The Hollywood Reporter
The video series the comedian debuted with no publicity, and sold on his Website for $2 to $5 per episode, will find a second home for the original episodes on Hulu, he told an audience at a Hollywood Reporter event. Hulu wouldn't confirm that, though.
Re/code
Twitter has apparently decided not to host its annual mobile developer conference, Flight, this year. “Sources say that the conference was planned, at least tentatively, but then abandoned,” Recode reports. “Company spokesperson Will Stickney confirmed Flight isn’t happening, and said Twitter plans to focus on smaller developer events instead.”
TechCrunch
Pandora this week is rolling out Plus -- “the mid-tier in Pandora’s new, three-tiered service,” TechCrunch writes. “While it continues to make its free, ad-supported radio product available, the ad-free Pandora Plus allows listeners to pay $4.99 per month for a wider set of features, including the ability to skip more songs, more replays, and offline listening.”
GeekWire
Amazon on Wednesday unveiled a new subscription music service. Dubbed Amazon Music Unlimited, the service starts at $3.99 a month for a library of tens of millions of songs, GeekWire reports, noting: “That’s less than half the cost of Apple Music, Spotify Premium and other competing music services.”
Tubefilter
Live.me is the next digital video platform--YouTube has been experimenting with Shoppable-- that is experimenting with in-stream shopping. The live video destination has launched an official store, where users can buy the items promoted by their favorite creators while still keeping one eye on the stream.
Hollywood Reporter
SiriusXM host Howard Stern's video stream app won't happen until 2017, SiriusXM's David Frear told investors last week.
Tubefilter
Conus Video has put together all the video of the trial--that's three months of it--on YouTube. Mostly, they say, it will interest archivists.
The New York Times
The contract Sony-owned Crackle has with Jerry Seinfeld for his "Comedians In Cars Getting Coffee" expires soon, and Hulu and Netflis are reportedly interested in buying rights to it or its reruns. That would be a blow to Crackle, which is pretty much known for nothing else.
BBC
The nine-minute video is viewable on Phillip M. Klemenov's Twitch channel and it's been seen more than 30,000 times. He was known on Twitch as Phizzurp, and his channel had nearly 6 million views.
USA Today
At least for now, Netflix doesn’t foresee China factoring into its global expansion plans. “It doesn’t look good,” Netflix CEO Reed Hastings said at a conference on Friday, according to USA Today. “There is so much opportunity for us in India, Poland, Turkey and Latin America and Vietnam.”