CNNplus Dead, Netflix Category Hub, Hulu Outage, CMAF Comparison



	The Verge CNN Plus is Shutting Down Only a Month After it Launched
CNN Plus, the news network’s dedicated streaming service, is shutting down before even turning a month old.

	Media Netflix Launches a New Way to Find Shows with Its ‘Category Hub’ for TV Viewers
Netflix launches a new way to find shows with its ‘Category Hub’ for TV viewers1a_VideoIndustries•Media – TechCrunch / by Lauren Forristal / 15hSaved in1c_Content1a_Vi_Featured1t_Featuresz_DailyVideoNews1a_VideoIndustries1c_ProvidersToday, Netflix announced it is refreshing its TV interface with a new feature called the “Category Hub” in its TV app’s menu.This hub can be found in the left-hand me...

	Media HBO Max and HBO Gained 3 Million Subscribers in Q1 as Netflix Reports Subscriber Decline
The company said HBO Max and HBO ended March with total global subscribers of 76.8 million, up 12.8 million year-over-year, and up 3.0 million from the prior quarter. The declines in earnings at WarnerMedia reflect increase investments incurred in launching CNN+

	TVBEurope UK ‘Needs Another 6 Million Sq Ft of Production Space’ to Meet Demand
According to global real estate company Knight Frank, spending on UK film and television production rose from £2.85 billion in 2016 to £5.64 billion in 2021, a compound annual growth rate of 14.6 per cent.

	Featured Blogs · Forrester Nielsen in Crisis: Missteps At Nielsen Present an Opportunity for Advertisers
Nielsen was slow to improve its measurement solution to accommodate industry changes like shifts in consumer behaviors and the rise of emerging platforms.Nielsen had several massive miscalculations of its television performance metrics

	Variety Hulu Down: Users Report Widespread Problems Accessing Streaming Service
User reports of issues with Hulu began to spike around 8 p.m. ET, according to monitoring site Downdetector — with more than 57,000 complaints registered as of 8:21 p.m. ET. The problems were reported across the country

	TV News Check Scale Dictates Broadcasters’ IP Transition
“Many station groups, including big-market station groups, are realizing that their engineering team may not be up to the challenge of owning and running and managing an entire IT infrastructure for broadcast,” You have the cost of the infrastructure itself, and then you have the cost of training and acquiring new talent

	Touchstream Blog CMAF Vs HLS Vs Dash: How to Monitor All Formats in Streaming
The table below compares CMAF vs HLS vs Dash. It shows that most content publishers delivering to both modern and older devices (pre-2016 iPhones and Macs, for example) need multiple formats whether that’s because of chunk/segment approach (fMP4 vs. MPEG-TS) or encryption method.