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If you’re a Showtime subscriber, the end of 2016 just got a little less dark: The network has just made the “Homeland” Season 6 premiere available on all its streaming and on... More

Rahier: By putting together the R&D teams and the product development teams from both organizations, we have developed a platform that is much bigger and more diversified in terms ... More

John Curran, managing director for communications, media, and tech at Accenture, has come up with his annual predictions of the prevailing themes at CES 2017. I interviewed him abo... More

TV networks are finding value in going direct to consumers- People are subscribing to streaming services from legacy TV networks. CBS All-Access, which offers the broadcast network... More

You might know the feeling: you get home, head spinning, take out your smart phone and confront the horrible realization that you've offended half the Twitterverse. Well, a potenti... More

As virtual reality’s “Year Zero” draws to a close, the jury is still very much out as to whether or not 2016 can be considered a success. The acid test for virtual reality in... More

Five years ago, the demise of the music industry seemed almost inevitable. Recession, rampant piracy, falling CD sales and a fear that “kids just don’t buy music any more” ha... More

Twitter announced this week that it is introducing a new way to see what’s happening on Twitter – through live 360 degree videos. In what many believe is a competitive move to ... More

Advertisers in the U.S. spent $17.6 billion on digital advertising during the third quarter, up 20% from a year ago, according to a report prepared by PwC U.S. Digital spending con... More

As Facebook continues to grapple with its role in proliferating "fake news" amidst the heated U.S. election this year, it has another showdown looming on the horizon -- this one wi... More

The National Football League (NFL) has struck a deal with social media platform Sina Weibo to live stream key games including the Super Bowl for the first time on the Chinese socia... More

The future — 2017, at least — looks bright for both Netflix and Amazon as they look to expand their international subscriber basis following global launches this year. In Janua... More

About 31 percent of U.S. broadband households have multiple OTT service subscriptions, which is nearly one half of the 63 percent of U.S. broadband households subscribing to at lea... More

Black Friday, Cyber Monday and… Digital Day? Amazon wants shoppers to add yet another sales event to their calendars — only this time, it’s all about digital goods. The e-com... More

In late 2014 at IFA in Berlin, Samsung and 20th Century Fox made a bold announcement: Using technology from the Secure Content Storage Association (SCSA) platform (now known as Vid... More

Next year, other programmers will be forced to contemplate whether to merge with competitors or distributors like AT&T, the largest U.S. pay-TV operator. Network owners are under g... More

As the music marketplace has transitioned to streaming, the industry is seeing a rise in services that enable “stream-ripping,” which essentially copy and download music from a... More

How the world heard about the major events of 2016 (dominated by the presidential election) and discussed them, not to mention how the newsmakers responded to them were all shaped,... More

Ramki Sankaranarayanan, Prime Focus Technologies: In today’s ‘TV Everywhere’ universe, videos have become the essential medium for brands to engage current and future audienc... More

Source Digital will be revealing at CES 2017 how personalization, smart content and omni-screen use increase consumer engagement and create new revenue opportunities across all med... More