This is definitely a case of good luck luck with that whole profit making idea given that Spotify is having to deal with some recently leaked secret demands from the record labels. It’s not bad enough that the record labels […]
Just today, I saw a glowing update in my Facebook feed from a friend who’d cut her cable costs significantly by switching to Hulu Plus and Netflix. Chances are, if you haven’t considered it, someone you know has. And here […]
Hmmm… not sure if incongruent or thinking ahead. Soap operas are typically the domain of the seemingly less tech savvy- grandmas, home health care workers and people who are stuck at the laundromat are normally seen as the dying medium’s […]
It doesn’t feel like that long ago that the record industry was fighting digital distribution tooth and nail. Perhaps it’s because they’re still kind of doing it to some degree- but a recent Los Angeles Times piece on the film industry’s […]
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 […]
Fans of NBC properties like 30 Rock, Parks and Recreation and Community with iPads will be pleased to hear that the network’s iPad app was updated to allow viewing of entire episodes on Thursday. GigaOM reminds readers that it originally called the app […]
The EW Scripps Company has announced plans to bring mobile video streaming of live TV to all nine of its markets in the US. The platform- which “works very simply,” the company says in a press release- allows users to […]
Music streaming service Pandora took a hit in trading today on news Clear Channel Broadcasting overhauled its iHeartRadio service. While a simple makeover would be one thing, the iHeartRadio revamp includes the addition of some key Pandora features that up […]
MediaTakeOut, the gossip site that Wikipedia describes as an entity “catering to people that are interested in drama,” has been a frequently prominent face on the gossip blogging scene for a few years now- featuring often salacious stories the site’s […]
In what probably feels like the final slap in the face to basically dead social network MySpace, a report over on Mashable indicates that the dominant social network may have set its sights on joining the well populated streaming music […]
While it seems Netflix is doing everything in its power to focus on streaming and curb the physical media aspect of its business entirely, Amazon has hinted that it may actually move toward DVD rental as a way to grow […]
Streaming shows for a single viewing is rising in popularity- witness the rapid rise of Netflix streaming and the high sale numbers batted around for the impending sale of Hulu– but Apple has quietly backed out of the rental market. […]
Chalk it up to the long tail end of summer and a lot of bored people at understaffed offices on Hump Day- but one of the bigger stories relating to YouTube this afternoon and evening had to do with a […]
With the July launch of music streaming service Spotify, it looks like the newly-available handset streaming functionality portion of the service for iPhone and Android could be kicking off a wave of competition among other providers. Yesterday it was announced […]