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California Restricts Use of Rap Lyrics in Criminal Trials After Gov. Newsom Signs Bill (variety.com)
2022-10-3 California

Disney Networks Including ESPN, ABC Go Dark on Dish in Carriage Dispute (variety.com)
2022-10-2

Disney Plans to Expand Board With Tech Executive Carolyn Everson (variety.com)
2022-10-1

OnlyFans Launches $100,000 Comedy Competition for Its Non-Porn Streaming Service (variety.com)
2022-9-28

James Earl Jones Signs Off on Using Recordings to Recreate Voice with AI (variety.com)
2022-9-25 AI

Timbaland and Swizz Beatz settle a missed payments lawsuit with Triller after Triller acquired their music series Verzuz in March 2021; terms were not disclosed (variety.com)
2022-9-23

Senators Introduce American Music Fairness Act, Which Would Require Radio to Pay Royalties to Musicians (variety.com)
2022-9-23 U.S.

Denmark-based Podimo, a subscription service for podcasts and audiobooks, raised €58.6M led by 83North, Highland, and Saban, bringing its total funding to €162M (variety.com)
2022-9-14

Ex-Disney CEO Bob Iger Joins Josh Kushner's Thrive Capital as Partner (variety.com)
2022-9-14

YouTube says it paid over $6B to the music industry between July 2021 and June 2022, up $2B YoY, and that user generated content drove more than 30% of payouts (variety.com)
2022-9-14 YouTube

YouTube's Music-Royalty System Is 'Ripe for Abuse,' Report Claims (variety.com)
2022-9-13 YouTube

Roku updates its $30 Roku Express streaming player, launches the $130 Roku Wireless Bass subwoofer, and details Roku OS 11.5, including a short-form content hub (variety.com)
2022-9-12

Amazon says The Rings of Power's first two episodes drew 25M viewers globally in its first day, revealing viewership for a Prime Video series for the first time (variety.com)
2022-9-4 Amazon

Amazon quietly introduces a 72-hour delay for all user reviews posted to Prime Video to determine whether the review is genuine or created by a bot or a troll (variety.com)
2022-9-4 Amazon

Sources: Netflix's ad-supported tier may debut on Nov. 1 in markets including Canada, France, Germany, UK, and US; the date was moved to beat Disney+'s Dec. 8 (variety.com)
2022-9-2 Germany France Netflix Canada

US music publishers settle on 15.35% for 2023 to 2027 mechanical streaming rates, avoiding costly legal fights with Amazon, Apple, Google, Pandora, and Spotify (variety.com)
2022-9-1 Google Amazon Apple Spotify

YouTube Chief Business Officer Robert Kyncl plans to leave in early 2023 after 12+ years as a senior executive; Google veteran Mary Ellen Coe will replace him (variety.com)
2022-8-30 Google YouTube

Nielsen: in July, for the first time, streaming had the largest share of US TV viewing at 34.8%; Netflix had an 8% share, followed by YouTube with 7.3% (variety.com)
2022-8-18 YouTube Netflix

Snap says its Snapchat+ subscription, launched in June, now has 1M+ users globally and adds features, including priority Story replies to celebs (variety.com)
2022-8-15 Snapchat

Disney announces Disney+ with ads for $7.99 per month in the US, starting December 8, and raises the price of the ad-free tier from $7.99 to $10.99 per month (variety.com)
2022-8-11

NFT startup Dapper Labs hires Nick Grudin, formerly Meta's Head of Content Partnerships for 12 years, as chief business officer (variety.com)
2022-8-11 Startup

How (and Why) Neil Gaiman Finally Adapted ‘The Sandman' for TV (variety.com)
2022-8-8

On its Q2 2022 earnings call, Warner Bros. Discovery announced plans to launch a combined HBO Max and Discovery+ streaming service in the US in summer 2023 (variety.com)
2022-8-7

Visa ‘Intended to Help' Pornhub Monetize Child Porn, Judge Preliminarily Finds (variety.com)
2022-8-1

Nichelle Nichols Dead: Uhura in Original 'Star Trek' Series Was 89 (variety.com)
2022-8-1

Snap announces Sounds Creator Fund to provide monthly grants of up to $100K to artists who are distributing music on Snapchat via DistroKid, starting in August (variety.com)
2022-7-29 Snapchat

Roku misses with Q2 revenue up 18% YoY to $764M, vs. $805.2M estimated, and reaches 63.1M active accounts, up 1.8M QoQ; stock down ~26% after hours (variety.com)
2022-7-29

Spotify reports Q2 revenue rose 23% YoY to €2.9B as its net loss widened to €125M; MAUs were up 19% YoY to 433M and Premium users reached to 188M, up 14% YoY (variety.com)
2022-7-27 Spotify

YouTube's ad revenue in Q2 grew 4.8% YoY to $7.34B, under expectations of a 7% increase to $7.49B; it was YouTube's slowest growth in more than two years (variety.com)
2022-7-27 YouTube

Vince McMahon Announces Retirement From WWE (variety.com)
2022-7-24

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