OTT/Streaming

The cost of a monthly music streaming service hits a bum note with some listeners. In a survey by UK pollsters YouGov and subscription software company Zuora, 2,115 adults discusse... 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

It seems like every content producer across the media landscape is trying his or her hand at live video streaming. Even those with faces for radio. WABC Radio in New York has begun... More

Twitch, the live videogame streaming platform now owned by Amazon, has been actively seeking to raise its profile in the advertising industry, luring marketers with the promise of ... More

Despite a global footprint, Netflix Oct. 17 announced it plans to distribute content in China through third-party streaming services instead of launching a standalone platform. “... More

Time was, it was online delivery that required investment decisions and a strategic shift. But now, for broadcasters looking for efficiency and transformation in how to deliver liv... More

Twitch, the live videogame streaming platform now owned by Amazon, has been actively seeking to raise its profile in the advertising industry, luring marketers with the promise of ... More

NBC is giving aspiring musicians a chance to be discovered with a social-driven show called The Stream, which sees music industry titans seeking to unearth the next superstar via t... More

Periscope broadcasters don’t just have to rely on their cell phone cameras anymore: The Twitter-owned live streaming service announced a new feature called Periscope Producer Thu... 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

The larger question is: are albums necessary anymore? If fans are consuming music on streaming services and mostly listening to playlists, does it even make sense to release full a... More

Netflix’s audience of cord-cutters and cord-shavers who can’t be bothered with traditional cable TV are disrupting another classic Hollywood viewing experience: the movie theat... More

SiriusXM host Howard Stern made big news late last year when his latest contract renewal with the satellite radio firm included plans for a video app to launch in 2016. But creativ... More

Big data not only needs to be processed quickly, but any analytical insights that can be gleaned from it must be done as close as possible to real time. Not only is it frequently i... More

American record labels and music publishers are now on track for a second consecutive year of growth. Recent reports on sales of music from Europe, where some countries are experie... More

Amazon is planning to launch its long-rumored on-demand music service, which will compete with Spotify and Apple Music, by the beginning of next year, according to a source close t... More

Most attendees walking the IBC 2016 exhibition floor on its opening day were probably unaware that a global, 24-hour music festival was underway at around the same time. That’s b... More

China’s live-streaming video craze is producing huge returns for U.S. investors. Momo Inc.’s 123 percent third-quarter return was the fourth-best among U.S.-listed stocks with ... More

In an era where consumers are quite literally living and dying on Facebook Live, the implications of the growth of live video streaming on both business and society as a whole have... More

As chief product officer at Netflix Inc., Neil Hunt is responsible for making the service behind the buzzy shows work without hiccups. He manages two-thirds of the company’s empl... More