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01.18.18

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Verizon Continues Content Push With New NBA Deal

Verizon is expanding its partnership with the NBA via a new two-year agreement that will allow it to offer the league’s out-of-market streaming product—NBA League Pass—through Yahoo Sports

Watching Facebook

It’s been about four months since Facebook rolled out its Facebook Watch video platform, and one of the biggest surprises has been users’ willingness to watch content for more than a few minutes

Hulu Applying Lessons Learned in Upgrades to UI

A year ago at CES 2017, Hulu svp, customer experience Ben Smith told visitors to the company’s lavish, branded hospitality suite overlooking the Las Vegas Strip that the next 12 months would be a year for learning. Traditionally an SVOD player, Hulu was on the verge of taking the next step into live TV

CES: Turner in OTT Distribution Talks with MVPDs

Turner is talking to MVPDs about potential distribution relationships for Filmstruck and Boomerang, the programmer’s two direct-to-consumer services

Amazon Scores Touchdown with NFL Coverage

Amazon logged an average-minute audience of more than 310K viewers for each of its 11 regular-season NFL streams in 2017 (10 “Thursday Night Football” games, plus Christmas Day)

OTT Execs Forecast a Great Aggregation in Coming Years

Execs from Verizon Digital Media and Gracenote prophesized at CES the emergence of a new sheriff to restore order to the OTT landscape

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