Deloitte on Churn, NFL Streaming Service?, Neilsen Buyout, Serverless



	The Hollywood Reporter Streaming Subscriber Churn “Is Here to Stay,” Deloitte Survey Forecasts
According to Deloitte’s 2022 Digital Media Trends survey, the churn rate for streaming services in the U.S. has remain constant at 37 percent, with countries like the U.K., Germany, and Japan seeing about a 30 percent churn rate.

	The Athletic NFL Considers Creating a Streaming Service of Its Own
The NFL is developing a subscription streaming service that would include games, radio, podcasts and team content. The streaming service is nascent, and likely won’t be ready for an owners’ vote until the next meeting in May

	Variety Disney Plus Launch Dates, Pricing for 42 EMEA Countries
Disney Plus confirmed launch dates — and pricing — for 42 new countries and 11 territories across Europe, West Asia and Africa, continuing its phased rollout to span the globe.

	AdExchanger Why Nielsen’s $16B Buyout Could Give Rise to the Cross-Platform Measurement Buyers Crave
On Tuesday, the 99-year-old TV ratings giant announced an agreement to sell itself to a private equity consortium headed by Brookfield Business Partners and Evergreen Coast Capital Corp.

	nScreenMedia Testing the Boundaries of the Connected TV Platform Ecosystem
The boundaries of the connected TV (CTV) ecosystem continue to impact consumers, service providers, and consumer electronics companies. CNN+ and Sonos are both testing those boundaries and will fail to push them back.

	MESA The Future of Localisation: a Question of Standards?
Netflix’s new authoring format, Timed Text Authoring Lineage (TTAL), promises to streamline data exchange and file management for subtitling and dubbing. It’s a development that could have a transformative effect on the industry … but is it going to happen quickly?

	BBC Product & Technology BBC Online — A Year with Serverless
In the last 12 months we've been reimagining and innovating on our products and moved from our older technology platforms on to our new shared serverless platform called ‘WebCore’. We’re about 30% of our way through moving to this new platform. Despite this, the benefits of using a serverless platform are starting to show.