Amazon wants to get its original shows in front of more eyeballs. That’s why the company is making 10 of its series pilots available on Amazon Video’s Facebook page and YouTube channel. Pilots now streaming on Facebook and YouTube include those of Transparent, The Man In the High Castle, and several others.
Google has launched Duo, a new video chat app. The app offers full-screen one-to-one video calling; it’s available for both iOS and Android. The app is purposefully uncluttered – it doesn’t come equipped with stickers or other visuals, and offers no group chat or text messaging features. It does, however, come equipped with a new […]
Let’s be honest: Even cord-cutters don’t necessarily want to watch an NFL game on a smartphone or desktop. That’s why Twitter is currently negotiating with Apple to bring its app to the Apple TV, according to a report from the New York Times. Earlier this year, Twitter acquired the streaming rights to next season’s Thursday […]
Hulu snared the rights to the sixth and last season of Sony Pictures Television’s Community. The series spent the first first five seasons of its original run on NBC, before moving to Yahoo for its final season. With its acquisition of season 6, Hulu now holds the rights to all six seasons.
AT&T has consolidated its digital, media, and creative accounts – and the consolidated account, worth about $3 billion, has gone to Omnicom. Omnicom will now take on most of AT&T’s creative, digital, data, and analytics in the U.S., as well as Mexico. Omnicom’s BBDO will head up creative (including brand work for both DirecTV and […]
A federal judge has overturned the murder conviction of Brendan Dassey, one of the two main subjects of Netflix docu-series Making a Murderer. The decision can still be appealed. If prosecutors don’t attempt to retry him, Dassey will be released from prison in 90 days. A second season of the Netflix series – set to […]
Arianna Huffington is reinventing herself for the umpteenth time. Huffington announced that she’s stepping away from the Huffington Post to run Thrive Global, a new start-up focused on health and well-being. Huffington co-founded her namesake publication in 2005. She’s announcing her departure only two months after she extended her contract with HuffPo owner AOl. The […]
Turner led a $45 million investment in Refinery29, the digital media company geared toward millennial women. Refinery29 has raised $125 million to date. Over the past year, Refinery29 has dramatically increased its video offerings, and has even launched local websites in Germany and the U.K. Turner is the company’s second TV partner; Scripps Networks Interactive […]
Facebook is unveiling a slew of new video metrics in its Video Library and Page Insights sections. Publishers will we be able to analyze minutes viewed by gender, age, and geographical locations, and compare those metrics against the typical video viewers on their pages. (Facebook is playing a bit of catch-up here; YouTube has offered […]
In a major new decision, a three-judge panel of the Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals ruled that the FCC can’t preempt state laws that prevent public entities from offering broadband service. The case involves the cities of Chattanooga, Tennessee and Wilson, North Carolina, both of which sought to expand broadband services past their municipal boundaries. […]
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