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Viacom Shares Slip on Key Analyst Downgrade
Michael Nathanson says, “The old Viacom playbook no longer works”
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Music Stars Slam Piracy Law for Letting Google Rip Them Off
Katy Perry, Maroon 5 and a swath of music industry figures say the law has turned into a “business plan for profiting off of stolen content”
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Discovery to Relaunch ‘Seeker’ Digital Network in Hunt for Millennials
Upfronts 2016: Discovery will burnish the digital property with virtual-reality content, hundreds of videos a month and outright marketing
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Kanye West Flip-Flops, Will Release ‘Life of Pablo’ on Tidal Rivals
Rapper vowed last month that album would be available only on Jay Z’s streaming service
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Mashable Scores $15 Million Investment From Turner
TBS and TNT will develop and distribute video with the tech and culture news site
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Kevin Hart, Lionsgate to Launch Comedy Streaming Service ‘Laugh Out Loud’
The video-on-demand service coming in the fall will have exclusive original series starring Hart and social-media stars
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JennxPenn Explains Why Her YouTube Red Series Made Her Sick
Vlog star says filming “Foursome” felt like summer camp — even if one part made her want to gag
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Tidal to Livestream Lil Wayne Concert Free Tonight
You don’t need to be a subscriber to Jay-Z’s streaming-music service to watch
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Fullscreen Launches Paid Service With Original Shows, the Latest to Chase the Netflix Dream
But the online-video network — backed by mogul Peter Chernin — is targeting the “obsessed” fans of its YouTube stars, CEO says
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Live TV Loses to Digital Among Millennials, Study Says
People ages 18-34 spend more time on their phone or computer than they do watching live TV, according to ComScore
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Spotify to Raise $1 Billion
But the streaming music service assured investors in its big debt-funding round that it plans to go public within two years
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Kanye West Quietly Creeps Back from Releasing Only on Tidal
The rapper puts the best-known track from his latest album on Spotify and Apple Music, too
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Vice Media Buys British Studio Pulse Films
Deal will bolster Vice’s content pipeline for cable channel Viceland as it expands into the U.K., as well as for online and mobile
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Google CEO’s Pay Tops $100 Million
CEO Sundar Pichai was the highest paid exec disclosed by parent company Alphabet last year
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SoundCloud Launches Subscriptions, And They Have a Familiar Tune
But the “YouTube for audio” says it’s different from similar services like Spotify and Apple Music, even with the same charges
