Category: Video Recordings, Downloads and Streaming

To Boost Profits, Disney Cracks Down on Password Sharing

The parent company of the streaming services Disney+, ESPN+ and Hulu announced the change in updated service agreements this week.
Universal Music Group Pulls Songs From TikTok

The music giant, home to stars like Taylor Swift and Drake, had threatened to withdraw licenses for its tracks to the social media juggernaut if they failed to come to a new agreement.
A.I. Fuels a New Era of Product Placement

Realistic-looking shampoo bottles and seltzer cans are popping up on videos from digital creators on TikTok and YouTube in a new form of old advertising.
Minute-Long Soap Operas Are Here. Is America Ready?

Popularized in China during the pandemic, ReelShort and other apps are hoping to bring minute-by-minute melodramas to the United States.
Minute-Long Soap Operas Are Here. Is America Ready?

Popularized in China during the pandemic, ReelShort and other apps are hoping to bring minute-by-minute melodramas to the United States.
Watch Me Lose My Job on TikTok

Some tech workers are filming their layoffs and sharing them on social media. They say it’s part catharsis, part transparency.
Sundance Film Festival Ends With Plenty of Sales, Despite Slow Start

The festival, seen as a barometer for the overall health of the film industry, featured several movies and documentaries snatched up by studios and streaming services.
The Most-Streamed Shows and Movies in 2023

Hollywood was on strike for much of the year. And yet the time viewers spent streaming shows and movies went up. A lot.
Ring to Stop Allowing Police to Request Videos From Security Cameras

Ring, a maker of internet-connected cameras that is owned by Amazon, said the police could no longer ask people to share video recordings using the company’s app, Neighbors.
Gypsy Rose Blanchard and the Big Shift in True Crime

Not long ago, true crime storytellers had little in the way of first-person footage captured in real time to rely on. Now, as much of our daily lives are documented, the genre is transforming.
How Did These Strange Songs Hit No. 1?

Melanie’s “Brand New Key” is just one of many weird songs that somehow topped the Billboard charts.
Netflix is Said to License ‘Sex and the City’ From HBO

Media companies that had been reluctant are increasingly offering shows to Netflix, which is pulling further ahead in the streaming wars.