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DALLAS -- Later this year AT&T plans to launch the ability for you to access and stream DIRECTV video services over a wired or wireless Internet connection from any provider and from virtually any device – smartphone, tablet, Smart TV, streaming media hardware or PC....

https://youtu.be/sID8KluZ5Xo "A Trip to Unicorn Island," a feature-length documentary starring Lily Singh, is one of four exclusive titles premiering on YouTube Red on Feb. 10. Could it soon be time to YouTube and chill? The world’s biggest online video platform will...

Facebook has formed a social virtual reality team with two former executives from the video game industry at the helm, the company's CEO Mark Zuckerberg announced at Mobile World Congress. The new social VR team will work with both Oculus and other teams at Facebook...

Around 31% of all Netflix users watch using a paid subscription from family members or friends, according to s survey by research firm Survata. Especially young viewers are using someone else’s subscription: 69% of people aged 13 to 17 use someone else’s account, and...

The drive to connect the television to the Internet is now in full swing. Sales of smart TVs, game consoles, disk players, and streaming media players are all forecast to do well this holiday season, but which will consumers really use? According to The NPD Group,...

What a difference 5 years can make. In 2010 pay TV had a virtual monopoly on the delivery of video to home. Today, things are radically different. Digitalsmiths Q3 2015 Video Trends Report shows alternatives to pay TV abound, and that OTT alternatives are even...

Measured by minutes of viewing time, traditional pay-TV accounts for 80% of viewing video time in the US. This is according to data from a new video index that compares the usage of major video viewing services based on publicly available data. The index, referred to...

Amazon.com is reportedly considering a plunge into live Internet TV. It has caused no small amount of head-scratching among investors, considering how crowded that space is, and will continue to be. Bloomberg has reported that Amazon is in content discussions with...

According to eMarketer, the number of US OTT video service users will grow 4.6%, to 181M people, this year. By 2019, that number will swell to almost 200M, but looking at other data suggests this estimate could be very conservative. eMarketer published its first ever...

Over the Top video viewing in the US has grown dramatically in just a year, both streamed and downloaded, on stationary as well as mobile platforms. According to a new report from Knowledge Networks, smartphones, videogame consoles, and video rental services are the...

Measured by minutes of viewing time, traditional pay-TV accounts for 80% of viewing video time in the US. This is according to data from a new video index that compares the usage of major video viewing services based on publicly available data. The index, referred to...

AP Photo/Jeff Chiu The moment the media and technology industries have been expecting for years may finally be arriving: Apple is exploring getting into the original programming business. Sources indicate the Cupertino, Calif., colossus has held preliminary...