OTT/Streaming

Original shows were previously primarily available to subscribers of YouTube Premium, the company’s paid streaming service that costs $11.99 per month. The company had said it wo... More

Major League Baseball is loosening the reins for the 2019 season and beyond, granting all 30 teams direct control over their YouTube accounts instead of being under the ownership o... More

The first two Major League Baseball (MLB) games to be played in Europe will be shown live on BBC iPlayer and the BBC Sport website. The New York Yankees play the Boston Red Sox at ... More

Hulu announced at a presentation to advertisers Wednesday that it now has 26.8 million paid subscribers. It’s also introducing new advertising features and several new shows, inc... More

Hollywood has a new suitor in Silicon Valley. Airbnb, the high-flying startup for booking home rentals around the world, has ambitions to develop a slate of original shows to whet ... More

Apple believes that consumers will take its new TV service as one of a set of multiple OTT TV offerings that the majority of people will sign up for, according to CEO Tim Cook. Spe... More

Twitter is continuing to bulk up on live video — but its strategy is less of a volume play than an attempt to build deeper connections with targeted audiences on the social platf... More

YouTube, in its biggest swing yet at the sports-media biz, landed a deal with Major League Baseball to live-stream 13 games during the 2019 season worldwide — free for viewers to... More

Bob Iger has been building relationships in the Middle Kingdom for years, and family-friendly content gives him a leg up over Netflix, but cracking the world's second-largest VOD m... More

Finally, incumbent content players have stopped passively biting their nails about the digital tech giants and figured out they can toss around their weight (and massive amounts of... More

AT&T CEO Randall Stephenson said the company was planning to provide details of its upcoming streaming service to investors at a WarnerMedia Day in September or October. Speaking o... More

Disney is taking a meticulously planned leap itself into the market for Internet video streaming, simultaneously offering new products while forgoing billions of dollars in revenue... More

Disney and Comcast are holding talks about working out a deal for Comcast’s 30% stake, according to people familiar with the matter. Comcast is now weighing the pros and cons of ... More

Movies from streaming platforms like Netflix and Amazon Prime will still be eligible for Academy Awards, the film body’s board said. The Academy of Motion Picture and Arts and Sc... More

Disney is gunning not necessarily to be a Netflix replacement but to be a companion, with the two companies providing so much value for less than the $20 per month that consumers w... More

DAZN Media has significantly scaled up its advertising platform with the launch of DAZN Dynamics, which will use the network’s real-time sports data to deliver contextually relev... More

Verizon and Google said they struck an agreement that will make YouTube TV available to Verizon customers over Fios broadband, wireless and its expanding 5G service. Verizon said t... More

Content is king — but the queen for direct-to-consumer streaming services is overall user experience, according to a new study.... More

Netflix is still the No. 1 service for streaming video users, but YouTube TV, Hulu and Amazon Prime are gaining ground while HBO Now and authenticated TV apps are in decline, accor... More

TV content delivery is one of the hot topics of discussion amongst TV execs the world over, but it has become largely inconsequential for those who are consuming that content.... More