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VLC

20 articles stable

VLC has appeared in 20 articles since 2015-02. Coverage peaked in 2026Q2 with 2 articles. Frequently mentioned alongside VideoLAN, Jean-Baptiste Kempf, Lightspeed, VLC Media Player.

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Coverage Timeline

2026-06-21
TechCrunch 2 related

Paris-based Kyber, which develops a low-latency remote device control SDK and is founded by VLC lead developer Jean-Baptiste Kempf, raised $5M led by Lightspeed

You've probably used VLC Media Player, the free video player with the orange traffic-cone icon — it's been downloaded more than 6 billion times.

2026-06-20
TechCrunch 2 related

Paris-based Kyber, which develops a low-latency remote device control SDK and is founded by VLC lead developer Jean-Baptiste Kempf, raised $5M led by Lightspeed

You've probably used VLC Media Player, the free video player with the orange traffic-cone icon — it's been downloaded more than 6 billion times.LinkedIn:LightspeedLinkedIn:Lightspeed:Physical AI is on...

2026-02-22
TechCrunch 1 related

Open source projects like VLC and Blender are seeing a decline in the average quality of contributions, likely as AI coding tools lower barriers to entry

A world that runs on increasingly powerful AI coding tools is one where software creation is cheap — or so the thinking goes …

2026-02-21
TechCrunch 1 related

Open source projects like VLC and Blender are seeing a decline in the average quality of contributions, likely as AI coding tools lower barriers to entry

A world that runs on increasingly powerful AI coding tools is one where software creation is cheap — or so the thinking goes …

2024-10-03
Financial Times 25 related

Amazon plans to increase the number of ads on Prime Video in 2025 after not seeing a sharp drop in subscribers since adding advertisements in January 2024

here's why Parker Herren / Ad Age : How streaming TV pricing and transparency issues are impacting advertisers William Hughes / AV Club : Excited Prime Video exec announces even more ads are coming Ha...

2023-06-11
The Verge

The Apple Vision Pro's biggest potential advantage will be developers being able to easily plug their iOS and iPadOS apps into visionOS using familiar tools

Apple's developers already have the tools they need to create apps for the system. … It has dual 4K displays … Tweets: @drasticactions , @skarredghost , @fgraillot , @firt , and @drasticactions . Foru...

2022-11-14
TechCrunch 3 related

VideoLAN confirms India's Ministry of Electronics and IT has removed its ban on downloading the VLC media player, in effect for over nine months

India has lifted the download ban on VLC, more than nine months after it mysteriously blocked the official website of the popular media playback software in the South Asian market.

2022-08-18
TechCrunch 9 related

VideoLan, which develops VLC, says Indian telecom operators have been blocking its website since February 2022; India has 10% of VLC users worldwide

VideoLan, the developer of popular media player VLC, says Indian telecom operators have been blocking its website since February of this year …

2019-11-24
Increment

A look at the team behind VLC, which started as a student-run project in 1996 that is now part of a nonprofit with a for-profit consultancy managed by ~10 staff

How a group of university students transformed a school project into a media-player mainstay.  —  Teams Tweets: @davezatz and @incrementmag Tweets: Dave Zatz / @davezatz : Not having to pay MPEG-2 lic...

2019-07-25
PC Gamer 3 related

VideoLAN says a VLC security issue shared by CERT-Bund is not as severe as reported and is in a third-party library that was fixed 16+ months ago

and is nothing to do with VLC Graeme Burton / Inquirer : VLC flaw downgraded after VideoLAN claims it was fixed 16 months ago Lawrence Abrams / BleepingComputer : Keep Calm, Carry On. VLC Not Affected...

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Quarterly Coverage

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TEXXR tracks 23 tech news articles mentioning VLC, dating back to February 2015. The biggest stories include VLC 3.0 launches on Windows, Mac, Linux, Android, iOS, Android TV, Apple TV, Chrome OS,... and Videolan says it expects VLC to surpass 3B downloads on Friday and that Airplay support.... Frequently covered alongside VideoLAN, VLC 3.0, Apple TV, Jean-Baptiste Kempf, and Lightspeed. Coverage has increasingly focused on developer, funding themes.

Key Moments

2026Q2funding +100pts; competition +100pts

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