Financial Times
Of recent count, there are 23 recommendations to buy the stock, after some stock watchers got cautious because of new competition. Citigroup just went from a hold to buy on Netflix, the latest in a series.
Broadcasting & Cable
The vast majority of teens (92%) are daily Web surfers, with 56% saying they surf multiple times daily and almost a quarter (24%) say they are online "almost constantly." And of 1,000 teens, 13 to 17 years old, 73% have access to smartphones and 91% say they use it to go online at least occasionally. Those are some of the results from a new Pew Research survey. Pew plans a series of surveys of how teens use tech.
Wall Street Journal
Th Interactive Advertising Bureau addressed the issue during its annual leadership meeting in February, and now says it’s a high priority for 2015. Consumers use ad blocking for reasons other than just avoiding messages. Sometimes pages load faster without them. And consumers worry about eroding privacy as advertisers follow them around.
FierceOnlineVideo.com
It will be interesting to see how much HBO Go's streaming quality has improved since the network signed on with Major League Baseball Advanced Media, and to see how well HBO Now handles the potentially huge spike in demand with the season premiere of "Game of Thrones."
VideoInk
It's already a huge presence in TV. But its investment in BroadbandTV and Style Haul shows RTL is a major worldwide player in online video as well.
Re/code
"It’s swiping through pictures of family on your wrist, seeing your heart rate spike when you’re watching an exciting game and getting a glimpse of a message when you’re rushing between classes or meetings. It’s trying really, really hard not to look at your wrist when you’re in the middle of a meeting. In our new world of too-many-devices, it somehow becomes the second thing you reach for when you roll out of bed." So writes Lauren Goode, reviewing the new thing
VentureBeat
The French Government owns a 24% slice of Orange, the company that owns Dailymotion, a significant competitor to YouTube in Europe, and government interference has stopped a sale to Yahoo previously, and a Hong Kong suitor recently. Now, it appears French owned Vivendi will acquire it. Though France wants to be known as a place for start-ups, its interference doesn't help, critics say.
gamespot
Influential YouTube gamer "Angry Joe" Vargas explodes about Nintendo's Creators Program that shares advertising revenue with YouTube creators that feature selected Nintendo games. PewDiePie has also complained that Nintendo doesn't seem to value the impact of those YouTube gamers playing Nintendo games. In a new video, Vargas calls the company "f***ing greedy."
The New York Times
On Friday,Netflix releases 13 episodes of "Daredevil" and with three other Marvel superhero series in the hopper, Netflix hopes for a franchise like "The Avengers" created.
The New York Times
"Special Correspondents," written and directed by Ricky Gervais, is the story of a radio journalist who fakes covering a war from the front lines while actually broadcasting from an apartment above a Spanish restaurant in New York.