OTT/Streaming

 

Video Gorillas Releases Media and Entertainment Industry’s Most Advanced Video Player and Plugins (MESA)

Video Gorillas, a developer of state-of-the-art media technology incorporating machine learning, neural networks, visual analysis, object recognition, and live streaming, announced... More

Survey: Consumers Want Cheap OTT (MCN)

Consumers may want their content when they want it and where they want it, but they don’t want it to cost much, according to a new survey by MoffettNathanson. MoffettNathanson pa... More

Spotify Now has 40 Million Paid Subscribers (Engadget)

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

Twitter Is Coming to Apple TV and Others to Stream NFL Games (AdAge)

The service has reached deals with Apple TV, Amazon Fire TV and Xbox One to bring its app to their online television offerings, Twitter announced on Tuesday. The Twitter TV app is ... More

Amazon and Pandora to Gauge Music’s Value in the Internet Age (New York Times)

How much are people willing to spend for streaming music? For years, thanks to rigid pricing structures at streaming services, the answer has been stuck at $10 a month or nothing. ... More

Game Time For Twitter: Jack Dorsey’s Big Bet On Live Events (Fast Company)

Dorsey is pushing his company to turn that cultural relevance—a place where news is both conveyed and made on a moment-by-moment basis—into a growth engine. In late April, Twit... More

‘Good Place’ Free Streaming Full Season, As NBC Ups Stacking Rights (Variety)

NBC has secured “stacking rights” to 90% of its fall TV show lineup, including “The Voice,” “Saturday Night Live” and “Superstore,” and will offer the five most rec... More

Turner Wants to Build its Own Streaming Service for Channels like CNN and TNT (Recode)

Turner wants to sell streaming subscriptions to its channels, including TNT, CNN and Cartoon Planet, directly to consumers. That won’t happen soon, but Turner CEO John Martin say... More

AT&T Joins Growing List of ‘Data-Free’ Video Streamers (HMM)

AT&T Sept. 7 announced DirecTV and U-verse subscribers can now stream live and on-demand video content without dinging their monthly broadband data plans, a growing industry practi... More

Evolution Digital Reaches Milestone of 12 Million Digital Set-Top Boxes Shipped to Customers (MESA)

Evolution Digital today announces that it has shipped 12 million digital set-top boxes to cable operators around the world, a landmark achievement for the rapidly growing IP Video ... More

IBC 2016: Verizon Digital Media adds Slicer to Volicon (Rapid TV News)

The integration allows users of the Volicon Media Intelligence service to launch over-the-top (OTT) offerings quickly by leveraging their existing Volicon hardware infrastructure. ... More

Can YouTube Make It Big on the Small Screen? (L.A. Times)

The new TV series “Single by 30” follows two high school friends who make a pact over French fries and milkshakes to marry one another if they’re both single at 30. The Los A... More

Why OTT + Social is a Winning Combination for Millennials (Videonet)

Iddo Shai, Kaltura: Although OTT TV is clearly taking off and competing with traditional cable and satellite almost everywhere around the globe, some still wonder what makes OTT th... More

Amazon Using Twitch Audience as Focus Group for New TV Shows (AdAge)

Amazon.com has discovered a new use for Twitch Interactive, which it purchased two years ago for about $1 billion. Seeking feedback from Twitch's highly engaged audience of 10 mill... More

Twitter’s Periscope Launches Ad Program for Live-Streaming Broadcasts (Variety)

Twitter is making its first move to let users of its Periscope live-streaming video service make money on their broadcasts. For the first Periscope ad campaign, Twitter has teamed ... More

The New Rules Of The Creative Economy (Forbes)

Though streaming and touring have emerged as bright spots for the music industry, neither remotely make up for the loss in revenues from recorded music for singers. Songwriters fac... More

Twitter Taps Baseball’s Tech Unit for Live Streaming (WSJ)

Twitter Inc. has tapped an industry pro to help stream its $10 million package of National Football League games this season: BAMTech, the streaming tech unit created by Major Leag... More

Spotify Can’t Live on $10 a Month (Bloomberg Gadfly)

With Spotify shooting for a public listing next year, it's time for the leading independent music-streaming service to step up its game. No more blaming the big, bad record labels ... More

CBS Adds Commercial-Free Option to OTT Service (AdAge)

CBS is introducing a commercial-free option for its direct-to-consumer service. For $9.99 a month, CBS All Access subscribers will be able to watch on-demand content sans commercia... More

YouTube Comedy Franchise Smosh Went Live on Friday Night (WSJ)

More digital publishers have been experimenting with live streaming on Facebook, particularly as the social network pays some of them to produce videos for its new live feature. Bu... More

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