RealNetworks CEO Kimball Resigns Suddenly
RealNetworks (NSDQ: RNWK) CEO Bob Kimball, who replaced long-time CEO Rob Glaser just over a year ago and has been aggressively restructurin…
RealNetworks
Advertisement
RealNetworks Lays Off 10 Percent Of Its Employees
RealNetworks (NSDQ: RNWK), which has been undergoing an aggressive restructuring under CEO Bob Kimball, is cutting 130 jobs, or 10 percent o…
RealNetworks Scrambling For New Products Now That Restructuring Is Complete
RealNetworks (NSDQ: RNWK) conducted a deep reorganization in the second quarter that led to the elimination of 85 jobs, including 25 percent…
RealNetworks Reorganizes — Again; 85 Jobs Cut, $10 Million Charge
RealNetworks (NSDQ: RNWK) is reorganizing once again, taking a $10 million charge this quarter as it cuts staff and office space. About 85 j…
Advertisement
RealNetworks’ Sales Drop Nine Percent
RealNetworks (NSDQ: RNWK), which is in the midst of a major reorganization of its business, posted another down quarter, with revenue off ni…
Video: In 5 Years All Games Will Be Social
GameHouse, the casual games division of RealNetworks, has announced plans to push further into the social space with its Fusion platform and Facebook app. Craig Robinson, VP of product management at Real’s games division, then talked with us about how Real envisions the future of gaming.
Advertisement
RealNetworks Cuts Another Four Percent Of Staff
RealNetworks (NSDQ: RNWK) — which is in the midst of a major reorganization — is cutting another four percent of its workforce, or 60 jobs…
RealNetworks Rolls Out Some Updates To RealPlayer — And Hints At The Product’s Future
RealNetworks (NSDQ: RNWK) is rolling out several small updates to its latest version of RealPlayer that likely signal the future direction o…
Advertisement
RealNetworks Expects Bigger Sales Drop Ahead
RealNetworks (NSDQ: RNWK), which is in the midst of a torrent of structural and management changes, posted a five percent drop in revenue du…
RealNetworks’ COO John Giamatteo Quietly Resigns
RealNetworks’ Chief Operating Officer John Giamatteo will resign effective April 2, the company said today in an SEC filing.
No reason was…
Advertisement
RealNetworks Purchases Varia Mobile
RealNetworks (NSDQ: RNWK) has made a small acquisition, buying up mobile phone startup Varia Mobile, we have confirmed with the company; Tec…
RealNetworks Laying Off 4 Percent Of Staff Today; About 70 Jobs; CEO Memo
Last week, RealNetworks (NSDQ: RNWK) CEO Rob Glaser talked about how cost cuts helped the company achieve a surprise Q3 profit. Now we’ve co…
Interview: RealNetworks’ Glaser: ‘Consumers Still Tight With Money’
Despite a revenue drop of 8 percent, RealNetworks (NSDQ: RNWK) not only turned a small profit this quarter — it grew sequentially for the f…
RealNetworks Swings To A Small Profit; Facebook, iPhone Are ‘Revolutionizing’ Revenue Models
RealNetworks (NSDQ: RNWK) surprised analysts with a small third quarter profit, due to cost cutting, but the company’s revenue dropped 8 per…
RealNetworks Will Help Developers Get Apps To Market For A Share Of The Revenues
RealNetworks (NSDQ: RNWK) is diving deep into the mobile applications business.
Today, the company’s games division is launching a new pro…
Earnings: RealNetworks Feels Impact Of Economy; Misses Analyst Expectations
RealNetworks (NSDQ: RNWK) warned investors last week that it was going to have a dismal Q2, and today it reported revenues of $135.7 million…
RealNetworks Warns It Will Miss Analysts’ Revenue Estimates
RealNetworks (NSDQ: RNWK) is trying to prepare investors next week for what looks to be a dismal Q2 earnings report. The Seattle-based strea…
RealNetworks Postpones Shareholder Meeting; Still Noodling Option Plan
RealNetworks (NSDQ: RNWK) is having some trouble coming up with an stock-option plan that shareholders, too, can live with. In an SEC filing…
Earnings: RealNetworks Has Weak Q4; Music, Games Are Bright Spots
RealNetworks (NSDQ: RNWK) lowered its fourth quarter expectations about two weeks ago, so today
RealNetworks Lays Off 7.5 Percent Of Its Staff, About 130 Jobs; Rhapsody NYC Office Won’t Be Shut
RealNetworks (NSDQ: RNWK) is laying off roughly 7.5 percent of its staff, about 130 people across the company, and cutting 30 contract posit…
Earnings: RealNetworks Reports Losses For Q3; Games Help Increase Revenues
RealNetworks (NSDQ: RNWK) announced its Q308 earnings today, and it reported losses for the quarter, though the games division helped shore…
CTIA Wire RealNetworks Edition: SMS-To-MMS Conversions; Video Call; Ringtones; New Game
RealNetworks (NSDQ: RNWK) made a slew of announcements at CTIA, adding more multimedia capabilities to its platform:
— China Unicom-emotic…
Earnings: RealNetworks’s Q2 Revenues Up, In Losses; Music Revenues Increase Still Slow
RealNetworks (NSDQ: RNWK) announced its Q2 2008 earnings today, and was in net losses for the quarter: it has losses of $1.3 million compare…
RealNetworks Does a Reorg; New Operating Structure and Exec Promotions
RealNetworks, which is in the process of spinning out its games unit, has done a long-due reorg of its business structure and promoted three…
Updated: Earnings: RNWK Q1 Rev Up 14 Percent; Earnings Beat Estimate: Music Up 12 Percent
RealNetworks (NSDQ: RNWK) is playing two this afternoon — announcing Q1 earnings and the spinoff of its casual games business. Revenue rose…
Earnings: RealNetworks Q4 Revs Grow 25 Percent; Music Up 21 Percent, But Slower Growth
RealNetworks (NSDQ: RNWK) has reported Q4 revenue of $156.9 million, up 25 percent from $125.6 million in the prior year’s quarter. Net inco…
Yahoo Sells Premium Music Service To RhapsodyAmerica; Buys FoxyTunes
Yahoo (NSDQ: YHOO), which has officially closed down its premium online music service Yahoo Unlimited (we reported on it first here), has so…
RealNetworks Lays Off 100, Bulk In Asia And Europe; Includes WiderThan
RealNetworks (NSDQ: RNWK) laid off just under 2 percent of its international staff last week — 35 from headquarters Seattle, the rest in As…
RealNetworks Lays Off 100, Bulk In Asia And Europe
RealNetworks (NSDQ: RNWK) laid off just under 2 percent of its international staff last week — 35 from headquarters Seattle, the rest in As…
Earnings: RealNetworks Revenue Up 55 Percent
RealNetworks (NSDQ: RNWK) grew its revenue by 55 percent in Q307 to $145.1 million, up from $93.7 million a year ago. Net income for the qua…
Tivo and Rhapsody in Subscription Music Deal
In TiVo’s (NSDQ: TIVO) latest attempt to differentiate itself from the commodity DVR box makers, the company is partnering with Rhapsody to…
Updated: RealNetworks To Buy Online Casual Games Site GameTrust; Price About $20 Million
Updated: Sep 27: The companies have announced the deal today, two days after we broke the story. The real price is around $20 million…we e…
Earnings: RealNetworks Q2 Profits Fall 96.7 Percent, While Revs Rise 52 Percent
