Recode reports that Verizon is in advanced talks to acquire Vessel, the video startup founded by former Hulu CEO Jason Kilar. Vessel has raised over $130 million since its launch in 2016, but the company has struggled. As Recode notes, Vessel has floundered in its efforts to recruit YouTube stars. That’s why, according to Recode, […]
Disney’s recent investment in Major League Baseball’s BAMTech streaming technology provides “a great way” to move ESPN and other Disney assets to digital platforms for additional exposure, Disney CEO Bob Iger told investors. ESPN is developing a service that will offer “complementary” programming for fans of sports to which the channel has licensed video rights, […]
The Presidential hopefuls aren’t the only ones hitting the debate stage. Launching today (September 22) on Seeso is Debate Wars, an original series moderated by Michael Ian Black where two teams of comedians and improvisers enter the “Debatium” to settle age-old arguments. Topics include cats vs. dogs, pie vs. cake, babies vs. old people, and […]
Soon enough, you may be switching over to Netflix on your cable box. According to Comcast CEO Brian Roberts, the company expects to make Netflix available via its X1 operating system before Thanksgiving. “Our organization has made the conscious decision that we are going to aggregate other people’s content, some of which we will sell […]
Ah, that long-hoped-for moment when the ‘m’ becomes a ‘b.’ According to a new report from the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA), paid music streaming became a billion-dollar industry in the first half of 2016, generating over $1 billion in revenue and accounting for 30% of all music industry revenue. The trade group says […]
GoPro launched some new toys. The company announced its new lineup of action cameras, cloud services, and, most awesomely, its long-awaited drone. The new Hero 5 Black 4K camera will sell for $399, and the new Hero 5 Session – which comes without a touch screen – will sell for for $299. Both launch October […]
Social media pros rejoice: You now have some precious breathing room on Twitter. The social platform no longer counts videos, photos, GIFs, polls, or quote tweets against its 140-character limit. Twitter is also beginning to test a new feature that will enable users to reply to another user without having that user’s “@” handle count […]
If you’re looking to use YouTube as a jukebox, get ready for some good news. Google’s new Google Chrome Beta for Android (version 54) allows users to play YouTube videos in the background. Previously, opening a new app or webpage would automatically pause a YouTube video, with no means of restarting it without returning to […]
20th Century Fox has lost some major execs to Netflix of late; now it wants to make Netflix pay for it. Fox has filed a lawsuit against the streaming giant, arguing that this year’s hires of Tara Flynn and Marcos Waltenberg represented an intentional effort to incentivize the execs to break contracts that ran through […]
According to a new study from RBC Capital Networks, Netflix received more viewership in 2015 than each of the major media conglomerates’ combined TV networks. But the study also found that, as compared to many TV networks, the streaming giant generated less than half the profit per hour of viewership. That may sound like a […]
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