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Todd Spangler

@xpangler
120 posts
2026-02-10
In an interview, Spotify's co-CEOs wouldn't specify what the “Year of Raising Ambition” means in terms of product road map, but Gustav Söderström said AI represents “an enormous opportunity” for Spotify “to become something more for our consumers” https://variety.com/...
2026-02-10 View on X
Bloomberg

Spotify reports Q4 revenue up 13% YoY to €4.5B, MAUs up 11% to 751M, above estimates, and Premium users up 10% to 290M; SPOT closes up 14.75%

Spotify Technology SA, the Swedish music streaming giant, signed up significantly more users than analysts expected …

2026-01-21
Also as part of the revised deal terms, Netflix agreed to reduce the specified amount of net debt to be borne by Discovery Global — the cable TV networks entity to be spun off prior to Netflix's takeover of WB studios and HBO Max — by $260 million https://variety.com/...
2026-01-21 View on X
CNN

Netflix and WBD say Netflix revised its WBD offer to an all-cash deal for $27.75/share, with the same $82.7B value; its original bid had $59B in debt financing

Netflix's original bid included $59 billion in debt financing from three banks: Wells Fargo, BNP and HSBC. That was reduced to $34.0 billion as of Dec. 19. With Netflix's new all-cash offer, that will increase to $42.2 billion, per a Netflix SEC filing. https://variety.com/...
2026-01-21 View on X
CNN

Netflix and WBD say Netflix revised its WBD offer to an all-cash deal for $27.75/share, with the same $82.7B value; its original bid had $59B in debt financing

2026-01-20
Netflix's original bid included $59 billion in debt financing from three banks: Wells Fargo, BNP and HSBC. That was reduced to $34.0 billion as of Dec. 19. With Netflix's new all-cash offer, that will increase to $42.2 billion, per a Netflix SEC filing. https://variety.com/...
2026-01-20 View on X
CNN

Netflix and WBD say Netflix revised its WBD offer to an all-cash deal for $27.75/share, with the same $82.7B value; its original bid had $59B in debt financing

In an ongoing struggle over the future of Warner Bros. Discovery, Netflix says it is now prepared to pay all cash for Warner Bros. and HBO …

Also as part of the revised deal terms, Netflix agreed to reduce the specified amount of net debt to be borne by Discovery Global — the cable TV networks entity to be spun off prior to Netflix's takeover of WB studios and HBO Max — by $260 million https://variety.com/...
2026-01-20 View on X
CNN

Netflix and WBD say Netflix revised its WBD offer to an all-cash deal for $27.75/share, with the same $82.7B value; its original bid had $59B in debt financing

In an ongoing struggle over the future of Warner Bros. Discovery, Netflix says it is now prepared to pay all cash for Warner Bros. and HBO …

2025-12-17
in rejecting Paramount's $30/Share hostile bid for WBD, the board of Warner Bros Discovery asserts Paramount Skydance's $9B merger cost synergies target would ‘make Hollywood weaker, not stronger’ https://variety.com/... via @variety
2025-12-17 View on X
Wall Street Journal

WBD recommends shareholders reject Paramount's unsolicited $108.4B cash bid, calling the offer “illusory” and saying it believes Netflix's proposal is superior

Warner raised concerns about the credibility of Paramount's ‘illusory’ offer and its backing from the Ellison family

2025-03-19
this week's @Variety cover story —> Netflix's Ted Sarandos Isn't Done Disrupting Hollywood: On Winning the Streaming Wars, a Marvel ‘Fistfight’ and Defending Meghan Markle https://variety.com/...
2025-03-19 View on X
Variety

Q&A with Netflix's Ted Sarandos on his 25-year anniversary at Netflix, his cameo on Apple TV+ series The Studio, competing with suppliers like Disney, and more

In a few weeks, Ted Sarandos will make his acting debut — playing Ted Sarandos.  The co-CEO of Netflix is lampooning himself …

2025-03-09
Zucker certainly remembers “Lazy Sunday” blowing up on YouTube in 2005. “We saw it as an opportunity — and a threat,” he says. “YouTube showed us how powerful viral video could be.” He still thinks “Lazy Sunday” was a primary reason Google bought YouTube. https://variety.com/...
2025-03-09 View on X
BBC

A look at YouTube's hidden world: most of the videos on the platform capture everyday life and have rarely been seen, with the median video having just 41 views

There's a secret side of YouTube, just beyond the guiding hand of the algorithm - and it's nothing like what you know. Bluesky: @thomasgermain , @antisomniac , and @mausellmoli Mas...

Is YouTube a competitor to Disney? Dana Walden says any viewing YouTube might take from Disney TV or streaming is outweighed by the upside: “YouTube plays a key role in deepening fandom across each segment of our company, and not just streaming.” https://variety.com/...
2025-03-09 View on X
Variety

A look at YouTube's origins, growth, and domination as the platform turns 20, including an interview with CEO Neal Mohan, who is nearing 10 years at the company

and a threat,” he says. “YouTube showed us how powerful viral video could be.” He still thinks “Lazy Sunday” was a primary reason Google bought YouTube. https://variety.com/... Sim...

Zucker certainly remembers “Lazy Sunday” blowing up on YouTube in 2005. “We saw it as an opportunity — and a threat,” he says. “YouTube showed us how powerful viral video could be.” He still thinks “Lazy Sunday” was a primary reason Google bought YouTube. https://variety.com/...
2025-03-09 View on X
Variety

A look at YouTube's origins, growth, and domination as the platform turns 20, including an interview with CEO Neal Mohan, who is nearing 10 years at the company

and a threat,” he says. “YouTube showed us how powerful viral video could be.” He still thinks “Lazy Sunday” was a primary reason Google bought YouTube. https://variety.com/... Sim...

