YouTube acquires BandPage as music enters streaming spotlight

YouTube has acquired BandPage, a startup designed to help musicians make money.

YouTube has always been a popular place for musicians to share their work, thanks to the site’s high reach and ability to generate revenue from views. (Adele’s Hello, … Read More

OK Go goes with Facebook for latest viral music video

If any band is synonymous with YouTube, it’s OK Go. The group has made a name for their elaborate music videos, shot in one-take and containing all kinds of absurdly convoluted real-time effects.

Their latest, Upside Down & Inside … Read More

NBC launches reality TV subscription VOD service

NBC is launching a new VOD service dedicated to reality TV. The platform, called “hayu”, will allow people to stream over 3,000 episodes of its reality shows, which include Made in Chelsea, The Real Housewives and Keeping Up with The … Read More

This week’s new releases on BFI Player+ (13th February)

Heard of BFI Player? Well, there’s also BFI Player+, a subscription service that offers an all-you-can-eat selection of hand-picked classics.

Every Friday, Mark Kermode highlights one of the collection’s titles with a video introduction. This week, it’s Brief Encounter, … Read More

New releases and coming soon to MUBI UK this week (13th February 2016)

Not getting your arthouse fix from Netflix? Wish there were more indie films on Amazon Prime Video? Every week, we round up the new releases on MUBI, the subscription VOD service that hand-picks new and old classics from around the … Read More

Interview: Stephen Fingleton talks The Survivalist

The Survivalist is out now on VOD. The film, which marks the debut of director Stephen Fingleton, follows a man who lives off the grid in a starvation-stricken world. When a starving woman and her teenage daughter discover his forest … Read More

Gaze longingly at this new trailer – and new images – from Game of Thrones Season 6

Update: 15th February

A new trailer has been released for Game of Thrones Season 6, featuring the Hall of Faces in the House of Black and White. We won’t say any more – but we will say brace yourselves…

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Watch the first four minutes of The Walking Dead Season 6 Part 2

There are just two days until The Walking Dead Season 6 returns to UK TV for its second half – and, in case you weren’t already excited, AMC has released the first four minutes of Episode 9 for free. Just … Read More

Demand 5 becomes My5 as part of a major Channel 5 rebrand

Demand 5 has relaunched as My5, as part of a major Channel 5 rebrand, with VOD exclusives including both The X-Files and an online prequel to Heroes: Reborn.

The UK broadcaster, which first premiered in the UK back in 1997 … Read More

Joe Wright to direct episode of Netflix’s Black Mirror

Where do you go from the colourful, big budget fantasy of Pan? Somewhere very dark, judging by Joe Wright’s latest gig: he’s directing an episode of Black Mirror.

Charlie Brooker’s anthology series, which was recently snapped up by Netflix to … Read More