OTT/Streaming

Columbia Professor Eli Noam suggests that the Apples and Amazons of the world should expect their cloud-based video distribution systems to be regulated as are traditional video ne... More

Music streaming service Spotify now has 30 million paying subscribers. Spotify founder and CEO Daniel Ek announced the new milestone on Twitter on Monday morning, breaking a long s... More

Tech entrepreneurs are always rolling into Hollywood with new services that are supposed to modernize the movie business. If only the dusty, old, dimwitted studios and theater comp... More

The folly that many content companies must try to avoid is trying to emulate Netflix’s business model and joining the race to the bottom (getting more content for less). Experime... More

Facebook and Twitter are battling to win the right to stream conventional TV programming, The Post has learned. Both companies, eager to ramp up their capacity to deliver compellin... More

Bill Mechanic, who was instrumental in building Disney’s home entertainment unit, worked as an executive in pay-per-view before that, helped run 20th Century Fox studio and is no... More

One of the biggest causes of buffer rage appears to be not being able to start a piece of content. Up to 27 percent of respondents said buffering most often occurs before a video s... More

There have been some glitzy movie premieres for the YouTube world's biggest celebrities. Smosh: The Movie fans packed Westwood's Village Theater, Lilly Singh debuted her documentar... More

Netflix has begun a partnership with Hong Kong’s largest pay-TV and OTT provider. now TV, owned by PCCW, will now be able to deliver Netflix to its customers through now TV’s s... More

By Paul Sweeting Efforts to shorten the theatrical window by enabling early in-home availability of movies have a poor track record in Hollywood. DirecTV’s effort in 2011 to off... More

Casual, off-the-record conversations at SXSW reveal people are less panicky and more optimistic about streaming than ever before. Artists are starting to make good money from strea... More

Digitization and “new media” are no longer coming; they’ve arrived. The result has not been the death of television, but its profound evolution, maybe even revolution. The pe... More

One of the biggest surprises about Sean Parker's proposed $50 at-home movie service is the cadre of top filmmakers who are supporting the venture, including J.J. Abrams and Peter J... More

Live mobile video isn't new, but many of today's most popular social media companies are investing heavily in the technology, and they're pushing more live broadcasts to their user... More

Nielsen has released the results of a massive new survey of worldwide online video users which suggests that nearly two-thirds of respondents (65%) say they watch some form of vide... More

Ben Affleck and Matt Damon are teaming with Adaptive Studios and Pilgrim Media Group to launch reality competition series “The Runner” on Verizon’s Go90 platform. “The Runn... More

SXSW is a great place to find out where the music industry is headed. Some products aren’t ready for prime time. Some are already there. Live streaming is huge in areas outside o... More

Hundreds of independent and art house theaters are protesting Sean Parker and Prem Akkaraju's controversial new plan to make new movies available in the home for $50 on the same da... More

After years of watching their subscriber base give way to a generation of cord cutters, 2015 brought welcome news for cable companies. A new study by Monteray, CA-based research g... More

Rovi Corp. has added yet another company to its list of patent portfolio licensees, with Korean OTT service provider KT Corp. agreeing to a new deal. KT will use Rovi’s entertain... More