Thursday, 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 08:56PMFriday, February 12, 2021
Disney Plus had the wind at its back to close out 2020: The streaming service notched 94.9 million customers worldwide as of Jan. 2, 2021, the company announced. That’s up more than 8 mill…
SOURCE: Variety at 07:11AMThursday, February 11, 2021
Podz, a startup whose app auto-generates highlight clips of podcasts to create what it touts as the industry’s first “audio newsfeed,” has enlisted a trio of female investors and advis…
SOURCE: Variety at 07:06AMWednesday, January 27, 2021
Tegna wants a bigger piece of the podcast action: The TV station group announced the acquisition of Locked On Podcast Network, which produces some 160 daily shows for teams across the U.S.�…
SOURCE: Variety at 05:40PMThursday, January 21, 2021
President Joe Biden and VP Kamala Harris ostensibly were the main attractions on Inauguration Day. But Amanda Gorman stole the show with her reading of uplifting poem “The Hill We Climb,�…
SOURCE: Variety at 04:01PMWednesday, January 6, 2021
Celebrity-driven online learning platform MasterClass hired Vanna Krantz, most recently chief financial officer of Disney Plus and ESPN Plus, as CFO. At Disney, Krantz built and led the fina…
SOURCE: Variety at 07:00AMThursday, December 31, 2020
Ticketmaster agreed to pay a $10 million criminal fine to avoid prosecution over charges that it illegally accessed systems of a startup rival to steal proprietary info in an attempt to “c…
SOURCE: Variety at 10:17AMSaturday, May 18, 2019
TodayTix, a Broadway-born mobile ticketing start-up, is looking to expand into a bigger global media and transaction enterprise with a capital infusion of $73 million led by private-equity f…
SOURCE: Variety at 08:15AMSunday, May 5, 2019
Has YouTube become the new center of gravity for primetime? That’s the narrative it wants Madison Avenue to believe — especially as it relates to coveted younger demos. The Google-owned …
SOURCE: Variety at 09:52AMFriday, May 3, 2019
President Bill Clinton and Chelsea Clinton are jumping on the podcasting bandwagon. The former U.S. president and his daughter, who is vice chair of the Clinton Foundation, launched a new po…
SOURCE: Variety at 08:45AMEllen DeGeneres’ Ellen Digital Network is bringing Lea Michele and viral star Jay Shetty into its programming lineup — doubling down on comedic and uplifting content keying off the popul…
SOURCE: Variety at 08:45AMFriday, April 12, 2019
Sorry, HQties: Scott Rogowsky has left the HQ Trivia app and isn’t coming back. For over a year and a half, Rogowsky was the regular host of HQ Trivia’s live mobile trivia games that dol…
SOURCE: Variety at 04:16PMThursday, April 11, 2019
Disney+ will launch in the U.S. on Nov. 12, 2019, and will be priced at $6.99 per month, the company announced. The subscription VOD service represents Disney’s next major foray into the v…
SOURCE: Variety at 07:59PMWednesday, March 13, 2019
Oscar-winning actress Natalie Portman, star of films including “Black Swan” and “Jackie,” is launching her first-ever online class. In the class, priced at $90 for unlimited access, …
SOURCE: Variety at 07:00AMWednesday, February 27, 2019
A crowdfunding effort to pay for free theater screenings of “Captain Marvel” for girls and young women has now raised more than $60,000, three times its original goal. Donors to cause �…
SOURCE: Variety at 10:57AMSaturday, December 1, 2018
Ariana Grande’s “Thank U, Next” video is a bona fide overnight sensation: It has smashed YouTube’s all-time record for most views in the first 24 hours of release. Th…
SOURCE: Variety at 12:38PMWednesday, November 28, 2018
A behind-the-scenes look at Ariana Grande’s Dangerous Woman Tour is coming to the YouTube Premium subscription service. The four-part “Ariana Grande: Dangerous Woman Diaries̶…
SOURCE: Variety at 11:34AMWednesday, November 14, 2018
Disney entered into a deal with mobile-games studio Jam City to develop titles based on Pixar and Walt Disney Animation franchises — including one tied to next year’s “Froz…
SOURCE: Variety at 06:00AMWednesday, August 22, 2018
Ariana Grande is revealing new merchandise tied to her new album, “Sweetener,” exclusively on Snapchat with a custom selfie Lens — which also will let fans purchase the pro…
SOURCE: Variety at 09:25PMThursday, July 19, 2018
Internet-video veteran Marc Hustvedt is leaving Above Average, the digital comedy brand formed by Lorne Michaels’ Broadway Video, to join Fine Brothers Entertainment as CEO. Fine Broth…
SOURCE: Variety at 11:00AMTuesday, May 15, 2018
Atom Tickets is expanding its online-ticketing network to include Landmark Theatres, allowing the studio-backed startup to sell tickets for the indie-film exhibitor’s 53 theaters with …
SOURCE: Variety at 09:00AMThursday, April 5, 2018
Dame Maggie Smith and other actors from Warner Bros.’ Harry Potter films will be giving voice to characters in the new “Harry Potter: Hogwarts Mystery” role-playing game, w…
SOURCE: Variety at 08:55AMWednesday, March 14, 2018
Disney announced a reorganization of the company into four segments, which will include a newly created direct-to-consumer division to house the conglomerate’s portfolio of streaming s…
SOURCE: Variety at 01:05PMTuesday, March 6, 2018
HQ Trivia’s founders now have more money to throw into building what has become a viral hit — their live-streaming game-show app played by millions of people, vying to win actual…
SOURCE: Variety at 03:53PMFunny Or Die is putting its aging web platform out to pasture. Starting this summer, the digital comedy outfit will move FunnyOrDie.com over to Vox Media’s platform — and under t…
SOURCE: Variety at 10:00AMThursday, March 1, 2018
Hulu is slapping its name all over a landmark New York City venue: The subscription-streaming service has inked a multiyear marketing pact with the Madison Square Garden Co., which includes …
SOURCE: Variety at 10:15AMThursday, February 8, 2018
Characters from Disney and Pixar’s film franchises will be coming to a new mobile game, under a deal struck with games developer and publisher Glu Mobile. Glu Mobile announced a pact w…
SOURCE: Variety at 10:53AMMonday, January 22, 2018
Netflix, in announcing its fourth-quarter 2017 earnings with record subscriber additions, said it had taken a $39 million write-down related to content “we’ve decided not to mov…
SOURCE: Variety at 05:45PM 
