TikTok has hit 1B+ monthly active users. Can a move to Amazon’s Fire TV app grow that audience?
Video startup Loom is worth $1.5B and -- with 14m users already -- wants to be “email on camera.”
An Instagram account dedicated to ‘The Bachelor’ has been breaking down the data behind TVs most addicting reality franchise.
Plus: YouTube has 1k+ people texting video creators daily, and Jennifer Gates’ pricey wedding.
While Disney has gone all-in on streaming, ESPN is still clinging to the cable model - but that might not be the case for long.
Twitch experienced a data breach that exposed a wide range of sensitive data, and there could be more to come.
A bloody South Korean drama about deadly games is exploding on Netflix and beyond.
CAA’s purchase of ICM will create a super-agency to take on a changing entertainment industry.
If NBCUniversal and YouTube can’t reach an agreement on a new contract, YouTube TV could drop its NBC channels.
“Bridgerton” is the top series, while “Birdbox” and “Extraction” are the top films.
Amazon isn’t winning awards, but it’s still spending mountains of cash on content.
Film and TV employees want better pay, fewer 12+ hour days, and for streaming services to pay up.
Christopher Nolan is ending his 19-year partnership with Warner Bros., and AT&T’s streaming ambitions are to blame.
Joe Rogan, who signed a deal with Spotify worth $100m+, has lost influence since making his podcast exclusive to the platform.
Salesforce announced plans to launch a streaming service for business professionals called Salesforce+.
Shoppertainment is a new trend at the intersection of ecommerce and livestreaming.
Netflix lost 400k subscribers in North America last quarter. Combined with a slowdown in Disney+ subscriber growth, this could be bad news for the industry.
In the 2000s, Major League Baseball (MLB) created one of the world’s leading streaming services (BAMTech) and -- after being acquired by Disney -- it is now the tech that powers Disney+.
The next wave of online education is live learning.
The Nelk Boys are YouTube pranksters. Despite making $0 from YouTube ads, the group pulled in $50m last year on merch!
Roku was spun out of Netflix in 2009. Today, it’s worth $50B+ and creating its own content.
Alex Cooper (“Call Her Daddy”) gets a $60m deal from Spotify. Harry Stebbings (“The Twenty Minute VC”) raises a $140m venture fund.
MGM’s vast content library (4k films, 17k TV shows) will help Amazon keep Prime subscribers and also monetize its free ad-supported IMDb TV streaming service.
Turntable.fm shut down in 2014. Now it’s back after raising $7.5m but has to contend with another identical startup also called Turntable.
Vimeo’s customers include Amazon, Spotify, and Intuit. It was once bought by accident.
London-based AI startup Flawless says its deepfake tech can make dubbed films look more natural.
AT&T closed an $85B deal for Time Warner media assets only 3 years ago. Now it will spin the business out, and combine with Discovery to form a new streaming giant.
YouTube is hotter than ever and shows no signs of slowing down. Without Janet Jackson, it may have never existed.
Apple and Spotify both rolled out subscription tools for podcast creators.
Facebook launches 3 audio products: Clubhouse clone, “TikTok for audio,” and Spotify podcast integrations. Will it work?