Finally, someone at a major television network gets it: unreasonably restricting access to great content drives piracy.
Unfortunately, the major television network is in Australia.
While the 2012 Olympics closing ceremony concluded last week, YouTube is just now revealing the event's impressive viewership and streaming data.
Editor's Pick NBC had a huge opportunity to cash in on the rising wave of Internet media with its Olympics coverage, and it blew it.
Editor's Pick This year's Olympics earned the nickname "Socialympics." It has inspired huge waves of tweets, brought down the reputation of old media giants, and earned athletes millions of new followers.
Four years ago, Facebook had just 100 million users (and we thought that was big). Upstart Twitter was almost as small as the number of characters in a vintage non-media-enhanced tweet: six lonely millions.
With any major event these days, fake mobile applications are sure to turn up. Security researchers at Webroot found an Olympics application that says it will keep you up to date on scores, but really keeps your data.
The Android …
Contrary to recent reports, streaming activity for video rental service Netflix may not have dropped due to the 2012 London Olympics.
Video rental service Netflix might be experiencing up to a 25 percent drop in streaming usage activity in the U.S., according to research conducted by Procera.
If true, the lowered activity wouldn’t be a huge surprise. Netflix CEO Reed Hastings …
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Nerdy America, are you starved for Olympics coverage? We’ve got your back: Here’s a step-by-step tutorial on how you can watch the Olympics online from the U.S. for free or for cheap, zero technical skills required.
It’s easier than you’d …
Twitter has taken the extraordinary step of kinda sorta partially apologizing on its blog for taking down UK journalist Guy Adams’ Twitter account. Even more significantly, the company’s top lawyer wrote the blog post — not the communications staff.
First …
Wow, that was quick.
Guy Adams, the UK journalist whose unhappy tweets about NBC’s Olympics coverage in the U.S. got him banned from Twitter, is back.
The account suspension unleashed a tsunami of condemnation for the social news network, especially …
Yesterday Twitter suspended UK journalist Guy Adam’s account for tweeting negatively about NBC’s coverage of the Olympics, including tweeting an email address of the NBC executive in charge. Today we’ve learned that it was not NBC that initiated a complaint, …
Guest Post
NBC has been getting a lot of flak on social networks lately for its handling of the Olympics. Because of the time difference between the United States and London, most of the high-profile events are shown with a delay of …
What’s private, and what is public? That’s the question that will determine whether you agree with Twitter’s decision to suspend Guy Adams’ account.
Guy Adams is a writer for the UK news agency The Independent. He’s the paper’s L.A. correspondent, …
Olympic committee organizers are blaming the crowds of people in attendance for failed television coverage of the cycling event today.
So, what exactly did these fans do that was so wrong? They excitedly tweeted and sent text messages during the …
If you’re reading from down under, relax. Ditto to those swathed in red, white, and blue. No Olympic gold medals have been handed out yet. At least, not for long jump, shotput, or table tennis.
But when it comes to …
“For the first time in history, the Summer Games will be live-streamed in HD through YouTube.” And the crowd went wild!
On the YouTube company blog today, we read that the summer games in London are going to be more …
They’re calling this year’s Olympic games the first to be significantly merged with social media, so it makes sense that Twitter is promoting a new page full of tweets and pictures about and from the London 2012 Olympics.
The company …
London 2012 starts today, and many of us will be glued to screens both large and small for the next 16 days. But while we’re watching, we’re probably also tweeting: cheering our teams and our stars.
And while NBC might …
Not content to leave the social media-ization of this summer’s Olympic Games in London to partners, the International Olympic Committee (IOC) has improved its social portal to give fans more access to athletes and is actively setting up accounts across …