Is YouTube a competitor to Disney? Dana Walden says any viewing YouTube might take from Disney TV or streaming is outweighed by the upside: “YouTube plays a key role in deepening fandom across each segment of our company, and not just streaming.” https://variety.com/...
2025-03-09 View on X
BBC

A look at YouTube's hidden world: most of the videos on the platform capture everyday life and have rarely been seen, with the median video having just 41 views

There's a secret side of YouTube, just beyond the guiding hand of the algorithm - and it's nothing like what you know. Bluesky: @thomasgermain , @antisomniac , and @mausellmoli Mas...

2025-03-08
Is YouTube a competitor to Disney? Dana Walden says any viewing YouTube might take from Disney TV or streaming is outweighed by the upside: “YouTube plays a key role in deepening fandom across each segment of our company, and not just streaming.” https://variety.com/...
2025-03-08 View on X
Variety

A look at YouTube's origins, growth, and domination as the platform turns 20, including an interview with CEO Neal Mohan, who is nearing 10 years at the company

It's a muggy morning the day before the 2025 Super Bowl in New Orleans, and YouTube CEO Neal Mohan is stuck in parade traffic and not happy about it.

Zucker certainly remembers “Lazy Sunday” blowing up on YouTube in 2005. “We saw it as an opportunity — and a threat,” he says. “YouTube showed us how powerful viral video could be.” He still thinks “Lazy Sunday” was a primary reason Google bought YouTube. https://variety.com/...
2025-03-08 View on X
Variety

A look at YouTube's origins, growth, and domination as the platform turns 20, including an interview with CEO Neal Mohan, who is nearing 10 years at the company

It's a muggy morning the day before the 2025 Super Bowl in New Orleans, and YouTube CEO Neal Mohan is stuck in parade traffic and not happy about it.

2025-01-11
Before it could open, Venu is closed. Read about why Disney, Fox & Warner Bros. Discovery are ceasing their sports streaming joint venture https://variety.com/... via @variety
2025-01-11 View on X
The Hollywood Reporter

Disney, Fox, and WBD say they have agreed to discontinue their Venu Sports streaming joint venture and will focus on existing products and distribution channels

Sigh.  Streaming TV prices are going to get obscene in 2025.  —  www.theverge.com/2025/1/10/24... Mastodon: @SuffolkLITLab@esq.social : TL;DR: Venu Sports, the anticipated joint st...

2025-01-10
Before it could open, Venu is closed. Read about why Disney, Fox & Warner Bros. Discovery are ceasing their sports streaming joint venture https://variety.com/... via @variety
2025-01-10 View on X
The Hollywood Reporter

Disney, Fox, and WBD say they have agreed to discontinue their Venu Sports streaming joint venture and will focus on existing products and distribution channels

The sports-focused streaming service will not move forward, the companies said Friday.  —  Venu is dead.

2025-01-07
In connection with the deal, Disney, Fox Corp. and Warner Bros. Discovery will make an aggregate cash payment to Fubo of $220 million. In addition, Disney has committed to provide a $145 million term loan to Fubo in 2026 as part of the transaction. https://variety.com/...
2025-01-07 View on X
Variety

Disney and Fubo announce a deal wherein Disney will combine Hulu + Live TV with Fubo in a joint venture and Fubo will drop its Venu Sports antitrust lawsuit

Todd Spangler / Variety :

2025-01-06
In connection with the deal, Disney, Fox Corp. and Warner Bros. Discovery will make an aggregate cash payment to Fubo of $220 million. In addition, Disney has committed to provide a $145 million term loan to Fubo in 2026 as part of the transaction. https://variety.com/...
2025-01-06 View on X
Variety

Disney and Fubo announce a deal wherein Disney will combine Hulu + Live TV with Fubo in a joint venture and Fubo will drop its Venu Sports antitrust lawsuit

Disney, Fox and Warner Bros. Discovery will pay Fubo $220 million to settle antitrust suit  —  Disney announced a deal …

2024-12-18
In early 2025, YouTube will begin testing its AI-detection tech with “leading celebrity talent,” including actors and “top athletes from the NBA and NFL.” Right now, the companies aren't revealing specific names of CAA talent expected to participate https://variety.com/...
2024-12-18 View on X
Variety

CAA partners with YouTube to help CAA clients identify and remove AI-generated content that features their likeness, with a wider rollout planned in early 2025

This is another example of industry leading AI video capabilities from Google.  I'm curious to see how quickly this becomes a standard feature on video platforms X: Todd Spangler /...

2024-05-30
Vox Media's editorial unions, in a statement about the OpenAl deal, said “we have serious concerns about this partnership, which we believe could adversely impact members of our union” https://variety.com/...
2024-05-30 View on X
Axios

The Atlantic and Vox Media sign multiyear licensing and product deals with OpenAI; The Atlantic plans an experimental Atlantic Labs with OpenAI's and other tech

- The Atlantic has been publishing content since 1857. … - Both agreements also allow OpenAI to tap into the respective …

2024-05-03
On the call, Apple CEO Tim Cook didn't speak to how well the $3,500 Vision Pro headset has sold since it began shipping in Feb except to say he was “thrilled” to see enterprises purchasing the device to develop new applications https://variety.com/...
2024-05-03 View on X
CNBC

Apple Q2 revenue: iPhone down 10% YoY to $45.96B, Mac up 4% to $7.45B, iPad down 17% to $5.56B, and Wearables, Home, and Accessories down 10% to $7.91B

Apple CEO Tim Cook waves to journalists after his meeting with Indonesian President Joko Widodo at the Presidential Palace in Jakarta, Indonesia, April 17, 2024.