Hulu couldn’t have picked a better time to launch its live-TV streaming service. After promising one year ago to launch a service with live-streaming TV channels within a year, Hulu made good on its vow Wednesday, rolling out a $40-a-month “skinny bundle” that adds more than 50 live channels to its Netflix-like tier for on-demand …
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Amazon scored at the Academy Awards this year with its film “Manchester by the Sea” taking home Oscars for Best Actor and Best Original Screenplay. The film is coming to Amazon’s Prime Video service on May 5. To mark the streaming release, Amazon is sending a thank-you box to residents of the real-life Massachusetts town the movie takes its name …
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Here’s our brief weekly roundup of the newest videos to hit the major online streaming services, including Netflix, Hulu, Amazon Prime and wherever else we can dig something up. Hit play below — we’ve folded in some trivia so you’ll know more about what you’re watching. Return of the Moss Your browser does not support the audio element. For more …
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Amazon is shelling out $50 million to stream National Football League games, and that’s just the start. This year, the e-commerce titan is expected to spend $4.5 billion on video-streaming content, nearly double last year and not too far from Netflix’s $6 billion video budget. And video is the only thing Netflix does; Amazon also sells shampoo and cloud services …
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Almost one out of three people who use a free trial to try out a streaming video service end up subscribing, researcher Parks Associates said Monday. That “sizeable portion” of trial users dwarfs the amount of people who abuse free try-outs, Parks senior analyst Glenn Hower said. “There is a potential for free trial abuse, but only roughly 1 percent …
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Here’s our brief weekly roundup of the newest videos to hit the major online streaming services, including Netflix, Hulu, Amazon Prime and wherever else we can dig something up. Hit play below — we’ve folded in some trivia so you’ll know more about what you’re watching. Learn all the things thanks to Bill Nye! Your browser does not support the …
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When you think of “Cabin Fever 2,” “Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Out of the Shadows” or “Bait Shop” (starring Bill Engvall and Billy Ray Cyrus), only one thought enters your brain. That thought is, “I’m glad I am under no requirement to ever watch any of those movies when Amazon adds them in May.” However, there are good titles to …
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My 4-year-old daughter often nabs my wife’s iPhone and disappears for hours into the YouTube Kids app. We intermittently check on what she’s watching, but it’s hard to keep track of every video. Since lots of parents deal with this issue, Amazon decided to roll out a new way to check on your kid’s digital diet. It’s a service for …
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Twitter got sacked big time when it lost out to Amazon in a livestreaming deal with the National Football League this season. We learned Tuesday the social network had been outmaneuvered, after the league chose e-commerce goliath Amazon to stream 10 “Thursday Night Football” games this year. The deal was reportedly valued at $50 million — five times more than …
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Get ready for some Amazon Prime live-streaming football. The online retailer won a bidding war among Facebook, Twitter and Google’s YouTube to snag the global streaming rights for 10 Thursday night National Football League games for $50 million. That price is five times more than Twitter paid last season. We debate why Amazon spent so much and what the company …
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