Two contrary advertising watchdog rulings against the same movie company highlight how video advertising to children is handled differently… Read more »
The UltraViolet initiative left the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas last week with an important new retail channel in Amazon (NSDQ: A… Read more »
Six Hollywood studios have urged the UK’s competition watchdog to throw out its assertion their Sky Movies deals are anti-competitive. But s… Read more »
The evolution of premium cable TV beyond the living room took another step this week, with Showtime introducing a streaming app to rival HBO… Read more »
Tom Hanks. Louis C.K. Lisa Kudrow. Kevin Spacey. David Fincher. Bill Maher. Jennifer Lopez. Judy Greer. Steven Van Zandt. Morgan Spurlock. E… Read more »
Chinese online video giant Youku (NYSE:YOKU) today announced that it has inked a deal with none other than Twentieth Century Fox (NSDQ: NWS)… Read more »
Samsung has rolled out a new line of Blu-ray players that support Ultraviolet, thus joining the ranks of entertainment brands that support t… Read more »
The home-entertainment business has been pummeled in recent years, with revenues falling for seven years in a row, in one year a full 8 perc… Read more »
Samsung, on a high after releasing some strong mobile numbers last week, today became the latest consumer electronics brand to hang its name… Read more »
Looking to ramp up star power for a push into original video content, Yahoo (NSDQ: YHOO) formally announced Monday that it’s teaming with ac… Read more »
Netflix (NSDQ: NFLX) CEO Reed Hastings tells paidContent the company has emerged from the “pain” of a consumer and investor backlash, after… Read more »
Netflix (NSDQ: NFLX) fancies bidding against News Corp-controlled BSkyB (NYSE: BSY) for Hollywood movies and TV shows, even though internati… Read more »
HMV’s CEO says the slowdown in plastic music and movie sales is itself slowing down – even though its Christmas was nearly a tenth worse tha… Read more »
Netflix (NSDQ: NFLX) executives launched the service in the UK and Ireland on Monday morning with pricepoints of £5.99 ($7.79) and €6.99… Read more »
Netflix (NSDQ: NFLX) is facing changes to its DVD business with two Time Warner (NYSE: TWX) programmers after months of CEO back-and-forth a… Read more »
Comcast (NSDQ: CMCSA) Xfinity TV subscribers stymied by the lack of access to iPad app WatchESPN have relief in sight: a new multi-year, cro… Read more »
Netflix (NSDQ: NFLX) subscribers appear to be spending far more time viewing the service’s streaming content than do users of any other onli… Read more »
Online video is becoming a fast-growing business in China, as well as the west. Read more »
Some countries in Europe, like France, are looking at ways of extending their copyright protection laws to streamed media, in addition to ex… Read more »
Amazon’s LoveFilm is continuing its film and TV content rights war with U.S. rival Netflix (NSDQ: NFLX), signing a deal with Sony (NYSE: SNE… Read more »
The BBC iPlayer iOS app has been downloaded 1.1m times in the week since it was updated to run on Apple’s iPhone and iPod touch as well as i… Read more »
Verizon is getting its full turn in the rumor mill. Last week, word had it that Verizon is looking to launch an OTT subscription service. Ne… Read more »
Nearly 12 years after it first launched, iTunes Store has gone live in Brazil and 15 other Latin American countries, as the region’s consume… Read more »
When Amazon (NSDQ: AMZN) launched the Kindle Owners’ Lending Library last month, it contained around 5,000 traditionally published titles. J… Read more »
Consumers are increasingly using Facebook for video – but, despite studios and broadcasters hosting more of their content on the social netw… Read more »
The new technology allowing consumers who buy entertainment in physical formats to consume it online for no additional cost has gone live an… Read more »
Ouch. Reed Hastings addressed a room of investors and media experts today in a bid to reignite confidence in his company. After his curious… Read more »
Verizon plans to offer a Web-video streaming service in places where it doesn’t already operate its FIOS Internet TV service, according to a… Read more »
“We confess ourselves slightly perplexed,” BSkyB (NYSE: BSY) finance chief Andrew Griffith told Wall Street investors, when asked about the… Read more »
BSkyB’s set-top boxes may have to offer services like Netflix (NSDQ: NFLX), Lovefilm and Blinkbox alongside its own Sky Movies, under new pr… Read more »
The first feature film shot entirely on a smartphone will have its theatrical premiere in Los Angeles on 16 December.
Olive, billed as a fi… Read more »
Tesco will start retailing its own line of internet-enabled TV in stores under its Technika brand in the new year – amongst the many ways it… Read more »
When Tesco bought 80 percent of online PPV movie vendor Blinkbox in April, paidContent reported how the UK supermarket giant would give buy… Read more »
Federal law enforcement agents celebrated cyber-Monday in their own peculiar fashion by seizing 150 websites to go along with the 72 they ba… Read more »
The UK PPV movie JV owned by Sony (NYSE: SNE) and Disney (NYSE: DIS) is on an aggressive expansion that will see it unleash up to 10 white l… Read more »
Netflix (NSDQ: NFLX) shares opened four percent lower Tuesday after Monday’s after-market announcement that it is taking $400 million to fue… Read more »
Netflix (NSDQ: NFLX) and Amazon (NSDQ: AMZN) may compete in online movie streaming – but the former plans to remain a customer of the latter… Read more »
The latest installment of the Twilight movies, Breaking Dawn, enjoyed one of the top-grossing opening weekends of all time (for some inexpli… Read more »
Amazon’s LoveFilm has struck back against deal-happy video streaming rival Netflix (NSDQ: NFLX), signing its first UK rights agreement with… Read more »
America is fond of chiding other nations about freedom of speech in the internet age. Leaders including President Obama and Secretary of Sta… Read more »
