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Artists Feel the Threat of A.I. But Also Increasingly Embrace the Technology

Artists from musicians to filmmakers have called for A.I. regulations as the technology continues to advance and encroach on the media industry. But...

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Power Fallout Inside Paramount: How a Potential Sale May Have Ousted CEO Bob Bakish

On Monday (April 29), Paramount Global officially sent its CEO Bob Bakish packing after reporting first-quarter earnings, confirming earlier...

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TikTok Ban: When Will the Creator Economy Feel the Pain, If Ever?

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...

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The Financial Times Is the Latest Newsroom to Partner With OpenAI

More newsrooms are opening up to the idea of working with artificial intelligence companies. The Financial Times announced today (April 29) that it...

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Alphabet Execs Call YouTube Shorts a ‘Long-Term Bet for the Business’

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...

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Mark Zuckerberg Made Meta A.I. the Main Character in Q1 Earnings

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...

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Spotify CEO Daniel Ek: ‘Monetization Remains Our Top Priority’

Spotify’s earnings release on Tuesday (April 23) revealed a few tidbits of the company’s strategy going forward with features like audiobooks,...

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Paramount Streaming CEO Tom Ryan On the Growth of FAST Services in Streaming

A Nielsen report from this month on free ad-supported television (FAST) like Amazon (AMZN) Freevee and the Roku Channel shows that FAST services...

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Netflix Execs Double Down on ‘Evolving’

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...

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Uri Berliner’s Resignation Is the Latest Example of Dissent In Newsrooms

Newsrooms are split on how to cover the most pressing political issues of our time.

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FCC Chair Jessica Rosenworcel Supports TikTok Ban, Calls Lack of Oversight ‘Stunning’

Federal Communications Commission chairman Jessica Rosenworcel shared her clear stance on a potential TikTok ban during a luncheon at the Paley Center...

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Elon Musk Cut 10 Percent of Jobs at Tesla. Read His Memo to Employees

Earlier this month, the company’s quarterly sales fell for the first time since the pandemic began.

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Dan Lin’s Strategy for Netflix Films: Focus On Quality and Range

Netflix (NFLX)’s new film chief has already ushered in some structural changes to the streamer’s film strategy, indicating that the company no...

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Amazon’s New Video Ad Chief Is the Latest Former NBCUniversal Exec to Join Big Tech

Amazon (AMZN) continues to build out its advertising team after making the move to introduce ads to Prime Video for basic subscriptions. The tech...

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Global Screenwriters Groups Lay Out 5 Principles To Prevent A.I. From Replacing Jobs

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...

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Amazon CEO Andy Jassy Says Prime Video Can Be a ‘Profitable Business By On Its Own’

In his annual letter to shareholders, published today (April 11), Amazon (AMZN) CEO Andy Jassy said the e-commerce giant’s video streaming service,...

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Getty Images CEO Craig Peters Says A.I. Exploitation Keeps Him ‘Up at Night

Getty Images has launched multiple A.I. products in partnership with Nvidia.

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Jessica Alba Steps Down From The Honest Company After a Profitable Quarter

Actress and entrepreneur Jessica Alba is leaving her baby and beauty products brand, The Honest Company, after 12 years running it as its chief...

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We Finally Know How Much Money Instagram Is Making for Meta

New court filings from Meta (META) last week as part of its ongoing antitrust suit with the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) revealed that Instagram...

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Fortune Names Its First Woman CEO, Who Steered the Century-Old Magazine to Profit

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...

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Spotify Introduces an A.I. Playlist Generator, Deepening Personalization Push

Audio streaming platform Spotify today (April 8) launched the beta version of a new personalization feature called “AI Playlist,” which allows...

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Elon Musk’s X Quietly Restores Free Blue Checks for Some, Leaving Users Confused

Some X users were surprised to find their blue checks had been restored for free.

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Vimeo Taps Former Google A.I. Exec As CEO, Ending Its 9-Month Search

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...

