Hulu, Livestream and Vevo Content Come to Chill, the Turntable for Video
Chill.com, known as the “Turntable.fm for video,” relaunched on Wednesday as a social platform for watching live events, TV shows and music videos. While there are still portions of the site where “VJs” can earn points from others in the room for spinning YouTube videos, its focus has shifted to social viewing of content from sites [...]
Read MoreDave Chappelle May Return to Comedy via the Web
Shocking his fans, Dave Chappelle vanished from the comedy scene and from his hit show “The Chappelle Show”on Comedy Central a while back. Now, after 6 years it’s looking like Chappelle is trying to make a comeback, not on TV, but on the web! The Daily reported that Chappelle is in the works of creating [...]
Read MoreApple Launches Digital Subscription Service, Netflix Shares Fall
Apple has launched a subscription service via iTunes that makes the Apple Store more appealing to publishers. Under the new plan, Apple makes 30 percent of the profit for attracting a customer to a publisher’s app. If a publisher brings in a new or existing customer, Apple gets nothing. Netflix shares fell almost 3 percent [...]
Read MoreNew Partnership Brings Viacom Content Back to Hulu
Hulu and Viacom have entered into a partnership that will bring back The Daily Show and The Colbert Report. The deal also brings popular TV shows from Viacom’s media networks, including Comedy Central, MTV, BET, VH1, Spike TV, and TV Land to the Hulu Plus subscription service. “We are very pleased to partner with Hulu [...]
Read MoreHulu Struggles to Keep Up With Changing World of Internet TV
According to the Wall Street Journal, Fox Broadcasting owner News Corp. and ABC owner Disney are contemplating pulling some free content from Hulu. The problem is that the networks providing content for Hulu are not satisfied with the current business model. They are not sure how much of their content they should offer for free [...]
Read MoreComcast Merges With NBC to Create a $30 Billion Business
The hotly debated Comcast-NBC merger has been in the making for over a year now and has finally been approved by the FCC and the DOJ. This will mark the first time one company will control both how television and movies are made and how they get into your living room. Comcast, the largest U.S. [...]
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