Amazon is giving you the power to decide what TV shows are made. The company has posted pilots for six kids shows and eight sitcoms, prompting the audience to choose which should become full-fledged original series on Amazon Instant Prime Video.
Los Angeles company makes video streaming simpler and more efficient.
Today the company announced that it's offering free live video broadcasting access via Livestream.com and a new iPhone app, Livestream for Producers, without any ads cluttering the experience. That means no banner ads, no preroll ads, and no mid-roll ads (which always feel particularly egregious in live broadcasts).
Ustream has promoted co-founder and president Brad Hunstable to CEO of the popular live-streaming video service.
Want to know who’s smiling right now? Netflix CEO Reed Hastings.
Hastings’s previously beleaguered Netflix is in the midst of a stock resurgence: Its shares have spiked nearly 20 percent in the past two days to $81.72.
The stock boost …
Video platform Ooyala has raised a $35 million fifth round of funding from Telstra Applications and Ventures Group. Its platform powers videos on sites such as ESPN, Rolling Stone, and Victoria’s Secret.
Unlike user-generated content powerhouse YouTube, Ooyala hosts promotional …
One feature that’s been noticeably absent from Google TV, Google’s connected-TV platform, is something akin to Apple’s AirPlay, which allows iPad and iPhone the ability to stream content directly to Apple TV. But the little-known Taiwanese manufacturer Honeywld is working …
Google’s Hangouts group video-chat on Google+ continues to be the social network’s most compelling feature. Today, Google is opening up the Hangouts On Air feature to all users, allowing them to broadcast their video chat sessions for the world to …
Despite a highly publicized 2011 quest for a buyer, Hulu operations are so peachy keen that the company will spend almost half a billion dollars on new content in 2012, CEO Jason Kilar would have you know.
The streaming video …
Popular video sharing site Vimeo has launched slick new mobile apps for Android and Windows Phone 7 devices. The company is also showing off its upcoming revamped iPhone app and brand-new iPad app at the Consumer Electronics Show this week …
TwitchTV, the video game broadcasting community, said today it has grown to more than 12 million unique viewers a month.
The San Francisco company also said that it has more than 1,000 premium partners and that its iPhone app has …
Hulu and Netflix are embroiled in a melee over digital content rights to the most popular TV shows. Friday, Hulu landed a blow by announcing that it is now the exclusive digital syndication partner for the Emmy award-winning television comedy …
Roku announced today it will be selling its Roku 2 XS and XD video streaming set-top devices at major retail chain Target.
The Roku 2 XS will sell for $100 and the XD for $80. Both are online prices.
“We …
ABC News will begin distributing its news content through Yahoo, it announced today.
The partnership with ABC News would be a return to form of sorts for Yahoo, which was originally born as a portal site that would direct viewers …
YouNow, an online video streaming application where you vote on broadcasters to keep them on the air or boot them off, launched today at the TechCrunch Disrupt 2011 conference in San Francisco.
If you vote up the stream, the broadcaster …
Roku, a device that streams web content to televisions, has collected $8 million in funding, according to a form D filed with the SEC today. Roku confirmed the round and its lead investors Globespan Capital Partners and Menlo Ventures.
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Netflix CEO Reed Hastings said in a conference call to discuss second-quarter earnings that the online-video giant plans to focus on a “streaming only” future after separating its mail-order DVD service into a separate subscription. But that future, Hastings said, …
[Update: Added additional information from the company's quarterly conference call.]
Video streaming site Netflix’s recent rate hike has slowed the site’s growth substantially.
The site expects to add 700,000 new domestic subscribers — at the most — in the third …
Roku, a company that produces boxes that stream web content to televisions, announced today that it is unveiling a new lineup of devices that feature games and motion controllers.
The company’s flagship title at launch is Angry Birds, a game …
YouTube is testing a gorgeous new redesign of its website called Cosmic Panda, which features an overhauled user interface, less white space and additional customization of YouTube channels.
Despite being the most popular online video service in the world, YouTube’s …
