Tag Archives: streaming

When Meerkat first launched, it was heralded by some as a revolution, while in reality mobile live video has simply become an interesting bolt-on feature for some of the major soci... More

NextVR adds college basketball to live virtual reality coverage. Fox Sports and NextVR are teaming up to bring the NCAA’s March Madness series into virtual reality. As part of th... More

CBS CEO Les Moonves called streaming skinny bundles of programming “a great idea whose time has come.” Speaking at the Deutsche Bank 2016 Media, Internet & Telecom Conferen... More

The TV Academy is rolling out additional changes for the 2016 Emmys, and it's good news for streamers who deal in short form content. Starting this year, the Emmys will give more a... More

Scrambling to keep pace with consumer trends, established media companies are accelerating their push into the Internet video streaming business. The trend was highlighted this wee... More

Media companies have settled on a strategy to combat declining viewership at their TV networks: spend, spend, spend. Discovery Communications Inc., Viacom Inc. and Starz have all s... More

HBO plans to expand its Web-only service to Argentina and Brazil this year, extending a global push to reach new viewers who pay for Internet but not cable or satellite TV. Brazil ... More

AT&T wants to take DirecTV over the top. The telecom company, which acquired cable giant DirecTV last summer, plans to launch three new subscription streaming services during ... More

The single biggest complaint from artists about Spotify has been its free tier, which is ad-supported and pays out a much lower per-stream rate than its premium service. Artists fe... More

Spotify and Apple Music rival CÜR Music quietly launched in the US this week with 10m licensed tracks – but there could be more on the way. MBW has discovered that the three big... More

Based on recent numbers, it seems streaming services are on the march to domination. Apple Music recently announced that it had 10 million paid subscribers worldwide; Spotify repor... More

The NFL tested video streaming to the tablets during last year’s Pro Bowl, and it also was met with generally positive feedback. Thanks to Microsoft’s $400 million, five-year c... More

Internet radio service Pandora this week announced it has acquired Next Big Sound, a leading music analytics provider, as it seeks to bolster its big data chops amid growing compet... More

Online music is growing extremely fast. According to Nielsen, the amount of streaming last year through so-called on-demand services like Spotify and YouTube, which let people choo... More

One year after shutting down its Ovi Music Unlimited streaming service that came bundled with its smartphones, Nokia is trying again. On Tuesday, just ahead of its official unveili... More

When Netflix announced its intention to split its discs-by mail and streaming video services in the U.S. into separate subscription plans, the company estimated that 3 million of i... More

It’s still unclear whether iTunes Match will offer music streaming, despite a video clip (via Insanely Great Mac) demonstrating what appears to be a streaming function in Apple�... More

A little more than a month ago, Netflix content chief Ted Sarandos conceded at an investor’s conference that there were “a lot of markets that are terribly underserved for DVD ... More

Pressing ahead with plans to allocate more resources to its streaming services, Netflix announced late last week that it would begin to phase out support for third-party apps that ... More

Executives from HBO and Netflix observe continuing opportunities in the physical disc business, even as home entertainment markets around the world move to digital models. Speakin... More