Media & Entertainment

Nielsen may finally be embracing 21st century TV viewing habits. Nielsen is planning to overhaul its TV rating system to include ratings data for videos viewed on streaming services like Netflix and Amazon, and streamed on devices like Xbox, Playstation and iPad, according to a report in The Hollywood Reporter, citing “several sources” familiar with Continue Reading →

Billboard’s charts, the gold standard for assessing the most popular music, now have a new metric. YouTube streaming data is now being incorporated into those charts, Billboard announced yesterday. YouTube viewership will now join digital and physical singles sales, terrestrial radio airplay, and streaming as the metrics that determine Billboard’s chart order. Since there are Continue Reading →

One of our favorite sports apps on any platform, MLB At Bat 13, is getting a nice update with the release of its spring training edition. An initial set of features is live in the app, but it will be updated with even more on the start of the regular season. Last year there was Continue Reading →

“PlayStation wants to win the war against reality.” Alongside a montage of the company’s biggest video game icons, that mantra was how Sony kicked off its massively hyped PlayStation event from New York City on Wednesday. To win that war, Sony officially announced the PlayStation 4, the most advanced video game system the public has Continue Reading →

Now that the dust has settled and regular games are starting back up again, it’s important to take note of one of NBA All-Star Weekend’s biggest winners. We’re not talking about Chris Paul. We’re definitely not talking about 2 Chainz. We’re talking, in fact, about Twitter CEO Dick Costolo. The NBA, more than any other Continue Reading →

Taking a cue from real Twitter account hacks, MTV and BET partook in some viral marketing Tuesday — by “hacking” each others’ accounts. The Twitter accounts from the two Viacom-owned cable channels, MTV and BET appeared as if they were hacked Tuesday. The music brands essentially switched identities and unleashed a stream of friendly digs Continue Reading →

It’s been a little more than two weeks since Netflix released its long-awaited original series House of Cards to the public. The entire first season of the show, which stars Kevin Spacey and Robin Wright and was produced by David Fincher, was released at once, leading many subscribers to binge-watch over the first few weeks. Continue Reading →

The Web can seem unfathomably vast, but according to a study published in the Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society, it’s more tightly bound than you might think. Most Web pages can be connected in 19 clicks or less, thanks to search engines, large aggregators and social networking sites, according to a paper on network Continue Reading →

Shelly Palmer chats with Antwan Lewis and Juliet Huddy on Fox 5’s Good Day Wake Up about Amazon Coins and Staples 3D printing. Continue Reading →

The average consumer making “online videos” today probably has no idea about the total amount of work and time it used to take to make videos: you needed to digitize, edit, render, export and share said videos. I remember the days of online and offline edits and waiting for previews to render, and I’m continuously impressed Continue Reading →