Tubefilter
Kidfluencer is a new YouTube channel for kids, operated by British ad company SuperAwesome. It's partnered up with content creators.
The Verge
AT&T is readying a Web-based streaming TV service for launch, later this year. “The new services, which will be branded and packaged as DirecTV products, will let you stream video from smartphones, tablets, smart TVs, set top boxes, PCs, or other devices using a wired or wireless internet connection,” The Verge reports.
Wall Street Journal
The FCC is reportedly investigating whether big cable firms use special contract provisions to discourage media companies from running programming on the Web. As The Wall Street Journal reports: “It is part of a broader attempt by the FCC to address one of the big conundrums of the telecom age: Why has television been so slow to come to the Internet, despite technical breakthroughs that made it possible long ago?”
Tubefilter
Some users believe YouTube’s current video policing system puts too much power in the hands of claimants and does not sufficiently punish those who file fraudulent takedown requests. Now, it appears, change is coming
Streaming Media
Before Netflix streaming began in the U.S. in 2007, DVD sales were already falling by 1.2% each year. After Netflix streaming launched, disc sales have fallen by an average of 10.3% each year.
Business Insider
Snapchat now claims the same amount of daily views as Facebook--8 billion a day. What's amazing is that Snapchat has just 100 million daily active viewers; Facebook has over one billion.
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