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In its latest deep dive into the video streaming services, Reelgood—a service that’s all about helping you find things to stream—looked at the catalogs of films and TV shows on Amazon Prime Video, Netflix, and Hulu. They’d already established that Prime Video has the largest catalog of titles among any streaming service, let alone the […]

Surely one of the greatest things about YouTube is its vast collection of videos that show us how to do things. It’s really rather heartwarming that so many regular folks have taken precious time out of their day to fire up a camera and offer detailed guides on how to do just about anything you […]

The streaming video giant’s price increase has customers threatening to leave—but Wall Street is calling their bluff. Streaming services took off because people were tired of paying outrageously high prices for cable packages they only used part of and for the occasional night at the movies. But as streaming providers proliferate, the cost of cord-cutting […]

Ever been frustrated with Instagram when it doesn’t let you tag your friends in video clips? The social network may be about to change that as it’s currently testing a way to link your friends accounts to the videos you post. Instagram photo tags provide little icons to show who is in the image when […]

The world’s number-two online video site delivers custom cloud streaming solutions.YouTube isn’t the only game in online video. Paris-based DailyMotion, the No. 2 online video site that boasts 110 million monthly unique visitors today announced a revamped Dailymotion Cloud service for publishers, advertisers, and broadcasters. The cloud service hosts and streams video for customers, who […]

The new Disney+ streaming service will not only be chock-full of princesses, Avengers, Disney Club, Kermit, Peggy and The Skywalker Family Show, but it will have third-party movies and TV shows, too. Disney CEO Bob Iger said that yesterday at the company’s quarterly earnings call. While they are aiming for a “pretty heavily weighted to […]

YouTube is changing how you navigate through its website, making it more like Instagram and Snapchat Stories. This week, the company will roll out swipe-to-navigate functionality, so you can move between videos by swiping horizontally on your smartphone. Swiping to the left takes you to the next video, while swiping to the right will bring […]

Vimeo has carved out a niche involving more than just ads for monetizing video — and now the video platform has another tool inside its arsenal. On Wednesday, September 5, Vimeo launched Vimeo Stock, a royalty-free marketplace for stock video. But Vimeo says it wants to do more than offer creatives another monetization tool and […]

While some may blame Netflix for killing the movie theater business, it appears that the streaming service is getting its own films into brick-and-mortar cinemas before the year is out. Netflix just signed a deal with iPic Entertainment, allowing the firm to play original movies in iPic’s chain of luxury theaters the same day they […]