VideoAge‘s January 2025 edition has something for everyone. First up is a report on the future realities of FAST channels that haven’t yet been explored. Then comes a story that analyzes the current state of development, which seems to have gone from the greenlight zone into the redlight area.
The Issue also delves into ways to reinvent linear TV by leveraging competing tech. This topic is also addressed by the My2¢ column, which explains how streaming became a content-delivery model that is now replicating legacy media’s losing content-delivery model in an effort to finally find success.
But wait, there’s more in the form of a warning from an international entertainment lawyer who questions whether selling access to content libraries to train AI is a new “window” or a legal minefield.
TV sports are also covered, with a look at the upcoming kicking matches in America, headlined: “FIFA’s U.S. Football Bet is Called Club World Cup.” Similarly uplifting is the revelation that MIP didn’t move to London, but that London moved to MIPTV.
Naturally, the market’s reviewers couldn’t miss the Miami markets — the three consecutive TV trade shows that hit Florida’s hottest city. There’s also a story about MIP Cancun, which was already great, but made even better this year by market organizer RX.
The ever-present book review feature will introduce a book by the entertaining filmmaker Barry Sonnenfeld, who dishes hilarious tidbits on Hollywood. Then there are three small but equally interesting news items, a piece that delves into how advertising is now a $1 trillion world business, one that notes that that fewer miles are needed to fly non-U.S. airlines, and a calendar of events.
Finally, we’re taking a calculated risk by ending this report with news that Argentina’s president Javier Milei is America’s Man of the Year. He would surely say that such a story should be the top news item.
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