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Feb 2, 2012 3:42 PM
Netflix (NSDQ: NFLX) is hoping a new tech partner will help make its streaming more efficient to satisfy new bandwidth caps from internet service providers that come with potential financial penalties.
Posted In: Entertainment, Social Media, Video, Companies, Netflix
Feb 1, 2012 1:13 PM
OK, I’ve been talking with hundreds of geeks from around the world this year at three conferences, CES, DLD, and World Economic Forum. I’m seeing a trend that is worth talking about. What is it? We’re seeing the end of one of the most disruptive ages in human history. I…
Posted In: Apps, Gadgets, Tablets, Media & Publishing, TV, Mobile, Social Media, Video
Feb 1, 2012 3:00 AM
The rising popularity of streaming video services is causing a knock-on effect for companies serving ads around that content. And here’s another example of that in action: today UK-based video ad platform Videoplaza is announcing a new $12 million round of funding.
Posted In: Advertising, Gadgets, Tablets, Legal, Regulatory, EC, Media & Publishing, TV, Broadcast, Mobile, Social Media, Video, Companies, CBS, Five, HTC, Hulu, Qualcomm, Countries, Europe, France, creandum, innovacom venture capital, northzone ventures, qualcomm ventures, videoplaza
Jan 31, 2012 12:49 PM
There are many exciting things happening in the online video industry, but to my mind, none is more noteworthy than the radical transformation of YouTube.
Posted In: Entertainment, Media & Publishing, TV, Broadcast, Cable & Telecom, VOD, Social Media, Video, Companies, Google, YouTube
Jan 27, 2012 12:39 PM
It looks like the death spiral that was the Bitbop mobile video service is finally no longer. PaidContent understands that the service—once built and owned by News Corporation (NSDQ: NWS) and sold, along with the rest of Fox Mobile, to IT services company Jesta when News Corp. couldn’t make a…
Posted In: Features, Exclusive, Mobile, Social Media, Video, Companies, Apple, iPad, Hulu, Netflix, News Corp., Fox, Countries, Europe, Germany, bitbop, jesta
Jan 25, 2012 3:59 PM
The ultimate “big game” will get its first live video presentation on personal computers, tablets and mobile phones when NBC (NSDQ: CMCSA) airs the Super Bowl Feb. 5. But while some brands, including General Motors, have bought into digital packages generally ranging from $300,000 to $600,000, advertisers have so far…
Posted In: Entertainment, Sports, Gadgets, Tablets, Media & Publishing, TV, Broadcast, Mobile, Social Media, Video, Companies, NBC Universal, NBC, Verizon
Jan 24, 2012 8:45 PM
With both the theatrical and home video channels in revenue decline, and amid panic that digital piracy will soon crest into a tidal wave, BTIG Research analyst Richard Greenfield says Hollywood must once and for all scrap its long-sacred policy of releasing movies in theaters several months before offering them…
Posted In: Entertainment, Movies, Legal, Piracy, Media & Publishing, TV, VOD, Research & Metrics, Research, Social Media, Video, Companies, Netflix, Time Warner
Jan 24, 2012 2:50 PM
When people think about ditching their cable or satellite subscriptions in favor of one of the growing number of internet-connected set-top boxes, one of things that gives them pause is the idea of losing access to live TV. Now Boxee, one of the companies encouraging TV watchers to cut the…
Posted In: Media & Publishing, TV, Broadcast, Satellite, Social Media, Video, Technologies / Formats, Broadband
Jan 24, 2012 6:33 AM
Jon Miller, the chief digital officer for News Corporation (NSDQ: NWS), described his company’s digital strategy today as very “focused on video”, with a view that even properties that come from a print tradition should be producing more video content than they are today.
Posted In: Advertising, Apps, Entertainment, Games, Gadgets, Tablets, Legal, Copyright, Media & Publishing, TV, Broadcast, Mobile, Social Media, Video, Companies, Apple, iPhone, Google, YouTube, Microsoft, xBox, News Corp., Dow Jones, Wall Street Journal, Fox, MySpace, Countries, Europe, Germany, jon miller
Jan 23, 2012 8:06 PM
Some numbers out today that underscore the challenge telecoms operators have had in attracting customers to their pay-TV platforms, including the newer services like IPTV, against competition from incumbent TV providers and the growing allure of over-the-top services, from Netflix (NSDQ: NFLX) to YouTube.
