2020-05-12
The greatest gift to streaming services & at-home entertainment is apparently responsible for the anemic performance of the most expensively-funded startup streaming service targeted to at-home users. https://twitter.com/...
New York Times
Jeffrey Katzenberg blames COVID-19 for Quibi's paltry downloads as execs lower projections from 7M users and $250M subscriber revenue estimated for first year
Downloads of the $1.8 billion short-form streaming app, meant for phones, are paltry. “I attribute everything that has gone wrong to coronavirus,” Mr. Katzenberg said.
2020-05-11
“Crushed?” Respectfully, nothing was stopping a newspaper from starting a simple classifieds site, a micro-blogging site or a community where people could talk to each each other and create their own content, or a massive commerce. https://www.nytimes.com/...
New York Times
As Australian and French regulators plan to make tech companies pay publishers for news content, leaders from Ireland to Malaysia say they are paying attention
we simply are running out of innovation to cover your salary and benefits” https://twitter.com/... Dave / @davewiner : Disappointed that Ben Smith, the new media columnist at the N...