New Co-CEOs Jeremy Johnson and Robert Delamar will lead the growing BitTorrent media platforms. David Chidekel joins to support content acquisition, with Straith Schreder as VP of Creative Initiatives In 2011, we began prototyping a sustainable distribution platform for creators. What started as an experiment in direct-to-fan became something more. Now, over 30,000 creators and…

Sundance Institute Veteran Joins BitTorrent, Inc. as Director of Creative Initiatives focused on the Film Industry.  We’re stoked to share that Missy Laney has joined the BitTorrent fam. Missy joins us following years of amazing work with the Sundance Institute as the Manager of their Artist Services Program, leading their creative funding initiative with Kickstarter…

Mobile Live Streaming App Demo’d at TV Tomorrow as OTT Vet Joins the Live Team The BitTorrent Live team brought on board it’s newest member this week, with Monica Piriz joining as Vice President of Programming and Acquisition. Monica joins the BitTorrent Live team from OTT specialist Piksel, where she served as Vice President of…

From Heidecker & Wood b-sides to Joywave’s secret mixtapes: your unofficial guide to November’s best releases. Read up. HEIDECKER & WOOD: GOOD AS IS (2007 – 2015) Comedian Tim Heidecker and composer Davin Wood’s project subverts and pays tribute to dadwave in equal measure. In Good As Is (2007 – 2015), the duo shares a 58-track collection of lost and…

Our engineers have recently updated the Bleep core engine to address offline forward secrecy. We’ve discussed forward secrecy before, but this is a major overhaul to the fundamental way we package and transmit messages. It also introduces something that no one else has figured out how to do (as far as we know): providing forward…