Another milestone in the music industry’s shift to streaming: Revenue from the streaming business has become Warner Music Group’s biggest business. The company announced that m... More
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Streaming Music has Become Warner Music’s Biggest Business (Re/code)
As Visual Media Is In Flux, The Originator of Streaming Returns (Inc.)
Five years ago [William] Mobley returned to thinking about streaming, as Netflix grew their streaming service to the point that TV companies began to get worried. Rather than resur... More
NBCUniversal in Talks to Join Hulu Channel Bundle (Variety)
NBCUniversal is in talks with Hulu to join the streaming service’s planned over-the-top offering of cable and broadcast channels, Variety has learned. The two companies are in th... More
CBS Will Not Binge-Stream New ‘Star Trek’ Series (HMM)
CBS confirmed that the new “Star Trek” TV series will begin shooting in Toronto this fall, and stream exclusively on CBS All Access beginning in the first-quarter of 2017. The ... More
WatchESPN: Get Ready For ‘Live Moments’ On All Viewing Devices (Beet.TV)
Brand marketers should spend more time trying to figure out how to engage with consumers as they are viewing live sports events than they do thinking about which devices are provid... More
In an Era of Streaming, Cinema Is Under Attack (NY Times)
Seen any good movies lately? Seen any movies? Chances are you have — but maybe not in an actual theater. Americans used to adore going out to the movies, but that love has been o... More
Hulu Is Said to Plan Full Cable and Broadcast Channel Streaming (New York Times)
Hulu, until now primarily a rerun service for episodes of broadcast television shows, is working to create a more robust offering that would stream entire broadcast and cable chann... More
More People are Paying to Stream Music, but the Industry is Still Wobbly (The Economist)
Once upon a time record-industry executives could all but weigh their profits on scales. Each pallet of compact discs they sold translated into predictable quantities of cash for t... More
YouTube First Major Platform To Launch Live 360 Video (Fast Company)
YouTube today will become the first major platform to offer live 360-degree video. Since March, the Google-owned service has offered 360 video, which allows viewers to see what’s... More
IFPI Global Report: Digital Revenues Surpass Physical for the First Time as Streaming Explodes (Billboard)
Digital services accounted for 45 percent of recorded music revenue and outstripped physical revenue for the first time, according to numbers released Wednesday by the global trade... More
Facebook Opens Up Live Video to Developers to Allow Streaming from Any Device (Variety)
Facebook just took video streaming on its Live platform beyond the mobile phone: CEO Mark Zuckerberg announced during his keynote at the company’s f8 developer conference in San ... More
Live Streaming – The Ticking Time Bomb for Sports Broadcasters (The Drum)
Facebook, Yahoo and Twitter are all eyeing sports media rights as a way to swell engagement on their platforms, but as social video starts to look more like TV, how will the broadc... More
Google Set to Launch YouTube Connect Livestreaming Service to Take on Periscope (The Drum)
Google is poised to take on Twitter's livestreaming app Periscope with the launch of its very own real-time video platform YouTube Connect. The internet giant has been quietly deve... More
OTT Emerges As Fastest-Growing Source Of Ad Views, Accelerates Redefinition Of ‘TV’ (MediaPost)
Over-the-top (OTT) has emerged as the fastest-growing segment of video advertising views, according to the latest edition of Magna Global’s Media Economy Report. The report, whic... More
Why Video Streaming will Never be like Music Streaming (MacWorld)
It’s Friday night, and you want to kick back and relax after a long week’s work. You fire up your Apple TV and click on Netflix to find a movie to watch. Maybe you like Denzel ... More
Apple Music is Bent on Building its Music Streaming Empire with… Television (Quartz)
Seeking a documentary on hyperlocal music culture? You’d think the last place you find it would be on Apple Music, Apple’s corporate music streaming gamble. Yet there it is. Th... More
Streaming Is Now the Recording Industry’s Core, and It’s Being Treated As Such (Billboard)
he access model is undoubtedly the future of music, and its services are finally showing a glimpse of their potential. There shouldn’t be any expectations of reaching anything li... More
ABC Stacks the Deck in Battle for Streaming Rights (Variety)
In the trench war between TV networks and streaming services over series stacking rights, ABC has broken through enemy lines. On March 18, the network announced a deal with Warner ... More
Record Labels Slam YouTube, Ad-supported Streaming Services (NY Post)
YouTube and other free, ad-supported music streamers are ripping off recording artists by failing to pay them their fair share of royalties, a music industry group claimed in a sca... More
Hollywood Divided Over Movie Streaming Service (NY Times)
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