OTT/Streaming

Michael Paull has been named chief executive officer of BAMTech, the video-streaming company owned by MLB Advanced Media, the Walt Disney Co. and the NHL. Paull most recently was V... More

Mobile and desktop video consumption are running virtually neck-and-neck, with 86% of consumers saying they watch video on smartphones and other mobile devices, compared to 70% on ... More

In another sign that the pay-TV landscape is fundamentally changing, three of the original streaming video services from old-style US broadcasters have gone mass-market with well o... More

In late 2015, YouTube was eleven times bigger than Facebook video. Every day, Americans collectively watched over 8,000 years of YouTube content, compared to only 713 years on Face... More

The length of the standard movie trailer, on average, is around two minutes. Todd Yellin can recite that fact from memory because, as a vice president of product innovation at Netf... More

fuboTV, the sports-focused virtual MVPD, has launched the beta version of a new OTT offering that packs on more channels and comes on the heels of recent carriage deals with some m... More

With the rising global success of its platform, the streaming service Netflix aims to deliver the biggest and most diverse slate in Netflix history - with more than 1,000 hours of ... More

It would be a mistake to assume that older Americans can’t be reached on connected devices. Though their traditional TV consumption remains strong, video usage on connected devic... More

Songs of late music legend Prince will again be available on multiple streaming-music services on Sunday, in releases timed for the 59th Grammy Awards. The Purple One’s Warner Mu... More

Twitter is looking to build on the success of its NFL live streaming deal after revealing that it will look to partner with the league in a “bigger way” going forward. The comm... More

The ineffectiveness and frustration caused by traditional television advertising stands in stark contrast to advertising on OTT platforms. While two people watching the same broadc... More

Google’s video powerhouse YouTube is today taking its latest step to compete with Facebook Live and Twitter’s Periscope to be the go-to platform for live video streaming, speci... More

Consumers spent more than 350,000 combined hours watching Super Bowl LI ads on YouTube during the game itself, a new record and up 15% from 2016’s installment of the game, the Go... More

Internet advertising is now the largest slice of the $500 billion ad market. Next, Facebook and other web companies have their eye on TV ad dollars. That means the next big technol... More

Book a domestic flight on any of the Big Three U.S. airlines, and you won’t be sure whether the seat in front of you has a screen. Some do, while most don’t. Eventually maybe n... More

This year, streaming video services are beginning to change how Oscar-nominated movies are seen, for one very simple reason: These services are financing, producing and distributin... More

Exactly how many consumers will stream Super Bowl LI is the big unknown heading into Sunday, but Fox Sports says it’s doing what it can to ensure it will have ample headroom to ... More

The Spanish Government is preparing a new digital copyright law to tax legal streaming platforms such as Netflix, Amazon Prime Video and HBO España. The so-called Canon Digital la... More

Satellite radio giant SiriusXM, home of Howard Stern, on Thursday reported higher fourth-quarter earnings as it continued to add subscribers. Top executives also provided an update... More

ESPN is back on YouTube. When the sports network’s majority owner Walt Disney Co. signed a deal with YouTube in 2015 to include its content in the ad-free YouTube Red service, ES... More