Citing the absence of payments related to its antitrust settlement and commercial agreements with Microsoft, RealNetworks (Nasdaq: RNWK) sai…
Glaser Responds on RealNetworks Questions
Last week I posted some rather pointed questions directed at Rob Glaser, CEO of RealNetworks, about the new RealPlayer11, the company’s audi…
@ DH: Some Open Questions To Rob Glaser
At Digital Hollywood today, Rob Glaser, CEO of RealNetworks, gave a presentation on the company’s new upcoming RealPlayer11, which has gener…
Audio Interview: Rob Glaser, CEO, RealNetworks
Where does RealNetworks figure in this whole online video revolution going on? Shouldn’t it have been at the center of it all, with its pion…
RealNetworks New Version Of RealPlayer; Allows Downloads & Rip-Burn Of Videos From Other Sites
RealNetworks has retooled its flagship video player RealPlayer, and made is more controversial: it will now allow users to download online v…
Earnings: RealNetworks Posts Higher 1Q Profit; Price Hike For Rhapsody Unlimited
Citing strong performance from its digital music subscription business, RealNetworks (NASDAQ: RNWK) posted positive 1Q earnings and revenues…
Successful ContentNext Seattle Mixer Draws 300-Plus
Rafat was on the other side of the world and some others were on the wrong side of the snow belt but some 300-plus ContentNext readers made…
Industry Moves: RNWK: O’Neil New SVP-Digital Music; Sheeran Moves To SVP, Corp. Partnerships/BizDev
A couple of high-level changes at RealNetworks … Philip W. O’Neil, most recently COO for Vivendi Universal Games, has joined the company a…
Record Vets Look to Tech Companies for Future; Social Networking Star Tries the Record Industry
It’s unclear whether the music business as we now know it has a future, and that’s true for the people on the periphery of the business, not…
Earnings: RNWK: Record 4Q Revenue Up 50 Percent; Increases in Music, Gaming, tech
Real Networks (NASDAQ: RNWK) reported record 4Q revenue today of $125.6 million, up 50 percent year over year but net income suffered by com…
RealNetworks Acquires Brazil-Based Casual Game Studio Atrativa
RealNetworks has made another acquisition in the games arena in an effort to bulk up its casual gaming position: it has acquired Sao Paulo,…
RealNetworks Re-Launches Film Site Film.com
RealNetworks has re-launched Film.com movie info and news destination site. Why? Because it can, I suppose. It has owned the site for a long…
Why It Wasn't Radio That Made RealNetworks' Rob Glaser a Billionaire
Readers of paidContent are most familiar with Rob Glaser as head honcho of RealNetworks, but his interests have long gone beyond chasing Mic…
Earnings: Gaming Continues To Pay For RNWK — Up 53 Percent in 3Q
A good third quarter for RealNetworks with record revenue of $93.7 million, up 14 percent over $82.2 million in 3Q05. Net income nearly quad…
MSN Music Killing Download Service Nov. 14; Will Push Zune, Rhapsody Instead
Ending months of confusion about MSN’s download music strategy, the two-year-old MSN Music store — which never really gained traction in th…
Best Buy Launches Digital Music Store; Ties with RealNetworks And SanDisk
Guess we desperately needed another digital music store…Best Buy has launched a new online music store, which is powered by RealNetworks’…
After Microsoft Zune and Sansa Rhapsody, Will There Be Room for Your Own Music on New Devices?
One of the more intriguing elements of the Zune announcement was Microsoft’s promise that the devices would include several dozen pieces of…
More Details On RealNetworks’ Deal With SanDisk: Rhapsody DNA
We mentioned last night about RealNetworks’ deal with SanDisk to release a portable music player…the portable subscription DRM that RealNe…
RealNetworks Buys US-Korean Mobile Music Platform Firm WiderThan For $350 Million
ReaNetworks has made its biggest mobile content acquisition, buying our ringback and mobile music and content platform firm WiderThan, for a…
RealNetworks’ Share Slide on Analyst Downgrade; Increasing Competition
RealNetworks’ shares slid Tuesday after an Stifel Nicolaus analyst Kit Spring downgraded the stock, saying it is overvalued and that competi…
Earnings: RNWK Games Revenue Up 55 Percent, Music Up 21 Percent In 2Q06
Work in progress. RealNetworks (RNWK) reported record revenue of $89.4 million in 2Q06, up 8 percent from $82.7 million in 2Q05. The net inc…
Casual Gaming Sites Courting Older Users, Looking For Dollars
As more casual gaming springs up at every turn — users can even embed game widgets on their Google home page — the companies that produce…
RealNetworks’ Shares up 33% On Year
Shares of RealNetworks are up a hefty 33% year-to-date…what gives? The company is benefiting from being in some of the hottest growth area…
RNWK Continues European Rollout Of RealMusic
Six months after the launch of RealMusic in the UK, RealNetworks has added five more European countries: France, Italy, Germany, The Netherl…
Earnings: RealNetworks’ Profits Up On MSFT Payments; Music Now 33 Percent of Revs
RealNetworks reported increased Q1 revenues from its digital entertainment products and a hefty gain related to its legal settlement with Mi…
iTunes May Pass RealPlayer in Uniques, By Mid-2006
This is significant, if you think about it in the bigger picture: an analysis by the WebSiteOptimization.com says that unique users of Apple…
Earnings: Glaser To Analysts: MSFT Is Just One Of Our Partners
RealNetwork Chairman and CEO Rob Glaser had a lot to say during some of the speediest prepared remarks I’ve ever heard and the q&a from anal…
RealNetworks Buys European Gaming Company Zylom For $21 Million
RealNetworks has started putting the money it got from MSFT settlement to use: it has bought out Dutch game firm Zylom Media Group for $21 m…
Glaser Gets $2.9 Million For RealNetworks-Microsoft Settlement
RealNetworks’ board has approved a cash payments of up to $2.9 million to CEO Rob Glaser for his work leading to a settlement and collaborat…
HP Drops iTunes, Taps RealNetworks For Bundled Music
Some good news for RealNetworks after a dry spell…after several years of distributing Apple’s iTunes software with its new PCs, HP is shif…
To-Go Music Services “Vastly Improved”
The early days of subscription music “took hours of painful trial and error” to deliver music to “subpar non-iPod devices” but Jeff Graham s…
Glaser: Dream Devices, Consumer Ed, Integration Are Keys To Sub Success
In a wide-ranging interview with Pete Rojas, Real Networks Chairman and CEO Rob Glaser adds to a refrain that seems to be getting louder of…
New Site Relaunches: Rhapsody.com; MTV.co.uk; Audible.com; Inform.com; FHM USA; FIFA World Cup
Somehow this week in December is a heavy site/service relaunch week..some of them we mentioned in some version before.
— Rhapsody.com: As w…
Real Adds Web-Based Rhapsody Version
RealNetworks is launching the beta of a web-based version of music service Rhapsody that will open access to Apple and Linux users — and wi…
10-Q Watch: RealNetworks’ Slowing Subscription Music Growth?
