The Morning Lowdown 06-01-11
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» It’s Official: Apple (NSDQ: AAPL) Will Kick Off WWDC With iCloud And New OS Details (paidContent)
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The Netflix Effect: Video Gobbling Up Internet Traffic
Web browsing has been displaced as the biggest use of North American fixed-line internet traffic in just two short years – video and audio s… Read more »
Post-Disney Miramax Signs First Major Digital Deal With Netflix
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Netflix (NSDQ: NFLX) continues to add programming strength to its digital service. Starting next month Netflix subscribers will have instant… Read more »
Android Fragmentation Limits Release Of Netflix Mobile App
It’s getting to be an old story at this point, but Android fragmentation reared its ugly head Thursday with the launch of Netflix’s Android… Read more »
No Surprise: DVD Sales Plunged Over 40 Percent Last Year
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VOD services and streaming video rentals from companies such as Netflix (NSDQ: NFLX) have been killing DVDs for the last three years, but 20… Read more »
Iger on Hulu: Haven’t Lost Interest But Won’t Let It Get In The Way
Does the deal with Netflix (NSDQ: NFLX) mean Disney (NYSE: DIS) has lost interest in owning equity in video joint venture Hulu? An emphatic… Read more »
paidContent Week In Review: Osama Bin Laden; Netflix; ‘The Daily’
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In case you missed it, links to some of the top stories in digital media this past week:
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The Morning Lowdown 05-06-11
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» As If The Switch From AOL (NYSE: AOL) News To HuffPo Isn’t Confusing Enough (paidContent)
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Netflix CEO: Still Not Trying To Be An Internet MSO. Really.
Turns out the beginning of the end for subscription TV hasn’t started yet, at least as far as Netflix (NSDQ: NFLX) is concerned. When the nu… Read more »
The Morning Lowdown 05-02-11
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» How the Bin Laden announcement leaked out on Twitter. (Media Decoder)
Dish, Echostar (NSDQ: SATS) Settle Long-Running Patent D… Read more »
Netflix’s Sales Jump 46 Percent; Hopes To Fund More Original Programming
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All of the latest metrics on Netflix (NSDQ: NFLX) are up, up and up: The company has 23.6 million subscribers, up from 14 million a year ago… Read more »
Why Subscription May Not Be The Panacea In Entertainment
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Subscription digital access is increasingly the hot business model for multi-platform entertainment distributors.
But, to Lovefilm, which p… Read more »
mSpot Tries Out One Way To Pick Up More Mobile Video Users: Cheaper Prices
The premium mobile video market is still relatively nascent and open to new entrants compared to its PC sibling, where companies like Hulu,… Read more »
The Misadventures Of PlayBook: Questioning Reviews Jump The Launch Gun
RIM (NSDQ: RIMM) has been previewing and talking up its new PlayBook tablet for months already, with demonstrations shepherded by the likes… Read more »
How Netflix Is Hurting Youtube
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Mark Cuban, owner of the Dallas Mavericks and cofounder of HDNet, offers running commentary on Blog Maverick and allows us to publish it her… Read more »
The Morning Lowdown 04-06-11
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» Satellite television company Dish Network (NSDQ: DISH) Corp won an auction for video rental chain Blockbuster (NYSE: BBI) Inc o… Read more »
Netflix Gets Exclusive Streaming Rights For ‘Mad Men’ Reruns
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Although negotiations between cable network AMC and Mad Men creator Matthew Weiner have resulted in the show’s next season not returning unt… Read more »
The Morning Lowdown 04-01-11
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» At Publicis, a big bet on digital seems to be paying off. (NYT)
» Twentieth Century Fox and Netflix (NSDQ: NFLX) st… Read more »
Out Now On Facebook: Five More Warner Bros. Films
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Warner Bros. (NYSE: TWX) will let Facebook users stream five more of its titles, in a move that reinforces the view that the social network… Read more »
The Mobile Lowdown 03-23-11: Apple Data Center; Mobile Ad Trends; Clouds
Our look at some of the big stories today in mobile: speculation on what Apple (NSDQ: AAPL) might do with its new data center in North Carol… Read more »
Updated: Amazon Launches Its Appstore — Is A Tablet Or A Handset Next?
