Category: Streaming Media

Orange is the New Black ratings revealed by Nielsen

Post author By maxo9
Post date July 3, 2016

After years of speculation, we finally have some solid numbers on just how well streaming shows do on services such as Netflix and Hulu.

Speaking at the Consumer 360 conference this week in Las Vegas, Nielsen revealed ratings for some of the most popular shows on streaming services. The ratings company has been monitoring Netflix for some time now, but the data has only been shared with the companies that requested the monitoring. Now Lionsgate (Orange is the New Black) and Sony Pictures Television (Seinfeld and Better Call Saul) have given permission for some of that information to be shared.

Streaming Media

Netflix fees going up for grandfathered subscribers in May, 80% don’t even know it’s coming

Post author By maxo9
Post date April 8, 2016

Netflix announced the price increase from $7.99 to $9.99 of its standard subscription way back in May of 2014. It was then that pitchforks were supposedly coming out of the shed for the protest on Netflix HQ. That didn’t happen, of course.

Streaming Media

Boo! Netflix begins blocking VPN users

Post author By maxo9
Post date January 22, 2016

Until now, a VPN served as an incredibly useful tool for Netflix subscribers who wanted to access content from another country – an American watching British Netflix, for example, or a traveler who wanted Netflix in an unsupported market – but that’s coming to an end. Netflix said recently that it was going to begin blocking users who try to connect through a VPN and, according to The Sydney Morning Herald, that’s starting now.

Streaming Media

Apple Music for Sonos arrives December 15

Post author By dood1804
Post date November 30, 2015

Sonos offers some of the best solutions for in-house audio, but it hasn’t offered support for Apple Music until now. The company announced on Monday that it will deliver support for Apple’s streaming option on December 15 through an open beta.

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Mobile Streaming Media

Apple Music Android app now available with 3-month trial

Post author By dood1804
Post date November 10, 2015

Musician Drake, right, high fives Eddy Cue, Apple senior vice president of Internet Software and Services, during the Apple Worldwide Developers Conference in San Francisco, Monday, June 8, 2015. The maker of iPods and iPhones announced Apple Music, an app that combines Beats 1, a 24-hour, seven-day live radio station, with an on-demand music streaming service. (AP Photo/Jeff Chiu)

Apple Music is finally available on Android, and you can grab it now on Google Play. The new app offers almost everything included in the original iOS version, including a three-month trial that should tempt even Apple’s toughest critics.

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Streaming Media

Spotify takes on Beats 1 with new “In Residence” feature

Post author By maxo9
Post date October 28, 2015

Spotify may pride itself on data-based suggestions, but the music streaming giant isn’t above trying human curators as well. A new addition to the service called In Residence will tap famous musicians to create something similar to Apple Music’s Beats 1 Internet radio.

Streaming Media

Uber bringing live sports to your ride with help from AT&T

Post author By maxo9
Post date October 16, 2015

Uber is teaming up with AT&T to bring an interesting new perk to some of its cars. The next ride you hail may just offer a live stream of college football.

Streaming Media

Plex’s media streaming app is coming to the new Apple TV

Post author By dood1804
Post date September 13, 2015

Popular media streaming platform Plex is bringing an official app to the new Apple TV. The company has confirmed it is “anxiously awaiting” Apple’s new tvOS developer beta so that it can finally get started on its new client.

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Software Streaming Media

tvOS announced for Apple TV based on iOS

Post author By dood1804
Post date September 9, 2015

Apple TV is getting a new operating system called tvOS based on iOS. The company says its new software makes it easy for developers to create beautiful new apps or simply update their current products for the biggest screen in your house.

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Streaming Media

Epix movie catalog moving from Netflix to Hulu

Post author By maxo9
Post date August 31, 2015

Come September, 30, the Netflix cupboard may seem a bit more bare, while on October 1 Hulu’s will seem stocked to the ceiling.

It was announced on Sunday that Netflix will not be renewing its contract with Epix for its movie catalog. The cable channel is where Netflix went after it lost its deal with Starz in 2011 and where it gets films such as The Wolf of Wall Street, Transformers: Age of Extinction, World War Z and so on.

Streaming Media

NBC blocking Sling TV commercials on its channels

Post author By maxo9
Post date July 31, 2015

Sling TV wants everyone to know about its service, but apparently Comcast isn’t quite as excited about that idea.

A new ad campaign launched this week for the Sling TV streaming service, and while some companies have been running them without issue, Comcast isn’t quite as excited. The media conglomerate owns the NBC network, and on the stations it owns and operates – known as O&O, and different from affiliate stations – it is outright rejecting the ads.

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Internet Streaming Media

Apple Music, Beats 1 Radio and more offline in big outage UPDATE

Post author By dood1804
Post date July 21, 2015

Update- All back online

I thought it was just me, but it isn’t. Apple Music, Beats 1 and several other Apple products are all currently offline, which means end users can’t access those services.

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