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Almost Half of OTT Apps are Abandoned After a Month
New report suggests OTT applications experience 67 per cent churn within the first two weeks
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National Air and Space Museum Opens VR Hangar App
Experience the Wright brother’s first plane and Apollo 11 command module from anywhere
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CNNgo Offers Free Daily 10-Minute Previews of the Live TV Feed
CNN’s strategy to offer 10 minutes of its live feed for free daily on its apps before asking users to authenticate with their pay TV...
Distribution
Solve Mysteries with ‘Archer’ in New AR App
The 8th season of FX’s Archer , which premieres on April 5th, will have bonus Easter eggs for anyone who’s downloaded the free Archer,P.I....
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Al Jazeera Launches Investigative Journalism in Game Format
In the run up to its 10th anniversary this November, Al Jazeera English today announced the launch of a new interactive mobile web-based app...
News and Features
Shane Hurlbut’s Favorite Filmmaking Apps
Cinematographer Shane Hurlbut has put together a list of 20 of his favorite filmmaking apps. He writes, “I have put together a few articles...
Production
AR Experience Turns All of Miami Into Canvas
Lapse, a new app from multimedia artist Ivan Toth Depeña, turns Miami into a canvas for an augmented reality experience that features several artists and is made...
Production
New VR App Lets You Time Travel in London
A new virtual reality app called Timelooper allows tourists to visit London like never before. Instead of just hearing about the city’s historical events...
Production
Showtime Cleverly Markets New Show ‘Roadies’ Within SXSW App
Showtime is sponsoring the official SXSW app for the fourth year in a row and, this time, the app has exclusive content tied to...
Consumption
MLB’s At Bat App Tops Sports Streaming Apps in 2015
MLB’s At Bat mobile app has achieved staggering success in 2015 with 8.4 billion minutes consumed over the course of the year, more than...
Consumption
Tour a London Museum with New Virtual Reality App
Now anyone with a Samsung Gear VR can visit London’s Courtauld Gallery and get a personalized tour with Neil Gaiman to boot. New virtual...
Production
Experience Sundance’s VR Offerings with Mobile App
Can’t make it to Park City, Utah this year for the Sundance New Frontiers program? That’s okay, because the festival is making a large...
Distribution
This App Can Help You Easily Create Your Own Mini-Documentaries
The Jinx director Andrew Jarecki’s latest undertaking isn’t his own film at all, but an app that allows everyday users to create short, professional-looking...
Production
News Apps Shift Away From Live Video to On-Demand Video
The Wall Street Journal video app has changed its name from WSJ Live to WSJ Video, signifying a bigger trend in the news market...
Production
Sid Lee and City of New York Take Volunteering Mobile with NYC Service Volunteer App
Volunteering in New York City has made its way into the digital age courtesy of NYC Service, agency Sid Lee NY and SocialEffort. Looking...
Production
AMC Launches ‘Making of the Mob’ Selfie App
AMC has launched the Mobbed Up selfie app in conjunction with its new docuseries Making of the Mob: New York. With the free app,...
Production
Jaunt Releases Paul McCartney VR Experience for iOS
Jaunt has released a version of their Paul McCartney virtual reality experience–previously available for Google Cardboard or Oculus Rift–as a free iOS app. The...
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Periscope Ushers in a New Level of an Unfiltered Broadcast World
The Next Web‘s Owen Williams opines on what Twitter’s new live-streaming app Periscope could mean for the future of news and live events. He...
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Essential Apps for Editors
Editor Jonny Elwyn rounds up his list of top film editing apps he believes to be essential. He writes, “Every now and then it’s...
Production
Lionel Williams Releases Music Video and Companion Interactive App
Lionel Williams’ colorful retro-inspired music video for Unknown Mortal Orchestra’s “Multi-Love” has been released along with an interactive app that allows users to explore...
Production
Toyota App Shows Owners Surprises Under Their Hoods
A new app from Toyota uses augmented reality to give Toyota owners a surprise under their hoods. The Spanish app uses a smart device’s...
