Disney Chief Executive Bob Iger, who happens to be on the board of Apple, is a big fan of Apple TV and the ease of its user experience. While he didn’t open up to Bloomberg about future plans for the two companies, Iger acknowledged that the pair have a strong relationship. In other Apple […]
Vine has launched a new content discovery feature. The six-second video app’s new For You channel uses algorithms to suggest recommended videos to users. “Our home feeds on Vine are filled with posts from the accounts we follow across comedy, music, sports and more,” wrote Vine API Engineer Luis Tandalla in a blog […]
The Awesomes, Hulu’s original animated superhero comedy series from co-creator Seth Meyers, has met a deeply uncool fate. The show, which debuted in 2013, streamed what turned out to be its final episode (at least on Hulu) in November.
With 2016 around the bend and the Rio Summer Games looming, NBC Sports Group and NBCSN President Jon Miller is starting the New Year with a bang, courtesy of the Winter Classic. The NHL tradition has scored seven of the most-watched regular season games for the league for the past 25 years, and has evolved […]
In order to increase video quality and decrease bandwidth usage, Netflix will be re-encoding all its files to reflect the technical needs of its individual pieces of content. For instance, Gladiator will probably be blessed with a higher bitrate than The Spongebob Squarepants Movie. But since the latter actually doesn’t need as much data to […]
Here’s a nice little perk of having Facebook bona fides: the social network is now letting all users with Verified Pages make use of live-streaming video. It’s the next step in Facebook’s rollout of its live-streaming video service, which it eventually aims to make available to all its users. The feature was already accessible […]
And to think, Matt Damon’s character in The Martian could have avoided all that unpleasantness if he’d just strapped on a headset. At the South by Southwest festival next March, Fusion will debut The Mars 2030 Experience, a new VR experience simulating NASA’s proposed mission to Mars. Fusion built the experience with help from the […]
Given the miniscule Democratic primary field, it only stands to reason that viewers should them on a small screen. The January 17 presidential debate between Hillary Clinton and Bernie Sanders (and also one other guy) will live-stream on NBC News’s YouTube channel. (It will air linearly on NBC.) While other networks have live-streamed this seasons […]
Bet you didn’t predict this career move: Mariah Carey has launched a sketch comedy series. The acclaimed musician has teamed up with Funny or Die to launch Mariah Carey’s Holiday Sketchtacular, a limited 8-episode series set to run on Verizon’s Go90 service between December 15 and December 22nd.
The online video site Dailymotion has partnered with AOL Platforms. Advertisers will now be able to buy Dailymotion inventory through ONE by AOL, the programmatic platform launched by AOL earlier this year.
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