Fullscreen may have started as a humble MCN, but it’s grown by leaps and bounds. The company, owned by Otter Media (a joint venture of AT&T and The Chernin Group) is now a full-blown digital media apparatus, incubating talent and producing exclusive content. And as of today, Fullscreen has its own SVOD service as well. […]
According to the Wall Street Journal, a team of Facebook engineers is hard at work developing a standalone camera app that would enable immediate live-streaming and video posting. According to the report, the app is merely a prototype and may never see release. But don’t be surprised if it does; Facebook has been diving […]
Only six months after Apple launched iTunes Movies and the iBooks Store in China, a Chinese regulator has shut down the two services. In recent months and years, China has been going out of its way to open doors for domestic tech companies – and that has meant restricting the operations of their foreign competitors, […]
Is Netflix coming to your cable box? FierceCable reports that the National Cable TV Cooperative (NCTC), which conducts negotiations for more the 700 cable systems, is nearing an agreement that would give NCTC members the option to integrate Netflix into their own video service offerings through TiVo’s interface. (The deal, not surprisingly, is being […]
Univision has purchased Disney-ABC’s equity in the millennial-oriented media company Fusion, taking an outright stake in the company. (Fusion had previously been a joint venture between Disney-ABC and Univision.) Univision will now be creating the Fusion Media Group, a unit composed of other Univision properties such as The Onion, Flama, The Root, El Rey, Univision […]
Is dynamic ad insertion finally ascendant? In any event, it’s got a powerful new backer. Among several announcements during his NAB keynote address, Google exec Daniel Alegre said that the tech giant will be rolling out dynamic ad insertion features via its DoubleClick ad platform, making cross-screen addressable ad-serving capabilities available to TV broadcasters. Broadcasters […]
Crackle held its Upfront yesterday, and the powers that be at Sony’s ad-supported streaming service made clear that they intend to build on an ambitious 2015 that saw the service’s first major foray into original scripted programming. First, the programming front: Along with renewing The Art of More, SuperMansion, and Comedians in Cars Getting Coffee, […]
AOL purchased RYOT, a production studio specializing in virtual reality and 360-degree video. AOL says it will use RYOT’s resources to boost The Huffington Post’s journalistic efforts. (RYOT and HuffPo have actually partnered before, on the Susan Sarandon-hosted reporting series The Crossing.) Interestingly enough, this is no anomaly. News outlets have been some of the […]
Seeso, the NBCU comedy SVOD service that launched in January, is looking for ways to land more subs. To that end, the service has been adding new (and increasingly serious-minded) original content. Adding a new and easy path to purchase can’t hurt either: This spring, Amazon Prime subscribers will be able to add a […]
Why do we take Facebook seriously when the company tells us its ad metrics? Because the third-party verification company Moat has been confirming the numbers since last September. But, as a new announcement makes clear, basic performance metrics aren’t enough; Facebook wants confirmation for its viewability and attention metrics as well. To that end, […]
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