Today Amazon (NSDQ: AMZN) has launched its newest onslaught to the digital media economy: an Android app store, appropriately branded “appst… Read more »
Done Deal: Netflix To Develop Original TV Show, ‘House Of Cards’
After a few days of rumors, Netflix (NSDQ: NFLX) has made it official-the company has purchased House of Cards, a new television series to b… Read more »
Is Netflix’s Practice Of Retaining Information About Ex-Customers Legit?
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If you quit Netflix (NSDQ: NFLX) and come back again, you’ll find it’s like coming back to an old friend-an old friend who knows a whole lot… Read more »
MLB Brings Live Baseball Streaming To Facebook
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Another week, another media company experimenting with putting up high-profile video content on Facebook. Major League Baseball is letting f… Read more »
Netflix Narrows Subscriber Gap With HBO
Yet more reason for competitive tension between Netflix (NSDQ: NFLX) and HBO comes from the fourth-quarter pay-TV subscriber numbers out Fri… Read more »
Facebook Fears Hammer Netflix Stock
It wasn’t that long ago that Jim Cramer was suggesting that Facebook could actually help Netflix’s stock. But this morning, news of a deal b… Read more »
Google Poaches From Paramount Again, But Why?
They may be embroiled in a legal fight to the death, but that doesn’t mean Google (NSDQ: GOOG) can’t be admiring of Viacom’s employees. Alex… Read more »
Why Netflix Won’t Do A Tiered Deal With Starz
There’s plenty of time before Starz’s controversial streaming deal with Netflix (NSDQ: NFLX) runs out, but that hasn’t stopped analysts from… Read more »
What Netflix And Charlie Sheen Have In Common
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What makes the runaway train that is Charlie Sheen so difficult for CBS (NYSE: CBS) to manage is that he delivers too much value to simply s… Read more »
Hogging Bandwidth Could Crack Netflix’s Piggy Bank
If there’s a downside to the staggering amounts of broadband traffic Netflix (NSDQ: NFLX) is responsible for generating, it’s the boundless… Read more »
Updated: Chart: How Amazon Prime Video Stacks Up To Netflix & Hulu Plus
What are some of the programming differences between Amazon (NSDQ: AMZN) Prime Videos, Netflix (NSDQ: NFLX) and Hulu Plus? Amazon has some p… Read more »
Why Netflix Can Do Better Than CBS
With Amazon (NSDQ: AMZN) finally throwing its hat in the ring into the subscription-video business today, it was nifty timing on Netflix’s p… Read more »
Streaming Begins For Amazon Prime Members; One-Month Free Trial
Amazon’s anticipated video streaming service launched this morning with nearly 5,000 movies and TV shows.. Instead of starting from scratch… Read more »
Bankrupt Blockbuster Puts Itself Up For Sale
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Blockbuster (NYSE: BBI), which filed for bankruptcy in September, is now putting itself up for sale. The video rental chain says in a statem… Read more »
What Worries Netflix About Amazon Isn’t Just Competition
Speculation kicked up last month that Amazon (NSDQ: AMZN) is preparing to challenge Netflix in the online-video subscription business. But A… Read more »
The ‘Subscription Economy’ Is Growing, And It’s Bigger Than Just Media
Tien Tzuo is CEO of Zuora, a subscription-billing company based in Silicon Valley. Previously, he was the chief strategy officer and chief m… Read more »
What Bob Iger Values Most In TV’s Digital Future
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If there was any doubt as to how Disney (NYSE: DIS) CEO Bob Iger sees the changing TV world, it became abundantly clear in the closing hours… Read more »
Netflix Surges In Nielsen’s First Video Data In 7 Months
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Welcome back, Nielsen, which publicly issued late Friday its first set of online video metrics since June 2010 due to computer glitches that… Read more »
iTunes Faces New Threat In Film Rentals
While new data out today from IHS Screen Digest shows Apple’s iTunes is as dominant as ever in the electronic-sell-through business, the sou… Read more »
Amid IPO Reports, Pandora Adds Two Big Media Names To Board
Pandora, which is widely expected to go public this year, has added two big-name media executives to its board: Former News Corp (NSDQ: NWS)… Read more »
