Discovery

In a sentence that only makes sense in 2016, your favorite podcasts are becoming TV shows. As announced earlier this year, Start Up, a podcast that follows the creation of Gimlet M... More

The NFL just announced a new social media policy that is about as anti-fan friendly as it gets. According to league memos obtained by ESPN, the league’s social media policy effec... More

Snapchat wants Hollywood to pitch in programming ideas as it seeks to continue shifting its media offerings from more of a publication concept to act like TV shows. Now part of ... More

Snapchat is a little different today, going back to its roots with a retooling that boosts personal messages and lowers visibility for its publishing partners in Discover. The reco... More

The company, which recently rebranded from Snapchat to Snap with the launch of its new Spectacles glasses, is said to be preparing for an IPO with an eye toward making a public deb... More

For consumers, having content options is no longer a luxury, but an imperative. And so, too, are the multitude of devices that they use to engage with that content—be it a TV, ta... More

Roku customers streamed 4 billion hours of video and music in the first six months of 2016, according to the company. Compare that with 5.5 billion hours in all of 2015. Additional... 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

Laughly wants to be Spotify, but for comedy. Yes, its CEO Dave Scott knows that Spotify already has comedy albums, but if you tell him that he'll counter with a fact that's soberin... More

AT&T Inc. and media executive Peter Chernin are doubling down on their efforts to convince the YouTube generation to pay for videos. The owners of Otter Media are backing VRV, a ne... More

Twitter is an advertising company, so firms from both sectors could make a strategic case for buying it. But even a tech company without an ad business, such as prospective bidder ... More

Apple Music's partnership with Frank Ocean resulted in one of the three major labels curbing the practice of exclusive releases to single streaming services (because of an inspired... More

The Summer Olympics was something of a coming-out party for Snapchat, the mobile storytelling and messaging app. Nearly 35 million users in the United States watched highlights and... More

The Walt Disney Co. is working with a financial adviser to evaluate a possible bid for Twitter Inc., according to people familiar with the matter. After receiving interest in discu... More

Spotify and Apple are divided on how to make finding music easier. Apple Music relies heavily on human curators to pick songs. Spotify has those, too, but it’s more focused on al... More

The first of the three presidential debates is coming up on Monday night, and in addition to the spotlight being on Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump, it looks like a big focus will... More

Musicians may grumble about royalty rates, but music streaming services and paid subscriptions are the prime source of revenue in the music industry.A report published by the Recor... More

Yesterday, Pandora finally publicly announced the launch of its “new” Plus tier, and in doing so, the company may have kicked off a new era in the story of streaming music. Whi... More

Pandora Media Inc. rolled out a new version of its ad-free internet radio service Thursday, allowing subscribers to replay songs, skip more of them and listen offline for the same ... More

In the world of music streaming, numbers mean everything. Major players have come and go, but Spotify and Apple are the two companies who largely dominate the market. After Tim Coo... More