OTT/Streaming

The business of Major League Baseball continues to grow at an extraordinary pace through the expansion of their digital streaming infrastructure efforts. It was announced that D... More

Just three years ago, Vine appeared to be a central player in the future of "snackable content." Its short-form style of messaging even aired in a Monday Night Football TV spot. Bu... More

Dubbed ‘a new way to bring creations to life,’ creators can now stream video to backers to enable regular updates and feedback, potentially increasing the transparency of the p... More

Discovery Communications has linked arms with Major League Baseball’s BAMTech to form BAMTech Europe, a streaming-video technology provider catering to broadcasters and OTT playe... More

Sony Corp., home to the world's second-largest record label and largest publishing company in Sony/ATV, announced a positive slew of numbers for its music division today. As the co... More

A bit lost amid last week’s blizzard of news (e.g. AT&T-Time Warner deal, Google Fiber pausing, Vessel being sold and closed, Vine shutting down) was that Google’s strong Q3 re... More

If you build it, will they come? That’s the question that newly launched Filmstruck must face. The Criterion Collection and Turner Classic Movies’ launch of the new streaming s... More

PlayStation Vue, Sony’s streaming TV service aimed at cord cutters, just got more useful. The company announced the service will now run on Android TV, and will arrive on both Ma... More

Verizon Communications has acquired Vessel, the internet video startup co-founded by former Hulu CEO Jason Kilar. The telco is shuttering the Vessel service effective Oct. 31 and p... More

Streaming of TV and video content continues to rise and while conventional TV sets continue to dominate the way consumers view it, digital devices -- desktop/laptop computers, mobi... More

Media companies are under pressure to stay relevant with mobile-addicted millennials and distribution companies are trying to diversify their revenue streams. That’s a key part o... More

Spotify has reaffirmed its commitment to its video streaming service after deciding against renewal of its licensing agreements with several major media partners. The streaming ser... More

AT&T’s soon-to-launch live streaming service, DirecTV Now, just got a lot more interesting following AT&T’s acquisition of Time Warner. Announced earlier this year, DirectTV No... More

This fall the NFL is working with another new media partner: Twitter. In a $10 million deal, Twitter is live streaming for free 10 Thursday Night Football (TNF) games. It is part o... More

The major reason streaming services are struggling to provide Japanese music is that in most cases, the major record labels, like Sony Music, Victor Entertainment and Universal Mus... More

YouTube is putting together an over-the-top (OTT) live TV package to launch in early 2017. Hulu will unleash its own live OTT package in early 2017 as well. AT&T — currently in t... More

In announcing the plans Monday, Netflix issued a boilerplate statement about the new debt, saying it intends to use the funds “for general corporate purposes,” which may includ... More

The French parliament has ruled against a bill which was passed on Oct. 12 by the finance committee of the French legislature’s lower house to tax online video platforms, includi... More

TiVo released follow-up findings from its 2016 TiVo consumer survey, focusing on the behavior of U.S. millennials and how this coveted demographic interacts with video content, pro... More

Google is closer to launching its own video streaming service, which would offer big-budget network TV programming without a cable or satellite subscription. According executives ... More