ReelSEO
Deloitte believes smart glasses, fitness bands and watches will total around $3B in 2014. Connected devices with video streaming that aren't wearable could ready $750B this year. That means consumers could, hypothetically, be always connected and always able to stream. But it's more complicated than that.
Re/code
Twitch, a game-streaming network, says it had 45 million unique viewers per month in 2013, up from 20 million the year before. It says 58% of its viewers spend 20 hours per week on the site.
Gigaom
Playboy.tv which is far racier than Playboy magazine, is angling to become an offering on Chromecast. The Web-site version of Playboy has created an app for that.
NASDAQ.com
Trefis.com notes that before AOL acquired Adapt.tv AOL didn't show up in list of the top 10 video ad properties ranked by "video ads viewed." Now it's number one, a potentially big boost to profits.
Motor Trend Magazine
Honda won the magazine's top prize for a broadcast ad for a commercial by Wieden+Kennedy in London and in the online video category for an ad made by Dentsu in Toyko.
Daily Finance.com
Netflix has picked off many/most of the young subscribers; Amazon can clean up concentrating on a large, lucrative slightly older demo
Late Night With Jimmy Fallon
Jimmy Fallon and the Boss join together to make fun of the Ft. Lee/George Washington Bridge revelations. Nastier, because Gov. Christie is a huge Springsteen fan.
Omaha World Herald
Longtime local talk show/reporter Mike'l Severe will join The World-Herald this spring for a new online video sports talk show, "The Bottom Line" on the Warrern Buffett-owned paper's Website, with apps and a podcast too.
Advertising Age
Michael Bay's implosion aside, this year's CES missed a big event, which be a good thing
The Next Web
Could an Oscar be next? Competing for space on its Emmy-filled mantle, Netflix just took home its first Golden Globe, thanks to Robin Wright’s performance in “House of Cards.” Yes, “Netflix is making itself known as a firm to be contended with in the entertainment industry,” The Next Web writes. Netflix had received six Golden Globe nominations, four of which came courtesy of “House of Cards.”