Examines the current efforts among media and tech companies such as Disney, Apple, and Comcast to catch up to Netflix in the streaming video business with multi-billion-dollar investments in new arenas. The first comprehensive account of the biggest wake-up call in the history of the entertainment business: the pivot to streaming. Go inside a disparate group of media and tech companies - Disney, Apple, AT&T/WarnerMedia, Comcast/NBCUniversal and well-funded...

"We stream media like TV shows, movies, podcasts, and videos through our smartphones, computers, TVs, and tablets. We do it to entertain ourselves, to stay in touch with family and friends, and to get up-to-date news. Streaming is so much a part of daily life that we might only think about the technology that makes it happen when it doesn't work. In this book, readers will learn what's actually happening when they stream something -- the science of...

Streaming works behind the scenes of many popular devices, including computers, tablets, and smartphones. Using richly colored photographs and diagrams, and relatable examples from everyday life, this book examines the remarkable science behind streaming media.

Whether you're watching a movie, bingeing on a classic TV show, or listening to your favorite song, you're probably streaming it. Videotapes, DVDs, and CDs are mostly just memories now. Streaming puts a world of options at your fingertips when you're at home and, with a smartphone or tablet, when you're on the go. Find out how streaming was invented, how it works, and what the future might hold for this part of a high-tech life.

The Accidental Billionaires meets the music streaming business in The Spotify Play, a behind-the-scenes exposé of how Swedish college drop-out Daniel Ek and his financial partner Martin Lorentzon took on the giants of Silicon Valley and the music industry, betting everything on the power of an idea to build the world's largest online source of song. On a San Francisco summer's eve in 2011, after more than a year of delays, Daniel Ek--the whiz kid...

"Describes the history and science behind streaming, including the new ideas and applications scientists are currently working on. Includes "How It Works" special feature"--

"From Mental Floss, the premier online destination for curious minds, comes a deep dive into the greatest television shows from the last 20 years. Filled with little-known facts and lists of must-see shows."--Amazon.

"An entertainment and tech insider--YouTube's chief business officer--delivers the first detailed account of the rise of YouTube, the creative minds who have capitalized on it to become pop culture stars, and how streaming video is revolutionizing the media world. In the past ten years, the internet video platform YouTube has changed media and entertainment as profoundly as the invention of film, radio, and television did, more than six decades earlier....

"Engaging images accompany information about Netflix. The combination of high-interest subject matter and narrative text is intended for students in grades 3 through 8"--