Dow Jones' general counsel says OpenAI lacks a deal to use WSJ reporting to train its AI; a source says CNN plans to ask OpenAI to pay to license its content
Major news outlets have begun criticizing OpenAI and its ChatGPT software, saying the lab is using their articles to train …
Sources: as Apple launches MLS Season Pass, the company is shopping ad packages for up to ~$4M per season, without guaranteeing advertisers viewership numbers
Apple launches its MLS Season Pass in over 100 territories, giving soccer fans access to all MLS matches, playoffs, and more for $14.99/month or $99/year
Today, Apple launched MLS Season Pass in over 100 territories, giving soccer fans access to all MLS matches, Audi 2023 MLS Cup Playoffs …
Nielsen says Amazon Prime Video's first Thursday Night Football game averaged 13.03M viewers; Amazon claimed 15.3M viewers after guaranteeing advertisers 12.5M
Analysis: TV shows make up ~75% of Netflix's top 10 lists, the average hit fades after two weeks or less, and Asian hits overlap the least with other markets
Nobody in Hollywood knows for sure what works on Netflix. — The company releases statistics like “26 million people watched this show in the first 28 days.”
A look at Peacock as it enters its second year, considers expansion abroad, and tries to grow paid subscriptions; sources: 20% of Peacock's 14M MAUs pay for it
Gerry Smith / Bloomberg : Tweets: @emmagf , @gerryfsmith , @joshsternberg , @business , @royprice , @loudmouthjulia , @wickdchiq , @felixsalmon , and @lucas_shaw See also Mediagaz...
BuzzFeed has agreed to acquire Verizon Media's HuffPost in a stock deal, as part of a larger agreement to syndicate content on each others' platforms
Wall Street Journal :
Moonbug buys Cocomelon, the most viewed YouTube channel, and Blippi, forming the largest network of kids channels on YouTube with 235M subscribers
Moonbug Entertainment Ltd. is building a kids media empire for the YouTube generation. — The London-based company has acquired … Tweets: @lucas_shaw , @gerryfsmith , and @lucas_s...
Spotify beats with Q1 revenue of €1.8B and net income of €1M; MAUs rose 31% YoY to 286M, premium users rose 31% to 130M, and ad-supported MAUs rose 32% to 163M
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A look at Luminary Media, a year after its launch as “the Netflix of podcasting”: company says subscriber base grew by 14% in the past six weeks amid lockdown
not some PE/VC firm. https://twitter.com/... Felix Gillette / @felixgillette : Luminary, at the one year mark: “Over the last 90 days, the company hasn't cracked the Top 500 entert...
A look at Luminary Media, a year after its launch as “the Netflix of podcasting”: company says subscriber base grew by 14% in the past six weeks amid lockdown
not some PE/VC firm. https://twitter.com/... Felix Gillette / @felixgillette : Luminary, at the one year mark: “Over the last 90 days, the company hasn't cracked the Top 500 entert...
Sources: Quibi's projections from 2019 show the upcoming streaming service is expected to spend ~$1.5B in its first year; Quibi has raised $1.4B so far
oh... https://www.theinformation.com/ ... @cityofthetown @jtoonkel Gerry Smith / @gerryfsmith : “Many studio executives saw taking a stake in Quibi as a form of what they called “s...
Sources: Quibi's projections from 2019 show the upcoming streaming service is expected to spend ~$1.5B in its first year; Quibi has raised $1.4B so far
If there's one thing to be said for Quibi, the short-form streaming service coming from Jeffrey Katzenberg and Meg Whitman this spring …
Zuckerberg struggles to explain why Facebook News' “trusted” sources include Breitbart News, says Facebook wants “to include a breadth of content in there”
On Friday morning, Facebook announced its plan to spend millions of dollars on high-quality journalism …
Facebook begins testing Facebook News with a subset of people in the US across four categories of select publishers: general, topical, diverse, and local news
media company execs, 6 months from now. https://twitter.com/... Peter Kafka / @pkafka : One between the lines note: Regular Facebook newsfeed is Trump Trump and more Trump. New Fac...
Zuckerberg struggles to explain why Facebook News' “trusted” sources includes Breitbart News, says Facebook wants to “to include a breadth of content in there”
On Friday morning, Facebook announced its plan to spend millions of dollars on high-quality journalism …
Facebook begins testing Facebook News with a subset of people in the US across four categories of select publishers: general, topical, diverse, and local news
Testing a dedicated place for news in the US — Journalism plays a critical role in our democracy.
Facebook begins testing Facebook News with a subset of people in the US across four categories of select publishers: general, topical, diverse, and local news
Testing a dedicated place for news in the US — Journalism plays a critical role in our democracy.