out more information about Disney's investment in BamTech http://www.cbsnews.com/news/disney-stock-could-get-some-zip-from-video-streaming/ Casting call for Avengers: Infinity Wars https://www.backstage.com/casting/128747/ Rumors that Iron Man may be in Dr. Strange. https://uk.movies.yahoo.com/doctor-strange-lego-set-contains-cool-iron-man-164950033.html No plans for a Guardians 3? http://www.ibtimes.com/guardians-galaxy-franchise-could-end-second-movie-director-james-gunn-says-2402822 More bad news for Pirates of the Caribbean 5 http://www.ibtimes.com.au/pirates-caribbean-5-fights-amber-heard-affected-johnny-depps-work-1525869   THANK YOU! Thank you for listening! There are a lot of ways you can spend your time, but you chose to spend time with me and I am very grateful for that. If you enjoyed today's show, please share it with your friends on your preferred social media site.   You can support The Disney Movie Review by buying a t-shirt at distshirts.com or better yet, submit a design on the site and we will split the profit with you 50/50. It's the easiest way to make sure I can keep delivering high quality content every week.   If you've listened to fewer than five episodes, welcome to Disney Movie Nation! If you like what you hear, visit the website to sign-up for our email list to get more Disney Movie News. If you aren't a fan, that's okay too. Find another podcast you love and support the content you love! Contact me: Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/DisneyMovieReview Twitter: @DSNYMovieReview Buy a shirt: www.distshirts.com

(Bloomberg) -- Taking Stock with Kathleen Hays and Pimm Fox. GUEST: Geetha Ranganathan, Bloomberg Intelligence Technology and Media Analyst, on Disney earnings.