The New York Times overlooks videos from the "few monoculture superstars and consensus cognoscenti that remain" in favor of whatever the other kind are. 

A Disney-funded VR service named Littlstar is bringing 360-degree videos to televisions using Apple TV. “It has brought VR and 360-degree videos on a bunch of platforms -- including mobile apps, Samsung Gear VR, and now, Apple TV -- so there are thousands of already existing videos in the library that you can watch on your TV,” Gizmodo reports.  

Band-Aid is enlisting Tongal, the crowdsourced studio, to come up with some killer video ads showing people writing "Dear Scab" letters to their ouchies, because when you cover a wound you create a "moisture rich environment that allows a wound to heal properly." You've got until Jan. 6. Something to think about while you're sitting around the tree. 

The new round combines equity funding with $12.5 million in debt from Silicon Valley Bank and Triple Point Capital. Investors include New Spring Capital, plus previous backers Sequoia Capital Israel, Genesis Partners, Cisco Ventures and T-Venture. Innovid's video platform lets advertisers  create, deliver and measure the most innovative video on any device and media outlet.

At long last, the Beatles’ prolific playlist is finally being made available to a number of streaming services. “Industry sources say that the Fab Four’s music will be on all of the obvious music services, including Spotify, Apple Music, Google Play and Tidal, as well as some you might not expect, including Amazon’s Prime Music,” Re/code reports.

Argues Mathew Ingram in Fortune, "What’s surprising isn’t that people use ad blockers, it’s that people continue to go to websites that offer such a painful experience. The fact that they continue to come, even with ad-blocking software installed, is a sign of how loyal they are to the site in question. Publishers should be trying to figure out how to appeal to them, not how to send them packing."

"Hotline Bling," parodies of "Hotline Bling," a rat with pizza, a cat with a cucumber, Katy Perry with a Left Shark. These were a few of our favorite things.

"Hotline Bling," parodies of "Hotline Bling," a rat with pizza, a cat with a cucumber, Katy Perry with a Left Shark. These were a few of our favorite things.

The photo-sharing app is launching the first of its video collections, called Live Events, on Christmas Eve for a 24-hour period. It will then launch another video stream on New Year's Eve, designed to showcase the best themed clips created by the Instagram community. More "Live Events" events will be announced as 2016 unfolds.

Only 6 in 10 cord-cutters still subscribe to home broadband service — such as DSL, cable Internet or fiber — at all, a Pew survey shows. The rest rely primarily on their cellular devices to stream shows and movies.