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On Tuesday, the 9th Circuit Court of Appeals reversed a seismic victory in favor of streaming company FilmOn, handing significant relief to broadcasters like CBS, Fox, NBC and ABC ... More

Warner Bros. blockbusters such as the Harry Potter franchise, Gravity and Godzilla will soon be legally available to online viewers in China, thanks to a major rights deal with iQi... More

Apple today introduced Clips, a new app that makes it quick and fun for anyone to create expressive videos on iPhone and iPad. The app features a unique design for combining video ... More

Twitter is about to make it much easier for media publishers to post live video broadcasts with the launch of a live video API tomorrow morning. The API will let companies hook up ... More

Instagram live videos still vanish from the application upon completion, but now there’s a way to save them. The Facebook-owned photo- and video-sharing network announced that us... More

Here’s some good news for the exploding SVOD arena – a greater number of consumers are paying for multiple OTT products. Some 19% of streaming subs were paying for three or mor... More

Netflix used to recommend content based on the region that its users were in, following the general school of thinking that subscribers in South America probably would prefer diffe... More

Wanda Internet Technology Group and IBM have signed an agreement in Beijing today for Wanda to enter the public cloud business through the formation of a new company built on IBM�... More

"In the 10 years I have been with Ad-ID, I have been privileged to have had the support of senior leaders of the 4As and ANA. Bob Liodice, who in 2012 took on the role of CEO of Ad... More

Blazing new trails in cinematic storytelling extended through immersive media, Technicolor collaborated on Wonder Buffalo, the live-action short film made simultaneously with an in... More

What are the major areas of focus these days? What are you spending your time on? Stewart Butterfield: "Making Slack a good solution for a broader array of businesses. Here I speci... More

The myriad ways in which video and audio impact our brains and bodies have long been studied by academia. But that research isn’t only taking place in university labs: at Dolby L... More

Beyond the political underpinning, the fake news agenda and the plethora of VR experiences, the one technology to really know about while at SXSW in Austin this year, was artificia... More

Disney is working on how it can use robotics and artificial intelligence to help its storytellers to bring to life its many much-loved characters within its theme parks to engage w... More

The podcast's blessing may also be its curse: it wasn’t invented to be profitable. A popular early term for podcasting was “audioblogging,” which alludes to its DIY origins. ... More

Facebook is hiring dozens of people for its secretive new hardware division, which is working on at least four projects concurrently, Business Insider reports. The division could s... More

ATSC 3.0, IPTV and the OTT explosion. Late last month, the FCC approved the ATSC 3.0 roll-out, but clarified that adoption of ATSC 3.0 will be voluntary, and that broadcasters must... More

Of all the various innovations we've seen in this console generation, it may be the business model changes that have the most lasting impact on the games industry. Though originall... More

Will Smith’s next movie -- part cop flick, part sci-fi -- has all the makings of a Hollywood blockbuster except one. When “Bright” is released later this year it’ll be play... More

For many, 2016 was the year augmented reality (AR) became real. Pokemon Go took over the world last summer, superimposing 3D creatures anywhere in the world players wanted to point... More