Distribution
Meerkat Founder Talks His Buzzy Live-Streaming App
Re/code talks to Meerkat founder Ben Rubin about his live-streaming app, which has been the talk of SXSW this week. Twitter recently just downgraded...
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Fox Now Provides a Strong Example of All a Streaming App Could Be
TheWrap’s Tony Maglio reports on the success, and acclaimed user interface, of Fox’s streaming app Fox Now. As he explains, “In addition to Fox...
Production
Augmented Reality App Replaces Subway Ads with Art
Augmented reality app NO AD is turning the advertisements found on New York City’s subway walls into digital art. The app’s current exhibition, Bob-omb,...
News and Features
Apple iPad Spot Focuses on Filmmaking Apps
A new Apple iPad spot that aired during the Oscars showed how students from Los Angeles County High School for the Arts use the...
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Is Live-Streaming Your Every Move the Next Social Media Trend?
MIT Technology Review’s Winston Ross writes up new app Air (formerly called Yevvo) which allows users to live-stream their every move via their mobile...
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NBC Releases ‘Saturday Night Live’ App
NBC celebrated the 40th anniversary of its sketch comedy show Saturday Night Live with an acclaimed–and ratings and social media win–special on Sunday looking...
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New Miniseries ‘Dig’ to Launch with Gaming and Augmented Reality Components
USA’s new 12-part miniseries Dig has launched an augmented reality app that allows fans to unlock special content using the Dig Decoder app on...
News
This Free App Turns Your iPad Into an Editing Control Surface
The free CTRL+ Console app turns your iPad into an editing control surface for use with Final Cut Pro X, Final Cut Pro 7,...
Production
Photojournalist Rick Smolan Adds Augmented Reality App to New Book
In 1977, photojournalist Rick Smolan documented Robyn Davidson’s incredible 1700 mile journey across the Australian Outback. That partnership yielded a number of books and...
Production
NBC Breaking News App Now Offers Live-Streams
Starting this week, NBC’s Breaking News app offers from three to six live video streams on a daily basis. The app will also send...
Research and Development
BBC News Delivered via Line
BBC News’ content will soon be available via Line, a smartphone instant messaging platform. BBC News said it is the first international news organization...
Production
Al Jazeera Has an App for News
Al Jazeera has unveiled AJ+, a news network the company has developed to engage people who no longer watch news on television. AJ+ is...
Distribution
Animal Planet Launches Live Reindeer Cam
Animal Planet has launched its Live Reindeer Cam for the hoidays. Livestreamed from a zoo in St. Paul, Minnesota, the 24/7 feed is available...
News and Features
New App Puts Encyclopedia of Cameras and Codecs at Your Fingertips
The $1.99 iOS app Formats works as a catalogue and reference app of cameras and codecs, with a helpful calculator tool to help determine...
News
New App Enhances Your iPhone’s Camera to Shoot in 3K
iPhone and iPad app MoviePro, available for $4.99, enhances your iPhone 5s, 6, and 6+ camera to record in 3K resolution at 30fps. The...
Production
Taylor Swift’s ‘Blank Space’ Has a Robust Companion App
The newly released music video for Taylor’s Swift’s “Blank Space”–in which the singer goes through a glamorous love affair and dramatic break-up against the...
Production
The Who to Release Virtual Reality App
Celebrating their 50th anniversary next year, legendary rock band The Who will be releasing a companion app to their compilation album The Who Hits...
Distribution
Sports Teams Eye Balance Between Entertainment and Utility for Their Apps
At the NeuLion Sports Media & Tech Conference, several top executives from the major sports leagues explained their strategy for apps and mobile technology....
Production
Union Station History Comes to Life with Augmented Reality App
Living History at Union Station, a new app from VML, is an augmented reality app that lets visitors use their phones to view historical...
Watch the Trailer for Interactive Horror App ‘Voyeur’
Appropriately releasing on Halloween, Voyeur is a choose-your-own-adventure app in which you get to decide the fate of a young woman who is trapped...