RealNetworks filed its Q3 10-Q earlier this week, and I find this paragraph below an extraordinary admission from the company, in face of th…
RealNetworks By The Numbers: Paid Music Growth
Thought this simple chart I just received from RealNetworks might be of interest. It shows the last nine quarters of RNWK’s music revenue an…
Earnings: RNWK 3Q05 Revenues Up 20 Percent; More Than 2.2 Million Paid Subs
Updated to include earnings call: RealNetworks reported revenues of $82.2 million for 3Q05, up 20 percent from $68.3 million in 3Q04. Net in…
RealNetworks Mulling Buys
Well, not really a surprise, but RealNetworks CEO Rob Glaser said at a conference today that mulling acquisitions from the money it got from…
RNWK-MSFT: Wall Street, Industry Analysts Applaud … And Muse
Wall Street responded to news of the settlement and collaboration by sending RNWK soaring even before the market opened yesterday. Next step…
RNWK-MSFT: The Morning After
The Microsoft-RealNetworks settlement and accompanying collaboration instantly captured attention and imagination as people across multiple…
What Will RealNetworks Do With The Money?
With this $460 million cash bounty, RealNetworks now has about $820 million in cash on its balance sheet. What does it plan to do? One, as t…
RNWK-MSFT: Glaser, Other Real Execs Talk The Deal Through With Analysts
… and thanks to the SEC, we get to listen in. The participants included Rob Glaser, chairman & CEO; Roy Goodman, SVP & CFO; and Rob Kimbal…
RNWK-MSFT: Give Kudos To Glaser
For once, Rob could suppress his ego for the betterment of his company (these are my words…and something I’m hearing from a few other peop…
RNWK-MSFT: What About Apple?
The two head honchos didn’t say much about Apple in their joint press conference, when asked about Apple, here’s what they said (via News.co…
RNWK-MSFT: The History in Links
Here’s from our archives, some links and some choice quotes…the rivalry, at least over the last 2-3 years:
— RealNetworks Sees $16 Millio…
RNWK-MSFT: Almost Like A Buyout
Now you know why Microsoft broke off talks with music labels: it has almost bought out Rhapsody.
If all the elements of the deal play out as…
RNWK-MSFT Settlement: Audio of The Press Conference
() The full video of the Bill Gates-Rob Glaser press conference is available on both sites, but if you want an audio download of it for your…
RNWK & MSFT: The Antitrust Settlement
According to the release: The antitrust and technology assurance agreement resolves all antitrust disputes worldwide, based on a $460 millio…
RNWK-MSFT: The Music & Games Agreement
The topline details are in the post prior. This is what it includes on the music and games side:
— Under the music and games agreements, Mi…
It’s Formal: RealNetworks & MSFT Settle For $761 Million; Big on Music & Games
More to come… Microsoft and RealNetworks have announced three agreements valued at $761 million to settle their antitrust case and create…
Real, Microsoft Antitrust Settlement May Be Near; Possibly Worth $750 Million
It looks like a joint press conference with Microsoft CEO BIll Gates and RealNetworks CEO Rob Glaser today at 1 p.m. Eastern in Seattle will…
@ CTIA: Real’s Glaser; Warner’s Bronfman; Digital Chocolate’s Hawkins
Rafat’s posted a trio of posts with audio via our dedicated CTIA blog; check it out for the full rundown on the mega mobile marketplace. Raf…
Analyst: Napster, Real Music Subscriptions Not Priced For Success
Market research by Park Associates suggests that portable music subscription services priced above $10.00 can’t succeed. That’s a direct ref…
RealNetworks Sees $16 Million Cost For Microsoft Suit
RealNetworks expects to spend $16 million this year fighting Microsoft, which it sued in 2003 i relation to the media player dominance contr…
Earnings: RealNetworks’ Profits Up, Revenues Increase on Music
RealNetworks reported increased revenues for Q2, of $82.7 million, up 26 percent from $65.5 million in year-ago quarter. It had a net income…
Industry Moves: NetFlix Ad Sales Head; RealNetworks UK Head
Couple of new appointments of note:
— RealNetworks: It has appointed Marco Menato as VP of consumer services for EMEA. Working out of Londo…
How One Consumer's Love Affair With Real Ended
Jeff Louella, a multimedia web developer in Consohocken, PA and self-described “geek who loves computers and technology,” tracks his doomed…
Napster's Gorog, Real's Glaser At Piper Jaffray
It’s not often that we can offer you coverage from London to Laguna Beach. Our VP (and occasional columnist) Robert Spears spent Wednesday a…
Microsoft's Subscription Music Plans Start To Take Form
A Microsoft subscription music offering has been a “when, not if” question since the launch of the MSN Music Store last fall. CNET’s John Bo…
Real's Glaser Calls Yahoo Music's Pricing "A Promotional Stunt"
Rob Glaser addresses a variety of topics during a 20-minute IT Conversations interview with Larry Magid, including subscription music, Yahoo…
MediaBay Signs Content Deal With Real, Includes Portability
(via Telecom Paper) MediaBay Inc. will provide spoken-word and audio entertainment content to Real, either as “a la carte” sales through the…
RealNetworks Affirms Its Full Year Guidance
RealNetworks is reiterating its previously issued financial outlook for the quarter and year, saying it is targeting annualized revenue grow…
Industry Moves: Host Of Changes At Real; John Giamatteo, New EVP, Worldwide
Real Networks is shaking up the executive ranks, bringing in John Giamatteo as EVP-Worldwide Business Products & Services and International…
Real Claws Its Way Back Into Black
Between music, games and its streaming media software, Real pushed its way back into profit for the 1st quarter. The company is looking for…
RealNetworks’ Rhapsody Gets Preferred Spot On New PalmOne Mobile Device
RealNetworks has a deal for Rhapsody to be the “preferred” music manager of palmOne’s new LifeDrive device. What’s caught my attention is th…
Meme Of The Day? Zappa As “Mother” Of Digital Content Model
“People today enjoy music more than ever before, and, they like to take it with them wherever they go. THEY CAN HEAR THE DIFFERENCE BETWEEN…
Real SuperPass Gets New Look, Features — Including PhotoVideo
Real’s latest version of its subscription SuperPass is up with a new look for the media browser and a new PhotoVideo feature. SuperPass n…
Yahoo Music Unlimited Roundup
The deluge of coverage continues.–
Walt Mossberg reviews Real’s Rhapsody and Yahoo Music Unlimited, then dubs “Yahoo Music as the new cham…
RealNetworks Acquiring Mobile Game Company For $15 Million
RealNetworks is making its first salvo in the mobile gaming business, after a succesful online gaming effort with RealArcade: it is buyign o…
Earnings: Real Surprises With Profit Albeit A Very Narrow One
Real Networks shocked the Street today with an unexpected 1Q05 profit instead of an anticipated loss. The company turned a very narrow net i…
Real React
NYT: Saul Hansell focuses on the 25 free song plays for every basic Rhapsody sub. Real will pay the labels roughly 1 cent per play; supporti…
RealNetworks Q3 Losses Widen on Litigation
RealNetworks’s Q3 losses widened as litigation costs in its antitrust case against Microsoft continued to weigh on its bottom line.
