OTT/Streaming

AT&T wants to take DirecTV over the top. The telecom company, which acquired cable giant DirecTV last summer, plans to launch three new subscription streaming services during ... More

Vubiquity has signalled its intention to capture top players in the Latin America OTT market with the launch of a fully managed digital storefront product at Andina Link 2016. The ... More

eMedia Network has implemented Akamai Technologies’ Media Delivery Solutions to deliver broadcast-quality video and radio content on its OTT/IPTV platform, iON. eMedia specialise... More

The pace of subscription adoption has a good chance of accelerating further. Both well-funded Spotify and deep-pocketed Apple have the ability to improve their products and expand ... More

Akamai today announced that eMedia Network is using Akamai's Media Delivery Solutions to deliver broadcast-quality video and radio content on its global OTT/IPTV platform, iON. The... More

At last night's Grammys, Recording Academy President Neil Portnow and Common took the stage to stand against free tier music streaming. It marks the second time he aligned himself ... More

The continual rise of media streaming services like Netflix and Spotify has not only transformed consumer behavior, but has also freed creators from traditional TV and radio progra... More

Amazon is prepping a Spotify-killer, music sources tell The Post. The e-commerce giant has held meetings in the past few weeks to discuss licensing tunes for a full-blown subscript... More

Spotify has 75 million users in 58 countries. On average, each Spotify user listens to 148 minutes of music on Spotify per day. As you might imagine, Spotify can collect a ton of d... More

Spotify AB is finally rolling out its video product to the masses. The Swedish music-streaming service is planning to introduce video content on its Android app starting this week,... More

The reason this is interesting for Spotify is that it could help the service be more of a platform for its 75 million users. As we wrote last week when Spotify announced a deal wit... More

Is passive viewing passé? With TV watchers increasingly ditching cable for streaming services like Hulu and Netflix, that old habit of flipping through random channels is fading. ... More

Spotify, the popular music streaming app with 75 million users, wants to ramp up its profile as a platform for more than just music listening. And to that end, it has linked up wit... More

According to sources, Spotify will work in conjunction with the National Music Publishers’ Assn. and other publisher organizations around the globe to build a music publishing da... More

Automated music recommendations are hardly new, but Spotify seems to have identified the ingredients of a personalized playlist that feel fresh and familiar at the same time. That�... More

Last week, Spotify announced its annual list of the artists and albums that "won" on the streaming service. Drake rose to the top as 2015's most streamed artist, Rihanna was the mo... More

Much of the technology that powers Discover Weekly has lived within Spotify for quite some time. But until July, it mostly resided within the depths of the "Discover" tab of the se... More

The modern-day music industry is missing all sorts of stuff it used to have in the old days. Like sales. But the 2015 music industry has at least one thing the CD era didn’t: Lot... More

Spotify’s ability to personalize its music recommendations is getting another big boost today, with the launch of a new feature that will now point its users to area concerts the... More

If you are a Spotify user, you may have used the platforms ‘Discover Weekly’ feature. It’s a playlist the music platform’s algorithms generate for you for you based on your... More