OTT/Streaming
HBO Launches in Spain, Adding Content from Disney, Nickelodeon (Variety)
HBO España, HBO’s video streaming service for Spain, launched on Monday, offering not only its most popular shows such as “Game of Thrones” but also content from renowned pr... More
AT&T Appeals to Cord-Cutters With DirecTV Now, a New Streaming Service (New York Times)
AT&T unveiled a streaming television service on Monday aimed at the millions of Americans who have broadband internet but no bundled TV package, offering an extensive list of chann... More
Disney Will Stream New ‘Star Wars’ Content Live on Twitter This Week (Recode)
Disney will reveal some new “never before seen content” for its upcoming movie, “Rogue One: A Star Wars Story,” exclusively on Twitter later this week. The two companies an... More
Vevo Begins Its Long-Brewing Transformation, Releases ‘Ones to Watch’ 2017 (Billboard)
The release of Vevo's "Ones to Watch" picks for 2017 is the latest mile marker passed on the road towards a fundamental shift in strategy from the major-label owned (and partnered)... More
IBM’s Unlikely Silo Buster: An Intranet Radio Station (Fast Company)
IBM Radio is a live-streamed intranet community station cofounded by [Miroslav] Azis and a few other company designers in Austin. Over the last year, the station has blossomed, and... More
The Rise of Native Ads in the Music Business (Forbes)
Pandora and Deezer are experimenting with sponsored songs, playlists and radio stations, while advocating for more accessible native ads for independent artists. As with many other... More
Amazon Prime Video is Finally Going Global (TechCrunch)
Since its global expansion in January, Netflix has sat alone as the sole video streaming site to be available in (almost) every country in the world. That situation looks like it w... More
President Trump Might Mess with Your Streaming TV (MIT Technology Review)
Here’s an offbeat question about the incoming Trump administration: how will it influence the future of streaming video? We know next to nothing about Donald Trump’s stances on... More
NeuLion Expands in Asia with RugbyPass OTT Service (MESA)
NeuLion has announced from the World Rugby Conference and Exhibition in London an expanded partnership with Coliseum Sports Media, to deliver live and on-demand rugby action throug... More
‘Thanksgiving’ Comedy Starring Amy Sedaris, Chris Elliott to Hit Verizon’s Go90 (Variety)
Verizon keeps spending on premium content for Go90: Next week the mobile-oriented video service will bow “Thanksgiving,” an original half-hour scripted comedy. The eight-episod... More
‘Netflix Tax’ Causes Stir in California Cities (The Drum)
At least a dozen cities in the Bay Area alone are weighing whether or not to adopt a streaming video tax to make up for lost revenue of those who no longer subscribe to cable, acco... More
2016: The Year OTT Video Won Over Sports TV (MediaPost)
Sports television had long been the missing puzzle piece and Achilles heel for OTT video ascendancy, holding it back from taking over entertainment. Until now. The last few months ... More
TiVo Readying ‘Mavrik’ Cloud DVR – Report (Variety)
TiVo is getting ready to launch new hardware that marks a radical departure from its existing digital video recorders (DVRs), according to multiple reports from Zatz Not Funny and ... More
Cities Considering Taxes on Video Streaming Services (SiliconValley)
For television viewers who “cut the cord” and moved over to streaming video services, the cable companies aren’t the only ones missing your money. Turns out your hometown mig... More
Live Video Takes Center Stage on Election Day (Digiday)
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
What if Twitter’s Future is Becoming Facebook’s Live Media App? (Fusion)
Facebook should buy Twitter, and roll it up with its Live video offering. Facebook’s transformation from a free social-networking website for desktop web browsers into an ecosyst... More
Vine’s Co-Founders Launch Streaming Service Named Hype (The Verge)
Live-streaming video is a crowded marketplace, with products from the likes of Twitter and Facebook already killing off one early pioneer, Meerkat. But the co-founders of Vine seem... More
YouTube is Still Having Trouble Getting People to Pay for YouTube (The Verge)
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
Vimeo Finally Commits to Subscription Video Service (VideoInk)
Since 2015 we’ve been hearing from Vimeo that it would, and then wouldn’t be doing a subscription service. But, in true “boy-who-cried-wolf” fashion, Vimeo today has gone o... More
China Wants to Make TV Shows with Netflix and HBO, Official Says, But Hurdles are Huge (L.A. Times)
Global streaming giant Netflix hasn’t been able to launch its service in China, and American TV studios have had a hard time cracking the massive Chinese television market. But ... More