It repor…
UC Berkeley’s Tepid Response To Music Service
Nearly two months after UC Berkeley teamed up with RealNetworks to provide a discount online music library for students, only 1,000 students…
RealNetworks To Offer Rhapsody Free At Adelphi
RealNetworks trying to pull another stunt, after its 49 cent songs sale…it has signed up Adelphi University to offer its subscription musi…
RealNetworks To Launch Portable Subscriptions
(reg. req.) (end of page) Soon, says Chief Strategy Officer Richard Wolpert: the company would offer a similar portability option for its Rh…
Shake-up in RealNetworks’ Exec Staff
RealNetworks will announce several changes to its executive staff today, including the departure of an executive VP…I’ll leave the details…
RealNetworks Accuses Microsoft Of Exaggerating Harmful Effects
At the EU hearing, RealNetworks accused Microsoft of overstating the potential harmful effects of the European Union Commission’s punishment…
Starz Expands Broadband Movie Service; Exclusivity Lock?
Starz, which launched its online movie service with RealNetworks a few months ago, has expanded its catalog with a 50 percent increase in av…
How to Heal Real
What should RealNetworks do now? Mark Cuban wants it to stick to digital media subscription services…
Ted Cohen, senior VP for digital dev…
Sean Ryan To Leave RealNetworks; Company Restructures Again
It is one of these stories which you know, in your gut, was going to happen sooner rather than later. Sean Ryan, one of the smartest people…
Rob Glaser Responds, Talks Up Real Networks
Rob Glaser replies to question on Slashdot: “While wholesale prices vary depending on the label, today most labels charge approximately 65-7…
RealNetworks Sells 3 Mil in Three Weeks
At 49 cents a pop, it sold 3 million songs in three weeks, the company said, almost double its normal sales. The promo ended today…
I will…
RealNetworks CEO Rob Glaser On Slashdot
Talk about walking right into the inferno’s mouth…RealNetworks CEO Rob Glaser is a guest on Slashdot..”He’s promised to answer your questi…
Is RealNetworks Just Stinky Cheese?
An article which hits it dot on: “Real is waging a grassroots battle where there is no grass. Apple is not Microsoft. There is no sense of o…
RealNetworks’ Remake?
No, not really..that’s how it has always been..it is just focusing more on consumer services, a trend it started about three years ago. So w…
RealNetworks Music Service Cuts Fee For Students
RealNetworks jumps into the university discount fray: it has struck deals with the University of California-Berkeley and the University of M…
RealNetworks Opens Up Comments Again
Man, they’re changing their PR strategy by the minute…the blog here…
Seattle PI documents the drama that unfolded today…
Some Real Love
Russell Beattie has some reasoned reaction to RealNetworks…I’ve also said in the past that I like their new RP10, especially the Tivo-like…
Can Glaser And Jobs Find Harmony?
You think? “I kind of feel like Apple Computer is playing the same role on this that Bill O’Reilly played in ‘Fair and Balanced.'”
RealNetworks Removes Comments From Its Blog; Other Reactions
As I pretty much expected, RealNetworks has closed off comments on its FreedomofMusicChoice blog, a few hours after it was launched…couple…
RealNetworks Launches “Freedom of Music Choice” Blog
Read the story below first: Along with the price-cut and ad campaign offensive, RealNetworks has also launched a blog called “Freedom of Mus…
RealNetworks Dropping Song Price to 49 Cents; Starts Ad Campaign Against Apple
(sub. req.) Update: Formal release from RNWK here, with more details…
RealNetworks is putting its money where its mouth is: against Apple…
Glaser And Gorillas
Funny this….
10-Q Watch: RealNetworks and MusicNet
RealNetworks recently filed its 10-Q form with SEC, following its Q2 results…try reading it carefully…a good overview of the fluctuating…
The Real Reason RealNetworks Bit Apple
It’s all about controlling music on cellphone, the conspiracy theorist (I use that term loosely, so relax) John Dvorak writes. If billions c…
RealNetworks Increases Price on Its Subscription Service
According to an e-mail to subscribers to its RealOne SuperPass service, RealNetworks notified that it is raising the price of this umbrella…
The Real-Apple Spat–The PR Case Study
Well, watch out for how the RealNetworks-Apple spat is playing out in the media and the blogosphere: it is a PR case study on how a brand so…
The Apple-RealNetworks Disharmony
(Updated: see below) Well, the Apple-RealNetworks Harmony controversy has blown up and I’ll be documenting it in almost real time time (no p…
For Apple, Harmony Is Off-Key
A convoluted and unclear case for why RealNetworks’ attempt to open up the iPod (through its Harmony software technology) should be thwarted…
RealNetworks Loss Narrows; Revenue Rises
RealNetworks Q2 loss narrowed as revenue rose on increased sales to consumers, but added that litigation costs in its antitrust case against…
Real’s Harmony Arrives with Convergence
RealNetworks’ Chief Strategy Officer demos the new Harmony software…
Whatever platform you’re using to acquire your music on a PC or compu…
And You Thought…
this day would never come? Rob Glaser on CNBC, a few minutes ago, talking about his new “Harmony” with iPod and other music devices…
What Real’s Hacking of FairPlay Doesn’t Do
Some more details on RealNetworks’ salvo fired at Apple…the DMCA violation issues might be a trciky one to prove, if at all…
RealNetworks CEO Donates Big Bucks To Politics
After all, it started as Progressive Networks for a reason…besides Rob Glaser’s penchant for supporting liberal causes, RealNetworks has a…
RealNetworks Plans to Sell Songs to Be Played on iPods
(reg. req.): This is sure to cause a lot of controversy (and expect a lot of analyst questions during RNWK’s July 28 Q2 earnings conference…
Full Stream Ahead
An opinion column in FT, by Rob Glaser, CEO of RealNetworks, on the next 10 years in broadband/streaming content…”The combination of these…
Mass Hiring Of Senior Management at RealNetworks
This e-mail has been circulating among the senior execs in the digital media industry today…some high level recruitments going on at RealN…
RealPlayer on Linux and Mac OS X
RealNetworks has announced its RealPlayer version on Linux and on the new Mac OS X operating systems, as it tries to move into newer territo…
RealPlayer 10 for Mac OS X to Debut Next Week
RealNetworks will announce next week the much anticipated upgrade to RealPlayer for OS X with a multitude of new features including an integ…
Update on Starz-RNWK Service-III
The official release from the companies: The service is called “Starz Ticket on Real Movies”. It will showcase at least 100 movies at all ti…
Update on Starz-RNWK Service-II
So there’s more to the Starz launching this online movie service than meets the eye…read this story in TV Week by John Motavalli (who wrot…
Update on Starz-RNWK Service-I
This is a story I broke on Thursday…the news gets officially announced Monday…NYT does a story, without crediting my site, as usual. Oth…
RealNetworks Divests Its Non-Profit Consulting Business
RealNetworks is divesting and spinning out its non-profit consulting business RealImpact…LUX Media 501, a technology consulting firm also…
RealNetworks’ Analyst Call Details
At an analyst conference call yesterday, Rob Glaser cannot resist his usual obfuscations: The early pioneering period was its “caterpillar”…
RealNetworks Holds Q2 Loss Guidance
RealNetworks has affirmed its guidance…it foresees a Q2 loss between 3 cents and 4 cents per share. Excluding a $3 million item relating t…
RealNetworks Plans To Take Rhapsody International
And is looking for a lead program manager in SF to help do that….
