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Digital music streaming services now reportedly account for the majority of music consumption in Britain.

Advertisers are reportedly aiming to increase product placement in shows that appear on streaming services that don’t have advertisements such as Netflix and Hulu.

The awesome news is that cord-cutting *is* accelerating. There is no question about it.

The social media giant Facebook joins Apple in the quest for a piece of the entertainment streaming pie.

Disney stock slipped by as much as four percent following the announcement that they will stream their movies independent of Netflix.

Veteran film director Christopher Nolan has said he will never work with Netflix to produce a film because the streaming company is intent on putting movie theaters out of business.

Tesla is in talks to produce its own music streaming service, which would be included in Tesla cars, according to a report.

Cable television is “failing” as a business, according to a cable industry lobbyist, as more and more people switch to streaming services and watching videos on their phones.

Netflix identified mankind’s need for sleep as its primary competitor this week, branding it as the company’s “greatest enemy.”

82% of children in “Netflix-only” homes don’t know what television commercials are, while 38% of those in houses with a television are also unaware of the word, according to a survey.

Google announced on Tuesday the launch of the new YouTube TV service: a so-called “skinny bundle” that lets you stream select cable TV channels on any device at a much cheaper price than regular cable television providers.

Mega-popular streaming service Twitch.tv is cutting out the middleman and allowing viewers to directly purchase the game they’re watching.

Silicon Valley is going all-in for so-called “cord cutting,” as 65 percent of Internet users worldwide watched some type of streaming video-on-demand last month.

Television networks will offer increased on-demand access to their programs in an effort to combat “cord-cutting,” which is slowly eroding cable and satellite companies’ long-protected revenue models.

ESPN, the left-wing sports network that has hemorrhaged 7 million subscribers in just two years, which translates into $1.3 billion in lost revenue, is floating the idea of throwing in the towel on the issue of streaming. Disney CEO Bob

Streaming video and audio now accounting for 70 percent of internet usage within North American homes during the peak evening period, according to a new report from Sandvine.

According to the left-wing cable news network, CNN, with the announcement that it is closing its Grantland website, ESPN is “getting out of the pop culture business.” This is probably a head-fake on ESPN’s part. For years the sports network

Undertaking a revival of former NBC sitcom Community was a costly venture for Yahoo, and might hamper the company’s future plans to compete in the world of online original programming.

The British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) is needlessly chucking time and money away by playing “whack a mole” with foreign IP addresses that are created by Virtual Private Networks (VPNs) in a bid to stop those who haven’t paid the licence

Thanks to investments in original programming, with popular shows such as Orange is the New Black and House of Cards, Netflix added 2.5 million new subscribers in the second quarter of 2015.

Over Christmas, for less than eight bucks a pop, I purchased “Gravity,” “The Conjuring,” Man of Steel,” “Riddick,” and the new “Godzilla” reboot on Bluray. With all of those titles came a free digital copy that is currently stored on

A quick look at this New York Times list of streaming options for cord-cutters reveals that the con game that is your dreaded, overpriced cable and satellite television bundle is now attempting to resurrect itself on the medium that threatens

The most important detail in this Wall Street Journal story is that Apple has been attempting to put together a slimmed down streaming bundle for years. The proposal went nowhere because it was “considered radical and failed to bear fruit.”

The end is nigh for the Hollywood affirmative action racket known as bundled cable and satellite television. Customers aren’t yet cancelling their overpriced bundled TV packages by double digits. That reality, though, can’t be far behind. People inevitably figure out

Even with a growing American population the number of subscribers to bundled cable and satellite television is declining. Not by huge numbers. One-hundred million homes are still being conned into making left-wing multinationals rich and subsidizing low-rated networks like CNN.

Following the lead of CBS, HBO and Showtime, Nickelodeon CEO Philippe Dauman announced this week that he will launch the Nickelodeon network outside of a pay television subscription. As of now, if you want to watch Nickelodeon, you are required

A new poll shows that only 46% of respondents watch what’s known as linear television, or live television as it airs. As supplements to television, a majority of the 4709 polled have added DVR-watching and streaming services of various kinds.

On top of obnoxiously high prices, a big reason people (especially Millennials) are fleeing to Streaming, is the obnoxious number of commercials that disrupt/infect/pummel every cable television show. Nevertheless, in order to make up for declining viewership, desperate cable networks

Variety’s Todd Spangler has this mostly right. Dish Network’s Sling TV, a bundled streaming package of cable channels priced at $20 per month, is no game changer. At least I hope not (for reasons I’ll explain below). The willingness of