Interview: FilmFlex CEO To Netflix: Bring It On!
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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 Will Rely On Rival Amazon's Cloud For Years To Come
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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 »
TalkTalk To Begin In-House YouView Trial
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Broadband provider TalkTalk is to launch an in-house trial of YouView, the delayed venture to bring video-on-demand to Freeview, in early 20… Read more »
Roll On, Digital Reorganization. Telefonica Posts First Loss In Nine Years
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Telefonica (NYSE: TEF) has put its digital eggs into one basket — centralizing all its global digital operations into one new unit — and w… Read more »
Iger: NBA Strike Won't Hurt ESPN; This Is The 'Pre-Season' Of Digital Video
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The Walt Disney Co. (NYSE: DIS) pulled in a pretty solid fiscal 2011 and FY Q4, but a number of challenges have emerged that could threaten… Read more »
Why Video Apps Are Key For Consumer Electronics Makers This Holiday Season
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It’s no secret that consumer electronics makers have long relied on content to help sell their devices. After all, people buy devices becaus… Read more »
BBC Forced To Syndicate Some VOD; Opportunity For Aggregators
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Catch-up TV platforms like BSkyB (NYSE: BSY) and Netflix (NSDQ: NFLX) have won a significant concession from the BBC that may allow them to… Read more »
Video Ads Landgrab: Adconion, Blinkx Buy Smartclip, PVMG
Two new acquisitions underscore how M&A is fuelling ongoing consolidation in the still-growing online video advertising segment. Read more »
Why Is Reed Hastings Selling So Much Netflix Stock?
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As the bloodbath for Netflix (NSDQ: NFLX) (NFLX) investors carries on, perhaps the CEO could boost a little confidence in the company if he… Read more »
Google TV 2.0 Rolls Out But No New Hardware Til 2012
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A year after the much-hyped launch of *Google* TV with partners Sony (NYSE: SNE), Logitech, Intel (NSDQ: INTC) and Dish Network (NSDQ: DISH)… Read more »
In Fight Over DVD Window, Warner Bros Cuts Off Blockbuster From New Films
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Warner Bros. (NYSE: TWX) has refused to give DVD rentals chain Blockbuster (NSDQ: DISH) its latest films, including The Hangover Part II and… Read more »
The Challenges That Lie Ahead For Netflix
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Investors have continued to punish Netflix (NSDQ: NFLX) for failing to meet expectations with yesterday’s disappointing Q3 earnings report,… Read more »
Platform Wars: Internet Video Vs. TV
There’s battle lines being drawn. Nobody’s right if everybody’s wrong. Young people speaking their minds, Getting so much resistance from be… Read more »
Netflix Puts Global Expansion On Hold As Costs Drag It Down
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Netflix (NSDQ: NFLX) is on the road to profitability in Canada, but costs for its global roll-out are set to turn the company loss-making ne… Read more »
What To Look For With Netflix’s Results Today
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After the market closes today Netflix (NSDQ: NFLX) will release its highly anticipated Q3 results, which will lay bare the full consequences… Read more »
The Morning Lowdown 10-24-11
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» Does Apple (NSDQ: AAPL) CEO Tim Cook Also Want To Destroy Android? (paidContent)
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Netflix Cleared For UK & Ireland Take-Off Early In 2012: TV And Movies
Netflix (NSDQ: NFLX), which was already known to be planning a UK launch in its global expansion, has press-released an “early 2012″ launch… Read more »
Updated: Skype, Rdio Co-Creator Tries Again At Online Video
The world is about to get another online video service. Niklas Zennstrom and Janus Friis, who co-created KaZaA, Skype, Joost and Rdio, is se… Read more »
ITV Pleads For Ad Tech Standardisation
The UK’s leading commercial TV broadcaster, ITV (LSE: ITV), has issued a “rallying cry” for industry-wide harmonisation of ad targeting tech… Read more »
Times Of India Grabs English Soccer Highlights For Indian Mobiles, Website
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Times Of India’s online division is getting mobile and internet highlights of English soccer’s Premier League, after cutting a deal with onl… Read more »
Chart: How Netflix, Blockbuster, Hulu And Amazon Stack Up
