Swedish streaming giant, Spotify has announced the year’s first major feature announcement in a format called “Spotlight” that allows podcasters to complement their audio presentations with visual media. The media can be photos or text as well. While the first Spotlight-enabled podcasts focus on music, pop culture, politics, and sports, other podcasts with specific topics …
Social media giant Facebook has introduced its new video streaming feature called “Watch” that allows anyone to submit a video It includes shows from leading publishers like Walt Disney’s ABC, Buzzfeed, Vox, to name a few, as well as live sports events like college football games.
George Kiong from Standard Media has written an amazing article on what Live Streaming means for all businesses and recommended businesses to include Live Streaming being offered by various social media platforms like Periscope, Snapchat and Facebook Live as part of their content strategy to promote their products. BMW used Periscope to introduce its M2 model …
Facebook is planning to launch TV-like programming, and the shows could be viewable right away in June. About 24 shows are in the pipeline for this big move into programming. Facebook is aiming at long- form marquee programming that is best suited for viewing on TV sets and shorter videos that will be cost effective …
Time Inc announced some major investments in video and OTT during their NewFront presentation held in NYC on May 5, 2017. This was part of it’s pitching efforts to advertisers. One of the highlights at the event was “People/Entertainment Weekly Network” which is to be a free , ad-supported video streaming service. Also their Xumo …
