RedBox And Verizon Team Up On Streaming Service To Challenge Netflix
According to TechCrunch, RedBox and Verizon are likely teaming up on a new streaming video service that is aiming to hit OTT boxes and game consoles as well as iOS and Android. This could be big news, or it could be too little too late. Their main goal seems to compete with the likes of Hulu ...
BSkyB Online Streaming Service To Launch For Film, TV & Sports In UK
BSkyB, British Sky Broadcasting Group plc, in whom News Corp has an almost 40% stake, have announced that they will start providing online streaming service this year. The service will work through a set-top box, won't require a subscription and will eventually offer film and sports to go along with TV content. They also own ...
The Weekly Online Video News Round Up - YouTube Update Edition
As usual, there was plenty of news in the online video world this past week. And as usual, you were probably a bit too busy to keep up with all of it. We saw more major updates to YouTube's design and services, some important Google Plus news, and a whole lot more. So if you ...
Netflix Gains Most Of Its Subscribers Back, Still Hurting In Some Areas
While Netflix isn't all the way back to highs pre-The Worst Price Hike of All Time, they pretty much got all those people back by the end of the year. Maybe not the same people, but replacements anyway. Thus Netflix ended 2011 with 24.4 million subscribers, just a touch off the 24.59 million they had ...
The Original Content Wars Have Begun, But They're Bigger Than Hulu Vs. Netflix
For several years consumers have enjoyed streaming premium content services like Hulu, Amazon Prime, Netflix, and others. But as more and more television and film content moves online, the owners of the copyrights (typically studios or production companies) have started to see the potential in launching their own competing services--like Ultraviolet--and it threatens to end ...
Hollywood's Ultraviolet Picks Up First Major Distributor: Amazon
I would consider myself to be cautiously optimistic about Ultraviolet--Hollywood's big gamble on digital movies. The service would provide a digital locker that consumers can "fill" with movie purchases, while the films themselves live in the cloud. I'm optimistic because I'm ready for digital media, and I'm tired of stacks of DVDs. But I'm enormously ...
Amazon’s LOVEFiLM Gets BBC, ITV Streaming Content Rights
Awesome! I am a huge Doctor Who fan as well as a fan of many other BBC and ITV shows because, for some reason, they seem to focus more on story than on quick, random action and massive special effects. That's not to say they don't have special effects, I mean, Dr. Who has had ...
Lost Sundance Films Find A Home In Online Video
Fantastic news for films that played at the Sundance Film Festival and never got a distribution deal. The Sundance Institute, in an arrangement with New Video, will make those lost films available for streaming online to all the big streaming players. YouTube, Amazon, iTunes, Hulu, Netflix, and SundanceNOW will all be available to what amounts ...
Can YouTube Force Ads On Your Video Content? Keep An Eye On Your Soundtrack
YouTube seems to have adopted Google’s talent for slipping in quirky new ad placement algorithms with barely a note on the fridge about what’s going on. In my job with an online competitive intelligence (SpyFu) company, I often hear about the sudden changes on the Google side. Since I'm usually the one at the company ...
TumTiki Launches TikiGuide’s Video Countdown To Christmas
Last month, Chris Atkinson reported that Frontier Communications (NYSE: FTR), one of the nation's largest providers of telecommunications services, was creating TumTiki. I was getting ready for SES Chicago, so I didn’t get a chance to check out the largest online library of premium TV episodes, movies, local content, professionally-produced clips, and web original series ...
Watch It Button Will Revolutionize How You Watch Movies
Plexus Entertainment has looked at the Internet and has said, "If there was only a way people could read a review or watch a trailer for a movie and then click a simple button to be notified when and where that movie becomes available on all the formats I want." Welcome to the Beta, my ...
Video Gadget Gift Giving Guide - The Chris Edition
It fell to me to do a video gadgetry gift guide. Since I dabble in all things consumer electronics, I figured, why not? I'm going to break it up into price ranges because some of us aren't millionaires but we all have video gadget needs, right? Heck, I'd probably be happy to receive most of ...
Kindle Fire Early Adopters Digging Tech-Related Video
Ooyala put out a kickin new infographic I thought I would drop on you as I was just contemplating the other day what the Kindle Fire might do for online video consumption and thought it might, pardon the pun, kindle some renewed viewing.
Netflix To Take A Loss In 2012, Which Should Be Good For Consumers
Wow, when it rains, it pours. After showing some seriously strong growth for years, Netflix, faltered with some bad business choices. They chased off hundreds of thousands of loyal customers, offered a flat, self-serving apology and lost a major chunk of their content. The culmination of all of this? They expect to post a loss ...
Warner Bros Signs Deal With LOVEFiLM For International Streaming
Warner Bros is continuing its big online video moves with a new partnership with LOVEFiLM, a leading European film subscription service, combining the benefits of DVD rental by post and, more recently, watching movies online via the LOVEFiLM Player. Something like the European Netflix.
