Say goodbye to stars, say hello to hearts. Twitter has eliminated its “favorite” feature, replacing it with a “like” feature. Instead of clicking on a star, users now click on a heart. The company made the same changes to Vine, its short video platform. “We want to make Twitter easier and more rewarding to use, […]
And so Vice Media’s march into linear TV begins. The digital news giant will soon officially announce the upcoming launch of its new U.S. TV network. The news was first reported by The Wall Street Journal. As has long been speculated, the company is partnering with A+E Networks: A+E’s H2 Network will now become a […]
Snapchat updated its privacy policy last week, and the changes left some users a tad freaked out. Among other things, the updated policy states that Snapchat has the right to “exhibit, and publicly display [user] content in any form and in any and all media or distribution methods[.]” Snapchat has now sought to reassure users: […]
Oliver Queen has fought all sorts of baddies; now he’s contending with pirates. On Sunday, online pirates got ahold of a rough cut of Episode 5, Season 4 of the CW’s superhero drama Arrow. The episode has already been downloaded well over ten thousand times. It airs on the CW November 7.
Even Simon Cowell couldn’t save a Yahoo original series. The company, which recently announced $42 million in Q3 losses stemming from underperforming original programming, has now put the kibosh on Ultimate DJ, its planned electronic dance music competition. Cowell was set to produce. The news comes on the heels of last week’s decision to cancel […]
In the end, the ESPN-owned Grantland just couldn’t survive without Bill Simmons. The revered sports journalists created the site in 2011 and worked as its Editor-in-Chief until this past May, when he departed ESPN amidst strained relations with the company. Now ESPN has suspended the site’s publication entirely. Grantland was highly regarded for its commentary, […]
The curated video space is getting crowded. Facebook-owned Instagram has followed in the footsteps of Snapchat’s Live Stories feature and Twitter’s Moments feature: On Saturday (Halloween) through midday Sunday, the photo-and-video-sharing app ran an easily navigable, human-curated collection of Halloween-themed videos from Instagram users. An Instagram spokesperson told Re/code that this was “just the start” […]
To paraphrase George Orwell, Apple TV and Chromecast have ceased to exist; they have never existed. At least, that’s the sense you’ll get if you search for the devices on Amazon. The retailer has followed through on its promise from early this month, removing all traces of the devices from its website. All traces: You […]
Maker Studios is gearing up for some more making. The Disney-owned digital media company will produce at least eight original series for Go90, Verizon’s mobile streaming service. That includes content based on Marvel comics and Star Wars. Maker also plans to produce live events for Go90. See a list of some of the planned content […]
Twitch is for gamers…and painters? The highly popular video game live streaming site is launching Twitch Creative, a designated section featuring live streams of artists practicing their crafts. Said artists will range from photoshoppers re-creating famous video game characters, to painters depicting open landscapes, to musicians strumming on their guitars. And to kick off […]
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