OTT/Streaming

Discovery and BBC Studios have inked a nearly $400 million programming deal that will see high-end natural history programming from the latter play on a new Discovery global stream... More

Last week should have been a banner one for close watchers of the streaming video marketplace. Apple, which has spent around $1 billion on original programming, was -- for the firs... More

Sony Pictures Television has found a partner for Crackle. The entertainment company has sold a majority stake in the online video business to Chicken Soup for the Soul Entertainme... More

File sharing startup BitTorrent is getting ready to give live streaming another go: The company will soon begin the beta test of a new BitTorrent Live app that is being described a... More

After years of mostly sitting on the sidelines of the digital land grab, Viacom has gotten serious about investing in an online future for its stable of youth-skewing TV properties... More

Eurofins Digital Testing will spotlight a new Arreios for ATSC 3.0 conformance test suite at NAB 2019, the company said. The new test suit enables the certification and testing ... More

Spotify’s $340 million play for podcasts is not just an attempt to dominate every facet of your audio experience—though Spotify would certainly like that, too. Following its re... More

Apple has already lined some top TV networks to play an important role as a streaming aggregator. In addition, this third party content will play directly in the Apple TV+ app, as ... More

After years of speculation and on-again, off-again rumors, Apple has finally unveiled its biggest push into streaming video: Apple TV Plus. CEO Tim Cook announced the service — f... More

Streaming giant Netflix is testing a mobile-only subscription in India that costs half of its basic plan. Netflix India’s monthly plans begin at INR500 ($7.27), and the mobile-on... More

Spain’s top Soccer league, La Liga, has unveiled a new OTT service, LaLigaSportsTV. The service provides audiences with free coverage of major and minor Spanish sports content st... More

Amazon Web Services has released a Live Streaming with Automated Multi-Language Subtitling solution for automatically generating multi-language subtitles for live streaming in real... More

Despite an ever-growing array of OTT streaming video services in the U.S., the average amount of money consumers spend on OTT services has stayed flat for the past 3 years. Accordi... More

The day has nearly arrived for Apple to show the world whether there’s any fire behind the smoke of its streaming service. Apple has kept a tight lid on most of the details of it... More

The Walt Disney Company has officially taken ownership of several 21st Century Fox entertainment assets early this morning after its $71.3 billion acquisition was finalized. Now, t... More

Apple is getting ready to launch a TV and movie streaming service, and that means putting together an expansive catalog of original content. The company is widely expected to unvei... More

Three men have received sentences totalling 17 years for illegally streaming Premier League soccer games in the UK. Premium content from more than 20 broadcasters around the world ... More

Following on the heels of Black Mirror: Bandersnatch–the social-media sensation, choose-your-own-adventure film that Netflix launched last December—the company is leaning furth... More

Major League Baseball has signed a four-year extension to its partnership with the telecommunications giant T-Mobile designed to grow its over-the-top service MLB.TV subscriber bas... More

Netflix, the world’s dominant streaming service, will not make its TV shows and movies available through Apple upcoming video offering, Netflix Chief Executive Reed Hastings said... More