Broadband Content Bits: CNBC On Livestation, EC Market, Spotify, Five VOD
—CNBC on Livestation: The freemium live TV news aggregator app and website is adding CNBC to its subscription service, cost: €4.99 a month.
—Five: The broadcaster’s websites served 50.7 million long- and short-form videos in ‘09. Its Demand Five VOD brand served an average 1.3 million long-form videos a month. According to parent RTL’s annual report.
—Spotify: It’s not in America yet, but the music service plans to make Holland its seventh territory on May 18, its Netherlands manager tells VPro.nl (via TechCrunch).
—EC Market: Neelie Kroes may have changed her role in this European Commission, but the former competition commissioner is still beating the drum for a “single market” for digital content sales. She says. In a lecture, she says national boundaries governing ecommerce and content regulation must be dropped. Via Out-Law.
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