Having reached critical mass, Netflix shows are now influencing culture — whether that’s prompting everyone to “tidy up” or causing chaos with “Bird Box”-inspired challenges. For good or bad, what happens on Netflix is talked about, memed and shared across the social media landscape. Today, Netflix is launching a new feature aimed at better inserting […]
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Sling TV adds personalized recommendations, launching first on Apple TV
Sling TV, Dish’s live TV streaming service, will now make personalized suggestions of what to watch. The company this week introduced a new recommendations feature that will highlight the shows, movies, sports and news content it believes you’ll like, based on your viewing history. The feature is initially available on Apple TV, but will roll […]
View More Sling TV adds personalized recommendations, launching first on Apple TVStreaming TV service Philo to launch a co-viewing feature for watching with friends
Following last year’s $40 million raise, low-cost streaming service Philo is preparing to further differentiate itself from rivals with the launch of a new feature that will allow viewers to watch shows together in real-time. With co-viewing, the company hopes to make a case for choosing Philo that goes beyond its affordability. Instead, the company […]
View More Streaming TV service Philo to launch a co-viewing feature for watching with friendsTV broadcaster Sinclair launches STIRR, a free streaming service with local news and sports
Local TV broadcasting company Sinclair Broadcast Group today announced the launch of a new streaming service called STIRR that aims to bring local TV news and other content to the growing number of cord cutters across the U.S. The company today owns over 190 TV stations, which it’s leveraging in order to create its own […]
View More TV broadcaster Sinclair launches STIRR, a free streaming service with local news and sportsTV broadcaster Sinclair launches STIRR, a free streaming service with local news and sports
Local TV broadcasting company Sinclair Broadcast Group today announced the launch of a new streaming service called STIRR that aims to bring local TV news and other content to the growing number of cord cutters across the U.S. The company today owns over 190 TV stations, which it’s leveraging in order to create its own […]
View More TV broadcaster Sinclair launches STIRR, a free streaming service with local news and sportsNielsen: 16M U.S. homes now get TV over-the-air, a 48% increase over past 8 years
The number of U.S. households without a traditional cable or satellite TV subscription that instead receive broadcast stations using a digital antenna has jumped by nearly 50 percent over the past 8 years to reach 16 million homes, according to a new report from Nielsen. Today, 14 percent of all U.S. TV households are watching […]
View More Nielsen: 16M U.S. homes now get TV over-the-air, a 48% increase over past 8 yearsPandora launches a personalized voice assistant on iOS and Android
Pandora today announced the launch of its own, in-app voice assistant which you can call up at any time by saying “Hey Pandora,” followed by a request to play the music or podcasts you want to hear. The feature will allow you to not only control music playback with commands to play a specific artist, […]
View More Pandora launches a personalized voice assistant on iOS and AndroidSling TV rolls out free content to non-subscribers, initially on Roku
Last year, Dish-owned streaming service Sling TV launched a free tier to its service designed to attract those with lapsed subscriptions to come back and watch. On Roku devices, former customers were able to tune into over 100 hours of TV shows and movies without a subscription by launching the Sling TV app. Today, the […]
View More Sling TV rolls out free content to non-subscribers, initially on RokuSpotify will now let brands sponsor its Discover Weekly playlist
Spotify has begun testing a new type of ad in Discover Weekly, its personalized playlist of music that’s the streaming service’s flagship feature. The company says that, for the first time, it will allow a brand to “sponsor” this playlist as opposed to just running ads. It believes many advertisers will be interested in this […]
View More Spotify will now let brands sponsor its Discover Weekly playlistNetflix gives a behind-the-scenes look at the making of ‘Bandersnatch’ in a new video
Netflix is giving viewers a look behind the scenes at the making of its first interactive story aimed at adults, Black Mirror: Bandersnatch. In a featurette published today, the streaming service highlights the efforts that went into making this “choose-your-own-adventure”-style film, which tells the story of a young programmer who begins to question reality while […]
View More Netflix gives a behind-the-scenes look at the making of ‘Bandersnatch’ in a new videoThe Roku Channel adds premium subscriptions alongside its free content
The Roku Channel — Roku’s home to free, ad-supported content like movies, TV, sports and news — is expanding to include subscriptions. Essentially Roku’s own take on Amazon’s Prime Video Channels, users can now opt to add some 25 premium video subscriptions within the Roku Channel, centralizing their access to streaming services in one destination […]
View More The Roku Channel adds premium subscriptions alongside its free content‘Bird Box’ breaks a Netflix record with 45M+ people watching in its first week
Sandra Bullock’s star power can still sell a movie, apparently. Though reviews for the Netflix horror film “Bird Box” have been lukewarm — the movie has a respectable, but not outstanding, score of 65 percent on Rotten Tomatoes — it has still managed to break records for the streaming service, Netflix said this afternoon. The company […]
View More ‘Bird Box’ breaks a Netflix record with 45M+ people watching in its first week