Patreon wants to be more than just an individual crowd-funding site. The service, which artists and creators use to generate funding directly from fans, is adding support for new plugins: Creators will now be able to perform basic Patreon transactions outside of the company’s main website. For instance, patrons will now able to sign up […]
Roku may be best known for its own hardware, but according to Variety, the company plans to expand its horizons. The trade pub, which spoke to three sources with knowledge of the plans, reports that Roku intends to integrate video playback directly into its mobile app for iOS and Android devices. (At the moment, the […]
From the department of mixed blessings: Global online piracy of Sunday’s The Walking Dead premiere was down 42% from last season’s premiere. That’s according to piracy-tracking firm Tecxipio, which compared the one-day periods following the two premieres’ initial airings on AMC. While reduced piracy may sound like a good thing, it may also indicate that […]
Mike Hopkins is leaving Hulu. Hopkins, who’s been Hulu’s CEO since 2013, is headed to Sony Pictures Television, where he’ll serve as Chairman. The Chairman role was previously held by Steve Mosko, who left Sony last year. Randy Freer, a Hulu board-member who’s served as President and COO of Fox Networks Group since 2013, will […]
Snapchat parent Snap Inc. may have grossly overestimated the demand for Spectacles, the video-recording glasses the company introduced last year. The Information reports that hundreds of thousands of unsold Spectacles are currently sitting in a Chinese warehouse. According to the report, Snap ordered an overabundance of units due to a deceptively strong surge of early […]
This could wind up amounting to nothing – or it could be big, big deal. Facebook has been undertaking a new test in six countries: Instead of placing publishers’ content in users’ main News Feeds, the platform is shunting those stories off to the harder-to-find Explore Feed. The upshot: Users have to head to the […]
Democratic senators Amy Klobuchar and Mark Warner unveiled new legislation that would require online political ads to follow the same disclosure rules as those that run on TV, radio, or satellite platforms. The proposal comes in the wake of revelations that Facebook, Twitter and Google ran Russian-bought political ads during the 2016 election. The bill, […]
Well that can’t be a good sign. As first reported by Business Insider, Snapchat parent Snap Inc. has fired eighteen employees in its recruiting division. The company confirmed the cuts, but hasn’t commented further. Snap is planning to slow hiring in 2018, according to an internal company email from CEO Evan Spiegel. (BI saw parts […]
Facebook advertisers have access to some new real estate. The company has been testing interstitial ads – along with “rewarded video” ads – within Instant Games. The service, which lets users play games with their friends within News Feed and Messenger, is now testing ads with select game developers. According to a new blog […]
Cord-cutting is hitting the pay-TV industry hard. The latest evidence is Verizon’s Q3 progress report: The telco lost a net 18,000 Fios Video subs in the corner, compared to a net gain of 36,000 during last year’s Q3. By the end of the third quarter, the company had 4.6 million Fios Video subs. In a […]
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