OTT/Streaming

Streaming device maker Roku unveiled its fall device lineup Monday, which includes two new streaming devices as well as the company’s previously-announced smart speakers. The com... More

Over-the-top TV (OTT) ad spend will grow 40% to reach $2 billion this year, according to Magna’s US Ad Spend Forecast Fall 2018, released Thursday. And addressable TV campaigns w... More

If you’re wondering why Amazon went so crazy today with new speaker-related announcements, even introducing Echo audio accessories without microphones, a new report from the Reco... More

Beginning today, Spotify will begin allowing a select group of independent artists the ability to upload their music directly onto the streaming platform through their Spotify For ... More

After years of friction over the direction of its direct-to-consumer strategy, Disney has just claimed major bragging rights with ESPN’s announcement that streaming service ESPN+... More

Reaching a milestone in the relatively nascent virtual MVPD sector, Hulu’s live TV service has eclipsed 1 million subscribers, roughly 15 months after the offering was launched, ... More

Amazon Web Services announced that leading national broadcast rights holders, pay TV providers, and sports programmers used AWS, including AWS Elemental Media Services, to power li... More

In the first half of 2018, music subscribers grew by 16% and Apple Music gained two points of market share while Spotify maintained its formidable global lead, according to mid-yea... More

CBS All Access, the network’s over-the-top streaming service for cord cutters, will now let subscribers save shows for offline viewing. The feature, “Download & Play,” is onl... More

Twitter will now put live streams and broadcasts started by accounts you follow at the top of your timeline, making it easier to see what they’re doing in realtime. In a tweet, T... More

Netflix has been a growth story for years now, but these days the company’s international aspirations are outpacing its scale in the U.S. Maria Ferreras, vice president of busine... More

Media companies like Disney and NBCUniversal still lead the way when it comes to cash spent on content, but digital giants Netflix and Amazon are not far behind. They are poised to... More

Spotify is getting more generous limits for offline listening: The music subscription service has increased the number of songs that can be downloaded to a single device from 3333 ... More

An estimated 51 million people in the U.S. are now paying monthly subscriptions for music streaming services -- nearly double the number of subscribers at the end of 2016, accordin... More

BBC News is heading to Facebook Watch. The British public broadcaster announced Wednesday it will launch its weekly news show Cut Through the Noise on Facebook's on-demand service ... More

A study from Digital TV Research is predicting that over the next five years, Western European OTT TV episode and film revenues will more than double from the $9.84 billion recorde... More

With the streaming giants setting up shop in the Canadian province, insiders say the deep-pocketed behemoths offer nothing but upside to local producers: "The American over-the-top... More

The urgency for broadcasters and programmers to reach viewers who reside in streaming, multiscreen TV ecosystems has already pervaded IBC. The giants in that industry still loom ve... More

According to new research from market research and consulting company Parks Associates, the OTT space presents unique challenges for the dozens of providers in the U.S., ranging fr... More

NAGRA today announced that Eutelsat Communications, one of the world's leading satellite operators, selected the OpenTV Signature Edition user experience to power Eutelsat CIRRUS,... More