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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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,...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...