Comcast has slowed the loss of video subscribers over the past several quarters, as it rolls out new products and new ways to access its content. At the same time it strengthened broadband subscriber growth, with more of its customers opting for double- and triple-play offerings. Read More »
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Netflix’s subscriber attrition in the wake of a price hike and separation of its streaming and DVD businesses is even greater than first thought. The company ended the quarter with 23.8 million subscribers in the third quarter, which is down 810,000 from the previous quarter. Read More »
DRM has a new name, and that name is “UltraViolet.” The Digital Entertainment Content Ecosystem today announced the name for its “Buy Once, Play Anywhere” digital content framework, along with a consumer website in which consumers will be able to manage all their content and devices. Read More »
YouTube might not be profitable yet, but the company is making strides in monetization, execs on Google’s fourth quarter earnings call said today. While not providing much detail for how much revenue the online video site is making or when it will break even, the execs… Read More »
YouTube will be “very profitable” in the “not too distant future,” Google CFO Patrick Pichette said on the company’s quarterly earnings call today. The site’s monetized views have “more than tripled in the past year,” according to Jonathan Rosenberg, SVP of product management. “We’re now monetizing… Read More »
Remember all those stories and reports about how the writers’ strike was driving TV viewers over to the Internet? Limelight Networks wants you to forget them. After posting a larger-than-expected loss for its most recent quarter, Limelight says the current quarter won’t be… Read More »
In advance of the Writers Guild of America strike authorization vote that passed Friday, I dropped by the office of WGA member Ezra Sacks, a veteran screenwriter on such films as FM and Wildcats who currently teaches screenwriting to students at New York… Read More »
Developer Releases Joost Beta 1.0 Flash Mashup; Paul Yanez mimics the P2P service as a Flash app that runs in the browser accessing YouTube content. (Paul Yanez) Investors Cooling on Mobile TV?; analyst Tim Farrar says AT&T buying 700MHz band from Aloha Partners could signal… Read More »
The web video advertising market is going to be a $775 million business in 2007, according to eMarketer. And yet it is a business with more unknowns than one can list. Liz has pointed this out again and again. In fact, even Google folks… Read More »
Want a movie deal? Make a viral hit. Million Dollar Strong, the duo behind the viral vid smash What’s it Gonna Be? is heading to the big screen thanks to a new deal with MTV. The film will follow the rise of a deluded… Read More »
After months of promoting its “Mashup Debate” with Slate and The Huffington Post, Yahoo decided to pull the plug on the “mashup” part of the debate at the last minute. This version of a Democratic Presidential debate was supposed to straddle the line… Read More »
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