Articles By: James Johnson

News International Responds To ‘Sun’ Paywall Rumors

News International Responds To ‘Sun’ Paywall Rumors

News International, owners of The Sun have denied rumors that they have decided to institute a paywall at their newspapers website after competitor News of the World was shut down by News Corp. Chief Executive Tom Mockridge told paidContent on […]

Spotify Now Integrated With Boxee

Spotify Now Integrated With Boxee

Music streaming service Spotify announced on Friday that they have now teamed up with streaming video service Boxee. The partnership is a natural course of action for both company’s since Spotify provides Boxee TV viewers with the option to grab […]

Spotify Continues To Rapidly Expand U.S. Market, Reaches 250,000 Subscribers

Spotify Continues To Rapidly Expand U.S. Market, Reaches 250,000 Subscribers

Spotify on Thursday announced that their paying U.S. userbase has already surpassed 250,000 paying customers, not bad for a service that only launched in July 2011. With that announcement Spotify also revealed that they now service more than two million […]

Hulu Is No Longer For Sale, Company Decides On ‘Business As Usual’

Hulu Is No Longer For Sale, Company Decides On ‘Business As Usual’

After months of speculation and various billion dollar bids from the likes of Google, Amazon, Dish Network and Yahoo the owners of Hulu have decided not to sell the popular TV and movie streaming website. In a joint statement regarding […]

Netflix Signs New Deal With CW, Retains Non-Exclusive Streaming Rights

Netflix Signs New Deal With CW, Retains Non-Exclusive Streaming Rights

Netflix on Thursday announced a new four-year deal with the CW network, a partnership that will allow the streaming video provider to offer previous and new series shows to their customer base of more than 24 million subscribers. Under the […]

AOL’s Tim Armstrong Trying To Merge Company With Yahoo

AOL’s Tim Armstrong Trying To Merge Company With Yahoo

Tim Armstrong is hoping Yahoo shareholders can see the value in merging AOL with Yahoo to create a massive content company. According to a Reuters source Armstrong believes selling AOL to Yahoo could save the combined company’s $1.5 billion in […]

Huffington Post Media Group Launches French Website ‘Le Huffington Post’

Huffington Post Media Group Launches French Website ‘Le Huffington Post’

The Huffington Post Media Group has partnered with Le Mond Group and Les Nouvelles Editions to create Le Huffington Post a french version of the popular online American news portal. Under the partnership the Huffington Post platform will power a […]

AOL Launches Editors Room, Brings Curated Video Content To Publishers

AOL Launches Editors Room, Brings Curated Video Content To Publishers

AOL Video on Wednesday launched Editors Room a new video embed platform that allows publishers to post thousands of videos on their website while earning money from their use. The platform currently offers more than 250,000 curated premium videos from […]

FMR LLC Cuts AOL Holdings To Less Than 5 Percent

FMR LLC Cuts AOL Holdings To Less Than 5 Percent

FMR LLC, the parent company of Fidelity Management & Research Co. has slashed their holdings in AOL to less than 5 perent according to a regulatory filing made on Tuesday. The investment firm had raised their AOL holdings to 10.32 percent […]

HBO Partners With Roku To Deliver ‘HBO Go’ Service

HBO Partners With Roku To Deliver ‘HBO Go’ Service

HBO on Tuesday announced that their HBO Go service will be available on Roku boxes by the end of the month after Roku and Time Warner reached an agreement regarding the platform. Under the deal HBO Go service will provide […]

AOL Turnaround Could Actually Be Working [Analyst Report]

AOL Turnaround Could Actually Be Working [Analyst Report]

Brian Pitz and Brian Fitzgerald, analysts for UBS believe AOL may finally be turning things around, predicting that the company will have earned $532 million in Q3 revenue, ahead of industry expectations set at $525 million. In their report the […]

Netflix Realizes Qwikster Was Dumbest Idea Ever, Quickly Abandons It

Netflix Realizes Qwikster Was Dumbest Idea Ever, Quickly Abandons It

Netflix has officially ditched plans to spin-off their DVD-by-mail service into a new platform called Qwikster. Netflix CEO Reed Hastings made the announcement on Monday while stating: “It is clear that for many of our members two websites would make […]

Three New York Blogs Get Caught Accepting Gifts For Reviews, Offer No Disclosure Statements

Three New York Blogs Get Caught Accepting Gifts For Reviews, Offer No Disclosure Statements

While it’s not illegal to accept gifts, money and other rewards for creating blog posts on your blog/website, the FCC does require a full disclosure and your readers typically want to know if a post it paid for by an […]

Demand Media Cutting Out Most Contributors, Focusing On Lengthy Content

Demand Media Cutting Out Most Contributors, Focusing On Lengthy Content

Facing drastic cuts on pageviews and ultimately revenue, content mill Demand Media announced on Monday that they will cut down on the number of eHow related articles they create and instead focus on lengthy articles written by journalists with at […]