Business Insider
You've heard of a few of them--PewDiePie, Jenna Marbles, Smosh--but you probably have not have heard of most of them. Here's a good guessing game for the lunchroom.
The New York Times
His strong statement, just posted on the White House Website this morning, is Obama's strongest stance opposing the idea that big users pay a special fee for special speed,
Gigaom
Netflix will not have to pay fees to subsidize Canadian TV production, nor will the company have to comply with so-called “Canadian content” quotas, the CRTC said. Initially, the agency, similar to the FCC, was going to try to enact a so-called "Netflix tax" but it's given up for now.
TVNewsCheck
Like HBO, Showtime now says it will offer a stand-alone streaming service in 2015. CBS CEO Leslie Moonves says he can make that prediction "fairly definitely." Just about everybody expected it to happen.
Variety
Right after Thanksgiving, viewers will see commercials touting CBS's new All Access service, just like Netflix, Hulu and Amazon are also advertising on the medium that, in their own ways, they beckon you to leave
Gigaom
Or so it appears from filings with the FCC. It's like Chromecast, Amazon and Roku sticks, except, it seems, the only thing it will help bring to the screen is Vudu, Walmart's Netflix-like service. In time for Christmas?
Re/code
“Crash Course” videos, which have attracted 2.4 million YouTube subscribers, are about to get a larger audience through a partnership with PBS Digital Studios. The fun, but educational videos are created by John and Hank Green, the Vlogbrothers.
Variety
Tribune Media just invested in Watchup, a start-up that serves up personalized newscasts to video-friendly devices. The media giant led a modest funding round worth about $2.75 million. “Watchup … culls news from sources including PBS NewsHour, The Washington Post, the Wall Street Journal, CBS Interactive’s CNET, Univision Communications and Sky News,” Variety reports. “The Watchup service then delivers that content in a personalized video-news stream to iOS and Android tablets and smartphones, Google Glass and Amazon’s Fire TV.”
Bloomberg
21st Century Fox is exploring new Web-based initiatives to attract younger viewers and consumers who aren't watching over traditional pay TV services. Emerging platforms are “the most exciting and important opportunity for future growth,” Chief Operating Officer
Chase Carey said an earnings conference call with analysts on Monday. He said cable bundle concept is "fraying at the edge."
CNBC.com
Roku has sold as many devices in the past 18 months as it did in the previous five years, announcing in September that it's topped 10 million total units. According to a
July report from Parks Associates, 44 percent of U.S. homes with a streaming device use Roku, topping Apple's 26 percent.