The World Cup starts today – 48 teams, 104 matches, 39 days, and by our count, the fifth tournament of the streaming era. So this week, Lydia and I look at what five tournaments of streaming have taught us, and what to expect this time round.

We dig into the numbers …

In this week’s Riffs, Lydia and I go fully blue sky – no industry news, no data drops, just a thought experiment we’re calling the 2031 Scenario.

The premise: it’s 2031 and Sarah J. Maas has become the first author in history to sell her entire canon to a …

Three years on from ChatGPT hitting the zeitgeist, Lydia and I take stock of where the OTT industry actually is with AI.

We talk through how broadcasters and streamers have been approaching it internally – the top-down task forces, the bottom-up experiments, the …

Netflix just overhauled its mobile UI for the first time in over a decade and the headline feature is Clips, a vertical scrolling discovery tool that looks a lot like TikTok. Which raises an obvious question: are the streamers genuinely experimenting with a new content format, …

The Premier League has just announced Premier League Plus – a new DTC streaming service launching in Singapore next season. Which led us to ask: what would happen if they tried the same thing in the UK?

For this week’s episode, Lydia and I built financial models independently and then compared …

In this week’s Riffs, Lydia and I tackle one of streaming’s most loaded questions: who actually owns the streaming customer: the streamer, the aggregator, the TV manufacturer, or the device ecosystem?

We started with a quick follow-up from last week – the HBO Max UK launch, and why Sora …

Happy HBO Max Launches in the UK Day! 26 March 2026. But how long will the new service last – at least under this brand name pending the sale of WBD to Paramount Skydance? What’s it customer acquisition strategy? How many subscribers is it aiming for? And could HBO Max …

In last week’s pod, Lydia tried valiantly to get me interested in the Media Act and the consultation that is currently taking place between government, Ofcom, broadcasters, streamers and TV manufacturers. It worked! I did some reading. 

And in the course of my research, a wider question surfaced: who really controls …

Lydia and I are back for Season 2 of our Riffs podcast where we do news, reviews, interviews and analyses from the OTT industry.

In this, our season opener, we catch up after three months away and look to what might happen in streaming over the next two quarters. Topics include …

In our bonus lunchtime session on Day 1, Lydia and I recorded a live edition of Riffs, looking at Evaluating Valuations.