At a moment when licensed movies seem to be an increasingly distant concern for Netflix, Hulu just inked its biggest film output agreement to date. In a multi-year pact with Annapurna Pictures, Hulu will have pay-one window streaming rights to all of the studio’s future films. Movies released by Annapurna will stream exclusively on Hulu […]
The fight against “fake news” has come to the Google search engine. For certain stories, a “Fact Check” tag will now show up in Google’s worldwide search results. The tag will display a specific claim, who made it, and then fact-check the result. The feature already debuted in several countries in October, but that was […]
Google’s escalating efforts to ensure brand safety continue apace. comScore announced that it has partnered with the tech giant to provide independent brand safety reporting for ad campaigns that appear on YouTube. comScore says that Google will make use of a “proprietary brand safety engine” that will be built into its Campaign Essentials platform. The […]
Say hello to Twitter Lite. The social media company’s new web app, which launched globally on Thursday, features faster load times and consumes less data. The app is aimed squarely at emerging markets with shakier internet connections. To that end, Twitter Lite features a bandwidth saver mode, which lets users selectively download images in their […]
YouTube TV is here – if you live in New York, L.A., San Francisco, Chicago or Philadelphia. Equipped with about 50 TV channels, Google’s new TV service costs $35 per month. It comes with an unlimited cloud-based DVR, and an interface that situates digital content alongside its TV recommendations. (In case it wasn’t already clear, […]
The high-end VR headsets that hit the market last year haven’t been selling as quickly as their creators had hoped. (The multi-hundred dollar price tags just might have had something to do with that.) Now Sony is trying a new strategy. The Japanese tech and entertainment giant has reportedly set its sights on commercial customers, […]
Verizon is out to clarify a few things. On Monday, news broke that, once the Yahoo merger closes, the internet company will merge with Verizon’s AOL, with the combined brands taking on the name Oath. But Verizon now says that AOL and Yahoo will maintain their individual branding. “[The] AOL and Yahoo brands will not […]
Good news for music fans: YouTube will exclusively live-stream the first weekend of Coachella from April 14-April16. Performers include Lady Gaga, Radiohead, and a slew of other major artists. Viewers will be able to choose between three separate live channels, as well as a live 360-degree video mode. It’ll be the seventh straight year that […]
AOL CEO Tim Armstrong confirmed that, once Verizon’s acquisition of Yahoo closes, AOL and Yahoo will be merged into one entity. Its name? Oath. Current Yahoo CEO Marissa Mayer won’t be joining Oath, according to sources who spoke to Re/code.
And now Apple may enter the OTT TV space too – kind of. Re/code reports that the tech giant is interested in selling a TV package that consists entirely of HBO, Showtime, and Starz. (Now that’s a skinny bundle.) Apple has already reportedly approached the three networks. Apple actually sells those channels already, but individually. […]
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