Meerkat ups ante with GoPro streaming

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Meerkat is upping its game, adding support for GoPro cameras. GoPro3 owners can now stream their videos directly to Meerkat with an iPhone wireless connection. It’s one of several recent announcements, including the ability to connect with Facebook profiles, that the streaming video app has made, as rival Periscope, owned by Twitter, generates buzz. Adobe […]

Sharknado3: StatSocial Twitter Audience ratings results are in

Stat Social exclusively tracked Twitter Audience Ratings from the Sharknado3: Oh Hell No on July 22 for Cynopsis. Key findings: Demographics: Age: 27% millennials (18-34) Gender: 60% men Location: 7% were from Florida Income: 52% earn over $50K Favorite Cameos: 5.1x more likely to like Mark Cuban than the Twitter average; 7.2x more likely to […]

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Collective Digital Studio signs YouTube band Boyce Avenue

Boyce Avenue

Collective Digital Studio (CDS) signed rock band Boyce Avenue, a group with seven million subscribers and over two billion views on YouTube. “We joined YouTube only two years after its launch, before being a YouTube star was a thing,” said the band in a statement. “We knew this was a platform from which we could […]

Jukin Media, Tiny Riot! partner on ‘The Pet Collective’

User-generated video company Jukin Media partnered with FremantleMedia North America’s Tiny Riot! to joint manage The Pet Collective. Tiny Riot! will work with Jukin to bring its library of pet viral videos to the site. The Pet Collective has more than 165 million lifetime views, and one million fans across social platforms.

New Form Digital, The Jim Henson Company unveil cast for filmmaker PJ Liguori’s new series

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Collaborators New Form Digital and The Jim Henson Company unveiled the star-studded cast for filmmaker PJ Liguori’s Oscar’s Hotel for Fantastical Creatures, available on Vimeo On Demand on Sept. 15. Digital and traditional talent featured in the series include Chris Kendall, Anna Akana, Mitchell Davis, Grace Helbig, Mamrie Hart, Hannah Hart, Dan Howell, Felix Kjellberg […]

Ovation TV to begin featuring YouTube creators’ content

Ovation TV inked deals with YouTube channel Kuma Films and YT creator David Poland to produce specials for linear and VOD. Working with Ovation Digital Arts, Kuma Films will debut a documentary and additional performance videos on the network this fall. And today is the launch of Poland’s series of specials, Celebrity Conversations, based on […]

Lorne Michaels’ film to land on Netflix on July 30

Lorne Michaels

Netflix will premiere Staten Island Summer, the new film from Saturday Night Live’s Lorne Michaels, on July 30. The comedy includes plenty of SNL vets, including Cecily Strong, Bobby Moynihan, Fred Armisen, Will Forte and Kate McKinnon. Limited theatrical run begins this Friday.

Study: Brand video views increased 85% from last year

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YouTube enlisted video marketing company Pixability to evaluate the top 100 brands on the platform. The findings: branded video views of companies pulled from Inerbrand’s 2014 list increased 85 percent from just a year ago, to 40.1 billion views in June 2015 compared to 21.7 billion in June 2014. The brands also saw a spike […]

Hulu considering higher priced, ad-free option for subscribers

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Hulu subscribers may soon have an ad-free option, but it will cost them. Currently, users pay $7.99 for the streaming service’s premium version, which includes commercials. According to the Wall Street journal, an ad-free tier could launch this fall for $12-$14/month. Hulu has about nine million paid subscribers, versus ad-free Netflix’s 65 million worldwide.

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