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The Most Important Media Deals in Q1 2024: Streaming, News, Creator Economy

In the first quarter of 2024, media companies big and small formed partnerships, signed agreements, and launched joint ventures to further themselves...

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Spotify Names a New CFO and Reportedly Plans to Raise Prices (Again)

The first few months of 2024 have ushered in some interesting executive shakeups at the top media companies, with Spotify being the latest. The...

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13 Newly Crowned Media Billionaires on Forbes 2024 Rich List

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...

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Elon Musk Makes Two Key Hires to Oversee X’s Content Safety

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...

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Katy Perry, Nicki Minaj Among 200 Artists Who Call to Stop A.I. From ‘Devaluing Music’

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...

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Instagram Co-founders Have Sold Their A.I. News App Artifact to Yahoo

Instagram co-founders Kevin Systrom and Mike Krieger have sold their artificial intelligence (A.I.) news app, Artifact, to Yahoo. In an announcement...

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Top Executive Shakeups in Streaming, Big Media and Digital News in Q1 2024

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...

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Sam Altman Presents OpenAI’s Video Generator Sora to Hollywood Studios

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...

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How Meta Competed Against Snapchat and YouTube: Unsealed Documents

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...

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A.I. Is Already Taking Jobs Away From Human Actors

Artificial intelligence’s (A.I.) integration into Hollywood and other acting industries is happening more rapidly than people may think, which is...

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NBC News Reverses Decision to Hire Former RNC Chair After These Top Anchors Protest

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...

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Elon Musk Buys Tesla Ads For the First Time Ever—on Social Platforms He Hated

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...

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BBC Boss Lays Out Plans to Embrace A.I. Without Relying On US and Chinese Tech Giants

The BBC is cautiously utilizing artificial intelligence (A.I.) and aggressively shifting its focus from broadcasting to streaming, according to Tim...

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BuzzFeed Revenue Fell Sharply in 2023 as CEO Jonah Peretti Figures Out Turnaround Plan

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,...

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Apple Faces Mounting Antitrust Woes in US and EU: Here’s What Exactly It’s Being Accused Of

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...

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Former Disney CEO Bob Chapek Breaks Silence Because of Bob Iger’s ESPN Plan

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...

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Prominent Tech and Media Figures Who Have a History of Loving Reddit

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...

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A Private Equity Giant Offers to Buy Paramount For $11B As Bidding War Heats Up

Another company has put in a bid for Paramount (PARA) Global. Apollo Global Management (APO), a private equity firm, has offered $11 billion yesterday...

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How Meta Is Quietly Moving Away From News Content

An ongoing trend in social media is shifting away from news content, and Meta is one of the companies making the strongest push.

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Business and Media Figures Who Support Bob Iger In Disney-Peltz Proxy War

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...

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Spotify Paid a Record $9B to Artists and Music Industry Participants in 2023: Report

Spotify paid a record $9 billion to music industry participants in 2023, according to the company’s annual music economics report released yesterday...

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MrBeast Inks Deal With Amazon to Produce a $5M Game Show on Prime Video

YouTube superstar MrBeast is taking a chance to broadcast his content on another platform. The YouTuber, whose real name is Jimmy Donaldson, has...

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Sports Illustrated Will Live On Under a UK Sports Media Startup

The storied magazine will now publish under Minute Media, which owns other sports media companies.

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Q&A With Patreon CEO Jack Conte: Social Media Giants Are Getting the Creator Economy Wrong

As social media platforms grow into profit machines, many of them have stopped  buildi ng up their content creators, according to Jack Conte, the...

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TikTok CEO Shou Zi Chew Speaks Out in Rare Video After House Passed TikTok Ban

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...

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Journalists Warn of A.I.’s Side Effects on Newsrooms in 2024 Presidential Election

A SXSW panel on Tuesday (Mar. 14) featuring journalists and executives from CNN and The Washington Post brought together two key topics of the...

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Rapper Skepta Unpacks His Directorial Debut ‘Tribal Mark’ at SXSW: Interview

The new movie is a prequel to a "Black Secret Service" universe imagined by the rapper.

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