Tune In: RealNetworks’ Analyst Meeting Webcast
Tune in on May 25th, 9 a.m. to approximately 1 p.m. EST…”The meeting will focus on the consumer services and technology strategies driving…
Jobs to Glaser: Buzz off
Perhaps the best headline I’ve read all this year…this follows the leaked Glaser e-mail to Steve Jobs on co-operating in the media player…
Real’s Scramble Points To Isolation
Something I’ve constantly harped about in the past, yet the company thinks I am taking things out of context. RealNetworks’ overtures to App…
Real Announces 450,000 Subscribers For Music Service
I can never understand the RealNetworks’ school of PR..all they want to do is spin, always. Honesty doesn’t hurt, but then Rob Glaser’s head…
RealNetworks Seeks Musical Alliance With Apple
RealNetworks, which has in the past berated Apple for not being more “inclusive” with iPod and its music service, is now talking about makin…
RealNetworks Prepares European Online Music Launch
RealNetworks is preparing to launch its online music service Rhapsody in Europe within the next year…”Six months to a year from now is rea…
Real CEO Says EU-MS Ruling ‘Right,’ May Help Lawsuit
RealNetworks CEO Rob Glaser has endorsed the European Commission’s decision as more solid than the U.S. settlement, and predicting that it w…
Real Hits Play On Latest Media Software
RealNetworks has released an update to its digital audio and video software–RealPlayer 10–that promises support for every major content fo…
Real’s Backing Down A Bit on Aggresive Sales Tactics
This story from Wired News notes that RealNetworks is backing down a bit in its aggresive sales tactics with RealPlayer and its other subscr…
Last Chance to Get Real
(sub. req.): A rather naive black-and-white story on RNWK, though true to some extent…”RealNetworks has lost the software and content race…
Microsoft’s Lobbying Power Drowns Out RealNetworks’ Voice in D.C.
The recent EU ruling against Microsoft hasn’t been easy on RealNetworks…part of it is due to the fact that the company does not have enoug…
Air America Streaming Only in Real Format
I’ve been listening in to the Air America Network, the brand new “liberal” radio network launched today….I’m listening to it online, where…
RealNetworks’ lingering U.S. challenge
Even with Microsoft’s fine, trouble on home front looms…
Real’s Glaser Exhorts Apple to Open iPod
So now Glaser is making the cross-compatibility plea? He said in a panel discussion Tuesday at PC Forum here that Apple is creating problems…
MLB To Distribute Through MSFT, AOL
This is a huge boost to online sports licensing rights market (as well as to MLB, of course): MLB has signed on Microsoft and America Onlin…
RealNetworks Ties Up With Qualcomm For Cellphones
Qualcomm has licensed RealNetworks’ RealPlayer and will begin producing wireless chipsets with built-in players for use in cell phones by Ju…
Is RealNetworks the Next Netscape?
A story on the problems RealNetworks faces in the digital media sector…some analysts quoted in the story say that RNWK will avoid Netscape…
RealNetwork Faults Microsoft for its Own Poor Financial Results
In its 10-K annual report filing, that is…in the filing, it blamed the decline of its own software business on Microsoft’s, including Wind…
Microsoft Loses Bid to Move RealNetworks Trial
A federal judge on Thursday denied Microsoft’s motion for a change of venue–from San Jose to Seattle–in its pending case against RealNetwo…
RealNetworks’ Suing MLB
RealNetworks is in the suing frame of mind these days…it has filed a lawsuit against Major League Baseball Advanced Media on Tuesday, clai…
RealNetworks’ Rob Glaser on Online Movies
“I don’t think that the studios understand the degree to which there is pent-up demand on these things [geting movies online]. I don’t want…
Real’s Reality
A rather naive analysis of what I’ve in the past called “RealNetworks’ Identity Crisis”…though some good points about hopw it missed out o…
Real Obnoxious; Real Friendly?
A consumer complain about Real’s player, with some genuine frustrations….
Also, an internal memo from the company circulated by Dan Sheera…
New International Boss at RealNetworks
Former Vizzavi COO Frank Keeling has been appointed to the new position of Vice President, International at RealNetworks. Keeling will take…
Microsoft Rebuts RealNetworks Charges
Microsoft has denied that it illegally used its desktop computer operating system monopoly to hurt digital media rivals, responding to civil…
RealNetworks Signs New Carriers in Handset Battle
RealNetworks has signed up five telecom companies for its mobile media software, in Europe..these include Spain’s Telefonica Moviles, Italy’…
No Joy in Realville
(sub. req.): It’s been a rough month on the market for RealNetworks, which just cut its ties to MLB. Can it turn itself around? “With a depr…
RealNetworks’s Game Service for Optimum Subscribers
Optimum Online, the broadband service in New York area, has tied up with RealNetworks for a customized version of the RealArcade gaming serv…
RealNetworks, MLB Talks Dissolve; Will It Go With Yahoo?
MLB has broken off its relationship with RealNetworks, which doesn’t necessarily come as a surprise to regular readers…Rob Glaser had alre…
Rhapsody Launches Prepaid Music Cards
RealNetworks’ Rhapsody music service, now renamed RealRhapsody (I somehow missed that…I should start a “Rename RNWK Brands” contest, judgi…
Real’s Position on The Set-Top Box
A chat with Rob Glaser on RealNetworks’ role in the set-top box/cable environment: “The DSL industry has a great opportunity to ride IP, not…
RealNetworks VP Sean Ryan on Storming the Castle
“This is one of the first digital-medium markets that’s bringing micropayments to the forefront and really driving e-commerce. This year, we…
NPR’s Car Talk Dumping RealMedia
Will they ever listen?
RealNetworks To Stop Selling Standalone Sports Services
RealNetworks, which has prided itself on the strength of its sports content in the past, will stop selling standalone sports packages under…
RealNetworks Losses Widen; Reaches 350,000 Music Subscriber Mark
(Conference call at 7 PM EST today here) RealNetworks said it lost $5.3 million in Q4 of 2003, compared with a loss of $2.45 million in the…
RealNetworks to Acquire GameHouse for $36 Million
RealNetworks is trying to boost its gaming content and add to its popular RealArcade service: it has bought out Seattle-based GameHouse, a t…
RealPlayer 10 Adds New Mistakes to Old
Rob Pegoraro of WaPo doesn’t like the new RealPlayer too much…way too many promotional gimmicks, with no thought of usability–that is wha…
RealNetworks Has NOT Violated the DMCA
Well, so much for that: “RealNetworks did not reverse engineer, and therefore RealPlayer 10 does not circumvent, these or any other DRM sche…
RealPlayer Music Store’s a Strong Second
So thinks Mike Langberg of Mercury News, and that’s high praise, according to him…Apple iTunes is way way far ahead.
“I tried RealPlayer o…
Has RealNetworks Violated the DMCA?
Bill Rosenblatt on the new RealPlayer 10, whch can play all media formats: “In order to play files in these formats at all without licensing…
RealNetworks makes deal with Time Warner
RealNetworks will sell Time Warner Cable its latest software for delivering audio and video programming, in a deal of undisclosed value…
RealPlayer10 Has TIVO-Like Functionality
Well, much as I try to rub the Real people the wrong way most of the times, I have to say the new RealPlayer 10 is a very good effort…the…
Beaming Content on Prismiq
Prismiq, the new network entertainment device, has signed up with online movie provider CinemaNow to combine technologies to enable web-ba…
IBM, RealNetworks, Link to Deliver Media Services
RealNetworks and IBM have tie up to jointly provide services for content providers that want to set up their own Internet video and audio bu…
Is It Real, or Is It Microsoft?
