The Next Web
Facebook’s Live Video feature is rolling out worldwide, having previously been restricted to US users, public figures and verified pages. When selected, your live broadcast will be viewable within your newsfeed, where you will be able to see how many people are watching.
Re/code
ESPN President Jonn Skipper said the cable sports giant will be offered on streaming services, like Amazon or Apple sometime this year but available only if subscribers also pay for some other Disney-owned cable services as well.
Hollywood Reporter
Vevo CEO Erik Huggers said the music site is planning a pay version, but the free ad-supported Vevo would continue to exist, too.
GeekWire
Vhoto, which developed a computer vision technology that scanned mobile videos in order to extract the very best still photographs, has been acquired by Hulu, and most of the Vhoto team is now working for Hulu in its Seattle engineering office.
Wall Street Journal
Big media companies online TV purveyors like Apple or Amazon or other new entrants, are poised to offer a new package of more targeted cable networks that would propel the cord-cutting trend. But it hasn't happened because large media companies are loathe to offer some of their brands
Tubefilter
YouTube scooped up BandPage which let musicians offer merchandise and concert tickets to their fans across multiple platforms. The merchandise site may be good to have in the YouTube stable to help YouTubers get better at marketing themselves.
Variety
CBS's ambitious live stream of the Grammys suffered from delays verifying the locations of where some viewers were..
The Verge
With 42 million subscribers, PewDiePie is as big as it gets for a YouTuber, but all that success--and the passage of time--could alienate him from his fans. He addressed his own concerns about that on a recent video.
The New York Times
Pandora Media has reportedly held discussions with potential buyers. “Pandora is working with Morgan Stanley to meet with potential buyers,” The New York Times reports. “For Pandora, it would be a curious time to sell … Its shares are yielding a market value of $1.8 billion, down from more than $7 billion two years ago.”
TechCrunch
Capitalizing on a boom of video on the site, over the next few weeks, Instagram will start showing video view counts where the Like number used to be, though you can still click check that out too.