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Amazon reports Q1 ad revenue up 24% YoY to $11.8B, vs. $11.7B est., driven by the growth of its Stores and Prime Video businesses (variety.com)
2024-5-1 Amazon

NBCUniversal plans to raise Peacock Premium with ads by $2 to $7.99/month and Premium Plus by $2 to $13.99/month starting July 18, its second hike in two years (variety.com)
2024-4-30

Roku reports Q1 revenue up 19% YoY to $882M, vs. $848.62M est., a net loss of $50.9M, compared to $193.6M YoY, and 81.6M active accounts, up 1.6M from Q4 2023 (variety.com)
2024-4-26 4Q

YouTube Q1 ad revenue climbs 21% YoY to $8.1B, vs. $7.72B estimated, its highest Q1 total so far (variety.com)
2024-4-26 YouTube

Netflix won't report subscriber numbers or Average Revenue per Membership starting in Q1 2025, saying time spent is its “best proxy for customer satisfaction” (variety.com)
2024-4-19 Netflix

TikTok signs a deal with ticketing provider AXS to let users buy tickets to live events in the US, UK, and more; TikTok has had a Ticketmaster deal since 2022 (variety.com)
2024-4-16

Taylor Swift's music returns to TikTok, ahead of her next album due out on April 19, after UMG pulled her songs as part of an ongoing dispute with TikTok (variety.com)
2024-4-12

Vimeo names Philip Moyer, an ex-VP of applied AI engineering and business development at Google Cloud, as CEO and board member, replacing interim CEO Adam Gross (variety.com)
2024-4-5 Google AI

Elon Musk's X Loses Lawsuit Against Research Group That Found Proliferation of Hate Speech, Racist Content on Social Network (variety.com)
2024-3-26 Elon Musk Racism

Apple Sued by U.S. Justice Department, Alleging Tech Colossus Maintains Illegal Monopoly With iPhone (variety.com)
2024-3-22 U.S. iPhone Apple

Searches for VPN Skyrocket in Texas After Pornhub Shuts Down Access in State (variety.com)
2024-3-16 VPN Texas

Pornhub blocks access to users in Texas, after a federal appeals court upheld a Texas law last week requiring porn sites to institute age-verification measures (variety.com)
2024-3-15 Texas

SXSW Audiences Loudly Boo Festival Videos Touting the Virtues of AI (variety.com)
2024-3-14 AI

TikTok Ban: House Passes Bill That Would Outlaw App in U.S. Unless Its Chinese Parent Sells Ownership Stake (variety.com)
2024-3-14 China Ban

Streamers narrowly avoided getting shut out at the 2024 Oscars: Netflix came away with just one trophy and Apple left empty-handed, after they garnered a total of 32 nominations. (variety.com)
2024-3-11 Apple Netflix

President Biden Calls for Ban on AI Voice Impersonations During State of the Union (variety.com)
2024-3-9 AI Ban

How Netflix's stand-up specials, COVID, and rise of platforms like TikTok and YouTube have transformed the comedy business, broadening comedians' reach (variety.com)
2024-3-8 YouTube Netflix

A look at Apple's studio business: sources say the company spent $700M+ of its reported $1B+ annual 2023 spend on just three films, which earned $466M combined (variety.com)
2024-3-7 Apple

BBC Studios buys British broadcaster ITV's 50% stake in streamer BritBox International for £255M, as ITV focuses on its ad-funded streaming service ITVX (variety.com)
2024-3-1 U.K.

TikTok removes all songs published by Universal Music Publishing Group, expanding a licensing spat; at first only songs owned or distributed by UMG were removed (variety.com)
2024-2-28

Apple launches Apple Sports, a free app offering scores and stats for the NBA, Premier League, and more, in the US, Canada, and the UK, on iOS 17.2 or later (variety.com)
2024-2-22 IOS Apple Canada

Roku reports Q4 revenue up 14% YoY to $984.4M, vs. $968.2M est., and warns of a “challenging” environment for media and entertainment in 2024; ROKU drops 14%+ (variety.com)
2024-2-16 4Q

Spotify paid out $9B to music rights holders in 2023, a “figure that has tripled over the past six years”, and more than $48B since its founding (variety.com)
2024-2-9 Spotify

YouTube says YouTube TV now has 8M+ subscribers, up from 5M+ in mid-2022, and that the YouTube Partner Program has 3M+ channels receiving ad revenue share (variety.com)
2024-2-7 YouTube

Filing: Amazon spending on content rose 14% YoY to $18.9B in 2023 despite Hollywood strikes (variety.com)
2024-2-3 Amazon

Apple Q1: revenue of Services, which includes Apple TV+ and Apple Music, rose 11% YoY to a record $23.1B, and installed base crossed 2.2B active devices (variety.com)
2024-2-2 Apple

Universal Music Group plans to cease licensing content to TikTok after their agreement expires on January 31, saying they failed to reach new licensing terms (variety.com)
2024-1-31

EA reports Q3 net bookings up 1% YoY to $2.37B, vs. $2.39B est., with EA Sports FC net bookings up 7% YoY, and net revenue of $1.95B, up from $1.88B YoY (variety.com)
2024-1-31

Sundar Pichai says Alphabet's digital subscription services, including YouTube and Google One, are on a $15B annual revenue run rate, up fivefold since 2019 (variety.com)
2024-1-31 Google YouTube Alphabet

YouTube Q4 2023 ad revenue rose 15.5% YoY to $9.2B, roughly in line with expectations; in Q4 2022, YouTube's ad sales fell almost 8% (variety.com)
2024-1-31 YouTube 4Q

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