Since the launch of Medacity I have been reporting on the Guardian Media Groups shift towards a “digital first” approach and now another traditionally print based newsroom is doing the same. The Seattle Times on Thursday revealed that they were […]
Facebook and Spotify took to the F8 Conferences main stage on Thursday to officially announced their long awaiting partnership. Speaking at the conference Spotify CEO Daniel Ek explained why the new setup was so attractive for his company. Ek revealed […]
Is Netflix like the Lindsay Lohan of streaming video? For the past week or two, everywhere you turn, there’s a Netflix story. Netflix is pissing everyone off by jacking rates by 60%. Netflix stock is plummeting. Hey look everyone, Netflix […]
The New York Times has admitted that ad revenue for the company- including that from its controversial and innovative paywall-protected website- has dropped more than was expected in the third quarter. At a Goldman Sachs media conference this week, the gray […]
Hulu reached a major milestone on Thursday announcing that they have managed to pull in 1 million pay subscribers at a time when the site is currently up for sale to the highest bidder. The announcement comes ahead of schedule […]
AOL CEO Tim Armstrong would like all you media types to lay the hell off all the money-bleeding Patch talk, thank you very much. Armstrong was defensive of his pet property speaking about it recently, underscoring how important the hyperlocal […]
Remember Digg? It was what people used before Reddit up and took over the social aggregator scene. Somewhat like MySpace to Reddit’s Facebook, Digg was declining anyway after a disastrous 2010 redesign that saw even power users decrying the changes, […]
Much beleaguered streaming service Netflix got some good news today, with a renewal and expansion of a content deal the company had brokered with Discovery Communications, parent company of the Discovery Channel. Also under the Discovery Channel umbrella is TLC, Animal Planet, ID: […]
Pandora on Tuesday rolled out a new HTML5 version of their popular music streaming service. According to the official Pandora Blog: “For the last two months, we’ve been gradually rolling a preview of the new site out to our listeners, taking […]
Steaming music service Spotify on Wednesday announced that they have surpassed the two million paying subscribers milestone worldwide. The company’s announcement comes after they secured nearly 400,000 paying subscribers since launching in the United States. Spotify is now available in eight […]
Here is a simple fact of life – people are selfish and don’t like change. Here’s another simple fact – tech pundits live in a rarefied world that leads them to believe that everyone one in the world sees and uses technology just as […]
Less than a month after Starz announced they would not renew their Netflix contract come February the movie streaming and DVD portal has announced a new deal with Discovery Communications Inc. Under the deal Netflix will stream popular shows from […]
As Time, an old and staid media property, moves into digital spaces, the strategy behind it has come in as notably different than that of other longtime print mags transitioning to web formats. While many brands just repackage content for […]
If there’s anything that’s a basic, unshakable tenet of the internet, it’s that users almost universally do not accept changes to a service with any level of grace or reasonable perspective. To be fair, when you heavily use a something […]
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