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Artists from musicians to filmmakers have called for A.I. regulations as the technology continues to advance and encroach on the media industry. But...
On Monday (April 29), Paramount Global officially sent its CEO Bob Bakish packing after reporting first-quarter earnings, confirming earlier...
On April 24, President Joe Biden signed into law a bill that would force a sale of TikTok by its Chinese parent company ByteDance or ban the app in...
More newsrooms are opening up to the idea of working with artificial intelligence companies. The Financial Times announced today (April 29) that it...
At Alphabet (GOOGL)’s fourth-quarter earnings call at the beginning of 2024, the tech company’s leaders had much to say about YouTube. Yesterday...
Meta (META) held an A.I.-focused earnings call yesterday (April 24) following its release. Much of the conversation centered on the new Meta A.I., an...
Spotify’s earnings release on Tuesday (April 23) revealed a few tidbits of the company’s strategy going forward with features like audiobooks,...
A Nielsen report from this month on free ad-supported television (FAST) like Amazon (AMZN) Freevee and the Roku Channel shows that FAST services...
In the first three months of this year at Netflix (NFLX), “evolution” has been the name of the game. The streamer’s earnings release and its...
Newsrooms are split on how to cover the most pressing political issues of our time.
Federal Communications Commission chairman Jessica Rosenworcel shared her clear stance on a potential TikTok ban during a luncheon at the Paley Center...
Earlier this month, the company’s quarterly sales fell for the first time since the pandemic began.
Netflix (NFLX)’s new film chief has already ushered in some structural changes to the streamer’s film strategy, indicating that the company no...
Amazon (AMZN) continues to build out its advertising team after making the move to introduce ads to Prime Video for basic subscriptions. The tech...
A coalition of screenwriters unions passed a joint resolution today (April 11) with proposed industry standards for the use of A.I. Members of the...
In his annual letter to shareholders, published today (April 11), Amazon (AMZN) CEO Andy Jassy said the e-commerce giant’s video streaming service,...
Getty Images has launched multiple A.I. products in partnership with Nvidia.
Actress and entrepreneur Jessica Alba is leaving her baby and beauty products brand, The Honest Company, after 12 years running it as its chief...
New court filings from Meta (META) last week as part of its ongoing antitrust suit with the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) revealed that Instagram...
After 95 years in business, Fortune Media has finally picked a woman to run its magazine, event and digital news brands. The media company announced...
Audio streaming platform Spotify today (April 8) launched the beta version of a new personalization feature called “AI Playlist,” which allows...
Some X users were surprised to find their blue checks had been restored for free.
The video-sharing platform Vimeo is bringing on a Big Tech veteran as its new CEO. The New York-based company announced yesterday (April 4) that...
In the first quarter of 2024, media companies big and small formed partnerships, signed agreements, and launched joint ventures to further themselves...
The first few months of 2024 have ushered in some interesting executive shakeups at the top media companies, with Spotify being the latest. The...
Forbes’s 2024 World’s Billionaires list is out, and it includes 13 newcomers who are from the media and entertainment industry. The most exciting...
Elon Musk’s X yesterday (April 2) announ c ed two new hires in its safety team amidst growing pressure from Congress and tension with...
Top music artists like Nicki Minaj, Billie Eilish and Katy Perry are urging tech companies to be conscientious about the development in A.I. and its...
Instagram co-founders Kevin Systrom and Mike Krieger have sold their artificial intelligence (A.I.) news app, Artifact, to Yahoo. In an announcement...
The media and entertainment industry was rife with leadership changes in the first three months of 2024, continuing a trend seen in late 2023. New...
As Hollywood workers try to protect their jobs from the impact of artificial intelligence (A.I.), the studios are courting the technology head on—or...
How did Meta (META) become the world’s largest player in the cutthroat industry of social media? New documents from an ongoing class action suit...
Artificial intelligence’s (A.I.) integration into Hollywood and other acting industries is happening more rapidly than people may think, which is...
It seems just as soon as former Republican National Convention chair Ronna McDaniel was picked to be a contributor on NBC News, she was already out...
Tesla (TSLA) became the largest electric carmaker in the world without ever spending a dime on advertising or marketing because it never had to. But...
The BBC is cautiously utilizing artificial intelligence (A.I.) and aggressively shifting its focus from broadcasting to streaming, according to Tim...
BuzzFeed (BZFD)’s content and advertising revenue fell sharply in the last three months of 2023 but managed to turn a slim profit of $3.5 million,...
Lately, Apple (AAPL) has been hit with major antitrust lawsuits from both the U.S. Department of Justice and the European Union. The iPhone maker is...
As The Walt Disney Company (DIS) tries to map out its plans for ESPN, one of its past leaders has decided to weigh in on the sports brand’s...
Reddit made its long-awaited public debut yesterday (March 21) and closed its first trading day with a market cap of $9.5 billion. Reddit is the...
Another company has put in a bid for Paramount (PARA) Global. Apollo Global Management (APO), a private equity firm, has offered $11 billion yesterday...
An ongoing trend in social media is shifting away from news content, and Meta is one of the companies making the strongest push.
It’s exactly two weeks away from The Walt Disney Company (DIS)’s 2024 shareholder meeting, where shareholders will vote on the company’s new...
Spotify paid a record $9 billion to music industry participants in 2023, according to the company’s annual music economics report released yesterday...
YouTube superstar MrBeast is taking a chance to broadcast his content on another platform. The YouTuber, whose real name is Jimmy Donaldson, has...
The storied magazine will now publish under Minute Media, which owns other sports media companies.
As social media platforms grow into profit machines, many of them have stopped buildi ng up their content creators, according to Jack Conte, the...
Now that the House of Representatives has passed a bill that could ban TikTok, the company is firing back through its typically quiet CEO Shou Zi...
A SXSW panel on Tuesday (Mar. 14) featuring journalists and executives from CNN and The Washington Post brought together two key topics of the...
The new movie is a prequel to a "Black Secret Service" universe imagined by the rapper.