Wednesday, February 26, 2025
Podcasts started as an audio-only phenomenon. But now YouTube — the world’s biggest video platform — might be the biggest platform for podcasts. According to the Google-owned video gia…
SOURCE: Variety at 12:37PMTuesday, February 11, 2025
As YouTube marks its 20th anniversary this year, CEO Neal Mohan is positioning the video platform as a core player in the media and entertainment ecosystem — and the culture at large. Moha…
SOURCE: Variety at 02:09PMWednesday, February 5, 2025
Animated blockbuster “Moana 2” put wind into Disney’s sales for the last three months of 2024. The sequel’s strong showing at the box office, along with another profitable quarter fo…
SOURCE: Variety at 08:26PMThursday, January 30, 2025
Andre Rohe, who previously held senior engineering roles at Meta, YouTube and Google, has been hired to lead a newly created consolidated product engineering team in the Disney Entertainment…
SOURCE: Variety at 10:43PMThursday, December 26, 2024
Smash-hit musical movie “Wicked” is flying into homes this New Year’s Eve — with a load of deleted scenes, commentary and other extras. Following its theatrical run, the Universal Pi…
SOURCE: Variety at 10:08AMTuesday, February 13, 2024
Mickey Mouse, kickin’ ass for the working class? Employees who work in Disneyland’s Characters and Parades departments announced they are unionizing with Actors’ Equity Association. Ac…
SOURCE: Variety at 05:00PMFriday, September 9, 2022
Audible has ordered four more comedy podcasts from “Saturday Night Live” producer Broadway Video and has renewed its LGBTQ action-comedy “Hot White Heist” — with an all-queer cast …
SOURCE: Variety at 07:00AMMonday, June 13, 2022
Funko is popping cult-fave pop-culture brand Mondo into its merch mix. Under a deal with indie theater chain Alamo Drafthouse, Funko acquired Mondo, which creates and sells vinyl records and…
SOURCE: Variety at 08:15AMFriday, June 3, 2022
On Eighth Avenue in Midtown Manhattan, right next to a Chik-fil-A, is Spyscape — a two-floor, futuristic-looking museum/interactive experience space that gives spycraft lovers a close-up l…
SOURCE: Variety at 09:01AMWednesday, April 6, 2022
Musical theater has become a thing on TikTok. This Sunday, for example, “The Unofficial Bridgerton Musical” became the first project that originated on TikTok to win a Grammy. Now the po…
SOURCE: Variety at 01:16PMThursday, March 24, 2022
Top stand-up comedian Sebastian Maniscalco surprised fans at his shows in the New York area by giving away free commemorative NFTs to all ticketholders — the first comedian to launch such …
SOURCE: Variety at 10:42AMFriday, July 9, 2021
Disney Streaming Services tapped Ajay Arora, previously Netflix’s director of product innovation for growth, as senior VP of product, commerce and experimentation. In the new role, Arora w…
SOURCE: Variety at 11:32AMThursday, June 24, 2021
Lauren Jarvis, formerly Spotify’s head of content partnerships for North America, has joined subscription book club startup Literati as chief business officer. At Spotify, Jarvis managed t…
SOURCE: Variety at 02:58PMBuzzFeed is going public in a deal with a special purpose acquisition company (SPAC), which will give the digital media company an implied valuation of $1.5 billion once the pact closes, the…
SOURCE: Variety at 02:58PMFriday, May 14, 2021
For Disney Plus, maybe getting the first 100 million subscribers was the easy part. Shares of Disney were down 2.6% in midday trading Friday, after the media company missed revenue estimates…
SOURCE: Variety at 04:18PMThursday, May 13, 2021
The jets kept firing for Disney Plus, which reached 103.6 million subscribers worldwide as of April 3, the company reported — although the growth was not as torrid as Wall Street hoped. Th…
SOURCE: Variety at 05:45PMWednesday, May 12, 2021
The latest gold rush in digital video? Short, shareable video clips — like those popularized by Vine half a decade ago, before Twitter shut down the Vine app. YouTube, the world’s bigges…
SOURCE: Variety at 07:10AMWednesday, April 28, 2021
Netflix has a new way to try to get customers binge-watching in a hurry: The company is launching “Play Something,” which picks a TV show or movie based on what its algorithms think you …
SOURCE: Variety at 07:05PMWednesday, April 21, 2021
Netflix wants people to pay their fair share to access its streaming service. But Reed Hastings promises that any crackdown on illicit password-sharing that the company decides to launch acr…
SOURCE: Variety at 06:30AMTuesday, April 20, 2021
Netflix’s subscriber growth cooled in the first quarter of 2021 after record pandemic-fueled gains last year: The streamer added about 2 million fewer customers than it previously expected…
SOURCE: Variety at 07:56PMWednesday, April 14, 2021
In the wake of escalating violence against Asians in the U.S., crowdfunding site GoFundMe collaborated with independent film director Bao Nguyen to produce a short film that shines a light o…
SOURCE: Variety at 11:24AMTuesday, March 30, 2021
Cameo, the startup that lets users buy video shout-outs from celebrities, has banked $100 million in Series C funding — which the company says gives it a “unicorn” valuation of just ov…
SOURCE: Variety at 08:52AMMonday, March 29, 2021
It’s been a breathtaking week for ViacomCBS investors. Shares of the media conglomerate slipped another 6.7% in regular trading Monday — and the company’s market value has now been cho…
SOURCE: Variety at 09:20PMTuesday, March 23, 2021
ViacomCBS stock dropped nearly 9.1% Tuesday, as investors exited positions on news that the media conglomerate will sell up to $3.45 billion in stock as part of funding streaming content. Th…
SOURCE: Variety at 07:43PMViacomCBS is readying itself to write some bigger checks for content flowing to Paramount Plus and its other streaming properties. The company, which bowed the Paramount Plus streaming servi…
SOURCE: Variety at 08:40AMTuesday, March 16, 2021
Facebook says it wants to “empower” independent writers and journalists by letting them make money from their work. The social giant on Tuesday confirmed plans to launch a new platform f…
SOURCE: Variety at 07:47PMFriday, March 12, 2021
Netflix’s new test to verify subscription credentials of users — and convert password freeloaders into paying customers — could help the global streamer grow its subscriber count, acco…
SOURCE: Variety at 05:54PMThursday, March 11, 2021
Netflix may be finally getting serious about cracking down on password sharing. The streaming giant in the past week launched a new test that displays a warning to some users that says, “I…
SOURCE: Variety at 05:34PMMonday, March 1, 2021
Roku will add a fat stack of ad tech to its streaming platform under a deal to buy Nielsen’s Advanced Video Advertising business, putting Roku in position to offer a fully addressable adve…
SOURCE: Variety at 07:11PMThursday, February 25, 2021
Ahead of its analyst day presentation, Twitter outlined an ambitious plan to double annual revenue by 2023. Most of that will continue to come from advertising — but the social network als…
SOURCE: Variety at 05:18PMWednesday, February 24, 2021
Audible is punching up its scripted comedy podcast lineup with two new shows from Broadway Video: “Hit Job,” a high-concept workplace comedy starring Keke Palmer and “Saturday Night Li…
SOURCE: Variety at 08:56PM 
