OTT/Streaming

An awful lot of telecom, media, entertainment -- and especially video -- companies find themselves in a rather chaotic business these days. In Part One of a two part series, follo... More

At NAB 2016, Xstream will showcase their turnkey, next generation OTT Platform, Xstream MediaMaker™ with a wealth of integrated tools and features designed to automate complex In... More

Everyone loves a great music festival, but for those of us who either couldn't score tickets to next week's Coachella bacchanalia in the southern California desert, or who can't st... More

Facebook, Yahoo and Twitter are all eyeing sports media rights as a way to swell engagement on their platforms, but as social video starts to look more like TV, how will the broadc... More

After years of watching their subscriber base give way to a generation of cord cutters, 2015 brought welcome news for cable companies. A new study by Monteray, CA-based research g... More

Rovi Corp. has added yet another company to its list of patent portfolio licensees, with Korean OTT service provider KT Corp. agreeing to a new deal. KT will use Rovi’s entertain... More

Online radio listening continues to rise, with 50 percent of all consumers ages 12 and up listening at least once a week, up from a year-ago 44 percent and 2013’s 33 percent, a n... More

The millennial generation is driving the action in digital video, according to Ooyala’s Q4 report. The report found that nearly half (46 per cent) of all video plays in Q4 were o... More

The latest personality to join Twitch’s live-streaming lineup is… Julia Child? The Amazon-owned video-game broadcasting service is launching a live 24-hour food channel at twit... More

Cord cutting—ditching cable for Netflix, Amazon, Hulu, and other streaming platforms—sounds great until you want to watch the latest episode of The Walking Dead or catch an NCA... More

With filmmakers such as Jackson and Spielberg putting their weight behind Parker’s latest venture — and studios at least willing to entertain the idea — Screening Room surely... More

According to a report from entertainment research firm Music Watch, the people who are illegally downloading music might also be the ones that are spending more on tunes as well. T... More

Another sign that sports on TV is moving to sports on the Web: TV giants 21st Century Fox and Sky are investing in FuboTV, a small but growing video subscription service focused on... More

Reports have OTT video services crossing the 50% barrier in three dimensions this week. All of it adds up to online video entering the mainstream of our entertainment lives.Pivotal... More

Major League Baseball is going to bat on Facebook live streaming. With spring training in full swing, several pro baseball teams, including the San Francisco Giants, Detroit Tigers... More

Facebook is breaking its silence on its newfound interest in signing up content partners ranging from individual celebrities to sports leagues like the NFL to dramatically pump up ... More

It’s pro football’s off-season, that time of the year that media companies busily look for ways to give the NFL more money. Right now, apparently, that deep thinking is going o... More

Scrambling to keep pace with consumer trends, established media companies are accelerating their push into the Internet video streaming business. The trend was highlighted this wee... More

Media companies have settled on a strategy to combat declining viewership at their TV networks: spend, spend, spend. Discovery Communications Inc., Viacom Inc. and Starz have all s... More

HBO plans to expand its Web-only service to Argentina and Brazil this year, extending a global push to reach new viewers who pay for Internet but not cable or satellite TV. Brazil ... More