SnagFilms announced the launch of its  Apple TV app, which provides hundreds of indie films and TV shows for free. The company is developing Apple TV support for other ViewLift clients, with the platform now reaching 28 mobile and OTT devices. It also announced its ViewLift technology service raised $8 million in funding for its OTT business

Every day this baseball season, Yahoo will offer a free live stream of one Major League Baseball game. “Yahoo will broadcast 180 games for the whole season,” Business Insider reports. “Games in local markets will be blacked out because of the league's agreement with local sports broadcasters.”

...And others are joining Chromecast.  Roku and Amazon offer  users of their streaming sticks ways to make their devices work with hotel Wi-Fi. By providing that flexibility hotels can make sure that they’re not cut out of the value chain altogether, and offer their own apps and services alongside Netflix and other OTT staples

The YouTube channel that’s home to Swedish-born, UK-residing 26-year-old Felix Kjellberg aka PewDiePie, is gaining customers at the rate of 20,000 per day.  

Moving from a channel to an app, Starz joins HBO and Showtime and more. Chris Albrecht, the CEO, says had Starz done it earlier, it might have been in the position Netflix is now.  

As YouTube analytics site VidStatsx shows, there are now more than 2,000 channels with seven-digit subscriber counts. What that's worth is harder to determine. But clearly, music videos, Vevo and fast-growing TV related YouTube channels spurred the growth.

Sixty percent of people ages 12 and older live in a household with an Internet-connected TV, up from 58 percent in a year-ago survey and 51 percent in a 2014 survey. Also among the respondents, 51 percent live in a household with one or more of the following unlimited video-subscription services: Netflix, Amazon Prime, and Hulu.

Facebook hoped to get streaming rights to a package of NFL games but without the traditional advertising set up.  The NFL doesn't play that game.

An interesting video experiment from The New York Times' Race/Related Newsletter shows how difficult it really is to assess what's going on based on a police officer's body camera, and sometimes depending on the viewer's attitude about police. 

Sony's new 4K Video service called Ultra debuts April 4 and angles for a very small audience: It will only offer movies for sale (for $30), not for rent. And only Sony titles. And only accessible via Sony 4K televisions. And only 40 to 50 movies at launch. Have fun!