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Q&A with Netflix's Ted Sarandos on his 25-year anniversary at Netflix, his cameo on Apple TV+ series The Studio, competing with suppliers like Disney, and more (variety.com)
13 days ago Apple Netflix

RIAA: US paid music streaming subscriptions hit 100M in 2024; streaming revenue grew 4% YoY to $14.9B; revenue from ad-supported services fell 2% to $1.8B (variety.com)
14 days ago

In an open letter to the OSTP, Ben Stiller and 400+ Hollywood creatives urge President Trump to not let Google, OpenAI, and others “exploit” copyrighted works (variety.com)
15 days ago Trump Google

A look at YouTube's origins, growth, and domination as the platform turns 20, including an interview with CEO Neal Mohan, who is nearing 10 years at the company (variety.com)
24 days ago Interview YouTube

YouTube says it now has 1B+ monthly viewers for podcast content worldwide; users watched 400M+ hours of podcasts monthly on living room devices in 2024 (variety.com)
2025-2-27 YouTube

Warner Bros. Games shuts down three game studios and pulls the plug on a Wonder Woman game that had been in development for over three years (variety.com)
2025-2-26

Roku reports Q4 revenue up 22% YoY to $1.2B, vs. $1.15B est., a net loss of $35.5M, and streaming households up 12% YoY to 89.8M; ROKU jumps 10%+ after hours (variety.com)
2025-2-14 4Q

Sony reports Q3 revenue up 18% YoY to $28.6B, operating income up 1% YoY to $3.05B, and gaming revenue up 16% YoY to $10.92B, driven by strong PS5 sales (variety.com)
2025-2-13 Sony

Amazon reports Q4 ad revenue up 18% YoY to $17.29B, vs. $17.4B est., and subscription services revenue up 10% YoY to $11.51B (variety.com)
2025-2-7 Amazon 4Q

Brookhaven, a top title on Roblox with 120M+ monthly players, was sold by its anonymous creator Wolfpaq to game developer Voldex for an undisclosed sum (variety.com)
2025-2-5

Alphabet reports YouTube Q4 ad revenue up 14% YoY to $10.47B, vs. $10.23B est., says Google Cloud and YouTube ended 2024 with a $110B annual revenue run rate (variety.com)
2025-2-5 Google YouTube 4Q Alphabet

Adobe Chief Strategy Officer Scott Belsky leaves the company to join A24 film studio as a partner; he co-founded Behance, which Adobe acquired for $150M in 2012 (variety.com)
2025-1-31 Adobe

The US Copyright Office says using AI tools to assist in creative processes doesn't compromise copyright protections as long as the content has human authorship (variety.com)
2025-1-30 AI

Sony names CFO Hiroki Totoki to CEO, succeeding Kenichiro Yoshida, and PlayStation co-CEO Hideaki Nishino to CEO of Sony Interactive Entertainment, from April 1 (variety.com)
2025-1-29 Sony

Spotify says it paid out $10B to the music industry in 2024, up from a record $9B in 2023, taking its total to $60B paid out since its 2006 founding (variety.com)
2025-1-29 Spotify

Insomniac Games founder and CEO Ted Price plans to step down from the Sony-owned studio after 30+ years; a trio of Insomniac veterans will serve as co-heads (variety.com)
2025-1-23 Sony

Omdia: by the end of 2024, TikTok generated ~$8B in ad revenue in the US and $63.3B globally, and surpassed 1.9B MAUs globally, including 145M MAUs in the US (variety.com)
2025-1-22

IMDb says founder Col Needham will step down as CEO and become executive chair, and appoints COO Nikki Santoro as CEO; Needham launched IMDb in 1990 (variety.com)
2025-1-22

Drake withdraws petition accusing UMG and Spotify of inflating Kendrick Lamar's “Not Like Us” with bots and payola; the diss track accused Drake of pedophilia (variety.com)
2025-1-15 Spotify

TikTok denies a report that China is looking at potentially facilitating a sale of the app to Elon Musk, calling it “pure fiction” (variety.com)
2025-1-14 China Elon Musk

Disney and Fubo announce a deal as part of which Disney will combine Hulu + Live TV with Fubo in a joint venture and Fubo will drop Venu Sports lawsuit (variety.com)
2025-1-7

Eight free-speech groups, including the EFF, and three members of Congress file briefs with SCOTUS in support of TikTok's appeal against the divest-or-ban law (variety.com)
2024-12-28 Ban

The Animation Guild ratifies a contract with big studios, without AI demands such as letting members opt out of using AI or having AI train on their work (variety.com)
2024-12-24 AI

CAA partners with YouTube to help CAA clients identify and remove AI-generated content that features their likeness, with a wider rollout planned in early 2025 (variety.com)
2024-12-18 AI YouTube

In a strategy change, Netflix plans to make its Squid Games battle royale game available for free to non-members for a limited time after its December 17 launch (variety.com)
2024-12-13 Netflix

Spotify says Joe Rogan was its top US podcast in 2024 for the fourth year running, followed by Call Her Daddy, and 33%+ of the top 50 podcasts were video (variety.com)
2024-12-5 Spotify

Walmart completes its $2.3B acquisition of TV maker Vizio, saying the purchase will let it offer new ways for advertisers to reach customers via Walmart Connect (variety.com)
2024-12-4 Walmart

Amazon is shutting down Freevee, its free, ad-supported streaming service launched in 2019 under the IMDb brand, and plans to move the content to Prime Video (variety.com)
2024-11-13 Amazon

Netflix says its ad tier has 70M users globally, up from 40M in May 2024 and 22M in January 2024, and 50%+ of sign-ups are for ad plans in supported countries (variety.com)
2024-11-13 Netflix

Amazon unveils X-Ray Recaps on Prime Video, an AI feature that generates “spoiler-free and concise summaries” of TV shows, in beta to Fire TV users in the US (variety.com)
2024-11-5 Amazon AI

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