Archive for category: Video & Audio

Spotify Apps Arrive, Introduce New Ways To Share And Discover Music

Spotify Apps Arrive, Introduce New Ways To Share And Discover Music

Spotify on Wednesday used their conference to debut Spotify Apps, a new platform that allows users to more easily share, discover and even sing along to their favorite songs, all from within the Spotify console. Much like applications found on […]

Gorillaz Release Tons Of Free Content Through Spotify, Celebrate 10 Year Anniversary

Gorillaz Release Tons Of Free Content Through Spotify, Celebrate 10 Year Anniversary

In the last 10 years the chart topping group Gorillaz have managed to score Number 1 hits in more than a dozen countries, have received various industry awards and have continued to showcase their artistic side with odd but compelling […]

Canceled Soaps ‘One Life to Live’ and ‘All My Children’ Web Plans Scrapped

Canceled Soaps ‘One Life to Live’ and ‘All My Children’ Web Plans Scrapped

Bad news for soap fans planning to follow their favorite, now-cancelled programs onto the web. It seems the frankly shaky-sounding plans to move the high-cost soaps to the internet for a new life have been quashed, yanking the plug from […]

Disney, YouTube Broker Movie Rental Deal

Disney, YouTube Broker Movie Rental Deal

With all the hand-wringing over Netflix and Hulu, it’s easy to forget YouTube is all up in the film-streaming business as well. But they are, and expect to hear a bit more about it as more channels launch and the […]

U.S. Viewers Set Record, Watch 42.6 Billion Online Videos In October 2011

U.S. Viewers Set Record, Watch 42.6 Billion Online Videos In October 2011

New statistics from the U.S. comScore Video Metrix have been revealed and U.S. viewers have set a new monthly record by watching just shy of 42.6 billion online videos in October 2012. Based on those numbers the average web surfer viewed 21.1 […]

Apple Preparing To Launch Voice-Controlled Connected TVs In 2012

Apple Preparing To Launch Voice-Controlled Connected TVs In 2012

Rumors have been circulating for a while now that Apple is preparing to launch their own connected TV units and now that rumor has added voice and motion control functions to those devices. Currently known as iTV the new option […]

Netflix Price Fixing Lawsuit Tossed

Netflix Price Fixing Lawsuit Tossed

Finally some good news for content streaming and DVD rental company Netflix, as a lawsuit alleging price fixing has been tossed by a US District Court Judge. US District Judge Phyllis Hamilton ruled in the case that began in 2004 […]

Wizzard New Podcast Account Sign-Ups And Revenues Up 29%

Wizzard New Podcast Account Sign-Ups And Revenues Up 29%

Podcasting network Wizzard Media has announced that it has seen a 30% increase in average weekly signups in 2011 vs. average weekly signups for 2010. In a nearly identical figure, Wizzard’s podcast distribution and monetization platform Libsyn.com has seen average […]

Watch All Mission: Impossible Films on Paramount’s Facebook Page

Watch All Mission: Impossible Films on Paramount’s Facebook Page

In the lead up to the release of the upcoming installment in the Mission: Impossible franchise- Mission: Impossible, Ghost Protocol– Paramount Pictures has taken a very forward and social approach to promoting the franchise on their Facebook page. Facebook movie […]

Spotify Reaches Another Paying Subscriber Milestone

Spotify Reaches Another Paying Subscriber Milestone

Spotify on Wednesday announced that their paying subscriber base on an international level has now exceed 2.5 million people. On their blog the Spotify team says: So we’d like to say a big thank you to all our subscribers, new […]

Spotify, Rdio Lose Nearly 240 Indie Labels as Distributor Pulls Content on ‘Cannibalization’ Fears

Spotify, Rdio Lose Nearly 240 Indie Labels as Distributor Pulls Content on ‘Cannibalization’ Fears

When Spotify hit US shores, it created a tremendous buzz among users and quickly caught on- if the constant updates to our Facebook feeds are anything to go on. And while the service got its hooks into users with alacrity, […]

Samsung To Launch Google TV Display In 2012

Samsung To Launch Google TV Display In 2012

While details are still unknown Samsung visual display division president Yoon Boo-Keun has confirmed that the company is currently working on a Google TV based flat screen display that they will debut sometime in 2012. Google TV software allows users […]

Spotify Announces ‘What’s Next’ Conference

Spotify Announces ‘What’s Next’ Conference

Spotify on Monday announced the ‘What’s Next” conference, an event that will take place in New York City on November 30th. During the event Daniel Ek will discuss “what’s next” for the music streaming company while bringing “special guests” up […]

Morgan Spurlock Joins Yahoo! For New Series ‘Failure Club’

Morgan Spurlock Joins Yahoo! For New Series ‘Failure Club’

After failing to convince major TV networks that his year round series Failure Club was a good idea Morgan Spurlock (Supersize Me) has brought his series to Yahoo!’s new platform of original programming. In the series seven people will meet […]