Poynter
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
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.
Wall Street Journal
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
Variety
For about three hours, BBC Web site visitors got "Error 500--Internal Error." It has been fixed. Lots of funny tweets.
PC World
It got a Golden Globe nomination, for "Casual," and it's gained subscribers as cablers have unhooked.
Wall Street Journal
13 big media guesses for 2015 that didn't quite come off. Like: That Yahoo-AOL merger? Twitter gets its act together?
VideoInk
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.
Mashable
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!
Inside Mobile Apps
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.
GeekWire
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.’”