“It’s all part of Real’s grand strategy of placing itself in the center of the digital media world by having millions of consumers using its…
RealNetworks Launches New Player; New Store; Takes Over RollingStone.com
In a frenzy of CES related announcements, RealNetworks has made one thing clear: its either music, or the writing is on the wall…
Well, he…
RealNetworks to Launch Song Store
RealNetworks is expected to launch a download service based on technology similar to that used in Apple Computer’s iTunes store, according t…
Microsoft As Legal Piñata Is Getting Old
This in relation to RealNetworks’ recent suit against MSFT…”I want Microsoft to play by the rules and, because of Microsoft’s Windows mono…
RealNetworks Suit About More Than Money
“If use of the player drops, less content is developed for it, and fewer people buy the server. Breaking out of this cycle of declining mark…
Why Real Sued Microsoft
Andrew Orlowski goes inside the RealNetworks’ suit against Microsoft…
RealNetworks Files Antitrust Suit Against Microsoft
Please, unless you give me solid reasons otherwise, I’ll mark this under “let’s try…no one penalized for dreaming either” category: RealNe…
RealNetworks Inks Another Wireless Deal
Ericsson has licensed RealNetworks’ media engine and codecs for use in its mobile devices. Ericsson had previously licensed RealNetworks’ He…
Rhapsody on Omnifi Wireless Streamer
The Omnifi home stereo/theater wireless digital media streamer device online music service. The Omnifi digital media streamer enables broadb…
RealNetworks Switches On Video For AT&T
RealNetworks will provide AT&T Wireless with technology to stream digital video to cell phones…The deal will give RealNetworks another lar…
RealNetworks Ties Up With Comcast For Music; Intel For Set Top Boxes
On Monday, RealNetworks will announce a tie-up with Comcast on offering its Rhapsody music service to Comcast broadband subscribers. Terms o…
RealNetworks Names Ex 3Com CEO To Board
RealNetworks has named Eric Benhamou to its board. Benhamou is the chairman of the board at 3Com Corporation, of palmOne and of PalmSource.…
RealNetworks Offers Streaming Discount
RealNetworks began offering a 20 percent discount Tuesday for the commercial use of its streaming media software.
The Music Man
RNWK’s CEO Rob Glaser on the state of online music…a comprehensive interview…
— RealNetworks Reports 250,000 Subscribers For Its Music…
RealNetworks Biz Dev Director Jumps To MLB.com
Oh well, another one…
RealNetworks Reports 250,000 Subscribers For Its Music Services
Q3 revenues: $51.8 million, up 4 percent from the Q2, 03, and up 14 percent from Q3, 02. Net loss was down drastically to $3.7 million, comp…
RealNetworks to Launch Europe Music Download Shop
RealNetworks will bring its Rhapsody music download service to Europe in the second quarter of next year. The music service is now available…
The Minced Meat Music Pie: RealNetworks’ Sean Ryan
A detailed interview with Sean Ryan, the head of music at RealNetworks…he says 2004 will be the year of searching for business models…
RealNetworks and Motorola in Software Deal
Motorola will embed Real’s media player software in handsets that run on the Linux operating system. Real estimated that as many as half of…
Music Industry Ignored The Internet: Rob Glaser
The music industry has destroyed an enormous amount of revenue because the major labels refused to take the Internet seriously, said [RealNe…
RealNetworks Scores UEFA Footy Deal
RealNetworks has inked a deal with UEFA to launch a new premium broadband service providing coverage of the UEFA Champions League.
The Uefa.…
RealNetworks, AOL Extend Partnership
RealNetworks and America Online have extended their agreement to include updated versions of RealNetworks’ media playback software in the la…
MLB Downloads Allow Sharing And Burning
In a smart move, MLB.com will allow users to download the 2003 Playoff and World Series games, right after the match completion. The games d…
RealNetworks Appoints New CFO
Roy Goodman is the new CFO. Prior to this, he was the CFO of Juniper Financial Corp.,and home furnishings retailer Heilig-Meyers.
RealNetworks Eyes the Tube Warily
George Mannes nails it on the head: “As viewers demand more from their television sets, will they demand less from the Internet? That’s a qu…
Real Problems for RealNetworks
Cut through the S&P analyst speak, and there’s a lot of sense. RNWK is going through an identity crisis, as it periodically goes through eve…
MLB.com Cuts Webcasting Prices
(sub. req) In an attempt to get more users, Major League Baseball, which has Webcast more than 1,000 games this season for $2.95 a day throu…
RealNetworks, Fox to Offer College Football Online
RealNetworks has teamed up with Fox Sports to offer live coverage of college football games over the Internet for the 2003 season. It will o…
Sun, RealNetworks in Desktop Linux Software Deal
Sun Microsystems is working with RealNetworks to feature the Internet media company’s RealOne media player on its Linux-based desktop system…
Taking Digital Subscriptions To Retail
WaPo checks out a Best Buy store and tests the digital media/services subscriptions it is selling, including Internet movie rental service N…
Best Buy to Offer RealNetworks’ Service At Retail; Rolling Stones Gets Rolling As Well
Shoppers at the 560 Best Buy stores in the United States will be able to sign up for RealNetworks’ Rhapsody online music service. Each store…
RealNetworks Embraces Java; Ditches Its Own Player, in Sprint Deal
Interesting bit about the earlier news on RNWK’s tie-up with Sprint PCS for a mobile content subscription service: RealNetworks will offer i…
RealNetworks Starts Wireless Service With Sprint PCS
RealNetworks has unveiled “RealOne for SprintPCS”, its first streaming media service to wireless phones…the service will provide news, spo…
More Brain Drain At RNWK: Consumer GM Leaves to Join InfoSpace
Another RealNetworks top executive has left the company: Leslie Grandy, who till recently was the GM of media distribution, has joined InfoS…
RealNetworks Plays to Linux Developers
RealNetworks has announced plans to release the source code of its audio and video player to run on the Linux operating system.
Rob Glaser’s Changed Tune
Funny to see Rob Glaser change his tune so fast, in wake of iTunes. Right when iTunes was launched and RNWK announced its acquisition of Lis…
RealNetworks Closes Listen.com Deal; Battle Begins
RealNetworks has closed the Listen.com acquisition, dumped the Listen.com brand and is sticking with Rhapsody to carry the day forward…the…
RealNetworks’ Brain Drain Continues; Scott Ehrlich Leaves to Start a New Company
Scott Ehrlich, the main content deal maker at RealNetworks, has left the company and started a digital downloads startup.
