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What Amazon’s Pivot to Prime Video Ads Will Look Like
Amazon is joining the SVOD-but-with-ads game. The tech giant will begin incorporating ads into series and movies on its Prime Video streaming service early next year in the United States, Canada, United Kingdom and Germany. Several other countries will see the ad rollout later in 2024. With the move, Prime Video will join the likes […]
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YouTube Adding Generative AI Tools in Creator Push
The video platform YouTube on Thursday announced a suite of creator tools — including a number of products that take advantage of generative artificial intelligence — in a bid to further bolster its leadership in the creator ecosystem. “AI will enable people to push the boundaries of creative expression by making the difficult things simple […]
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Live ‘Strike Force’ Recording and Steve Martin, Martin Short’s Las Vegas Shows Canceled Due to COVID ?
A handful of upcoming shows in Las Vegas have been canceled or postponed due to COVID-19. This weekend’s planned live Strike Force podcast recording has been canceled after ABC late night host Jimmy Kimmel came down with the virus. Kimmel announced the move on his social channels Wednesday. Kimmel was set to co-host the live […]
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Max to Add Sports Tier for $10 Per Month After Promo Period, Launching in Time for MLB Playoffs
Live sports are coming to Max next month. The Warner Bros. Discovery-owned streaming platform will launch a new premium sports tier Oct. 5, just in time for the Major League Baseball playoffs, which start two days later. The new tier will be called the Bleacher Report Sports Add-On (or B/R Sports), taking the name of […]
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Rich Paul Among Speakers Set for Atlanta Creator Summit UNLOQ404
UNLOQ404 is coming to Atlanta. The inaugural creator summit, presented by UTA and produced by L.A.-based brand, marketing and events agency Crown + Conquer, will debut at Overtime Elite Arena on Oct. 14. The program, which is still being finalized, features confirmed speakers like the CEO of Klutch Sports Group Rich Paul; music executive DJ […]
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Insomniac’s ‘Spider-Man 2’ Aims to Swing to New Heights
In 2018, just months before Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse redefined what a Spider-Man story could look like on the big screen, the team at Insomniac and PlayStation unleashed their own game-changing iteration. Spider-Man became the definitive Spidey video game, with Spider-Man: Miles Morales arriving in 2020. Combined, they have sold more than 33 million copies. […]
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TikTok Hit With $368M Fine Under Europe’s Strict Data Privacy Rules
European regulators slapped TikTok with a $368 million fine on Friday for failing to protect children’s privacy, the first time that the popular short-video–sharing app has been punished for breaching Europe’s strict data privacy rules. Ireland’s Data Protection Commission, the lead privacy regulator for Big Tech companies whose European headquarters are largely in Dublin, said […]
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ABC News Live Plans Weekday Expansion (Exclusive)
ABC News Live, the network news division’s streaming offering, is expanding its lineup in a fresh push for consumers seeking live news outside of the traditional TV ecosystem. ABC says that correspondent Kayna Whitworth will join the lineup from 5-7 p.m. beginning next week, creating a live news lineup that starts in the mornings with […]
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Former TBS and TNT GM Brett Weitz Hired at X as Linda Yaccarino Overhauls Leadership Team
Linda Yaccarino, the CEO of X (formerly Twitter) has unveiled a new leadership and sales team at the social platform, including a number of executives familiar to the media and entertainment business. Among the new hires is Brett Weitz, the veteran TV executive who was most recently general manager of the Warner Bros. Discovery channels […]
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Amazon’s Prime Video Pitches HBO, Paramount+ and AMC+ Shows In New Marketing Campaign
What do the NFL, James Bond, HBO’s Game of Thrones and Succession, Warner Bros.’ Barbie, AMC’s The Walking Dead: Daryl Dixon and Paramount’s Yellowstone have in common? They are all featured in a new marketing campaign from Amazon’s Prime Video platform. Prime Video is using its kickoff Thursday Night Football game tonight to launch the […]
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Hollywood Tech Vets Michael and Peter Cioni Raise $1.9M in Pre-Seed Funding to Launch AI Production Tools Startup
Entertainment tech entrepreneurs Michael and Peter Cioni have raised $1.9 million in pre-seed funding to launch their new company Strada, which is aimed at building an AI-enabled cloud platform with tools for production and postproduction. Announced backers include filmmakers Glenn Ficarra and John Requa (Rabbit Hole, This Is Us, Crazy, Stupid, Love); Jason Fotter, a […]
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What Disney Got, and Gave Up, to Make a Deal With Spectrum; Dana Walden and Jimmy Pitaro Talk Details
If there is one key takeaway from the Walt Disney Co.-Charter Spectrum carriage dispute, it’s that the pay TV business is undergoing a period of significant change, and the distributors and entertainment companies will need to get creative in order to get deals done. The result in the Disney-Spectrum dispute marks a major shift in […]
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What Happens If Disney Can’t Agree With Comcast on a Price Tag for Hulu
How much is Hulu worth, exactly? That is the key sticking point between Comcast, led by Brian Roberts, and The Walt Disney Co., led by Bob Iger, as the two companies inch closer to a window where one side or the other can force Disney to buy out Comcast’s 33 percent stake in the streaming […]
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Creators Once Dreaded the Pressure of Ratings, Now They’re Fighting for the Data
Striking writers and actors are pressing a few common issues as they seek better contracts from the media companies represented by the Alliance of Motion Picture and Television Producers. One big one: Both?unions want more transparency about how many people are watching streaming series and movies and, along with that, a bigger share of streaming […]
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M88 Bolsters Digital Talent Services As Sister Firm UNCMMN Is Folded In to Company (Exclusive)
M88, the management company launched in 2020 to focus on clients from the global majority, is growing its family. The firm is merging with sister company UNCMMN, which was founded in 2019 also to represent historically excluded talent, but in new media. Both firms got off the ground through strategic investments from Macro, the media […]
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Sony Unwraps New CLED Displays Aimed at Virtual Production
Sony has unwrapped a new ‘Verona’ line of the company’s Crystal LED direct view displays designed for use in virtual production. The tech giant’s cinematic production solutions group has been developing the line (currently four models) with input and feedback from various companies and individuals including cinematographers, though the company only disclosed that Epic Games […]
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