Technology

Roku is launching the Roku Sports Channel, a free ad-supported channel starting August 12, offering sports fans a comprehensive, always-on viewing experience. The channel will feature live and on-demand sports content, including MLB Sunday Leadoff games, live Formula E races,…

OpenAI has launched Sora, a generative AI video tool with 1080p video generation, multimodal prompting, and storyboard features. Included in ChatGPT Plus and Pro plans, Sora Turbo offers faster performance and integrates safety measures like metadata and watermarks.

Comscore now measures YouTube audiences across all digital devices in the U.S., including connected TVs. This enhancement, integrated directly with YouTube, is part of Comscore’s Video Metrix Multi-Platform product, allowing advertisers to better evaluate ad campaigns involving YouTube. Comscore plans…

Ampere Analysis reports that YouTube ranks second only to Disney in global non-sports content spending for 2024, with its total investment placing third overall, including sports rights. Forecasted to generate $35 billion in ad revenue, YouTube surpasses Disney+ and Prime…

Netflix is expanding its cloud gaming efforts by developing couch co-op and party games that will stream directly to TVs, according to co-CEO Greg Peters during the Q4 2024 earnings announcement. While no release date was provided, Peters described the…

Amazon Web Services (AWS) has named Julia White, former SAP and Microsoft Azure executive, as its new CMO, succeeding Raejeanne Skillern. The appointment comes amid leadership changes at AWS, which holds a 31% share of the global cloud services market…