The “pinning” business is about to get into the buying business. According to Recode, Pinterest will unveil an e-commerce “buy button” in three to six months. The new feature will allow its 70 million monthly users to order and pay for the products they discover and pin on the site. “If Pinterest’s buy button experiment […]
James Franco will star in Hulu’s upcoming nine-hour miniseries from J.J. Abrams called 11/22/63. Based on the Stephen King book of the same title, the thriller follows a high school English teacher who travels back in time to prevent the assassination of President John F. Kennedy. Bridget Carpenter (Friday Night Lights) will write the script […]
Saturday Night Live devotees, rejoice: in honor of the show’s 40th anniversary, NBC just released the free app SNL40, which features clips from more than 800 episodes. For the super-fan, the app includes tag-based data to deeply rummage through the past 40 years, along with more recent clips. NBC even went as far to supply […]
Kevin Spacey’s Frank Underwood made a surprise appearance on Netflix yesterday. The newest season of House of Cards hit the streaming service Wednesday afternoon, but was taken down immediately. The early release was an accident, according to The Hollywood Reporter. For now, HOC fans will have to wait until the original premiere date of Feb. […]
Conde Nast Entertainment added Univision bicultural video network Flama to its digital platform The Scene. The deal brings more than 100 original Flama episodes to The Scene’s roster, with plans for co-developed projects in the future. Flama originally launched on YouTube in 2013 and became its own destination in April 2014; it has since produced […]
The IAB extended the fourth annual Digital Content NewFronts by an additional day; they will now run from April 27 to May 7. The ten companies being added to the festivities are Beatport, Bloomberg Media, Collective Digital Studio, DailyMail.com/Elite Daily, DEFY Media, Endemol Beyond, Lin Digital, StyleHaul, The Street and Whistle Sports Network. Here’s the […]
Vimeo landed exclusive U.S. first window download rights to the documentary from Oscar-winner Alex Gibney called Going Clear: Scientology and The Prison of Belief. Originally premiered at the Sundance Film Festival, the doc is based on Pulitzer Prize winner Lawrence Wright’s book of the same name, which profiles eight former members of the Church of […]
Honda is onboard as the presenting sponsor of Community when it returns for its sixth season and its premiere on Yahoo Screen. The sponsorship includes several integrations this season, pre-roll video ads on new episodes and series highlights, and premium display and audience advertising across Yahoo’s network as part of a one-year program. Season six […]
DanceOn Network, which counts Madonna as a co-founder, is releasing the next ep of original docu-series The Edge today at 8:30a. The segment features a behind the scenes look at the making of singer/songwriter Ne-Yo’s new video. The second season premiere, which featured Sia, marked the series’ largest viewership, with 1 million views. DanceOn was […]
A House of Representatives oversight committee is investigating possible improper influence by the White House on the FCC’s new broadband and net neutrality rules. Rep. Jason Chaffetz (R-Utah), chairman of the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee, on Friday wrote to FCC Chairman Tom Wheeler requesting all documented communications between the Commission and the White […]
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