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Sky Q Promises Spotify, HDR, Hours of UHD (Tech Radar)
Sky has announced that from March 2018 it will begin to roll out some big innovations on Sky Q. Those sitting with a brand new 4K HDR TV and a rapidly depleting 4K Netflix and ... More
Epix Plans Standalone Video Service, Preps Launch of 4K Video (Variety)
Premium cable network Epix has plans to launch a standalone, direct-to-consumer video subscription service, revealed the network’s executive VP and GM Monty Sahran in a conversat... More
Snapchat is Enlisting More Publishers to Make Video Shows (Digiday)
I want my Snap TV? Snapchat plans to double the amount of Snapchat video shows it releases this year to roughly 80 shows, including what could be its first serialized, scripted ... More
Influential Uses Watson AI to Help Brands Find Influencers (VentureBeat)
Influential has launched its Social Intelligence platform to find influencers for brands with the help of IBM Watson’s artificial intelligence. The idea is to make influencers... More
AT&T Names Atlanta, Dallas, Waco First of 12 U.S. Cities to Get 5G Wireless (TechCrunch)
AT&T wireless announced on Tuesday the first cities to get its 5G network. The carrier plans on installing 5G in twelve cities by the end of 2018 and on top of the list is Atlanta,... More
Is Spotify Getting Ready to Challenge Apple with Its Own Speaker? (The Guardian)
Spotify is working on a line of “category defining” hardware products and is ready to start setting up the manufacturing process. The streaming music company intends to create ... More
Report: Over a Third of Winter Olympics Viewers are Watching Online (TVBEurope)
A new report says 35 per cent of Winter Olympics viewers are watching the Games online. According to Global Web Index, fans are also spending an average of two hours 24 minutes a d... More
Google Turns on the Charm with Publishers by Focusing on Subscriptions (Digiday)
Google is vying for the hearts and minds of publishers with an appeal to their bottom lines, particularly in attracting subscribers. Last fall, Google ended its controversial fi... More
Netflix Partners with Dubai-Based Pay-TV OSN in Middle East and North Africa (Variety)
Netflix has signed an agreement with Dubai-based pay-TV OSN under which OSN subscribers will be able to access Netflix content across the Middle East and North Africa. The unusu... More
Streaming Video is NBC’s Fountain of Youth at the Winter Olympics (L.A. Times)
Broadcast and cable television are still the main destinations for Olympic audiences. The vast majority of the $900 million advertisers are spending to reach viewers watching the G... More
Olympics Voice Traffic More Than Doubled on Comcast’s X1 Set-Top (Variety)
One of the winners of the 2018 Winter Olympics is voice control, if new data from Comcast is any indication: The cable TV operator has seen voice queries more than double for Pyeon... More
Lisa Henson Talks ‘The Dark Crystal’ 4K Restoration, Dolby Atmos Soundtrack (High-Def Digest)
35 years after it's original theatrical release, The Dark Crystal has remained a classic and a childhood favorite of this writer. I was all of five months old when my parents took ... More
Vimeo Launches Tools for Simultaneous Uploading or Livestreaming to Facebook, YouTube, Others (TechCrunch)
Video platform Vimeo is today rolling out new features designed to simplify video distribution across social networks, including one tool that allows live video to be streamed to F... More
Why Hollywood Has Become Obsessed with Podcasts (The Guardian)
The podcast and prestige TV booms have charted similarly ascendant paths in the last several years, so it makes sense that, with both bubbles almost at capacity, the two have melde... More
Oracle Launches Austin Accelerator, Virtual Program to Woo Startups to its Cloud (Forbes)
Oracle is doubling down on its pursuit of startups to join its cloud offerings with its first U.S. accelerator and a virtual program for more established startup companies. Orac... More
AT&T CEO: Time Warner Deal Aimed at Competing with Netflix, Amazon (CNBC)
AT&T Chairman and CEO Randall Stephenson said Friday it makes no sense for the government to oppose the telecommunications giant's $85 billion buyout of Time Warner on the grounds ... More
Facebook to Launch Publisher Paywalls, Video News Section (Billboard)
There has been a lot of uncertainty among the media about just how much changes to Facebook's News Feed, designed to emphasize interactions between friends and family, will ultimat... More
U.S. Accessibility Standards a Boon to Media Localizers and Subtitlers (Slator)
The United States Access Board has updated the Electronic and Information Accessibility Standards covered under Section 508 of the Rehabilitation Act of 1973 to make public-facing ... More
12 Technologies That Will Disrupt Business in 2018 (CIO)
In 2018, disruptive technologies like artificial intelligence, natural language processing, and computer vision are maturing, going from game-changing ideas to foundational tools f... More
Facebook Sees Its Gen Z Audience Slipping Away to Snapchat (AdAge)
Facebook is not just losing its audience, it's losing its youth. The social network is expected to shed 18-to-24-year-old users this year for the first time, according to a new ... More