Even before the announcement (very) early yesterday from Netflix CEO Reed Hastings that the unpopular decision to raise rates as much as 60% on joint physical and streaming media customers was being re-framed as a company split, speculation was that […]
Okay, Netflix, maybe we were hasty and this is the worst week ever for you. After the price increase business failed to impress subscribers and they began to drop off en masse, investor confidence in the once seemingly-unshakeable brand followed suit. Coupled […]
When buzz began surrounding the re-jigger of MySpace, perhaps as a Spotify or iTunes competitor, the fate of the nearly-dead site inspired a bit of skeptical intrigue among people who follow such things. MySpace has been a punchline perhaps for […]
Reeling after a massive drop in subscribers following their recent price hike, Netflix CEO Reed Hastings has apologized to Netflix users, and has announced that its DVD business would be spun off into a separate company within the group called […]
Netflix, you are having the worst week ever. In additon to a dismal performance in the stock market as well as the recent tiff that will lead to removal of popular Starz content from the service, it was rumored last […]
Well, of course- why not take a cut where you can get one? Still, it’s a bit of an interesting talking point and an indicator that companies like Cablevision are starting to think more aggressively forward in integrating- rather than […]
…and as it’s indie, I’m obligated to use only the word “film” in this post in reference to its content. If the selection on Netflix and its ilk is a bit too mainstream for you or you don’t like your […]
Former AOL ad sales head Jeff Levick, ousted in July from the service provider turned content company, has been picked up by Spotify. At the time of his departure, AOL CEO Tim Armstrong said in an email to AOL employees: […]
Three years after the merger of Sirius Satellite Radio and XM Satellite Radio (forming Sirius XM), Sirius XM Radio will be hiking their subscription rates for the first time in the entity’s history. After the 2008 merger- which began in […]
Netflix has lost one million of their 25 million subscribers after the controversial price hike instituted on September 1st, and stock prices for the streaming giant have hit a low for 2011. Following the announcement this summer that prices would […]
In the past, editing a YouTube video after it was published would require a re-upload, causing links to break and interrupting a clip’s popularity. But that is changing with an announcement from the company on their blog that users will […]
Cablevision, the company behind iO Digital Cable, and Turner Broadcasting’s TV Everywhere have brokered a deal that will bring programming from TBS, TNT, CNN, Cartoon Network, Adult Swim, and truTV to subscribers iPads, iPods and iPhones. Cablevision recently released an app […]
As Netflix settles in to serve 43 new countries- the result of an expansion into Latin America– the company says it expects the venture to be profitable, but not for a good while. Netflix is also expected to conquer Europe […]
The uber-fast, trends-based news cycle has claimed another victim- to a degree- as an online web show’s partnership with major network CBS was severed after the property was a bit too quick to jump on a bit of spurious news […]
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