CYNOPSISDIGITAL
08.17.15

Good morning. It’s Monday August 17, 2015, and this is your first early morning digital briefing.

Watcheroo Premieres and Tune-in Alerts for August 17-21:
– People Now at People.com, Monday-Friday at 8:30a ET and 11:30a ET: Guests include Today’s Al Roker, actor Tyrese Gibson, Frankie Grande (WORST.POST.EVER: With Frankie Grace), country singer Jake Owen, Duck Dynasty star Sadie Robertson, Snooki, comedian Tig Notaro and singer-songwriter Kip Moore.
– Hulu: the complete first season of You’re The worst is available.
 
 

 
Apple is reportedly waiting until 2016 to launch an Internet TV service. The word on the street had been a new service would be introduced in September, but it appears that goal won’t be met, thanks in part to a dearth of content deals.
 
Comcast is preparing to launch a major new video platform to rival YouTube and Facebook’s online video. Currently called Watchable, its partners will include BuzzFeed, AwesomenessTV, The Onion, Vice, NBC Sports, and Comcast-backed Vox. Content will initially be available to Xfinity X1 box owners, and eventually on iOS and Android devices.
 
Refinery29 launched a new talent collective for social influencers called Here and Now. The group includes YouTube stars and content creators like Lauren Curtis (3.1 million subscribers on YouTube), Casey Holmes (nearly 1 million subscribers on YouTube), Danielle Bernstein of We Wore What (over 1 million followers on Instagram) and Justina Blakeney of The Jungalow (1.3 million followers on Pinterest), among others. Influencers will create new custom content and distribution opportunities for R29’s brand partners, with Smashbox the first to join in a new partnership. “The power of influencers, particularly in beauty and fashion, is undeniable. They have real, authentic relationships with their subscribers and fans, and their reach is immense,” said Beth DiNardo, Global General Manager at Smashbox.

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The launch of Windows 10 for Microsoft has been a relative success but some users have reported issues with watching online video on the new operating system. Complaints range from audio not syncing and the video not working at all to a green screen appearing instead of the video. Sony has asked users of its Halo system to not make the upgrade before driver updates have been released.
 
Yahoo released its Livetext app, which allows users to share video images and text without sound in real time.
 
Dominant Korean chat app Kakao has developed a feature that allows users to watch streaming videos simultaneously on different devices while conversing with each other.
 
 

Netflix Inc. plans to shut down the last of its data centers by the end of the summer. This will make it one of the first companies to have all of its information technology being run remotely from the public cloud. Netflix has been moving its data to the cloud since 2009. In other Netflix news, Hawaii News Now discovered that the state workforce spent between 100 and 300 hours of a recent workweek watching content from Netflix. It was the video-streaming service most used by Hawaii state employees. Result? The state cut off employees’ access to Netflix and Hulu.
 
Turner Broadcasting System, Inc. has taken a majority stake in iStreamPlanet, the video-streaming company, in order to help deliver its OTT programming, shift its core technology infrastructure to the cloud and develop new products and services for existing and new businesses. The pair has worked together in the past during the PGA Championships. iStream will remain a standalone entity so it can continue working with other brands.
 
The TiVo Bolt DVR, which will replace the Roamio, will have three different models, according to FCC filings. It appears that two will be CableCARD models and the third will be an over-the-air edition. All will be much smaller than current TiVo hardware.
 
Sesame Street’s move to HBO, HBO Go and HBO Now means that Sesame Workshop will also retire its own subscription-based Internet streaming service, Sesame Go, a year-old app that charges viewers $3.99 each month or $29.99 annually to check out Sesame Street content. The app won’t totally be killed but will provide far less content for free or be a portal to the Sesame Street website.
 
 

 
A new report from SNL Kagan confirms the “cord-cutting crisis” isn’t abating. The study estimates that the pay-TV industry lost a collective 625,000 subscribers in the quarter ending June 30, with the direct broadcast satellite sector getting hit with nearly half of those losses. It is estimated that Dish Network lost 151,000 subscribers for the quarter and DirecTV lost 133,000 subscribers.
 

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