Restructuring Takes Toll at RealNetworks; Merrill Brown To Leave
Merrill Brown, the highly-visible media executive who was tapped a year ago to head RealNetworks’ RealOne SuperPass subscription service (he…
Music And RNWK
Just an observation: Considering that RealNetworks is focusing on music in a big way (see the Merrill Brown story below), it was surprising…
RealNetworks’ Subscriptions Come in Flat in Q2
It struck to me as slightly odd that RNWK didn’t release any figures on the exact number of subscribers to their RealOne service in Q2 earni…
RealNetworks Losses Rises Exponentially; Revenues Increase
RealNetworks’ Q2 loss: $9.6 million, up exponentially from $1.55 million loss in the year-ago quarter, as a result of taking a charge on exc…
RealNetworks, Microsoft Make Pitches to Cable Companies
RealNetworks and Microsoft are touting their technology and content to cable companies, in an attempt to persuade them to use and carry the…
LPGA, RealNetworks Reach Webcast Deal
RealNetworks has reached a deal with the Ladies Professional Golf Association to webcast the Canadian Open, which is set to become the first…
So Its Vodafone For RealNetworks
After about a week of speculation on who RealNetworks’ mobile carrier partner in Europe will be, it is Vodafone, as expected. Vodafone will…
RealNetworks Faces Reality
The Business 2.0 story is now online. Profile of Rob Glaser and his ambitions with RNWK. A few noteworthy points:
— The story touches on G…
Sultan of Stream
A story in the latest (July 2003) issue of Business 2.0, still not online, on RealNetworks and its bet on consumer subscriptions. Will it be…
Class Action Suit Filed Against Lehman Brothers For Recommending RealNetworks
A class action lawsuit has been filed against Lehman Brothers and its analyst Michael Stanek, for recommending RealNetworks, and maintained…
Rob Glaser on Stolen Thunder
Has Apple stolen the thunder from under RNWK’s feet, with the success of iTunes? “It’s hard to design a better scenario for us than what App…
RealNetworks To Unveil Huge European Mobile Services Rollout
Yes, when the going gets tough, the tough go mobile: RealNetworks expects to announce a deal with a large European mobile operator next week…
Will RealNetworks be “Netscaped” by Microsoft?
Could the [AOL-MSFT] deal help Microsoft dominate the streaming media software market – and crush Real Networks in the same way it smashed N…
Geolocation And Subscription Services
A story of using geolocation software used by sites like MLB.com, and the problem associated with it. “[T]he system is so much more restrict…
RealNetworks to Buy Roxio?
RealNetworks wants to offer about $100 million of convertible subordinated notes to institutional buyers….speculation is rising that it co…
WNBA launches Subscription Service With RealNetworks
Only few days after WNBA announced that it will stream a test game online for the first time in history, the league has reached a multiyear…
Outgoing RealNetworks CFO Joins Supermarket Coin Counting Company
Brian Turner, CFO of RealNetworks, is making an odd transition: he is joining Coinstar, a company which owns and operates the only network o…
Digital Media Becomes Focus as Microsoft and AOL Settle
“[Th]e nature of the market for media software is different. For a browser maker, the crucial relationship ? and channel of distribution ? w…
The Uneasy Trio: MSFT, RNWK and AOL
“AOL Time Warner had long been a Microsoft holdout, endorsing RealNetworks’ technology and, more recently, developing its own internal strea…
RealNetworks Pushes Lower-Cost Rhapsody
RealNetworks on Wednesday will cease selling the music-subscription service MusicNet in favor of one from Listen.com’s Rhapsody, which also…
Channel 4 UK Launches Subscription Service With RealNetworks
Channel 4 has launched a new premium broadband service called 4Broadband to coincide with the start of Big Brother 4 today. The content will…
Top 10 Questions Potential Partners Should Ask RealNetworks
Case study from ContentBiz…10 questions you should ask RealNetworks if you want to align with it for content/subscription sales…
RealNetworks Formally Launches Sub. Tech. Business; Signs Playboy As Customer
Not sure why this is being passed off as news, as RealNetworks’ OpenPass has been around for a while. Anyway, OpenPass is a service designed…
RealNetworks Says CFO Brian Turner Resigning
RealNetworks’ CFO Brian Turner is resigning due to recent health setbacks.
Real, Comcast team up on games
As I reported yesterday, Comcast and RealNetworks have partnered to offer a cobranded online game service to high-speed Internet subscribers…
The Real Deal
(free registration required): RealNetworks makes a push into mobile streaming media. But will it succeed? “Real’s future in mobile streaming…
IGN and Comcast Reach Agreement to Offer Game Content; So Does RealNetworks
Comcast’s customer broadband portal will now feature gaming content from IGN and RealNetworks. RealNetworks is going to announce it later to…
RealNetworks Hits Mobile Phone Screens
RealNetworks will send audio and video streams of sports and news programming to consumers’ mobile phones. The digital media delivery compan…
RealNetworks Posts Losses; Revenues Fall; Reaches 1 M Subscriber Mark
Net loss was $2.8 million, or 2 cents per share, for the quarter ended March 31, compared with a profit of $1 million, or 1 cent per share,…
Proxy details Real’s MusicNet Deal
RealNetworks, which just bought out Listen.com in a $36 million deal, paid about $1.25 million to its MusicNet venture for royalties and ser…
Conference Call Details on RealNetworks’ Acquisition of Listen.com
Music subscriptions service have been tough net to crack, according to Rob Glaser, CEO of RealNetworks. “However, we believe we are approach…
Breaking: RealNetworks Acquires Listen.com
RealNetworks has acquired the critically-acclaimed online music service Listen.com (with its Rhapsody music service) in a cash and stock tra…
Real’s Glaser on Microsoft
A detailed interview with RealNetworks CEO Rob Glaser which focuses on the impact of Microsoft on RealNetworks…more specifically, Microsof…
AOL Ties Up with On2 for Video Codecs
America Online has announced a licensing agreement with On2 Technologies that will let AOL deliver On2-encoded digital video to a wide range…
40 Million Baseball CD-ROMs in Post Cereals Aiming for a Home Run for RealNetworks
RealNetworks, along with America Online, Electronic Arts and Upper Deck, has tied up with Kraft Foods and Major League Baseball to market a…
Mossberg Reviews RealNetworks’ RealOne
Walter Mossberg reviews RealNetworks’ RealOne service and likes the content, though he was not happy with the buggy software, an experience…
When Will RealNetworks Start Advertising?
