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Powered by Wazee Digital Core, Images of Freedom Military Archive Adds Rare Images of Sen. John McCain (MESA)

Wazee Digital today announced that Images of Freedom has added rare images of Sen. John S. McCain III to its extensive media library. Built on the Wazee Digital Core platform, Imag... More

Lionsgate Launching Spanish-Language Pantaya Streaming Service (Variety)

Lionsgate and Hemisphere Media Group have launched Pantaya, touted as the first Spanish-language over-the-top service. The companies made the announcement Tuesday morning. The s... More

Comedian Kevin Hart Launches ‘Laugh Out Loud’ Streaming Video Service (MediaPost)

Comedian Kevin Hart has gone all in on video with his Laugh Out Loud (LOL) streaming video service poised to launch on Aug. 3. The streaming service, in partnership with Lionsgate,... More

Spotify Preps to Go Public with 60M Subscribers, Outpacing Apple (TechCrunch)

Spotify’s singular focus on music sees it adding subscribers faster than the iPhone company with a streaming app on the side. Spotify has added 20 million paid subscribers in les... More

Google’s Push for Dominance Brings Big Change to YouTube (AdAge)

YouTube, on an aggressive push to expand its footprint in online video, is said to be offering publishers more control over their own ad inventory in order to win their business. ... More

NBC Universal CEO: Online TV ‘Off to Slow Start’ (HMM)

Stephen Burke, CEO of NBC Universal, has a love-hate relationship with upstart online TV. On the one hand, smaller channel-bundles at loss-leader pricing with no contract undoubted... More

TV Networks’ Branded Content on Facebook More Than Doubles in Less Than a Year (Variety)

Broadcast and cable networks have literally doubled down on the amount of sponsored video content they’ve posted to Facebook in the last nine months — and trend is just in its ... More

Will Apple Release an AR Headset for the Next iPhone? (The Verge)

Will Apple release an AR headset you can slip the next iPhone into, much like Samsung’s Galaxy S8 and the Gear VR? That’s ripe for speculation now that we know Apple’s upcomi... More

TV is in Big Trouble Because Young People Only Stare at Their Phones (Forbes)

More bad news for broadcast networks as it becomes clear that TV continues to be unpopular with the very demographic advertisers crave. Viewers aged between 18 and 49 are turning a... More

Featured Jobs: Paramount Pictures; Slack; Cisco

Senior Manager Brand Marketing — Hollywood, CA — Paramount Pictures Director of Data Engineering — San Francisco — Slack Wireless Software Engineer — San Jose, CA— Ci... More

You.i TV Revs Demo for Facebook-Backed React Native Project (MCN)

You.i TV, a company that uses a unified platform to interface with a variety of video streaming platforms, said it is adding support for React Native as a development framework on ... More

Study: Blockchain Technology Being Considered by More Than Half of Big Corporations (CNBC)

More than half of the world's large corporations are looking into blockchain (distributed ledger technology), according to a study by U.K. research firm Juniper Research. The re... More

Amazon Will Become a Bona Fide Film Studio This Year (Engadget)

Amazon has traditionally stuck to buying and producing films, relying on indie film studios to distribute its flicks to cinemas. However, its next big release will see the retail g... More

Discovery to Buy Scripps Networks for $14.6 Billion (Variety)

Discovery Communications said it would buy rival cable-network programmer Scripps Networks Interactive for $14.6 billion, a move that will band popular TV outlets like Discovery Ch... More

Marvel TV, Netflix Productions Biggest in New York State History (Deadline)

Marvel Television and Netflix’s footprint in the state of New York has grown to include an additional 23 episodes of its series to be shot in the state by the end of 2017 raising... More

Spotify is Coming After Apple with a New Podcast Initiative (Bloomberg)

Spotify is tiptoeing into new businesses again. The company is testing whether to devote more resources to areas other than music. Podcasts are a fast-growing field currently domin... More

Hackers Threaten ‘Game of Thrones,’ as HBO Confirms Cyberattack (NY Times)

HBO confirmed on Monday that the network had been the target of a cyberattack, as an anonymous hacker boasted about leaking full episodes of upcoming shows along with written mater... More

TV Sets are Starting to Disappear from American Homes (Recode)

After years of insisting it wasn’t so, the TV Industrial Complex now admits that it’s contracting: The number of people paying for TV has been declining for several years. B... More

Featured Jobs: Adobe; Wipro; Box

Product Manager – Augmented Reality — San Francisco, CA — Adobe Tech Lead Big Data — Lexington, MA — Wipro Sr. Motion Designer — Redwood City, CA — Box Click here ... More

My Eye Media Completes Major Expansion of Digital Media Infrastructure (MESA)

My Eye Media has announced the completion of a significant infrastructure and security augmentation at the company's Burbank, California headquarters. The facility's online storag... More

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