OTT/Streaming

CBS said it reached a new agreement with the CBS Affiliate Board that will help put live streams of affiliate signals on emerging digital streaming platforms. The agreement continu... More

Two major live TV streaming services have emerged within the last month that could make you wonder whether your cable or satellite subscription is still worth it. First was YouTube... More

In one more example of China setting tech innovation trends, the live streaming market didn't really take off in the U.S., but the Chinese mobile livestreaming market is already hu... More

Amazon and Apple may have reached a truce. The tech giants, who are increasingly competing for customers’ time, eyeballs and money, are close to an agreement to bring an Amazon v... More

Piracy has been dying for years, thanks to streaming services like Netflix and Spotify that offer a convenient and affordable buffet of movies, TV shows, and music. The latest evid... More

The National Football League has struck a deal with Verizon to stream one regular-season game in the coming season, in a bet that distributing the match-up free for consumers over ... More

The Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey Circus will close this month after more than 100 years in operation, but the curious who haven't taken in the so-called "greatest show on ear... More

Time Warner’s Home Box Office won’t renew its library distribution agreement with Amazon Instant Video when it comes due at the end of 2018, premium network chief Richard Plepl... More

Ooyala today published a new report, “The Lifecycle of Content: From Production to Monetization,” in collaboration with Futuresource Consulting, a specialist research and consu... More

So here we have a major theft of perhaps Netflix biggest show, “Orange is the New Black” with a hacker saying he has the entire new season in his hands -- demanding a “modest... More

YouTube has started to invite its users to preview a new design of its website, which includes a dark mode suitable for nighttime viewing. The design is also more closely aligned t... More

Hulu’s long-awaited live TV streaming service is finally, well, live, as the company launches its beta version today, offering access to live and on demand programming on more th... More

Twitter used its first-ever NewFronts presentation to deliver a message so concise it could fit into a tweet: The future of the platform lies in original streaming content, with a ... More

Twitter and financial news giant Bloomberg are joining forces on a 24/7 streaming video service set to launch this fall, the Wall Street Journal reported Sunday. Twitter and Bloomb... More

Facebook finally has a better solution to freebooting — the common practice of stealing video and uploading it to one’s Facebook Page to reap the engagement and audience growth... More

San Francisco-based BitTorrent Inc. is set to shut down its P2P-powered live TV streaming service BitTorrent Live in the coming weeks, Variety has learned. Most of the 10-person te... More

Dolby Atmos is revolutionizing the way live sports-video content is both produced and consumed, offering an immersive surround audio experience. Sports broadcasters, such as BT Spo... More

Like many tech companies, Apple long resisted getting into the content game, opting instead to sell other people’s music, TV shows, and movies and making money flogging hardware.... More

With an explosion in so-called "peak TV" offered by cable and streaming services and a deluge of video-on-demand cinematic choices (to say nothing of Netflix's ravenous appetite fo... More

Gathering and analyzing viewership data increasingly is becoming a key tool for over-the-top video and TV services, Michael Paull, the recently named CEO of BAM Tech, said here Tue... More