RealNetworks will soon start soliciting advertising for its RealOne subscription multi-media service, according to this story (see at the en…
RealNetworks Ups Baseball Webcast Fee:
RealNetworks Ups Baseball Webcast Fee: RealNetworks will charge up to one-third more for people to listen to Internet broadcasts of Major Le…
TV Content the Next Big
TV Content the Next Big Target for RealNetworks: This according to Merrill Brown, senior VP of RNWK’s RealOne service. “We think people will…
Will Yahoo Platinum Be a
Will Yahoo Platinum Be a (Real) Nightmare?: An analysis story on Yahoo’s launch of the imminent multi-media subscription service, against Re…
RealNetworks Invests in Listen.com: Online
RealNetworks Invests in Listen.com: Online music company Listen.com has received a minority strategic investment from RealNetworks. RealNetw…
RealNetworks Plans for the Future:
RealNetworks Plans for the Future: International Expansion (Streaming Video Interview): A long and very informative interview with Brian Tur…
Real, Ericsson Team on Mobile
Real, Ericsson Team on Mobile Media: RealNetworks has struck a deal with wireless technology provider Ericsson to power the delivery of digi…
Real’s Real Competition With Yahoo:
Real’s Real Competition With Yahoo: “But here’s the rub for Real: Many of its 13 content partnerships aren’t exclusive, which opens the door…
Real’s Glaser Argues For DRM:
Real’s Glaser Argues For DRM: “‘It’s clearly possible to have a good level of protection from the standpoint of the rights holders and make…
RealNetworks Retools For Battle With Yahoo
RealNetworks announced an internal restructuring yesterday, positioning itself to plunge deeper into the media-subscription business in comp…
RealNetworks Debuts Original Music Series:
RealNetworks Debuts Original Music Series: Well, this was bound to happen sooner rather than later…RealNetworks potrays itself as a pure m…
RealNetworks Reaches 900,000 Subscriber Mark;
RealNetworks Reaches 900,000 Subscriber Mark; Subs Revenue Grows 167%; Losses Narrow: RNWK reported a net loss of $2.5 million for Q4, on re…
Baseball Test May Show if Web Video’s Time Has Come
Major League Baseball and RealNetworks are already preparing to use this year’s baseball season to test whether Internet broadcasting is mor…
RealNetworks Ties Up with PGA.com
RealNetworks is signing up the sports operators in a hurry…PGA will offer subscription programming through the RealOne SuperPass multi-med…
RealNetworks Unveils Format-Friendly DRM: RealNetworks
RealNetworks Unveils Format-Friendly DRM: RealNetworks has introduced content security technology that supports disparate digital media deli…
RealNetworks To Offer Super Bowl
RealNetworks To Offer Super Bowl as a Subscription Package: RealNetworks has teamed with the National Football League (NFL) as the official…
The Real deal for Mac
The Real deal for Mac OS X?: RealNetworks has finally released a version of its RealOne media player for Apple Computer’s Mac OS X, followin…
RealNetworks Faces Tough Hurdles With Its Online Movie Offering
Following yesterday’s announcement about RealNetworks tying up with Starz to offer on-demand movie service, WSJ does a story on the hurdles…
Real Starts Free Two Day Trial Scheme, With an Ad Campaign
RealNetworks has launched a promotion offering free access without the use of a credit card to its subscription-based media service that fea…
Starz Movies to be Available on RealNetworks’ Subscription Service
The new subscription service, scheduled to launch in the spring, will let consumers download movies onto their PCs using Real’s RealOne play…
RealNetworks’ Subscription ASP Service: Not
RealNetworks’ Subscription ASP Service: Not really new (TheEndOfFree’s contributor David Eckoff runs this), but RealNetworks has puts its ex…
RealNetworks Books Media Player Revenues
RealNetworks Books Media Player Revenues With Subscription Sales; Subscriber Acquisition Costs Increase: A small but curious detail in its l…
NBA.com Expands Subscription Deal with
NBA.com Expands Subscription Deal with RealNetworks: NBA will offer exclusive content on its NBA.com site, using RealNetworks’ video and aud…
Flipside to Distribute Games Through
Flipside to Distribute Games Through RealOne Arcade: Flipside has partnered with RealNetworks to distribute its “Cash Competition” online ga…
RealNetworks’ Bet on Open Source:
RealNetworks’ Bet on Open Source: News.com features an interview with RealNetworks CEO Rob Glaser, on the company’s strategy of going open-s…
BusinessWeek’s E.Biz 25: RealNetworks’ Rob
BusinessWeek’s E.Biz 25: RealNetworks’ Rob Glaser: BusinessWeek’s latest E.Biz 25 ranking profiles Rob Glaser, CEO of RealNetworks. Accordin…
RealNetworks’ Loss is Microsoft’s Gain:
RealNetworks’ Loss is Microsoft’s Gain: RealNetworks has reported a Q3 net loss that nearly doubled what it lost in the same period a year a…
NHL.com Fires a Slavo Through Microsoft
The National Hockey League on Monday introduced a subscription service for digital-video game highlights, in partnership with Microsoft. Thi…
RealNetworks goes mobile with NEC:
RealNetworks goes mobile with NEC: RealNetworks has shipped a mobile version of its multimedia playback software in NEC’s MobilePro P300 han…
MLB.com And Real Bring Baseball Games to Cell Phones
With the playoffs just a few weeks away, baseball aficionados now can get their games on their cell phones. The new arrangement lets fans li…
RealNetworks a Big Loser if
RealNetworks a Big Loser if Baseball Strike Goes Ahead: If Major League Baseball players go on strike this week, one of the losers may be Re…
Royalty Fees Forces Online Radio Station to Charge
Broadcasting & Cable writes about the details of why a pioneering webcaster like KPIG (FM station in Freedom, Calif.) has been forced to sto…
RealNetworks Launches Radio Subscription Service:
RealNetworks Launches Radio Subscription Service: RealNetworks, in conjunction with the launch of the new version of its RealOne player, has…
Merrill Brown on Moving From
Merrill Brown on Moving From Free to Fee: DotcomScoop has a short interview (down the page) with Merrill Brown, till recently the editor-in-…
RealNetworks Launches Subscription College Sports Network
RealNetworks has partnered with the Official College Sports Network, under which the two companies will offer live audio broadcasts of colle…
Former MSNBC.com Editor Merrill Brown
Former MSNBC.com Editor Merrill Brown Jumps to RealNetworks: This one is a shocker: Merrill Brown, the former editor at MSNBC.com, who recen…
Is RealNetworks in Play?: CBS
Is RealNetworks in Play?: CBS MarketWatch takes a look at the buyout possibilities for RealNetworks. In a world where consumer subscriptions…
Listen.com Inks Broadband Deals
Listen.com’s Rhapsody online music service will now be distributed through to Hughes Electronics’ DirecTV Broadband and AOL Time Warner’s Ro…
RealNetworks’ Subscribers Touch 750,000 Mark:
RealNetworks’ Subscribers Touch 750,000 Mark: RealNetworks (Nasdaq: RNWK) has reported a narrower loss in the second quarter: $1.6 million,…
Big Brother 24/7, on RealOne:
Big Brother 24/7, on RealOne: CBS has tied up with RealNetworks to provide live video streaming from the “BIG BROTHER 3” house, through its…
RealNetworks Launches Game Subscription Service;
RealNetworks Launches Game Subscription Service; RealNetworks, in an attempt to duplicate the model of its RealOne digital media subscriptio…
AOL Developing High-Speed Streaming Tech:
AOL Developing High-Speed Streaming Tech: Following up on the earlier Fortune story, News.com reports on the details of AOL’s new streaming…
RealNetworks Revises Earnings Estimates: RealNetworks
RealNetworks Revises Earnings Estimates: RealNetworks (Nasdaq: RNWK) has revised its second quarter earnings estimates, expected now to be b…
Is Terrorism a Threat To
Is Terrorism a Threat To Subscription Services?: This is worth noting in full–a list of the risk factors which RealNetworks released along…
AOL Turning Sour on RealNetworks?:
AOL Turning Sour on RealNetworks?: RealNetworks has always had a close relationship with AOL, more as a result of being Microsoft adversarie…
RealNetworks Slides More Than 15
RealNetworks Slides More Than 15 Percent: RealNetworks’ shares are getting hammered by a report released by NetRatings detailing the market…
Will Wimbledon Be RealOne’s European Launch Pad?
Last week RealNetworks launched the European edition. Sports is possibly the ideal “subscription-able” content, and Wimbledon may give RealO…
New Multimedia Format Numbers from
New Multimedia Format Numbers from NetRatings: As expected, Nielsen-NetRatings has released its revised version of online multimedia statist…
QuickTime’s Revenge: An interesting fight
QuickTime’s Revenge: An interesting fight to watch out for, as online measurement companies are revising their estimate about Apple Computer…
Real in Europe
RealNetworks (Nasdaq: RNWK) has launched a European and U.K. version of its RealOne subscription audio and video service.
The news, sports a…
