GoPro (NASDAQ: GPRO) today announced that Lauren Zalaznick has been appointed to GoPro's Board of Directors, effective immediately. An award-winning TV and entertainment luminary, Ms. Zalaznick has devoted her career to transforming the cultural landscape in media, having been named to such distinguished lists as Time's 100 Most Influential People and Fortune's 50 Most Powerful Women. Ms. Zalaznick invests in and advises digital media startups and new content platforms.

PledgeMusic is a direct-to-fan music platform that enhances the fan-artist dynamic from the creation of music to its experience in digital and live formats. The platform...

(CBS Interactive) Marc DeBevoise has been named President and Chief Operating Officer of CBS Interactive, it was announced today by Jim Lanzone, Chief Digital Officer...

London, UK — May 24, 2016 — Today The Orchard proudly announces the arrival of two top music industry executives to its European Headquarters in London: Lucy Blair & Nikoo Sadr.

Following on the heels of its successful winter 2015 brand marketing campaign, Fandango, the nation’s leading digital destination for all things movies and a unit of NBCUniversal, will roll out a new summer campaign featuring Saturday Night Live star Kenan Thompson asMiles Mouvay, the company’s brand ambassador (and the world’s biggest movie fan). Fandango’s spots debut tonight, with more than a dozen new commercials planned for TV, online, mobile, outdoor and in-theater, including its first-ever spots for the company’s new premium on-demand video service, FandangoNOW, formerly M-GO.

Concurrent Media Strategies, LLC, publisher of the Concurrent Media blog, and Digital Media Wire, Inc., producers of Digital Entertainment World and the New York...

[Editor’s Note: This is a guest article written by Vindicia. Vindicia brings enterprise-class innovation to consumer-facing subscription billing to help digital companies acquire and retain more customers by making payments seamless, secure and easy.] Digital content and services are everywhere today, and many are available on a subscription or recurring basis. The burning question remains: how to develop a consistent stream of customers, reduce churn and keep acquisition costs to a minimum?

The one-day event features 8 panels, 4 keynotes, 2 presentations, 1 roundtable and discussion groups as well as exhibits, demos and networking within the historic W Hollywood. This year, for the first time, the conference also includes a Virtual Reality Innovation and Networking Lounge, co-hosted by the Open Gaming Alliance, where attendees will meet with developers, investors and game and Hollywood execs, as well as see the latest demos from the industry’s up-and-coming VR/AR companies and interactive panel discussions.

Since the transition to a file-based workflow in media production began, companies have relied on FTP (File Transfer Protocol) to transfer files over the Internet. But this 45-year-old protocol was designed decades ago, in the days when small groups of Internet pioneers moved relatively small files between themselves.

The market for streaming video on demand (SVOD) is growing fast. A new report from Research and Markets predicted 306 million homes will use SVOD by 2020, up from an anticipated 161 million by the end of 2015. Moreover, by 2020, global SVOD revenue will reach $26,794 million, which is more than twice the total revenue expected in 2015. Many companies will successfully take advantage of this growing market, but others won’t make the cut. What makes a SVOD business successful?