Creepy as it may sound, Netflix is using the latest brain functioning models to improve its movie recommendation technology. The “company has been experimenting with the construction of artificial neural networks using Nvidia graphic processing units (GPUs),” Venture Beat reports. “In other words, these new methods could do things like improve your video recommendations by mimicking how your brain works.” 

Video streaming platform Twitch produced more peak traffic than some of the most popular websites and online services in the world, including Facebook, Amazon, Pandora, Tumblr, Hulu, and Valve. Ne

Integral Ad Science, a top provider of advertising intelligence for buyers and sellers of digital media, has released a third-party comprehensive video ad monitoring solution, that helps helps brands and agencies more accurately monitor the true performance of their video campaigns.

Hulu, on an acquisition roll recently, bought streaming rights to ABC hit potboiler "Nashville" series.

Instagram has become a sought-after location for engagement by news outlets. Last month, a new 'experimental' project called Instafax was launched by BBC News which aims to "compress the news item down to 15 seconds of video." Up to a few videos are published each day. The Instafax videos range from 'headline packages' -- sharing a few clips of video for the big news stories that day, with text detailing the stories featured -- to the entire 15-seconds being dedicated to a particular news story or light feature. The power of Instagram as an engagement tool for journalists and …

Is Amazon ready to become a major player in the online video advertising market? It just hooked up with FreeWheel in what could be the first step toward a video ad network, and boy does Amazon have some good information about consumers.

A first day look at NBC's live streaming of the Olympics: It's not golden. NBC wants the online experience to be like television, without replacing television. In doing so, it's adding constraints that make online viewing a silver-medal effort at best

YouTube co-founder Chad Hurley denied reports that Mixbit, his video remix platform, was folding. He took a VentureBeat article to task in Twitter. Mixbit lets users record and remix short video clips — kind of like Vine with a mashup functionality. Launched in August 2013, it has not registered a lot of traction from users. VentureBeat sais Avos Systems, the company behind Mixbit, has laid off “nearly 80% of its employees.”

20th Century Fox Home Entertainment president and CMO Mary Daly sizes up the state of digital content technology in a Q&A.

Link TV, a satellite network and content provider launched an online video site with more than 1,000 titles of original programming, documentaries and global drama and comedy series, available at no cost. The site is funded by the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation.