Discovery

The interest from brands has been so great this year that talent agency WME IMG recently hired two more salespeople to service the accounts. “Of the top 10 advertisers globally, ... More

When Netflix borrowed a selling point of complete TV show seasons on DVD for its original streamed series, the social phenomenon of binge viewing — watching consecutive episodes ... More

MarkLogic has been selected by the BBC to provide the database platform at the heart of the BBC Store. The operational and transactional Enterprise NoSQL database provider has work... More

Snapchat is on pace to grow the number of U.S. active users a blistering 27% this year, to hit 58.6 million — topping Twitter and Pinterest for the first time, according to resea... More

Wimbledon has a long, proud history as the home of British tennis. It is also, to be fair, a bit stuffy. Enter Snapchat, naturally. The tournament, which kicks off June 27, has ink... More

Time is running out for “hundreds” of “incremental spin-off [pay TV channels] that came up since the late ’80s,” Fox CEO James Murdoch told an investor gathering this mor... More

The millennials, defined as those who reached adulthood around the year 2000, are driving both B2C and B2B marketing trends and their overwhelming preference for personalized cont... More

Technologies like predictive video seem to have recently caused advertisers to flock to video platforms, enabling them to mine previously-unattainable forms of human behavioral dat... More

Hotstar, India's premium video streaming platform and Akamai Technologies, a global provider of content delivery network (CDN) services, have announced the renewal of their partner... More

Ted Schilowitz was all set to deliver a presentation on virtual reality here May 25, but when he first took the stage, he did something odd — and hilarious — instead. The techn... More

As questions of blurring arise between film and TV, it's worth asking how specific creators and companies are dealing with these changes. But it also pays to take a broader look. F... More

Earlier this month, Netflix engineers and designers came together in the company’s cafeteria in Los Gatos, California to spend a day of tinkering and hacking in order to try new ... More

If you’re the NFL, NBA or MLB, finding distribution is pretty easy. With live sports being one of the few remaining things that can guarantee large viewing audiences, TV networks... More

Facebook’s music offensive, aimed at keeping user-generated content inside its walls, emerges just days after Jeff Bezos’ Amazon announced it would launch Prime Video Service a... More

Adobe is debuting Virtual Cinema, a feature that will allow Primetime clients to develop experiences for users to enter a virtual environment. According to Adobe, users will be abl... More

Users of the Rovi-owned content discovery platform Fan TV will now have the ability to search for content via voice, with the conversational voice feature the first geared exclusiv... More

Remember when we used to get excited about Google’s instant results reading our minds? How about just the thought of typing in a few letters and retrieving what seemed like an en... More

The latest mobile dating apps—the most popular being Tinder, Happn, Grindr and Bumble—hint at how technology could change courtship in the years to come. Instead of earlier mod... More

Twitter is ramping up its push into live video. A “Go Live” button, which provides a one-tap navigation to Twitter’s Periscope app, is now available to some Android users in ... More

By the end of last week, Mark Zuckerberg said that Facebook would conduct “a full investigation” into accusations that editors at the company prevented news stories from conser... More