As part of a push to expand its ability to deliver live events, linear television and video on demand, Verizon Digital Media Services has acquired upLynk, a technology and television cloud company.
Verizon Digital Media Services (VDMS) announced this morning that it has acquired upLynk, which offers content providers an innovative cloud-based adaptive streaming platform for multi-device TV Everywhere distribution. upLynk gained wide visibility earlier this year when it announced that Disney was using it to power the Watch Disney apps, ABC player and ABC Family player.
It’s taken awhile, but Wall Street is now regarding Google’s deployment of Google Fiber in Kansas City with less animus and more admiration, predicting the new Internet and pay-TV play could be a headache for Time Warner Cable and AT&T U-verse, which both have irons in the K.C. fire, and even become “an economically attractive†[…]
Movieline, which started its life as a film and entertainment magazine popular with film critics before being relaunched as a website in 2009, is taking its digital presence a step further, kicking off a YouTube channel, featuring movie previews and reviews, as well as profiles of actors and breaking Hollywood news courtesy of partners Variety […]
I’m in the process of writing a check for my cable bill today, an ungodly large check for the service I get, and I’m including a note to whomever at Charter Communications reads these kinds of things. I’m unsubscribing. After three years on their books, I’m giving up on waiting for fast—as in consistently fast—Internet […]
More news this week that positions smart TVs as essential players in the over-the-top and multiscreen marketplace, as TDG released its report—The In-Home CE and Home Network Ecosystem – 2013—contending that one-quarter of U.S. households now own at least one smart TVs, up from just half of that in 2011. That news shouldn’t be too […]
So, whom do you know who doesn’t, at least occasionally, watch online video? After you call them in from the cave and introduce them to, oh, maybe Hulu and ABC.com, take a look at the findings from two reports for some insight into what it appears Madison Avenue finally is figuring out: online video is […]
Fans of “All My children†and “One Life to Live†have discovered—unequivocally—that there is life after death… and that it happens online. The two ABC soap opera, which had entertained millions of middle-of-the-afternoon drama fans for decades, met their untidy ends (neither of the shows had the time to wrap up the multiple plot lines […]
Indulge me for a moment. This weekend is the NFL Draft… an annual rite of passage for hundreds—if not thousands—of pro football hopefuls. ESPN has made it easier than even to follow each–agonizingly slow—selection. The draft is live on ESPN through the final pick around 7:30 p.m. Saturday. It’s being—for the first time ever–streamed live […]
See that bright light in the east? The sun? No. It’s the glow from Madison Avenue, where execs are smiling en masse at the latest comScore Video Metrix report that shows video ad views surged to a record high 13.2 billion in March. Meanwhile, the usual suspects made up the top video properties in the […]
Pyramid Research is out with a report that highlights mobile revenue growth in emerging markets regardless of what the rest of the global economy look like, forecasting that with economic growth projected to quintuple in those markets compared to developed markets, mobile will be the easiest tagalong. In its “Top Trends in the Global Communications†[…]
The Provo Municipal Council has agreed to accept Google’s $1 payment, for the city’s iProvo fiber-optic network, clearing the way for the muni-fiber network to transition to Google Fiber, making Provo the third city to get the 1 Gbps Internet and pay-TV service. Google will lease the network to the city for free for the […]
This week is a good one to be a Netflix (NFLX) shareholder: Its earnings report showed 1Q earnings per share topped estimates (31 cents versus consensus 20 cents), revenues came in on target ($1.02 billion for the quarter), and earnings guidance for the second quarter is, in the best case scenario, nearly 50 percent above […]
With a little more space and some extra time, this would be a great opportunity to launch into a discussion about the Boston Tea Party, how the Sons of Liberty action against British tax policy helped launch the American Revolution, and how Aereo’s announcement today that it would be expanding its service into the Boston […]
U.S. broadband connection speeds now average better than 7.4 Mbps, Akamai today said in its Q4 State of the Internet Report, that’s more than 25 percent faster than average connection speeds nationwide were a year ago, but still leaves the United States eighth in the global rankings behind South Korea (14 Mbps), Japan (10.8 Mbps), […]
Latin America is poised to add 19 million new satellite-TV households by 2018, outpacing cable, which is expected to add about 14 million new digital household over the same period. That’s according to a new report from Digital TV Research, which goes on to say that much of the growth is coming from lower-cost and […]
Some of you may be bleary-eyed this morning after a weekend of intense Netflix viewing. The company rolled out its latest batch of original content, the supernatural thriller “Hemlock Grove.†All 13 episodes of the show were made available at once on Saturday, a la “Lilyhammer†and “House of Cards,†guaranteeing at least some Netflix […]
Social TV will bring content providers, TV networks, multichannel operators, and advertisers opportunity and challenges, according to new research. The impact of social TV already is changing the way users view TV, moving it from “a passive consumption medium to a new kind of community experience, in which millions of Americans gather around the digital […]
Hulu’s original content play has become more animated, as it announced a new, 13-week series starring Eva Longora—she of “Desperate Housewives†fame—as a record exec who moves to suburbia to give motherhood a try. The flip? It’s a cartoon, and Longora will provide the voice for Rudi Wilson in “Mother Up!†The show debuts this […]
