CNN isn’t new to the digital space. Aside from taking great pains to build up its own brand’s digital media presence, it also helped to launch the short-form video publication Great Big Story last year. Now the network has acquired Beme, a video-sharing app co-founded by Tumblr vet Matt Hackett and YouTube star Casey Neistat. […]
DirecTV Now, AT&T’s much-anticipated OTT-based live TV service, made its debut yesterday. Dish Network’s Sling TV, arguably DirecTV Now’s biggest competitor in the space, apparently didn’t want to get lost in the conversation. Dish announced that it’s introducing cloud-based DVR functionality to Sling TV, starting with a new beta test. Users won’t be able to […]
The open source multimedia player VLC has added 360-degree video support to its desktop apps. (Users can download free test versions from the VLC website.) VLC says that mobile support will follow soon. And VLC apps designed specifically for VR headsets like the Google Daydream View and Oculus Rift will likely debut next year. The […]
Black Friday has come and gone, and the numbers speak volumes. According to estimates from Adobe, Friday was the first individual shopping day in U.S. history in which consumers made over $1 billion worth of purchases via phones and tablets. (About $1.2 billion, to be precise.) That’s a 33 percent increase over last year’s Black […]
AT&T’s DirecTV Now, the OTT TV service scheduled to debut Monday, almost certainly won’t feature America’s most-watched channel at launch. AT&T and CBS Corp. have failed to reach a carriage agreement, according to Bloomberg. Absent an 11th-hour deal, CBS will be the only top media company left out of the service. The two major questions, […]
Amazon Video is reportedly looking to get into live sports content. According to unnamed sources who spoke with the Wall Street Journal, the company has already met with the NFL, NBA, MLB, Major League Soccer, the ACC, and other possible licensing partners. The meetings have reportedly been informal, and it remains to be seen which […]
Donald Trump’s shocking victory is causing a whole lot of soul-searching among advertisers, according to a report from the Wall Street Journal’s Alexandra Bruell and Suzanne Vranica. The meat of it: Agency figures are suddenly wondering whether they’ve been hopelessly out of touch with the rural, “elite-distrusting” voters who punched The Donald’s ticket to the […]
BuzzFeed’s most prominent investor apparently wasn’t done investing. NBCUniversal announced that it has poured another $200 million into the digital media company, identical to the amount it invested last year. Along with the funding, the companies say they will expand their sales/advertising partnership. Specifically, they’ll work together on NBCU’s Content Studio, a short-form digital media […]
The Vivendi-owned YouTube-competitor Dailymotion is getting a redesign, according to Dailymotion Chairman Maxime Saada. “We are rebuilding the platform from floor to ceiling,” Saada announced. “We cleaned up the explicit content, we removed the robots that pollute the audience, and we now have a sound basis on which we will be able to restart the […]
DirecTV Now is almost here. AT&T announced that its upcoming over-the-top live TV service will debut one week from today during a November 28 launch event in New York City. More details about the service will be revealed at the time, but we already know a lot. Most importantly: The service will carry over 100 […]
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