streaming content
Internet video delivery
Streaming content is media—video, music, podcasts—delivered continuously over the internet rather than downloaded as complete files before playback.
The term distinguishes on-demand services like Netflix or Spotify from traditional broadcast or physical media: We canceled cable and switched to streaming content.
Often shortened to just streaming: What are you streaming these days?
- bingeBout of excess
- binge watchView many episodes consecutively
- bufferProtective intermediate space
- NetflixSubscription streaming service
- Netflix and chillEuphemism for romantic encounter
playlist · autoplay · skip intro · are you still watching · bandwidth · queue · episodes · subscribe · download · pause · resume · casting · broadcast · live · on-demand · Hulu · chill · algorithm
- mediatelevision, mass media, news, broadcasting, video
- videosvideos, clip, clips, video clip, films
- visual mediafilm, video, drawing, photograph, television
- digital contentfiles, blog posts, data, digital music, videos
- recorded mediavideo, audio, clip, video clip, audio clip
- video contentepisode, YouTube, subtitles, web series, Vimeo
streaming contentphysical media
Content on tangible formats
DVDs · Blu-rays · CDs · vinyl records · VHS tapes
streaming contentbroadcast television
Free over-the-air programming
appointment viewing · network television · cable TV · radio broadcast · simulcast
streaming contentbroadcast television
Free over-the-air programming
live television · linear TV · cable television · radio broadcasts · network television
streaming, content, stream, streams, streamed, streamer, streamers, streamline, streamlined