Hulu’s media ownership partners are close to buying out one of their number. NBCUniversal, News Corp., The Walt Disney Company and members of the Hulu team are to purchase the stake owned by Providence Equity Partners at a price that values the company at $2 billion.
Music artists on Spotify need 4m Spotify plays to earn minimum wage, according to claims made by a PacketVideo executive last week.
AOL has a new video hub for consumers that offers premium video across 14 content channels, as the firm looks to bring in high volume targeted traffic that will appeal to advertisers.
Mobile operator, O2 has announced the launch of O2 Wallet – a service it says will deliver the benefits of mobile money to more UK consumers than any other product or service currently available. Eden Zoller, principal analyst at Ovum and author of upcoming report; Mapping Mobile Payments, April 2012, takes a closer look at … [Read more…]
Mobile operator O2 has launched its much-anticipated digital wallet letting users send money using their mobile phone.
LBi, AMV BBDO, Wieden & Kennedy, Red Bee Media and Budweiser were this month honoured at the IAB’s annual Creative Showcase Grand Prix Awards ceremony. This video showcases the campaigns that took the top gongs at this year’s event.
Spotify is expanding its US services a year after the Swedish firm entered the market, developing an Internet radio service that would directly challenge Pandora Media.
Marketers that fail to get to grips with Internet Service Providers’ (ISP) new spam-blocking filters are at serious risk of failing to deliver emails to the inboxes of consumers and potentially losing business for clients, according to Guy Hanson of the Direct Marketing Association’s Email Marketing Council (EMC).
US-based genealogy site Ancestry.com has bought Archives.com, a family history website, for approximately $100m.
Many UK parents are ignoring Facebook’s age limit and letting under 13-year-olds access the social network, according to a UK government minister.