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Goodbye to net neutrality—and good riddance
(Iconica/Getty) As much as I love all the technical goodies we’ve been blessed with in this digital age, I do have the odd moment when I long for the way things used to be. Like last week, when the...
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Don’t underestimate Netflix rival Shomi
There is a tendency to be skeptical, if not downright cynical, about a telecom company launching a new product that is designed to compete with a true technology concern. It’s a deserved doubt, since...
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How Halifax’s DHX Media is building a kids’ TV empire for the Netflix generation
DHX Media executive chairman Michael Donovan is building a kids’ TV empire for the Netflix generation. (Scott Munn; character images courtesy DHX) No matter which generation you belong to, there’s...
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Winners & Losers: HBO protects its throne, Hailo crashes and burns
▲ HBO It’s not Netflix. It’s HBO™ Here in Canada, our broadcast regulator just concluded a long and laborious series of public hearings with the purpose of determining the future of Canadian...
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Vice Media will launch a 24-hour TV channel in Canada in 2015
Rogers Communications CEO Guy Laurence, left, with Vice Media CEO Shane Smith announcing the joint venture on October 30, 2014 (Murad Hemmadi) Digital powerhouse Vice Media and cable provider Rogers...
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Vancouver’s BroadbandTV opens New York office to get closer to Madison Ave....
BroadbandTV is opening its branch plant in midtown Manhattan to be closer to where marketing decisions are made. “That’s where all the ad dollars are,” says Lewis Ball, BBTV’s vice-president of...
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Canada’s looming streaming video showdown
(Getty Images) Here’s a thought exercise: What happens if the CRTC takes to heart the complaints lodged by consumer groups last week and forces Rogers, Shaw and Bell to open up Shomi and Crave TV,...
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Rogers aiming to simplify with new “Ignite” Internet offering
(Fred Lum/Globe and Mail/CP) On March 4, Rogers Communications announced a new lineup of Internet packages called Ignite. The move represents a series of strategic shifts for the company, which also...
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Everything you always wanted to ask Shomi
It’s been four months since Rogers and Shaw, Canada’s two biggest cable companies, officially launched Shomi, a Netflix-like streaming service that delivers on-demand TV shows and movies. It’s not...
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Apple TV, the company’s lonely dud, is on the verge of something big
Apple CEO Tim Cook announcing the updated Apple TV in San Francisco on March 9. (Xinhua/CP) On March 9, hundreds of journalists packed into the Yerba Buena Center for the Arts in San Francisco for...
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VMedia offers a glimpse of the CRTC’s pick-and-pay future today
(iStock) It’s been nearly a week since the CRTC handed down its momentous decision that will break apart Canada’s existing television system by forcing service providers to offer standalone channels....
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Why the CRTC’s pick-and-pay TV decision will lower cable bills
(Getty Images) A sinister cloud has loomed over the CRTC’s months-long examination of how television is made and sold in Canada. Whether it was during the Let’s Talk TV hearings last fall, where many...
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How Roku is gearing up to take on Apple TV
(Roku) The battle between streaming services has been getting all the attention of late, but the fight among devices that run Netflix and its competitors is about to heat up too. Hot on the heels of...
View ArticleThe most popular viral advertisements on YouTube
In addition to being the world’s largest repository of video, a new route to stardom for a new generation of entertainers, and a significant source of advertising revenue for Google, YouTube has also...
View ArticleHow Lilly Singh found YouTube stardom as IISuperwomanII
In the issue of Canadian Business that comes out today, Joe Castaldo’s cover story delves into the business of YouTube, and all the ways that the video site has become a linchpin of Google’s plans to...
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Themtube: the 7 challengers chipping away at YouTube’s dominance
(Periscope) An array of new video services are going after YouTube’s viewership, advertisers, and talent. Here’s what you need to know about them: Amazon Prime Instant Video For about $100 a year,...
