Tech
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Peter Chernin’s Fullscreen Revamps, Launches New Division for Product-Placement Videos
Sponsored content, which matches a digital star with a brand, will get a big push by the digital-video company
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Google May Start Forcing Advertisers to Be Less Annoying
Company weighs new standards that would keep ads from being so obnoxious that consumers block all ads
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Music Mogul Irving Azoff to YouTube: Stop Pretending You Love Musicians
In an open letter to Google’s massive video site, Azoff says artists have almost no control over keeping their music off YouTube
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Spotify Tunes Into Original Video, Including Tim Robbins’ Mockumentary
The streaming-music service launches a slate of 12 original programs
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Vice CEO Downs ‘a Few Ales,’ Pitches Plan to Launch 20 TV Channels Worldwide This Year
CEO Shane Smith delivers rambling pitch to advertisers on wider plan for network expansion
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YouTube CEO: We Beat Every Network
Google’s video site reaches more 18- to 49-year-olds during primetime than the top 10 TV shows combined, Susan Wojcicki says
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Watch the Obamas Throw a ‘Star Wars’ Dance Party (Video)
The First Couple gets down to “Uptown Funk” with R2-D2 and some Stormtroopers too
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Netflix Now Lets Customers Control Phone’s Data Instead of Capping It
After limiting mobile video quality for years, Netflix rolls out manual settings for the streams subscribers watch on their phone
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YouTube Plans to Sell Cable TV Bundle (Report)
Its virtual TV would be called Unplugged, but it doesn’t have any deals in place, Bloomberg reports
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Hulu Is Slowing, Hits 12 Million Subscribers Versus Netflix’s 81 Million
Hulu’s subscriber growth is slower than a year ago, despite the streaming service spending a year tweaking the kinds of memberships it offers
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AOL to Go It Alone Producing Most of Its Shows (Exclusive)
AOL Studios will handle production on 60 percent of its original video this year, after third parties managed 90 percent in 2015
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NBCUniversal in Talks With Hulu to Live-Stream TV
Disney and Fox aren’t the only ones mulling over a Hulu new bundle, a source tells TheWrap
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Buzzfeed Reports 7 Billion Content Views Every Month
The jump in views follows reports that social news and entertainment site fell short of revenue goals last year
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Hulu Plans to Launch Live-Channel Streaming (Report)
Hulu is setting deals to stream networks like ESPN, Fox, ABC and FX
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‘Call of Duty’ Goes to Space in First ‘Infinite Warfare’ Trailer (Video)
Sequel to popular game will take players to whole new planets