Posted In: Media & Publishing, TV, IPTV, Satellite, Research & Metrics, Research, Social Media, Video, Companies, Comcast, France Telecom, Google, YouTube, Netflix, Sony, Verizon, Countries, Europe, Russia, France, Latin America, telefonica, telefonica digital
Jan 20, 2012 8:53 AM
This week saw a number of developments at Twitter and Facebook, two of the world’s biggest social networking sites, that are signs of them looking to capitalize more on their already-hefty user bases by creating services that keep them on their sites for longer.
Posted In: Advertising, Apps, Features, Tweets, Media & Publishing, Mobile, Money, Social Media, Video, Companies, Facebook, Google, YouTube, Netflix, Twitter, summify, timeline, twitter
Jan 19, 2012 5:26 PM
The legislative battle over SOPA highlights the cultural rift between Hollywood and Silicon Valley but one place where the two tribes seem to be playing quite nicely is in realm of independent film. That collaboration is on full display this week with the opening of the Sundance Film Festival.
Posted In: Media & Publishing, TV, VOD, Social Media, Video, Companies, Apple, iTunes, Google, Hulu, Netflix, Yahoo
Jan 19, 2012 5:15 AM
UK TV video news producer ITN is unifying its online ad sales platform as it expands into a burgeoning number of online destinations.
Posted In: Advertising, Entertainment, Media & Publishing, TV, Broadcast, Social Media, Video, Companies, AOL, Channel 4, Facebook, Google, YouTube, ITV, NBC Universal, NBC, Portals, Countries, Europe, UK, itn, rightster
Jan 17, 2012 8:44 PM
The Taylor Lautner action thriller Abduction was something of a bust at the box office in September, grossing just $28.1 million at the U.S. and Canadian box offices and mustering only a 4 percent score on movie-critics aggregation site Rotten Tomatoes. Now Lionsgate (NYSE: LGF) is hoping Facebook can give…
Posted In: Social Media, Video, Companies, Facebook
Jan 17, 2012 4:39 PM
As it seeks to launch nearly 100 new channels featuring professionally produced video, YouTube (NSDQ: GOOG) has a key advantage over original video competitiors like Hulu and Yahoo: millions more viewers can see its promos.
Posted In: Media & Publishing, TV, Research & Metrics, Metrics, Social Media, Video, Companies, Google, YouTube, Hulu, Yahoo, vevo
Jan 17, 2012 4:59 AM
YouTube’s ambitious—and expensive—original programming push got a little more steam this week with the Monday launch of new Hollywood-centric entertainment channels from Young Hollywood and a Penske Media-Ion TV partnership.
Posted In: Media & Publishing, TV, Social Media, Video, Companies, Google, YouTube, Hulu, Yahoo
Jan 12, 2012 4:55 PM
Hulu Plus has “materially exceeded” expectations, passing 1.5 million paying subscribers and heading closer to the point where the premium video service plus its younger sibling in Japan will help account for half of Hulu’s revenues.
Posted In: Advertising, Media & Publishing, TV, VOD, Social Media, Video, Companies, Disney, Hulu, NBC Universal, NBC, News Corp., hulu plus
Jan 11, 2012 7:15 PM
The evolution of premium cable TV beyond the living room took another step this week, with Showtime introducing a streaming app to rival HBO Go. Missing, however, was a similar view-on-any-device announcement from Starz, the network that kick-started pay-cable’s entry into the streaming realm when it launched its Vongo movies-on-demand…
Posted In: Entertainment, Movies, Gadgets, Tablets, Media & Publishing, TV, Social Media, Video, Companies, Apple, iPad, iTunes, AT&T, Cablevision, Comcast, Liberty Media, Netflix, Time Warner, hbo go, max go, showtime anytime, vongo, xfinity
Jan 10, 2012 1:21 PM
Comcast (NSDQ: CMCSA) has started in-home streaming but it’s not quite live video Valhalla. Streaming access to the Xfinity TV linear lineup via the internet is available only in limited areas for certain tablets—and only with the use of a new device, the AnyPlay.
Posted In: Gadgets, Tablets, Media & Publishing, TV, Social Media, Video, Companies, Apple, iPad, Comcast, Motorola, xfinity
Jan 9, 2012 7:23 PM
MobiTV, one of the more established mobile TV companies in the market today with deals in place with several major U.S. mobile operators, today revealed a significant deal to grow out its business in Europe: a deal with Deutsche Telekom (NYSE: DT), one of Europe’s biggest operators, to develop a…
Posted In: Apps, Gadgets, Tablets, Media & Publishing, TV, IPTV, Mobile, Social Media, Video, Companies, Apple, France Telecom, Orange, Google, Microsoft, xBox, Samsung, T-Mobile, Countries, Europe, France, Germany, UK, mobitv
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