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Thoughts on video, streaming, and creator independence. What’s new on Long Play: Updates.
Where your work lives, and what happens when something breaks
Vimeo On Demand switches off on November 20, and paid-for films stop streaming with it. Here's what actually happens on Long Play when a server, a network, a storage company, a viewer's Wi-Fi or a delete button has a bad day.
Streaming keeps consolidating. Here's why Long Play doesn't have to.
336 standalone streaming services remain in the US, down from 366 in 2022, as platforms merge and fold into each other. Here's why that consolidation pressure doesn't reach a platform that was never trying to compete in that race.
A PBS station lost 70 years of history overnight. Here's why that can't happen on Long Play.
A PBS station lost 70 years of archive footage when its cloud storage vendor vanished overnight, no warning, no grace period. It's exactly the scenario Long Play's Permanence Pledge exists to prevent.
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