.YouTube Joins Netflix in Move to Reduce Video Quality in Europe
YouTube will limit streaming in European countries to standard-definition video by default, following a similar move by Netflix to curtail bandwidth usage across the continent amid the coronavirus pandemic.
“[W]e are making a commitment to temporarily switch all traffic in the EU to standard definition by default,” YouTube said in a statement. “While we have [...]Kylie Jenner Urges Instagram Followers To Self-Quarantine: 'Millennials Are Not Immune To This' The coronavirus crisis may have found an unlikely hero in Kylie Jenner. Jenner usually uses her Instagram to influence her 166 million followers to buy her products from her billion dollar cosmetic company, but in the wake of the global pandemic, the young mogul is using her mega platform to urge her followers to buy [...]Kumail Nanjiani and Emily V. Gordon are pros at staying cooped up inside — and now they want to share their tips for how to make the best of homebound life in the midst of the coronavirus pandemic. The married Hollywood couple launched a new limited-series weekly podcast, “Staying In with Emily and Kumail,” [...]Netflix to Cut Streaming Video Bit Rates in Europe, Aiming to Reduce Bandwidth Usage by 25% Netflix agreed to temporarily reduce bandwidth used by its streaming service in Europe, saying it will cut video bit rates for the next 30 days at the behest of the European Union to ease the load on internet networks in the region. The move came after EU Commissioner for Internal Market Thierry Breton, in discussions [...]The GLAAD Media Awards were supposed to happen Thursday night in New York City, but the LGBTQ media watchdog group canceled the 31st annual festivities in the wake of the coronavirus pandemic. However, GLAAD doesn’t want the day to go unnoticed, so the organization has released exclusive video to Variety of Elton John accepting the [...]Scopely, a mobile-games developer, announced an additional $200 million as part of its Series D funding round from Advance, whose holdings include Condé Nast, and Peter Chernin’s The Chernin Group . The new funding doubles the size of the original $200 million Series D round Scopely announced last fall and brings the company to over [...]All the Global VOD Platforms and Festivals Offering Free Content During the Coronavirus Pandemic Amid the coronavirus pandemic, regional VOD players, platforms and festivals from continental Europe to the Middle East and beyond are serving up a wide range of free movies and TV shows to market their product or simply reach captive audiences. Dubai-based broadcaster MBC Group on Thursday became the latest operator to launch a pandemic special, [...]
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