Facebook is talking to studios and producer about making its own, says Recode.  The social site is in discussions for scripted shows, game shows and sports, Leading the effort is Ricky Van Veen, the co-founder of College Humor, who joined Facebook earlier this year   

Neither one is in China, yet. But Amazon's rapid expansion shows the importance of the international market.

YouTube Rewind, a collection the year's most popular videos, went up on YouTube last Wednesday. In just one day, it was viewed 73 million times, more than any other Rewind.  It features 200 creators and was shot in 18 countries. By now, it's past 121 million views. 

Together, Netflix and Amazon were responsible for 40% of this year’s Golden Globe best TV show nominations. In other words, “Streaming heavyweights Netflix and Amazon are spending gargantuan amounts of money on TV shows, and it's getting results,” Business Insider writes. “The only network that beat the streaming giants in top TV show nominations this year was HBO, which got three nominations.”

Facebook has also pushed the VR-like videos in the hope of getting people excited about virtual reality — Facebook owns Oculus, one of the VR industry’s key headset and content makers.

It wants to launch at least 40 pieces of video content in 2017. To kick off that initiative, it has launched "Taco Tales," which reenacts a series of stories about the chain that the show’s writers found on the Internet. (Then exactly what did they write?) Watch on YouTube

Spotify is reportedly giving up on its latest effort to buy SoundCloud. “The digital music marriage that many wanted to happen isn’t happening after all,” TechCrunch reports, citing sources. “The company ultimately walked away [from the deal] because it feared that an acquisition could negatively impact its IPO preparation.”

Google's Window Wonderland lets you look at New York City holiday season display windows all over town, but it's way duller than it should have been. Watch and count the ways you'd improve it. 

The former Maker Studios exec takes over for Terry Denson, Verizon’s longtime VP of content strategy and acquisition, who exited the telco this summer. Verizon's for-mobile Go90 has so far failed to set the world on fire.

At UBS conference, CBS topper Leslie Moonves comes very close to flat out announcing the network will be part of YouTube's upcoming content package to rival ATT DirecTV Now, Sling TV and Vue