OTT/Streaming

Netflix's boom in subscribers is a sign that the world is accepting internet TV, meaning without commercials and on-demand, said CEO Reed Hastings during an earnings call with inve... More

Sony Music Entertainment sees big growth prospects for music streaming in Nigeria, thanks to falling Internet data costs and a large, growing population, a senior executive told Re... More

The catalog fare will be available through Chinese streaming service Tencent Video and marketed in part by television manufacturer Skyworth, which sells 4K TVs featuring Dolby Visi... More

A streaming service for stand-up comedy called Laugh.ly, which publicly launched this past August, has now closed on $2.25 million in seed funding led by New York Angels, the compa... More

Last year, YouTube brought 10 of its creators to the Sundance Film Festival with the aim of helping them develop their ideas into scripted series. Now, on the eve of the second yea... More

Amazon is whipping out its checkbook with a no-haggle offer to filmmakers whose movies are official selections of the 2017 Sundance Film Festival — if they agree to make their mo... More

Would you believe that Netflix is almost 20 years old? Though it launched in 1998, it was only in 2007 that Netflix came up with the idea that would change the way we watch everyth... More

Television has become a mess. Mainly because, for anyone who’s stopped paying for cable, it’s not actually “television” anymore — it’s video content delivered via a... More

Jerry Seinfeld is getting into business with Netflix. The comedian has signed a production deal with the streaming giant that will bring his new comedic projects to Netflix beginni... More

The Liberal government is reviewing whether to enforce a so-called Netflix tax on the digital services Canadians buy from foreign-based firms over the internet. A high-profile exam... More

Twitter has further expanded its sports broadcasting portfolio through a partnership with Seven West Media to live stream video and highlights from the Australian Open Tennis Champ... More

Long a symbol of internet-era value destruction, the music industry has scratched and clawed its way to an impressive milestone: an estimated 100 million people now have streaming ... More

“People who watch movies on phones (especially if they think they can leave valid critical comments on imdb) should be shot,” the critic Anne Billson declared on Twitter in mid... More

YouTube today is announcing a new feature to help creators monetize when they go live. It’s called Super Chat, and allows viewers to pay to pin a comment on live streams. Soon, w... More

In a move that would pit it against the likes of Netflix, Amazon and HBO, Apple is reportedly on the cusp of unveiling film and TV programming of its own. According to the Wall Str... More

A tax on Netflix, Hulu and other streaming-video services may be coming soon to your city or state. As jurisdictions lose the sales-tax money they once received from DVD rentals, t... More

Sony and Warner Brothers have increased their investment in HOOQ, a Southeast Asian streaming-video service that competes head-to-head with Netflix and Amazon in the region. The tw... More

Twitter will be streaming Donald Trump’s inauguration for the top political job in the U.S. starting at 11 AM ET on Friday, January 20 in partnership with PBS NewsHour. The feed ... More

For the past several years, Netflix has been pouring money into Brazil. Local audiences at first met the company with skepticism, bafflement, or indifference. Over time, Netflix st... More

Streaming TV shows, movies, and other types of video over the internet to all manner of devices, once a fringe habit, is now a squarely mainstream practice. Even people still payin... More