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NBC Unpacks Trove of Viewer Data From London Olympics (NY Times)
The findings of the studies conducted by NBC, revealed vast shifts in the way people watched the Games this year compared with the Olympics in Vancouver in 2010 and in Beijing in 2... More
Tipping Point? We’re Watching More Web Video on TVs Than on PCs (AllThingsD)
Getting Web video off your PC and onto your plasma screen used to be a niche activity. No more: Consumer-tracking service NPD says TV sets are now the most popular way to watch str... More
Boxee’s Video-Sharing Service Cloudee Goes Public With Desktop Software and Apps (TechCrunch)
Today, Boxee is launching its private online video-sharing service known as Cloudee into a public beta. With today’s release, Boxee is expanding Cloudee from a mobile-only serv... More
Mobile Will Grab TV Advertising’s Crown (TechCrunch)
TV beats the web on time spent and on focus of attention (or “frequency, reach and engagement” in marketer-speak). But you know what TV doesn’t beat? Mobile...... More
Time Warner Cable Offering ‘Must-Have’ K.C. Sports to Google Fiber TV (Multichannel News)
Time Warner Cable said it’s offering “must-have” regional sports content on its Metro Sports network in the Kansas City area to Google at fair and reasonable prices -- but th... More
thePlatform Helps Oklahoma State U. Fire Up Online Video System (Fierce)
Oklahoma State University yesterday launched an online video system, OStateTV, as a way to connect students, employees and alumni across multiple campuses and sites via personal co... More
Analyst: Disney Could Shake Up SVOD Market (Variety)
An existing low-profile premium movie service called Disney Family Movies could be transformed into a competitor to Netflix or Amazon Prime, contends Sanford Bernstein analyst Todd... More
Xbox Music Pricing and Features Revealed Through Windows 8 and Leaked Xbox Interface
Microsoft has revealed its Xbox Music service pricing through the Windows 8 Music app, at the same time as pushing out a beta Xbox dashboard update that gives testers a chance to t... More
Netflix CEO Keeps Focus on Expansion, Price (Wall Street Journal)
Netflix Inc. Chief Executive Reed Hastings is trying to prove that his streaming-video company isn't in a state of arrested development. Mr. Hastings, who co-founded Netflix i... More
Nielsen Cuts 500,000 U.S. TV Homes on Census, Web Viewing (Bloomberg)
The number of U.S. TV households fell by 500,000, reflecting the popularity of online viewing and results of the 2010 census, according to Nielsen, producer of the weekly ratings t... More
Redbox-Verizon Streaming to Challenge Netflix By Year-End (Bloomberg)
Coinstar Inc.’s Redbox and Verizon Communications Inc., providing details of their challenge to Netflix Inc., will offer subscription streaming, movie sales and rentals by Chri... More
From YouTube to TV (Wall Street Journal)
An online-video series funded by Google Inc.'s YouTube video site is being turned into a syndicated TV show to run on ABC stations, a sign of how made-for-Web content is finding... More
Cable Outpaces iTunes For iVOD Movies (Variety)
A la carte movie rentals, or iVOD, are particularly popular on cable VOD, which accounted for nearly half of all such transactions in the first half of 2012. Apple's digital storef... More
Twitter Eyeing Media Moguls, Including Peter Chernin, For Board Seats(AllThingsD)
Twitter is now interviewing a series of well-known media players for its board, as the San Francisco online social communications service seeks to increase its ties to the entertai... More
RIM Fleshes Out BB10 With Music, Movies, And TV Shows (TechCrunch)
BlackBerry 10 is still a ways away, but RIM VP of Business Development Martyn Mallick has revealed that the operating system’s App World storefront will sport plenty of new conte... More
OTT Costs Going Up? (IP&TV News)
A recent report by IHS Screen Digest predicts reveals that the costs of OTT will rise to uncompetitive levels when they need to be scaled up to broadcast volume levels: the reaso... More
Barnes & Noble Launches Nook Video, Including UltraViolet Support (paidContent)
In an effort to compete with Amazon and iTunes, Barnes & Noble is launching Nook Video, which will offer “an expansive digital collection of popular films and television show... More
Verizon Settles Patent Disputes for $510 MIllion (Hollywood Reporter)
Verizon Wireless said Monday it settled a couple of patent disputes that will have the operator of FiOS TV paying about $260 million to ActiveVideo and around $250 million to TiVo.... More
AOL Video Soars, YouTube and Total Views Down: comScore (VideoNuze)
AOL has had a very strong year, increasing its videos delivered from 408 million in Sept. '11 to 725 million in Aug. '12, a 78% jump. That's the best growth rate of any of the to... More
