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The measuring stick for success among the big three gaming companies of Sony, Microsoft and Nintendo has long been a question of how many consoles they have sold. But all three hav... More

Youku calculates that in 2018, OTT services in China will draw over 229 million viewers and then triple in size within the next five years. In order to take advantage of this, Youk... More

YouTube wants to prove to its biggest stars that the popular video service is more than just an advertising business. The Google-owned company is paying talent upfront sums to use ... More

ESPN+ has reached a multi-year media agreement for three more top-division international football leagues – Australia’s Hyundai A-League and Westfield W-League, the Chinese Sup... More

DC Universe’s digital subscription and streaming service has just appeared on Google Play, ahead of its planned fall 2018 release. Announced in late June, the service includes a ... More

Football clubs are increasingly using apps to offer highlights on-demand and exclusive content for fans. Ooyala adds that mobile is the best way to allow fans to see what action th... More

The number of SVOD subscriptions in the US will climb to 208 million in 2023, up from 132 million in 2017, according to a new report. That means that penetration will go from 111.5... More

Jeffrey Katzenberg and Meg Whitman will build it. Will the world’s smartphone-carrying masses come? The plan is to create a mobile-specific subscription entertainment service, st... More

The strategy behind online video services is expanding to marketing ploy. According to a report in The Information, Comcast’s NBCUniversal is considering launching a streaming se... More

Talk of voice shopping’s ascendency may be a little premature. Despite studies showing double-digit growth in “v-commerce,” a new report by tech journal The Information sugge... More

Making sense of the trends of today is crucial to understanding what might happen tomorrow. Nowhere does that mantra ring truer than in the fast-moving point at which sport meets t... More

Facebook today announced it’s implementing a new measure to secure Facebook Pages with large U.S. followings in order to make it harder for people to administer a Page using a �... More

CBS’ premium cable channel Showtime is fighting the cord-cutting tide. Showtime President David Nevins said Monday at the Television Critics Assn. press tour in Beverly Hills tha... More

It’s official: Digital movie collection service Movies Anywhere, owned and operated by Disney, has added Microsoft Movies and TV as its sixth digital retail partner. Amazon Prime... More

The use of commercial video streaming services has surged ahead in Great Britain, according to official figures. Close to half of all adults said they had watched Netflix, Now TV, ... More

Very little is known about Disneyflix, as some people in Hollywood are calling the Netflix-style streaming service that Disney plans to introduce late next year. How much will subs... More

Chinese Internet users could soon be using Google to search the web according to reports that suggest the search giant is currently developing a version of its popular search engin... More

For some people, quitting social media cold turkey could be the most effective way to escape their addictive clutches. Facebook doesn't want to lose users getting exhausted from re... More

LiveRamp and Adobe have made a deal integrating LiveRamp’s IdentityLink across Adobe’s Advertising Manager, enabling addressable TV advertising using first or third party data.... More

Showtime Networks, looking to rope in customers during the dog days of summer, is offering first-time subscribers to its streaming service an introductory price of $4.99 per month ... More