Tubi Streamed Superbowl 2025

It was an honor to be part of the excellent team at #Tubi! I saw amazing efforts from folks across our engineering org to ensure that this would be a success. We all learned something new. 😃 The above was my comment while reposting Pascal’s post which said: Tubi streamed Super Bowl LIX flawlessly. That is a real accomplishment, not the result of luck but very hard work from a large group of people across a wide range of activities. Especially, I could not be prouder of my Infra and Security team who provided a super solid setup for that to happen, at a scale 20 times what we had ever done. Our work might not be the most shiny and glamorous, but without this team there would be no service at all. So huge kuddos to ...

February 10, 2025 · 1 min · 169 words · Christopher Hicks

Neckties of July 2024

Check out the ties I wore in July 2024. Through various means I have ended up with an extensive collection of ties. I haven’t counted them, but someday I might. I’m guessing I’ve got a hundred neckties or so. One of the traditions I took up a few years before Covid struck was to wear a tie and sports coat to work every day when I was going into the office. I’ve been known to carry this motif into virtual meetings now and then. It has been fun and led to lots of good conversations and interactions. ...

July 31, 2024 · 2 min · 395 words · Christopher Hicks

You could be the Director of Infastructure at Tubi.

We have a fun smart team here in infrastructure at Tubi. Are you interested in leading us? Check it out… Note: the role is filled now.

December 1, 2023 · 1 min · 26 words · Christopher Hicks

I'm the new Observability Lead at Tubi

I’m happy to share that I’m starting a new position as Observability Lead at Tubi! It has been such a fun and educational journey with Tubi so far. I am grateful and honored to receive this new challenge.

September 2, 2023 · 1 min · 38 words · Christopher Hicks

Tubi is competing with subscription services

Repost of post by David Kenny from Nielsen: Today marks the 25th edition of The Gauge, an important industry snapshot of the total time U.S. viewers spend watching TV each month via broadcast, cable and streaming platforms. The Gauge is tracking, arguably, the most seismic shift in the history of television. In just 25 months, streaming has moved from representing 26% of total time spent with TV in the U.S. (cable was 39% and broadcast 25%) to today representing 37.7% of total time spent with TV in the U.S. (cable is now 30.6% and broadcast 20.8%). ...

July 21, 2023 · 1 min · 174 words · Christopher Hicks