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 […]
AOL on Wednesday announced a global ad revenue increase of 8% year over year in the three months ending September while the company also revealed a 6% decline in total revenues. According to a company report AOL pulled in $317.7 […]
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 […]
Music streaming service MOG announced on Tuesday that their monthly average users base grew to 160,000 in October, a 264% increase. The company’s growth announcement comes just one month after MOG integrated their service with Facebook. MOG’s free service launched last […]
RealNetworks on Tuesday announced that they have hired former Adobe executive Thomas Nielsen as the company’s new Chief Executive Officer, replacing Bob Kimball who left the company earlier this year. Neilsen formerly headed up Adobe’s Digital Imaging business unit which included […]
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 […]
Yahoo! Inc. on Tuesday announced the acquisition of display advertising firm Interclick Inc. for $270 million. Under the agreement Interclick stockholders will receive $9 per share, 22 percent higher than the company’s closing price on Tuesday. The deal is expected […]
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. […]
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