On the first day of the Sundance Film Festival yesterday, Vimeo announced the Vimeo On Demand Publisher Network. The platform allows partners to sell premium, ad-free content on their sites from Vimeo’s VOD catalog, within articles or from their own VOD storefront. Launch partners include The Atlantic, CBS Interactive Media Group’s TVGuide.com, TV.com and Metacritic; […]
Former Hulu CEO Jason Kilar officially opened the doors to his latest video venture, Vessel. The platform will distribute content for first-run distribution at least 72 hours in advance at a $2.99 price tag, with the subscription and advertising revenues leaning generously towards the creator (70 percent of the ad rev, 60 percent of the […]
Jesse Eisenberg is adapting his short stories Bream Gives Me Hiccups as a half-hour comedy for Amazon. Ravi Nandan (Playing House) and John Hodges will executive produce the series, which follows a 9-year-old restaurant critic who always brings his alcoholic mother and his friend Matthew along.
Netflix hit 57.4 million global subscribers, adding 13 million and generating $1.3 billion in revenue, the streaming service announced in its Q4 earnings report yesterday. However, U.S. subscriber rate is down from a year ago, dipping to 1.9 million this year from 2.3 million added in Q4 2013.
YouTube will reincarnate its Originals Channels by the end of year, Head of YT Originals Alex Carloss announced at NATPE yesterday. The programming on the channel will be tied into its Google Preferred ad program, with YT selecting native top talent to foster premium content. However, Carloss said the content will not take on the […]
Amazon is taking on the silver screen, planning to acquire original movies for theatrical release and early-window distribution on its Prime Instant Video service. Feature films will not be available online the day of their theatrical release, but instead be available to Prime subscribers four to eight weeks after. According to The Hollywood Reporter, the […]
Katy Perry and Lenny Kravitz won’t be the only headliners of the Super Bowl Halftime Show during the Feb. 1 game. YouTube and Collective Digital Studios will also release its own halftime show. Hosted by YT’s Epic Meal Time’s Harley Morenstein, the program will feature more than 20 YT celebs, such as, Freddie Wong, Toby […]
A long weekend saw CBS and the NFL renew their vows for Thursday Night Football, announcing the deal on Sunday. The agreement will be for the 2015 season with an addition year available at the NFL’s option as CBS and NFL Network simulcast TNF for the first eight games of the season. NFL Network will […]
Vimeo struck a deal with Maker Studios to use Maker content on the Vimeo-on-Demand platform. Maker still primarily uses YouTube as its distribution outlet along with its own Maker.tv, but this partnership will create another monetization gateway for its 55,000 creators beyond YT ad sales. Last October, YT CEO Susan Wojcicki revealed plans to roll […]
Comedy Gives Back partnered with digital distributor Electric Sheep to launch comedy donation site Comicure. Clips from comedians such as Reggie Watts, Kevin Nealon and Lliza Shlesinger will be on the site, and in return, viewers can donate to causes Feeding America and Malaria No More. “Comicure allows us to expand our window of monetization […]
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