• Poynter's Garcia Picks The Good/Bad In 2015 Journalism
    It was the year social media and smarphones became even bigger factors in news, and a year in which the tablet's role in journalism started to fade.
  • Poynter's Garcia Picks The Good/Bad In 2015 Journalism
    It was the year social media and smarphones became even bigger factors in news, and a year in which the tablet's role in journalism started to fade.
  • WSJ's Downcast Take On Media Stocks In 2015
    Media stocks are broadly ending 2015 on a negative note as Wall Street frets over the future of a media landscape dogged by fears of pay-TV cord-cutting and an uncertain ad market, says the Wall Street Journal
  • Cyber Attack Brings Down BBC Website
    For about three hours, BBC Web site visitors got "Error 500--Internal Error." It has been fixed. Lots of funny tweets.
  • Hulu Had A Good Year
    It got a Golden Globe nomination, for "Casual," and it's gained subscribers as cablers have unhooked. 
  • Lots Of Things Also DiDN'T Happen IN 2015
    13 big media guesses for 2015 that didn't quite come off. Like: That Yahoo-AOL merger? Twitter gets its act together?
  • Lilly Singh: As Big As Bollywood In The YouTube Arena
    Canadian-born but Indian by ancestry, Lily Singh, ranked the eighth biggest earner on YouTube, is popular in North America and is huge in South Asia, as a recent tour proved. With 7.5 million subscribers, she's ranked eighth on the Forbes' list of the world's top-earning YouTube stars, with $2.5 million in 2015 earnings. 
  • LeBron Produces A VR Video For Oculus/Samsung
    Cleveland Cavaliers' star LeBron James produced a Oculus and Samsung Gear 360-degree video showing his daily workout and explaining his philosophy. Just in time for. . . next Christmas!
  • Radio Stations Try To Make Video Inroads
    Radio stations are producing original video content, hoping to engage users with audio and video and attract advertisers with pre-roll and mid-roll video advertising opportunity. Many stations are even producing video ads for clients as part of their client services.
  • Amazon Prime Has Huge Holiday Season
    In just one week leading up to Christmas, Amazon added more than 3 million new Amazon Prime members, the tech giant is boasting. “It’s the latest sign of growth for the company’s $99/year free-shipping and video-streaming subscription service, which has emerged as a key driver of its business,” GeekWire notes. “The company doesn’t publicly disclose the actual number of Amazon Prime members, just saying it’s in the ‘tens of millions.’”  
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