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Colin Dixon
Personal blog · nscreenmedia.combusinessculture
Colin Dixon writes nScreenMedia, a personal blog at nscreenmedia.com about business and culture. Since 2013, 4 different Hacker News readers have linked it 5 times. No feed was found, so read it on the site itself.
Too few sampled comments (3) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN readers link Colin Dixon's nScreen Media posts as data-backed sources on streaming TV, such as YouTube TV's position among live TV services and streamers' price increases.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 3 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
The independent voice in digital TV.
What Hacker News says?
I do believe it's US only, which I didn't consider when posting. That being said, it's the most adopted "TV for cord cutters" service in the US. https://nscreenmedia.com/why-youtube-tv-is-the-number-1-vmvp... It hasn't taken the world by storm, but it's become big enough that I would consider it a success.
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on “Ask HN: Will Google ever launch a successful new product again?”Submitted Amazon Buys Sye from Net Insight as a story · 1 points
HN discussionFunny, I'm on the other end. I don't know a single person with Fubo or DirectTV and only a few with Hulu for live TV. Pretty much everyone I know has YTTV. According to this link, YTTV passed Hulu Live to become the largest player in the space in mid 2022 https://nscreenmedia.com/why-youtube-tv-is-the-number-1-vmvp...
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on “Ask HN: Will Google ever launch a successful new product again?”Submitted The perils and potentials of ACR: hands on with Zeebox as a story · 1 points
HN discussion<< Source Eh. Sure, lets start at Netflix as a the edge of streaming wars for a quick example: https://nscreenmedia.com/netflix-ad-values-5-dollar-increase... https://nypost.com/2025/12/12/entertainment/streamers-are-ri... https://deadline.com/2024/10/netflix-price-hikes-executives-... I would like then point to exec statement in last one: “Our approach to pricing has been remarkably consistent over many, many years…
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on “Well being in times of algorithms”