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YouTube’s secret weapon in the digital video wars
Lilly Singh, aka IISuperwomanII. (Portrait by Nikki Ormerod) The tweens start lining up as early as eight o’clock on a recent Saturday morning. After a security check, they’re ushered up to an empty...
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With Netflix vs. Shomi, streaming video finally heats up in Canada
(Shomi) The war with Netflix is officially on in Canada with the news that Shomi, the streaming joint venture from Rogers and Shaw, will be opening to all Canadians this summer. The streaming service...
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A better way to stop Canadians from using a VPN
(Christian Baitg/Getty) It looks like Mary Ann Turcke, Bell Media’s new president, is picking up where her ousted predecessor Kevin Crull left off, at least when it comes to hurling provocative...
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Three ways Facebook can beat YouTube at its own game
(Kiyoshi Ota/Bloomberg/Getty) YouTube has long been the dominant online video platform, but Facebook is quickly catching up. And it’s continuing to make great leaps, according to a study released this...
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Winners & Losers: HBO nabs Sesame Street, Columbia House closes
▲ HBO Oscar would have fit right in on The Wire, though The news that HBO struck a five-year deal to air first-run episodes of Sesame Street brought out two main reactions in people. There were those...
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Digital video’s next battleground: live, real-time broadcasting
James Van Der Beek uses Periscope prior to the Dodgers’ Hollywood Stars Night Game at Dodger Stadium on June 6, 2015 in Los Angeles, California. (Noel Vasquez/Getty Images) In its earliest incarnation,...
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Aterlo Networks solves rural users’ Netflix buffering problem
(Orangefan_2011/Flickr) There’s a lot of talk about cord-cutting these days, but almost no mention of how the shift toward internet-delivered television might be affecting rural households. Getting rid...
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The world really doesn’t need a Netflix knockoff from Apple
(Apple) Another day, another Apple rumour. Or perhaps that should be: another Apple television rumour. This one, courtesy of Variety just ahead of Apple’s iPhone event on Sept. 9, has the company...
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How the digital age turns competitors into collaborators
Spotify CEO Daniel Ek, delivering a keynote in May 2015. (Noam Galai/WireImage/Getty) “I have a core belief: People want to consume content over a mobile phone,” Rogers Communications CEO Guy Laurence...
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Even after its price hike, Netflix is undercharging Canadians
(Netflix) The tanking loonie is making it expensive for Canadians to buy all manner of U.S. imports, with the pain being particularly sharp in the technology sphere. Apple’s new iPhone 6S, for example,...
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Here’s how much people love sharing video and photos on their phones
Uploading video and photos is one of the biggest uses for mobile devices, according to a new survey of Internet use by Sandvine. (Joe Klamar/AFP/Getty) Broadband tool company Sandvine has released its...
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Canada’s most popular viral YouTube ads of 2015
Since YouTube launched skippable ads five years ago, brands that advertise on the platform have had to become more creative to get viewers to watch. With the year coming to a close, Google Canada...
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Netflix CEO Reed Hastings on the power of doing one thing well
Netflix CEO Reed Hastings giving a keynote at the Consumer Electronics Show in January 2016. (Ethan Miller/Getty) Netflix made big news at the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas a few weeks ago...
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How Netflix is dragging Hollywood into a global, one-market future
Netflix Chief Product Officer Neil Hunt. (Jasper Jacobs/AFP/Getty) There’s no doubt that Netflix was among the biggest newsmakers at the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas a few weeks ago. The...
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Rogers gambles on a standalone digital streaming sports channel
Home run? Too soon to tell. (Stacy Revere/Getty) Canadian sports fans have some good news to celebrate, besides the opening of the Blue Jays season on Sunday. Rogers is launching Sportsnet Now, a...
View ArticleWhy Netflix has stumbled, and what to do about it
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Shudder is the latest specialty streaming video service to launch in Canada
(Shudder) As the saying goes, when one door closes, another opens. In this case, that door is opening very slowly with a menacing creak. Shomi may be shutting down at the end of November, but horror...
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