Music streaming service Pandora is expanding beyond the individual listener market and into licensing its custom music streams for businesses and commercial applications. Earlier this week, the six-year-old service announced a deal with business background music provider DMX. Specifics were […]
Charter Communications is taking three of the most popular streaming services- Amazon, Hulu and Netflix- and pulling them together to pool the content for subscribers on Charter.net. The mish-mash of content from the three services will increase the amount of […]
Earnings for the Discovery Network were up in the third quarter, and the bump is being credited essentially to the addition of streaming for the series of channels’ content. Yes, Netflix itself may be having a rough couple of months, […]
As buzz builds surrounding YouTube’s new Channels initiative, one of the upcoming channels has been revealed to be a gaming-centric initiative called START, from gaming media network IGN. According to a post on IGN’s site, START will be populated with […]
Alright, it was part of a larger statement about the support of artists, but let’s stop, take a minute, and gawk at the olds who really don’t understand digital distribution. Pete Townshend, of geriatric rock band The Who, had some […]
Former MySpace Music president Courtney Holt, who vacated the position earlier this year, has landed a new gig as COO at content production company Maker Studios. According to AllThingsD, Holt has been in an advisory role at Maker since sometime […]
If the New York Times paywall has been successful at anything, it’s certainly been in inspiring other newspapers to enact similar pricing structures. The Boston Globe and the Dallas Morning News were among some city papers to follow the Gray […]
Sorry, US customers, but this Spotify promotion is only available to our fancy-talking cousins across the pond. In order to compete with Apple’s iTunes store, Spotify- which has had far longer to get its hooks in in the UK- will […]
Among this year’s traffic winners, hybrid blogging/social platform Tumblr is one of the- if not the- biggest standout. The site has experienced explosive growth, mostly in the summer and beyond, but it is not immune to the scourge that generally […]
Despite the recession (and consistent grumbling about price increases for Netflix and then to a smaller degree, Redbox), spending on home movies in the US was up 5% in the third quarter over the same period of time last year. […]
While Digg continues on its spectacular decline, rival Reddit seems to be racking up traffic each month and turning out impressive stats after impressive stats. Late last night/early today, Reddit founder Alexis Ohanian tweeted about the traffic stats on the […]
With the tagline “Macy’s news, reviews, magic & more,” department store Macy’s has launched a new blog attached to its site Macys.com. The newly minted blog will have a predictable editorial schedule, covering topics centered on the store’s departments on […]
By year’s end, video streaming site Hulu will become the only service in the genre to carry content from emerging network CW, thanks to a five year deal signed by both parties. While many networks and content providers (like Disney) […]
Sound familiar? DVD Rental service Redbox- the guys with the ubiquitous convenience store and drugstore red kiosks- is hiking prices on DVD rentals and calls the implementation of streaming service for the company a major focus. Yes, another big name […]
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