The final nail in the myth of cord cutting? That would the news that DirecTV’s Q4 2010 showed the company’s largest customer growth in ten years, adding 289,000 subscribers in the US alone in the last three months of the year.
In total, DirecTV added 667,000 subscribers in the quarter, giving the company its second best year in its …
If Google has its way, YouTube won’t just be the destination for clips about honey badgers and viral videos in the future; it’ll also be where you go to watch live sports. The online video giant is in talks with both the National Basketball Association and the National Hockey League to stream live games online.
The talks follow the …
Californian-based video services provider Ooyala has announced today a massive deal with the Yahoo! Corporation of Japan that will see the two companies jointly market Ooyala’s video solutions to broadcasters, publishers and enterprise users throughout the second largest online video market in the world.
The multi-year agreement gives …
Spotify may still be signing one music label (That’d be Universal) away from its long-awaited US launch, but the streaming music company has just made another move suggesting that it’s getting ready to try and take America by storm. The company has sold a stake of just under 5% to investors Kleiner Perkins Caufield and Byers for $50 …
If you do a lot of shopping on Amazon.com, you’ve no doubt come across the site’s $79 per year “Prime” membership option.
The basic idea is that for $79, you get free two-day shipping on just about everything sold directly by Amazon—not its third-party sellers, mind you—or $4-per-item overnight shipping.
The company has now …
It’s taken nine months, but the BBC’s iPlayer has finally fulfilled its promise to become a VoD aggregator for British television. Content from competing networks ITV, Channel Four, Channel Five, S4C and SeeSaw has started appearing on the BBC service (along with content from MSN Video Player, oddly enough), which is the most popular VoD …
It’s like the Justice League of Technology: Google, Sony, TiVo, Mitsubishi, Best Buy and two lesser-known companies (NagraVision and SageTV – Think of them as the Martian Manhunter and Aquaman of the team) have joined together to support the Federal Communication Commission’s AllVid proposal, calling themselves the AllVid Tech Company …
Spotify has taken a large step towards its US launch, if rumors are to be believed, by finalizing a US distribution deal with EMI Music. All Things Digital is reporting multiple sources as saying that the deal is done, although EMI and Spotify are officially refusing comment.
This means that the streaming music service now has US …
Redbox isn’t just content with fighting with Netflix over DVD rentals – now it wants to have it out with digital distribution, as well. The company announced yesterday that it will launch a monthly subscription-based service that will allow users to watch Video-on-Demand movies on multiple devices as well as granting them disc access …
What if YouTube became a hub for a number of celebrity-curated channels filled with all kinds of original content that was unavailable elsewhere? That’s a potential future business model for the company that’s being floated by CEO Salar Kamangar, according to new rumors.
New York Magazine is reporting that the site may be considering …
Movie and television makers looking to make your fortunes through online distribution, beware: Users may be willing to pay for their entertainment, but a new study suggests that they’ll only do so as long as it’s the right price – one that’s far lower than what’s currently being asked.
A PriceWaterhouseCoopers study shows that, while …
Want to buy The Dark Knight or Inception to watch on your iPad, but don’t want to buy it on iTunes? Surprisingly, there’s an app for that. Warner Bros. is launching “app editions” of the two movies across 35 countries, 23 of which don’t currently have access to iTunes versions of either movie.
The apps, which will be free to download, …
