"Being under the radar is a good thing," says Exene Cervenka, the singer-poet of the L.A. rock band X. "Celebrity-hood is not a good thing. … Being able to live your life as an artist and matter is a good thing. … I'm happy with the way things turned out. She pauses. "Other people in the band, maybe not so much …" X holds the title of … [Read more...]
Archives for January 2012
Netflix beats Street
Netflix easily beat the Street with its fourth-quarter results, inspiring investors to push the beleaguered company stock well above the $110 mark. Online video subscriptions, now the company's focus, grew faster than anticipated, with 220,000 new accounts in Q4, for a total streaming subs list of 21.6 million. "We saw fewer streaming … [Read more...]
Youtube: 4 bil videos a day
YouTube says it's now serving more than 4 billion videos a day. The DIY giant made the most noise about another stat, however: 60 hours of video uploaded every minute. Or an hour of video per second, for the nano-oriented. Or a century every 10 days, for the geezers. YouTube says the 4 billion videos a day figure, which is global, is up 25 … [Read more...]
Another viewing record
The U.S. continues to watch online videos at a record pace, with 43.5 billion videos viewed in December. That tops the record 42.6 billion videos viewed in October, according to figures from the online ranking service comScore. For December, comScore reported that Google sites (YouTube, mostly) served 21.9 billion videos to U.S. viewers. … [Read more...]
Hulu enters ‘Battleground’
Hulu's first scripted original series, "Battleground," kicks off Feb. 14, just as the GOP Primary kicks into high gear. The political "workplace dramedy" tracks a campaign's efforts to land a Senate seat in Wisconsin (the battleground state of the title). The third-place candidate's hopes rest on "an unruly band of campaign workers and … [Read more...]