Los Angeles Times
Four auto dealers in Southern California and five others around the country agreed to settle with the FTC over charges of deceptive advertising that misled consumers about low prices and financing when buying cars.
The New York Times
A major public relations firm will produce an hour-long streaming video program about the Sundance Film Festival, the latest example of marketers creating their own content rather than rely on traditional journalistic sources.
The New York Times
The New York Times says that many families, friends and couples separated by distance now watch TV "together" by using Skype, Netflix and other services.
Streaming Media
Speaking on a CES 2014 entertainment panel hosted by Variety, execs for Hulu and Sean Combs’s Revolt TV emphasize that knowing the new rules of engaging with millennials is crucial.
ZDNet
What's a good video worth? Depending on the statistics you reference, it's not an insignificant amount. Nielsen Wire, for example, notes that close to 148 million Americans watch video on the Internet, while 36% of online consumers "trust" online video ads.
ReelSEO
Online Behavioral Advertising (OBA) is one of the fastest growing forms of advertising and the capture of browser behavior is staple practice for video and display vendors, but there's a very fine line that advertisers need to tread regarding the tracking of their visitors.
FierceOnlineVideo.com
Far more was spent on subscription streaming and video on demand, but online movie sales, which the industry refers to as electronic sell-through, had the biggest year-over-year increase.
USA Today
Tim Armstrong, AOL's CEO, is upbeat about Adap.tv acquisition and predicts a partnership that will help Patch find its footing.
Gigaom
After five years, Grace Helbig walked from YouTube's My Damn Channel to start her own damn channel , "It's Grace," on YouTube. But My Damn Channel's "Daily Grace" is essentially running reruns while she tries to reestablish herself. It's a contractual thing. Just like TV!
The Next Web
TiVo showed off a Network DVR (NDVR) cloud television prototype at CES. As its name suggests, the NDVR is built on a network of content, which is aimed at making cross-device viewing more efficient, and in turn easily enable social discovery and sharing. Media content is stored in the cloud.