According to https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/VP9 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/VP9, Sisvel said it will demand a licensing fee for VP9 from device makers. It may

According to https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/VP9 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/VP9, Sisvel said it will demand a licensing fee for VP9 from device makers. It may make more sense to adopt AV1, which is truly license and royalty free, but the encoding and decoding speeds are slower or just on par with other standards. Its only real advantage appears to be significant bitrate savings, so seemingly only streaming video providers would benefit.