Apple has reportedly suspended plans to offer a live Internet-based television service. Instead, it’s focusing on being a platform for media companies to sell directly to customers through its App Store, Bloomberg Businessweek reports, citing sources. “While Apple isn’t giving up entirely on releasing a live-TV service, its plan to sell a package of 14 or so channels for $30 to $40 a month has run into resistance from media companies,” according to Bloomberg.

The new Apple TV ad that boasts it's the future of TV has features that look pretty much like what the old Apple TV did, as well as Roku, Amazon and more. 

Ted Sarandos, Netflix’s content chief says Netflix will launch 31 scripted series in 2016, up from 16 in 2015, he says at UBS Conference.

Netflix plans to produce 31 scripted shows throughout 2016, chief content officer Ted Sarandos said this week. “That's almost double the 16 such shows the service aired in 2015,” The Verge notes. “Sarandos also shared that Netflix is working on 10 new feature films, 30 kids’ shows, 12 documentaries, and 10 stand-up specials.”

AT&T plans to expend its 1Gbps GigaPower fiber optic broadband service to U.S. 38 additional cities. “AT&T launched GigaPower in Austin, Texas, about two years ago and has been waging a battle with Google Fiber and others ever since then,” Computerworld reports. The biggest cities include Birmingham, Ala., San Francisco and San Jose, Calif. The expansion will bring GigaPower’s footprint to 58 cities.

Streaming video now accounts for 70% of Web traffic for home broadband users, Re/code reports, citing new data from broadband services company Sandvine. “Sandvine says that five years ago, video/audio represented 35 percent of prime-time usage,” Re/Code notes. “Much of the increase comes from YouTube and Netflix.”

 Josh “Fat Jew” Ostrovsky, popular on Instagram, has teamed with Maker Studios for an animated "Story Time With The Fat Jew," which has now premiered on his YouTube channel. What would Walt Disney do? 

As soon as this week, Yahoo may make big changes to its media unit, restructuring and consolidating it, including making cuts and discontinuing some units, says Recode

'Tis the season for unboxing videos. Target stores, Toys "R" Us,  The Walt Disney Company and even marketers of non-toy items--like lingerie--are creating unboxing videos to entice holiday shoppers. 

The board of directors for the Traffic Audit Bureau for Media Measurement approved a plan to upgrade the OOH Ratings, which are used as currency for media buys. The system will begin a testing phase soon TAB’s new ratings will cover digital and transit ads have been added to the measurement, and data from smartphones and connected cars.