IFC Films is joining forces with Amazon to make its library available through the Internet company’s Unbox technology. The digital video service downloads films to personal computers, TiVo boxes and portable media players. IFC Films titles including Oscar nominees “Y…
Netflix today will start selling a set-top box that will allow subscribers to stream movies directly to their television sets from Netflix’s Web site. Netflix Player by Roku, which was co-developed by digital-media technology company Roku Inc., will be available…
Digital advertising will for the first time be a major component in marketers’ negotiations of upfront television advertising because of a jump in the size of the audience that watches TV episodes on the Web, the Wall Street Journal reports….
Netflix is working with a small Silicon Valley company to provide customers with a set top box that will allow them to play thousands of movies instantly, the New York Times reports. The $99 device from Roku, might give the…
Eight former AOL executives were named in a civil suit by federal regulators charging they illegally inflated reports of ad revenue by more than $1 billion, the Washington Post reports. Among those named are former CFOs John Michael Kelly and…
Web video celebrity Amanda Congdon has signed with production studio Media Rights Capital to host a new online series, “Sometimes Daily,” a variety show covering news, technology, politics, the environment and other topics. “[Ms. Congdon] is the world’s first videoblog…
ABC plans to pick up Web series “In the Motherhood” for midseason, Mediaweek reports. The MindShare Entertainment-produced MSN series, which features storylines suggested by viewers as well as actresses Leah Remini and Jenny McCarthy, was streamed 16 million times in…
Negotiations between AFTRA and the Alliance of Motion Picture & Television Producers have hit a roadblock concerning the production of new media and the use of TV programs in new media, the Hollywood Reporter says. The AMPTP had proposed creating…
London-based digital entertainment R&D firm Futurescape found that viral marketing of video on the Web doesn’t necessarily result in wider distribution of content, Online Media Daily reports. The company uncovered several “viral fallacies,” including the idea that Web TV is…
YouTube’s traffic and streams served shot up again in April over the month before. The world’s biggest video-sharing site delivered 4 billion streams last month to nearly 74 million unique visitors, according to Nielsen Online. That compares to 3.6 billion…