After the much-hyped launch of its go90 service and its recent mobile video partnership with AwesomenessTV, it’s abundantly clear that Verizon sees mobile video content as a prime revenue generator, at least at some point down the road. To that end, the company has hired Chip Canter away from NBCU, where he served as SVP […]
Do we have a dark horse? Yahoo recently set an April 18 deadline for companies to submit bids to buy its web business. A new player has emerged: The Daily Mail. In a story that the Mail later confirmed, the Wall Street Journal reported that the U.K. newspaper and website is in talks with […]
Netflix, now active in almost 200 countries, is in the midst of an aggressive global expansion. Across the pond, it seems to be going particularly well. According to a new study from Enders Analysis, the service gained 1.8 million subs last year, more than the 1.3 million subs gained by all other streaming services […]
Just how much potential does live video have? On Friday, two BuzzFeed employees wrapped rubber bands around a watermelon until it exploded. The whole thing was live-streamed on Facebook, and lasted about 45 minutes. It garnered 800,000 concurrent viewers – the most ever for a Facebook Live video. Let’s repeat that: 40-plus minutes of rubber […]
Is it really, finally happening? Bloomberg reports that, come next week, Verizon will make a first-round bid for Yahoo’s Internet business. To sweeten the deal, Verizon’s willing to make a bid for the company’s Yahoo Japan Corp. stake, according to Bloomberg’s sources. And Bloomberg reports that, should Verizon succeed, it will merge Yahoo’s assets with […]
Will Al Roker be the face of the live video revolution? The famed Today show anchor – already no stranger to digital projects – has launched Roker Media. The new initiative is calling itself “the first Live Streaming Network,” or “LSN.” The digital network will develop shows in several categories, including food, sports, and music, […]
Awesome. Verizon has taken 24.5% equity stake in the teen- and pre-teen-oriented media company AwesomenessTV. DreamWorks Animation, AwesomenessTV’s majority shareholder, will retain a roughly 51% stake, while Hearst will retain a 24.5% stake. As part of the deal, AwesomenessTV and Verizon plan to launch a new mobile video service featuring premium transactional content. It will […]
This should tell you just how heavily Facebook is betting on live video: The social media giant has begun rolling out a panoply of new live video features, including a dedicated video tab within the Facebook iOS and Android apps. Set to roll out in the coming weeks, the new Video hub includes a slew […]
Under a new licensing agreement between Disney and Comcast, Comcast customers are now able to purchase an array of Disney films. Titles from the Pixar, Marvel Studios, Lucasfilm, and other Disney-owned libraries are included in the deal. (Star Wars: The Force Awakens is now available.) Titles will be available directly through the TV, as well […]
T-Mobile has also added Amazon Prime Music, Nickelodeon, Epix, ESPN Radio, Spike, Dailymotion, and a handful of other services to its Binge On program. (Technically the audio component of the program is called Music Freedom.) Users can consume content from all Binge On/Music Freedom partners without eating into their data plans.
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