Discovery

Several weeks ago, Twitter announced that it was closing down Vine, its short-video sharing app. The news was widely mourned by fans of the service, but it appears that those eulog... More

The biggest winner of Election Day will be Facebook and live video in general. More than a dozen media companies including ABC News, The New York Times, NowThis and The Washington ... More

As marketers struggle to find creative ways to inure fickle consumers to their ads, companies like General Electric and HBO are busy producing their own podcasts, hoping to capture... More

According to multiple sources with knowledge of the situation, YouTube Red had 1.5 million paying subscribers as of late summer, with another 1 million users signed up on a trial b... More

If you build it, will they come? That’s the question that newly launched Filmstruck must face. The Criterion Collection and Turner Classic Movies’ launch of the new streaming s... More

Whither goes the Vine refugee? With Twitter’s announcement last week that it’s shutting down the six-second looping video platform, Viners who have amassed audience have to thi... More

Users will still “be able to access and download your Vines,” the company says in a blog post. “We’ll be keeping the website online because we think it’s important to sti... More

Apple TV now has 1,600 apps devoted specifically to video content, so Apple is unveiling a product designed to make it easier to discover which TV shows and movies to watch. The ap... More

Facebook’s reliance on users manually flagging content, which requires heavy involvement from the site’s roughly 1.6 billion annual users each month, has prompted critics to sa... More

On a future that’s split and fragmented between platforms: "There’s a kind of idealist who thinks we have to consolidate all these different platforms into one because they onl... More

China has dethroned the U.S. as Apple’s biggest source of app store revenue, according to a new report from app store intelligence outlet App Annie. Chinese consumers spent a rec... More

TiVo released follow-up findings from its 2016 TiVo consumer survey, focusing on the behavior of U.S. millennials and how this coveted demographic interacts with video content, pro... More

Earlier this week, Instagram moved its Snapchat-like Stories to the Explore tab and announced that the feature has about 100 million daily active users. Now that Stories has been o... More

From deciding where to eat, to booking your next hair appointment, to buying movie tickets at the local theatre, Facebook wants to eventually control, or be involved with, every de... More

If VUDU is to increase its share of TVOD sales, and maybe even help accelerate sector growth, it needed to find a way of getting more people to its digital storefront. Adding free-... More

Finally landing your dream job is only half the story in Slack's new career-focused podcast. On Monday, the work-collaboration software company launched a branded podcast series ca... More

At its peak this summer, one in ten Americans was playing Pokémon GO. The smash hit game for catching Nintendo’s popular digital characters around real-world neighborhoods soare... More

Of the many problems that vex podcast and radio producers, the shareability of audio — or the lack thereof — remains at or near the top of the list. Unlike photos, videos, and ... More

Tucked away inside Pandora’s rebranded app, launched yesterday, the company was hiding its first iMessage app, too. In fact, it’s the first third-party party streaming music se... More

Hundreds of thousands of viewers tuned in to Facebook to watch two hazmat-suited BuzzFeed employees place rubber bands on a watermelon until it exploded, but now the company is rea... More