Last month, Netflix announced that after first expanding to Canada and then Latin America, their long awaited launch in the United Kingdom and Ireland was official and imminent. Two weeks later, the company has announced a partnership with film studio […]
YouTube has been making some pretty interesting moves lately as it tries to make its video service more than just a stopping point to watch Internet memes or cat videos. As it announced the other week it is setting aside […]
There is a truism that the reason that the reason that the VCR won in the living room was because it made it easier to watch your porn without feeling like a pervert since only you and the rental clerk […]
Although the two parties appeared to call a legal truce this summer over the streaming of popular content from channels like MTV and Comedy Central via iPad, the “standstill agreement” seems to have moved away from the possibility of litigation-free […]
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 […]
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 […]
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. […]
In a sign of the changing times for television both Netflix Inc. and Amazon.com signed internet streaming deal with Walt Disney Co. over the weekend. Under the terms of their deals the two rival companies will be given permission to […]
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) […]
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