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In a few short days, we will hear the familiar theme of the Olympics, see the lighting of the Olympic flame and beam with pride as we watch over 10,500 athletes from more than 206 ... More

Nearly half of viewers say they wait until they’ve heard good things about a show before they will start watching it, said Alan Wurtzel, NBC’s President of Research and Media D... More

Snapchat and the NFL are teaming up again this football season. The two sides announced a new two-year partnership on Tuesday in which the NFL will become the first pro sports leag... More

Vevo and Warner Music Group have confirmed a long-rumored partnership that will finally see premium video content from the major music company’s artists distributed across Vevo's... More

NBC has the U.S. TV rights to the Summer Olympics in Rio de Janeiro (Aug. 5-21), but that won’t be keeping content from the games off of YouTube. The Google-owned video hosting p... More

Like pretty much every other company in the world, the search giant is working an angle for the Rio events. Google will be utilizing a good number of its alphabetic offerings to ma... More

Twitter will live-stream “Suicide Squad” red-carpet coverage from the film’s premiere Monday in New York — marking its first live-video deal in the entertainment space. The... More

A few years ago, it was crazy to imagine social media companies paying anyone for being popular on their sites; the idea was for everyone to use them for free in exchange for givin... More

Twitter struck another live streaming deal — but this time, it’s a different kind of sports event: Turner and WME | IMG esports joint venture Eleague will be live streaming its... More

The International Olympic Committee set Aug. 21 as the the launch date for its promotional Internet-video destination — the Olympic Channel — designed to sustain fan interest i... More

Apart from cracking the workings of the mind, Oculus will give Zuckerberg the chance to actually make an object, as opposed to the intangible millions of lines of code that constit... More

Young people aren’t exactly the prime audience for Olympic events like track and field. In fact, for the two previous Summer Games, the median age of U.S. viewers has risen — f... More

The digital revolution that flummoxed the music, movie and publishing industries has given rise to a surprising winner: the audiobook. Audiobooks are the fastest-growing format in ... More

With all of the interest and hullabaloo around Pokémon Go and its clever use of augmented reality, one has to wonder if AR has superseded virtual reality as "the next big thing?" ... More

The 2016 Summer Olympics are just a few weeks away, and it looks like the TV-friendly time zone of the host city, Rio de Janeiro, will pay big dividends for NBC. With Rio just one ... More

There is no love lost between cable operators and streaming video services. The two industries have been duking it out for consumers’ eyeballs since streaming burst onto the scen... More

Snapchat Discover is going Hollywood. The messaging and media app is out looking for deals with major networks and studios that would transform the Discover section, where publishe... More

How do you reinvent music television for a generation that grew up not watching MTV, but YouTube, Vine and Snapchat? That’s a question that Vevo has been trying to answer ever si... More

Instagram is making the bold bet that the millions of celebrities, photographers, famous pets and regular Joes who post photos on the app are clamoring for more video, too. That's ... More

Rovi’s proposed $1.1 billion acquisition of DVR pioneer and set-top box maker TiVo moved one crucial step closer to completion today with the news that both the Federal Trade Com... More