Media Stories for 2022

Tumblr Is Launching a Livestreaming Feature 8
New Winamp Update Adds Features, Fixes, and (Sigh) Support For 'Music NFTs' 47
Zoom Shares Plunge 90% From Peak As Pandemic Boom Fades 75
Netflix Gives Account Holders the Ability To Kick Freeloaders 30
Disney+ Reaches 164.2 Million Subscribers, Prepares For Ad-Supported Tier Launch 30
Google Starts Real-World Testing Its Giant Video Chat Booths 20
CNN Accused of Rug Pull as It Abandons Its NFT Project 30
Hollywood and Netflix Report Top Piracy Threats To US Government 103
Spotify Acquires Company That Detects Harmful Content In Podcasts 104
Roku Will Now Work With Nielsen To Track Cross-Media Viewership 6
Better Than JPEG? Researcher Discovers That Stable Diffusion Can Compress Images 93
Netflix Is Building Its Own Game Studio 78
AV1 Update Reduces CPU Encoding Times By Up To 34 Percent 37
CIA Launches First Podcast, 'The Langley Files' 50
Google Wants To Take On Dolby With New Open Media Formats 56
Telegram Has a Serious Doxxing Problem 64
YouTube Targets TikTok With Revenue Sharing For Shorts, Partner Program Expansion 23
Asia's Richest Man To Buy Majority Stake in News Organization in 'Hostile' Takeover 9
VLC Media Player Banned In India 40
EU Antitrust Regulators Probing Tech Group AOM's Video Licensing Policy 15
YouTube and Uploaded Could Be Liable For Pirating Users, Court Rules 36
Supreme Court Blocks Texas Social Media Law 86
US Secretly Issued Subpoena To Access Reporter's Phone Records 89
Podcasting Will Be Worth $4 Billion By 2024 24
YouTube Kids Shows Videos Promoting Drug Culture, Firearms To Toddlers 79
North Koreans Are Jailbreaking Phones To Access Forbidden Media 23
Netflix's Subscriber Loss Has Destroyed Employee Morale 234
CNN's New Streaming Service, CNN Plus, Is Already Shutting Down 193
Netflix Rocked By Subscriber Loss, May Offer Cheaper Ad-Supported Plans 181
Chinese Hackers Abuse VLC Media Player To Launch Malware Loader 58
Stephen Wilhite, Creator of the GIF, Has Died 128
Vimeo's B2B Pivot Has Hit Patreon Users Particularly Hard 46
Unearthing Found Footage From One of the First Bitcoin Conferences 14
YouTube Offers Popular Podcasts $50,000 In Cash To Pivot To Video 22
RT America Ceases Production, Lays Off Staff and Moves To Rumble 126
TVAddons' Adam Lackman Admits TV Show Piracy, Agrees To Pay $19.5 Million 14
Qualcomm Will Support AV1 Video Codec In 2023, Report Says 36

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