With the YouTube Kids app out this week, Mattel will develop a new slate of programming for the platform from its preschool content division, HIT Entertainment. HIT will release 52 three-minute original Thomas & Friends digital videos to premiere every week for the next year on its YT channel and on YouTube Kids. HIT Entertainment […]
YouTube’s kids’ destination officially launches today. The YouTube Kids app features videos from Jim Henson Co., Mother Goose Club, DreamWorks Animation, National Geographic Kids, Hit Entertainment and others with shows including Sesame Street, Fraggle Rock, Thomas the Tank Engine, Reading Rainbow and Talking Tom and Friends. Additionally, the app will include parental controls, limited pre-screened […]
Yahoo’s new original sports comedy series Sin City Saints will premiere on Yahoo Screen on March 23. The tech giant announced the new series at its Digital NewFront last April as a half-hour comedy that follows a pro basketball team in Las Vegas. The show is directed by Bryan Gordon (Curb Your Enthusiasm), executive produced […]
Hulu landed exclusive subscription video-on-demand rights to all 14 seasons of CBS’ CSI: Crime Scene Investigation, adding more than 300 episodes to its network. “The original series from the most successful franchise in television history has been licensed to the SVOD market for the first time,” CBS Corporation’s Chief Corporate Content Licensing Officer Scott Koondel […]
Defy Media’s Clevver (5 million YouTube subscribers, 120 million monthly video views) will gather some of YT’s biggest celebs to watch and react live to the best moments from this Sunday’s 2015 Academy Awards ceremony. The cast will include Kingsley (2.9 million subs), Spoken Reasons (1.7 million subs), Lisa Schwartz (1.3 million subs), Meghan Rienks […]
Media company Whalerock is creating online streaming networks for such celebrities as the Kardashian sisters, Howard Stern, and rapper Tyler, the Creator. According to the New York Times, the channels will launch in the next few months and will be available on the web and via mobile app, with both paid and free programming. This […]
Comedian Colin Quinn’s new eight-episode web series Cop Show kicked off yesterday. Released by Lexus’ L/Studio, the show’s guest stars include Jerry Seinfeld, Amy Schumer, and Jim Norton. Cop Show’s plot features Quinn trying to make a police drama in New York. Eps are weekly and five to six minutes in length.
VH1 and What’s Trending introduced the digital show Huge on the Tube with WT host Shira Lazar. The 12-episode series focuses on the story behind video sensations such as Jenna Marbles, Michelle Phan, Grace Helbig, and Mamrie Hart. “It was important to not touch on one-off successes, but on people who had used viral video […]
Facebook unveiled Product Ads, a new format for brands to display more products and better target users. Brands can highlight products that were most recently viewed or those that are selling well. Leading up to yesterday’s launch, Facebook tested the format with partners such as Target and Shutterfly. The new platform is released just as […]
Collective Digital Studio (CDS) signed seven creators from YouTube, Vine and Snapchat to the multi-channel network. The talent includes FouseyTUBE, PAINT, Whatever, Rudy Mancuso, Logan Paul, ItsMattEspinosa and Shonduras, which total more than ten million new subscribers combined and add one billion views to CDS. “With pranksters, innovative musical performers and teen heart throbs joining […]
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