  This manuscript reviews recent theoretical progress on the understanding of
the quark gluon plasma in a magnetic field that I presented on the conference
Hot Quarks 2016, held at South Padre Island, Texas, USA, 12-17 September 2016.
It is shown that, using a holographic bottom-up Einstein-Maxwell-Dilaton model,
one can have a good quantitative agreement with Lattice data for QCD equation
of state and Polyakov loop with nonzero magnetic field. I also present results
for the anisotropic shear viscosity ratio $\eta_{\parallel}/\eta_{\perp}$, with
the conclusion that $\eta_{\parallel}<\eta_{\perp}$ for $B>0$.
