Facebook is stepping up its 360-degree video game. The company, which unveiled its 360-degree video feature in September, announced that the feature is now available on Android devices, the web, and via the Facebook iOS app. Facebook has also added new 360-degree content partners; those include Nickelodeon, ABC News, and Fox’s Scream Queens, which has […]
Six seconds? Vine stars-turned actors Nash Grier and Cameron Dallas had no problem going nine whole innings. Their feature-length film The Outfield, which debuted Tuesday exclusively on iTunes, is now the best-selling drama on Apple’s iTunes store. The Outfield was produced by Fullscreen Films.
Just amazing. A raft of social media stars are jumping onboard for season 28 of CBS reality series The Amazing Race. The new cast members include YouTubers Tyler Oakley, Blair Fowler, and Burnie Burns, Vine stars Zach King and Cole LaBrant, and others. Host Phil Keoghan will be live streaming the season’s November 15 kick-off […]
Leave it to Facebook to take customized news to a new level. The company has introduced Notify, an app allowing users to subscribe to push notification feeds from specific publishers. The app also recommends news sources based on users’ Facebook profile interest. Notifications display on a user’s phone screen; clicking a link takes the user […]
T-Mobile is launching Binge On, a new feature that gives T-Mobile users access to Netflix, HBO Go, DirecTV, and Verizon’s Go90, and 20 other services. (Full list here. The pay services are still restricted to subscribers.) Best news of all: under Binge On, the streaming video services won’t eat into customers’ data plans. Meanwhile, […]
As Instagram ramps up its advertising operation, it can’t hurt to make sure those ads are, well, good. The Facebook-owned company has launched the Instagram Partner Program, an initiative designed to match advertisers with expert partners who can help improve the quality of their ads – anything from helping to hone the creative to fine-tuning […]
Twilight author Stephanie Meyer has teamed up with Lionsgate to develop a new TV series, which will air on both Hulu and an unnamed U.K. broadcaster. Lionsgate CEO Jon Feltheimer revealed the news Tuesday during an earnings call. The series, titled The Rook, can travel forwards and sideways but not diagonally. (Sorry, chess joke.)
This section is usually reserved for the PewDiePies and Grace Helbigs of the world, but today they’ll have to take a back seat. Barack Obama has launched his official Facebook page. In the first-ever post on the President Obama page, the POTUS urges viewers to take action on climate change.
After HBO’s success with The Jinx, this seems like a no-brainer. Netflix has picked up Making a Murderer, a new 10-part true crime documentary miniseries focused on Steven Avery, a prisoner who was exonerated for a sexual assault, only to become a suspect in a new murder. Murderer, which was directed by Laura Ricciardi and […]
Oh snap. Snapchat now boasts six billion video views a day, according to the Financial Times. As recently as May, that number was *only* two billion. The six-billion-daily-views mark places Snapchat behind only Facebook, which, according to the latter company’s Q3 earnings call last week, gets 8 billion views a day.
Partner Post: 500 channels. Infinite streaming. Endless choice. Great American Media's Bill Abbott has a clear answer on how to build loyalty anyway — and it starts with brand.