OTT/Streaming

Authenticated and transactional VOD are key content distribution models in the digital age. Access for the earliest VOD window for television content varies depending on the conten... More

Netflix will remain the dominant force in Western European SVoD for the next five years, according to the latest Digital TV research. ‘Western Europe SVoD Forecasts’ added that... More

The digital music marriage that many wanted to happen isn’t happening after all. Spotify has given up on its latest effort to buy SoundCloud following months of talks between the... More

For those who love their DVDs—and, for that matter, VHS tapes, bearing movies that haven’t yet been released on digital media, format expiration is a looming menace. (How about... More

Hulu Japan is planning to expand its linear streaming service to include transactional video on demand (TVoD) and electronic sell-through. The service will also expand the number o... More

Netflix chief content officer Ted Sarandos threw cold water on the notion that the company was interested in being acquired, saying the large and diverse nature of a hypothetical m... More

Google Play has 4K movies on its digital shelves. Tuesday, Google said in a blog post that its Play Movies store has more than 125 movies in 4K resolution starting in the US and Ca... More

Denon + Marantz chose Oracle Service Cloud to analyze customer service data from IoT-enabled devices. This identifies any anomalies in the device data and device malfunctions. Deno... More

This move to streamed live content is seeing its biggest effect with sports, where fan bases don’t customarily DVR the content due to sports’ drama and unpredictability. And wh... More

James Murdoch is a big fan of streaming television — and his viewers should be too. The 21st Century Fox CEO touted the still-emerging alternative delivery system Monday morning ... More

When Netflix introduced the ability to download content onto mobile devices for offline viewing earlier this week, it also debuted a few technical tweaks to make sure that those do... More

21st Century Fox CEO James Murdoch continued to point to the superiority of streaming to traditional broadcast TV. Speaking at UBS' annual Global Media and Communications Conferenc... More

The vast majority of pay TV subs with DVRs – about 84.3% -- use them to record sports, a clear indication that live sports are not “DVR-proof,” a new survey from Thuuz Sports... More

Hulu is now offering a selection of titles in 4K Ultra HD, including original TV shows like drama “The Path” and Stephen King’s time-travel thriller “11.22.63” — as wel... More

Pandora may be changing its tune. The music streaming service is now open to selling itself and is now willing to engage with one-time suitor SiriusXM specifically, people familiar... More

FilmStruck, Turner’s subscription movie service for film fans, is now available on fourth-generation Apple TV set-tops. FilmStruck, which launched Nov. 1 after a two-week delay, ... More

Network DVR (nDVR) is the latest evolution in recording TV shows for time-shifted viewing. Recordable VHS tapes and VCRs gave way to stand alone DVRs, such as TiVo, as well as set-... More

iHeartMedia, the largest radio broadcasting company in the U.S., has pulled the curtain off a beta of two new services, iHeartRadio Plus and iHeartRadio All Access, the latter of w... More

ZOO Digital has formed a strategic partnership with the Vista India Digital Media Group, a leading Indian provider of movie and TV localization, content aggregation and digital dis... More

A new integration live in Starz’ mobile app today gives users the ability to listen to soundtracks and related playlists powered by Spotify without leaving the app. Spotify subsc... More