Defy Media is launching a free service from Break.com called Movies on Break. The ad-supported product will feature 200 Lionsgate films available to stream online through Roku, Xbox and other mobile devices. Working within a framework of eight categories that include Pulse-Pounding Action, Screen Junkies Approves and Before They Were Famous, Break.com’s editorial team will […]
Christopher Walken, Dennis Miller and others will join David Spade in Crackle’s upcoming Joe Dirt 2: Beautiful Loser. Set to premiere this summer, the sequel to the 2001 film also stars Brittany Daniel, Patrick Warburton and Mark McGrath. Additionally, Crackle announced the return of Jerry Seinfeld’s Comedians in Cars Getting Coffee for a sixth season […]
Woody Allen will write and direct his first TV series for Amazon. The company signed off on a full season of the Untitled Woody Allen Project, a half-hour series to be made available on Prime instant Video next year. “I don’t know how I got into this,” Allen said. “I have no ideas and I’m […]
Community fans, rejoice: school’s back in session as of March 17. The premiere of the sixth season, picked up by Yahoo Screen after NBC cancelled it last year, will hit the service with two new episodes and release a new ep every subsequent Tuesday. Yahoo released a new cast video to promote the new season, […]
Facebook: A total of eight million people had more than 17 million interactions related to the Golden Globes on Sunday. The social network released the Top Golden Globes Moments, including: 1. Prince presents for Best Original song; Common and John Legend win 2. Jamie Dornan and Dakota Johnson present; Joanne Frogatt wins Best Supporting Actress […]
The streaming news network from CBS that launched in November last year, CBSN, is now available to iOS device owners. Through the updated CBS News app, users can access CBSN, including features such as “Quick Read” article previews, expanded video-on-demand offerings from CBS News programs, full-screen photo galleries and more. CBSN is available on Apple […]
To ramp up video streaming quality, Facebook bought QuickFire Networks on Friday. QFN is a technology that reduces the necessary bandwidth to view video online without affecting its quality. FB recently announced that video posts on the platform have increased 75 percent in the last year, and reach one billion video viewers per day around […]
As previously reported, Twitter will launch its new video feature in the coming weeks, but the social network unveiled more details at the CES convention. Highlights include: – Autoplay will look like Vine: the feature will allow marketers to create six-second video previews to entice users to click. However, marketers will have the choice to […]
For the first time, full episodes of American Idol are available to view online. Fox announced season 14’s premiere episode can now be streamed on AmericanIdol.com, Hulu and the FoxNOW app. Subsequent eps will be released the morning after the broadcast. The series returned this week to a 3.1 rating in the 18-49 demographic (down […]
Netflix reigns king among millennials compared to broadcast and cable subscriptions, according to a new survey from NATPE/Content First and the Consumer Electronics Association. Presented at CES yesterday (The full study will be released at NATPE in Miami at the end of the month), the joint study found: – 51 percent of millennials consider Netflix […]
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