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This category changes as fast we update charts. The latest shift: Netflix (NSDQ: NFLX) has abandoned plans to spin off its DVD-by-mail busin… Read more »
The Morning Lowdown 10-06-11
» Apple (NSDQ: AAPL) Co-Founder And Chairman Steve Jobs Has Died (paidContent)
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Microsoft Shifts Strategies To Expand Xbox Live TV, Go Global
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After years of effort and speculation, Microsoft (NSDQ: MSFT) has pieced together nearly 40 broadcast services from around the world to boos… Read more »
Hulu Adds Univision; Hulu Plus On Track To Supply Majority Of Revenue
The latest news from Hulu underscores how important it is for the video startup to keep moving while it waits for its fate to be decided, sh… Read more »
Video: Miramax’s Lang & Netflix’s Sarandos Interview Each Other At Mipcom
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Mipcom attendees got an extra course at lunch in Cannes as Ted Sarandos, the chief content officer of Netflix (NSDQ: NFLX), joined Mike Lang… Read more »
More Than Half Of Netflix’s Streams Are TV Shows, Not Films
Netflix’s background in DVDs-by-mail means it is often seen as mainly a movies service. However, the balance has tipped more towards TV show… Read more »
S4C Urged To Improve ‘Crude’ Digital Strategy
Welsh-language broadcaster S4C must make significant corporate changes to turn around an online record that is weak, crude and years behind… Read more »
Netflix’s Red Pill, Lovefilm’s Blue: DVDs Dowsing Amazon’s Fire?
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In the movie The Matrix, the main character Neo is offered a choice between a blue pill (“the story ends, you wake up in your bed and believ… Read more »
Australia Next For BBC’s Paid iPlayer, U.S. At Some Point
The UK’s leading TV catch-up brand is having a weird global launch. After debuting on iPad only in 11 European countries this July for €6.… Read more »
China’s ‘Facebook’ RenRen Buys China’s ‘YouTube’ 56.com
A fusion of social and video in China… Renren, the social network which listed on Wall Street this spring, is acquiring the user-uploaded… Read more »
Updated: Comparing Streaming Video Services: Blockbuster, Netflix, Hulu, Amazon
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For the latest streaming video chart, click here.
Our July streaming video chart followed word that Netflix (NSDQ: NFLX) was separating DVD… Read more »
Comparing Streaming Video Services: Blockbuster, Netflix, Hulu, Amazon
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Our July streaming video chart followed word that Netflix (NSDQ: NFLX) was separating DVD and streaming subscriptions and raising the price… Read more »
Time Warner’s Bewkes: ‘Cordcutting Hasn’t Arrived’
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Warned by an interviewer at today’s Goldman Sachs conference hat he was about to talk about cordcutting, the subject that won’t go away, Tim… Read more »
Documentary Streamer SnagFilms Adds Drama, Wider Mobile Distribution
Indie documentary video streaming service SnagFilms making good on some of the changes it proposed earlier this year, when it raised $10 mil… Read more »
ABC, Lovefilm Execs Scratch Heads At Netflix’s Split
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Netflix’s decision to divide its DVD and streaming operations is being treated as a joke and a shot in the foot by some observers.
CEO Reed… Read more »
Netflix’s Split Misses The Trick
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Netflix (NSDQ: NFLX) splitting itself in two for two different media is the wrong strategy at the wrong time. Read more »
Hulu Has Failed In Europe Because It Wanted To Own Ad Sales, RTL CEO Says
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The RTL chief executive, Gerhard Zeiler, said on Thursday the broadcaster had not done a deal with Hulu, the online TV service, because its… Read more »
MyVideoRights Takes Money And Changes Name For Global Device Assault
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The online video rights exploitation company helmed by former The Sun editor Kelvin MacKenzie’s son has raised £2.75 million to fund develo… Read more »
SeeSaw Crunch Time: Execs Leave Amid Restructure As Channel 5 Disappears
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Now is kill-or-cure time for troubled UK TV-VOD service SeeSaw, which has not received promised investment.
Platform controller John Keelin… Read more »
KIT, PlayJam Gain More Connected TV Traction
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As the connected TV wave begins to surge, operators are trying to capitalise on the opportunities it will bring to shore… Read more »
