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Spotify’s getting a little more granular with its data; starting today, you’ll be able to see the top 50 most-played and top 50 most viral songs on the streaming service right here. You’ll be able to see total playcounts (rolling out over the next few weeks), filter by country, and embed a delightful widget on…

Spotify Takes on Billboard With Free-to-Play Most-Streamed Charts

Spotify has decided to take on the likes of Billboard with its own charts, making available a list of the top-50 most-streamed and most-shared songs to the public. Wall Street Journal reports that, in a push to broaden its user base, the music streaming service is sharing the data—and the music to match. The top-50…

ABC’s new streaming app—the one that lets you watch live TV on your iOS device if you live in NYC or Philly—is now available in the App Store for your downloading pleasure.

Netflix Just Made It Harder to Find Out When Movies Expire

Want to find out when Netflix will pull Melancholia so you don’t miss it? Too bad. Netflix just decided to stop providing that information through its API, so third-party services like InstantWatcher.com’s Expiring Soon on Instant are now pretty much useless. So why the change? Netflix says the data isn’t always accurate, so it’s just…

Aereo has announced that its streaming TV service will land in Atlanta on June 17th—and it still hopes to be in 22 new cities by the end of the year, too.

Just a week after announcing iOS compatibility with Ford Sync, Amazon’s streaming Cloud Player now comes in a lovely PC desktop app, letting you store and access your music offline.

First New Arrested Development Trailer: Thank You, Netflix

When news first broke nearly a year and a half ago that Netflix was resurrecting Arrested Development for a fourth season, the reception was joy followed by immediate apprehension. Could the expectations be met? Could it be as funny as it is in our memory? The answer, based on this just-released first trailer, is a…

This Genius Netflix Flowchart Will Tell You Exactly What to Watch

The going gets tough on Netflix sometimes. Between the eight people sharing your account it’s just not clear who has been marathoning Grey’s Anatomy, and the recommendations are all over the place. How are you supposed to find something to watch? With this brilliant flowchart, of course. The “mad geniuses” at Silver Oak Casino want…

Rumor: YouTube to Launch Pay-For Channel Subscriptions

The Financial Times is reporting that YouTube will launch a paid subscription model for specific, specialist video channels—as soon as this week. The report, which cites an anonymous source, suggests that the site has been developing the system for months, in order to help channels fund more content. Rumors suggest that 50 YouTube channels will…

Here Are the Best Movies on Netflix That Will Disappear Tomorrow

Another Netflix purge is happening. By tomorrow, 1794 movies will disappear from Netflix’s catalog which means the last chance you have to stream these movies is tonight. Pick wisely! We’ve narrowed the choices down for you. If this sounds a lot like what happened last year with Starz, well, it is. Only not as bad.…

Nielsen Is Finally Including Online Viewers in Its Television Ratings

Nielsen, the company that determines whether or not your beloved television shows even matter, has been perching dangerously on the verge of irrelevancy for years—but all that’s about to change. After sitting idly by as internet viewership skyrocketed, Nielsen has finally decided to start taking note of the unhealthy amounts of time we spend curled…

The Secret Twitter Music Feature That Adds a Dash of Pandora

Twitter’s stab at music streaming burst onto the scene a few weeks ago, in all its celebrity-stalking glory. But there’s at least one feature that’s still hiding behind the scenes: a Pandora-like “similar artists” option. And you can coax it out if you know the secret code. https://gizmodo.com/twitter-music-hands-on-a-celeb-stalking-music-discov-5994969 Discovered by Tyler Hayes the feature can…

Report: Amazon Has a Kindle TV Streaming Box on the Way

Bloomberg Businessweek is reporting that Amazon will soon be announcing its own streaming box to pair up with its Amazon Instant Video and video on demand. According to Bloomberg’s three unnamed sources, the box will be dropping sometime this fall. It will hook up directly to your TV (as streaming boxes tend to do) and…

Netflix’s Updated iOS App Comes With a Shiny, New Intuitive Design

While it may not be quite the total overhaul some were hoping for, Netflix has just released a not-quite-major but definitely more convenient update to its iOS app. https://gizmodo.com/rethinking-netflixs-design-5995023 The biggest change comes with a redesigned, more intuitive UI that lets you flip through what you’ve already started watching—and are most likely to want access…

The whole first season of Netflix’s latest original show, Hemlock Grove, drops today. Are you planning to check it out?

Twitter #Music Hands On: A Celeb-Stalking, Music Discovery Dream

The celebrity-hawked Twitter Music app is finally here. And what’s good enough for Ryan Seacrest is good enough for us kind of. Opening the app prompts you to sign in using either your paid Rdio or premium Spotify account—in other words: shove off, moochers. Any non-subscribers will have to satisfy themselves with iTunes previews. But…

Thanks to HTML5, Streaming Movies on Netflix Might Suck Less

Netflix currently uses Microsoft’s Silverlight plugin to run its streams. It’s an inelegant solution that sometimes makes for subpar and bogged down streaming experiences. But Silverlight is possibly dying! And Netflix wants to get better! So Netflix is planning to move on from streaming on Silverlight and move towards HTML5 video. When that happens, streaming…

People Stream Netflix More Than They Watch Any Cable Network

In the last three months, Netflix subscribers watched four billion hours of streaming content according to Reed Hastings. And a report from BTIG Research calculates that this puts Netflix ahead of any cable channel. Richard Greenfield at BTIG reasoned that if 88 percent of Netflix subscribers are in the U.S. there would be 28.1 million…

YouTube Is Streaming Every Hour of Coachella This Weekend

There might not be a hologram Tupac at Coachella this year, but once again, YouTube will be streaming the whole first weekend of the annual music festival. Starting Friday at 6:30pm EDT lasting through Sunday, you can watch performances from all five stages on the official Coachella YouTube channel. Check out the full schedule here.…

This week, Netflix is rolling out an update to its Xbox app that adds a brand new Netflix Originals landing page.