An Analyst Has Crowned the King of Streaming Quality: Can You Guess Which Platform It Is?

An Analyst Has Crowned the King of Streaming Quality: Can You Guess Which Platform It Is?

As the streaming business has moved from a focus on subscriber growth to management teams touting the importance of profitability, the sector has also seen the rise of mentions of such quality-related measures as subscriber retention and “engagement.” “Engagement is critical to reducing churn, [which] might be the most significant opportunity we have,” new Disney…

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‘Off Campus’ Review: Amazon’s Hockey Romance Is No ‘Heated Rivalry,’ and That’s Mostly OK

‘Off Campus’ Review: Amazon’s Hockey Romance Is No ‘Heated Rivalry,’ and That’s Mostly OK

Does the saying “A rising tide lifts all boats” apply to subgenres of small-screen romance? Amazon surely hope so. As a romance involving a star hockey player with daddy issues, its new series Off Campus will be unable to avoid reflexive comparisons to Heated Rivalry — and, given the HBO drama’s lightning-in-a-bottle success, unlikely to…

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Amazon, Meta join fight to end Google Pay, PhonePe dominance in India

Amazon, Meta join fight to end Google Pay, PhonePe dominance in India

Amazon and Meta are among the big companies set to lobby India’s payments body over the dominance of Walmart-owned PhonePe and Google Pay in the country’s fast-growing instant payments network. Executives representing platforms including Amazon Pay, WhatsApp, CRED, MobiKwik, and Flipkart’s Super.money are scheduled to meet the National Payments Corporation of India on Thursday, TechCrunch…

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