The latest addition to the digital music subscription club is rara.com – an on-demand service that launched in the U.S. among other locations at the end of 2011.  With broad-appeal playlists and over 10 million tracks and licensing deals at all major labels, Billboard says rara.com is looking to convert “digital virgins” by offering a [...]

As millions of Americans prepare to watch the New York Giants take on the New England Patriots (or tune in to see Monday’s most talked about commercials) U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement and the NFL are taking steps to crack down on illegal live video streams and counterfeit merchandise.  At an NFL press conference today, [...]

This week, Warner Brothers announced a new agreement with Netflix to bring their hit scripted series to streaming subscribers.  The agreement allows Netflix Instant subscribers to watch previous seasons of the network’s hit shows, including “The Vampire Diaries,” “Gossip Girl,” and “One Tree Hill” on more than 700 Netflix-streaming enabled devices. In Syn© is a [...]

Variety reports that Hulu and Univision have entered a multi-year agreement bringing the Spanish-language network’s primetime shows and library content, including Televisa programs, to the web.  According to a statement by Univision, this agreement marks the first time the network’s most popular programming, including hundreds of hours of Spanish-language novellas, variety shows and reality series, [...]

This week, Row 44 and Major League Baseball announced that they are teaming up to bring live, in-flight streaming of MLB games to commercial airline passengers.  According to Row 44, upon launch, passengers will be able to access the live video and audio broadcasts, including the radio broadcast with each team’s regular announcers, from their own smartphones, laptops, [...]

Last week, Research in Motion announced a new social music sharing and discovery service, BBM Music.  Currently in closed beta testing, users can build and share music libraries from major labels including Universal Music Group, Sony Music Entertainment, Warner Music Group and EMI, creating personal music profiles of up to 50 songs they can share with [...]

Scientific journals have long been filled with new innovations and discoveries, and now journal publishers are following suit.   The over 10 million peer-reviewed scientific articles in Elsevier’s SciVerse Science Direct platform can now be heard in addition to read, thanks to a collaboration with iSpeech, announced last week.   The iSpeech application, which converts full-text scientific [...]

This week, the Sundance Institute announced new web services designed to help festival alumni navigate the film distribution marketplace.  The first is a partnership with Amazon, iTunes, Hulu, Netflix, SundanceNOW and YouTube, to provide Sundance alumni with access to digital platforms and new audiences.  With indie distributor New Video and Topspin Media providing support, the program hopes [...]

Universal Music Group today launched a new playlist service for Spotify users in the U.S.  The service, Digster, offers playlists created by UMG personnel and artists, featuring music from all record labels.  The service allows label employees to share their passion for music with listeners, who can access the playlists from Spotify or from Digster [...]

Amazon.com will soon have more than 2,000 TV shows from the CBS Corp.’s library in its subscription-based Amazon Prime streaming service.  The deal, announced this week, includes full seasons of 18 series, including classics like Cheers and Star Trek as well as newer hits Numb3rs and The Tudors.  Additionally, dozens of shows will be available [...]