YouTube announced some new ventures this week, namely that it will be co-producing feature films with DreamWorks-owned AwesomenessTV. It will also be backing series starring its most famous stars, including SMOSH, Fine Brothers, Prank vs.
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HBO launched a new streaming service this week, HBO Now, exclusively on Apple TV, iOS, and Optimum Online.
HBO Now is a standalone service that differs from HBO GO in that an existing cable subscription is not required to sign up.
After months of delay, YouTube has finally entered the music subscription arena with a new service called YouTube Music Key. Music Key will allow subscribers to do what they’ve already been doing on YouTube, namely listening to music, with some added bonuses.
With the advent of music streaming services such as Spotify and Google Play Music All Access, companies saw fit to forgo high-bitrate audio files in favor of lossy 256- and 320-kbps MP3s to conserve users’ mobile bandwidth and allow for less buffering time.