Variety
The seventh season of Crackle's "Comedians in Cars Getting Coffee" with Jerry Seinfeld will feature President Obama, available on Dec. 30. They ride in a 1963 Sting Ray.
Streaming Media
Forget Amazon, Apple, Roku. Most people access online video from gaming console,survey says
Time
By carefully using free trial months at Hulu, Netflix and others, you can at least go for six months without paying for premium streaming video, says Time. (You also can subscribe to Time and agree to pay later, and you go months before they cut you off. Try it.)
Variety
Variety says Hulu has pulled the plug on the three-year old animated series, "The Awesomes", created by ex-SNL star Seth Meyers and Mike Shoemaker and featuring roles for lots of SNL performers and associates.
AdExchanger
Probably because there are just too many of them, some ad tech firms are laying off workers, and this article fro Ad Exchanger speculates that 2016 will separate the pretenders from the survivors. (Also, not everybody is hurting)
The Hollywood Reporter
...but with an asterisk. Most of the gains will be from customers switching from telco or satellite providers, and some from people who want skinny bundles, which doesn't increase revenues as much.
Nieman Lab
Nieman Lab every year collects volunteered predictions from a wide array of journalists and digital media pros. This, from Mathew Ingram of Fortune, is a little more dire than most but in the ballpark: "All traditional media companies know is that the world they used to rely on is crumbling, and there’s no one to blame.” Clip and save?
Politico
After a decade, Ann Derry, who started The New York Times video department is leaving, amid department buyouts, though the paper didn't say she received one.
Times of India
Using sex-tinged phrases like "Lick it", "hot, sticky mess" and "swallow the whole six inches," restaurant search service Zomato starts advertising on Indian porn site, with success.
Motherboard
CEO Marissa Mayer, with a consistent propensity for lavish spending even as shareholders question her judgment and the company's performance, threw a holiday party that featured, among other things, vintage Rolls Royces on display, "swinging flapper aerialists, pouring champagne towers and Gatsby-esque costumed actors" wandering around. Mayer, in a long sequinned gown, received guests from behind a roped-off area, seated in a pure white chair.