FITE TV Boss Is ‘Optimistic’ About NJPW ‘Southern Showdown’ PPV Sales – Despite 5 AM Start Time
Mike Weber ranks New Japan Pro-Wrestling and AEW for TheWrap
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Juanpa Zurita, Nabela Noor to Star in 2 New Facebook Watch Series From ATTN: (Exclusive)
Both shows are funded by Facebook and will live exclusively on Watch
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Twitch Now Allows Creators to Stream Exclusively to Subscribers
The feature is only be available to Twitch’s group of Partner and Affiliate level streamers
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Conde Nast Entertainment Names Kathryn Friedrich as General Manager, EVP of Operations
She was previously chief business officer at RYOT Studio
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Connected TV Advertising Accounts For Nearly Half of Video Ad Impressions, Study Says
Mobile trails behind, accounting for 25% of video ad impressions
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Lorne Michaels, Seth Meyers-Produced Series Lands at Jeffrey Katzenberg’s Quibi
“Maplewoth Murders” is written by Paula Pell and John Lutz and comes from Universal Television
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‘Harry Potter: Wizards Unite’ Game Hits 400,000 Downloads on First Day, But ‘Pokemon Go’ Had 19 Times More
Still, AR game scored 3 million downloads in its first four days and hit No. 1 in Apple’s app store with $1.1 million in grosses
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CBS News Digital Audience Strategy: ‘No Need to Pander to Any Demographic’
“It’s insulting to ‘younger viewers’ to suggest that they want their news differently than anybody else,” CBS News General Manager Christy Tanner tells TheWrap
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Tubi Surpasses 20 Million Monthly Active Users
The streamer says customers watched over 94 million hours of content during May
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7 Big Media Trends of 2019 (So Far), From Streaming Fatigue to DirecTV Now’s Face Plant
“Soon we’ll all start looking at our credit card bills and start saying, ‘Why am I subscribing to all of these services?”” Paul Hardart, a former Warner Bros. executive, told TheWrap
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Will ‘Harry Potter: Wizards Unite’ Be More Than a ‘Pokemon Go’ Redo?
“We’ve taken a lot of the stuff from ‘Go’ that has added depth to the game and kept people engaged for all these years and we’ve added that from Day 1,” Niantic CEO John Hanke tells TheWrap
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FuboTV to Add 13 Channels From Discovery in New Multi-Year Carriage Agreement
Six of the channels will launch on fuboTV’s $54.99 base package
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‘Orphan Black’ Is Getting an Audio Sequel Series Starring Tatiana Maslany
“The Next Chapter” is a 10-episode series set eight years after the final season
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Facebook Watch Hits 140 Million Daily Active Users, Up 47% From December
Company says it reaches 750 million users monthly that spend at least one minute with the platform
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Snoop Dogg Sells Michael Strahan Dental Kit in New Digital Series ‘Close Talker’ (Exclusive)
Other guests to be featured in the new series include Adam Rodriguez, Julie Bowen, and Rob Riggle
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Inside Gunpowder & Sky’s Growth to 50 Million-Plus Monthly Viewers
“It’s a great time to be an independent premium content provider,” co-founder Van Toffler says
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6 Tips for Launching a 24/7 Linear Channel From Next OTT Founder George Rausch
“Just because there is technology to ‘make a linear channel’ does not mean that a multi-tool, or one-size fits all solution is going to offer the best-in-class option for ad sales,” Next OTT founder George Rausch says
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Why Many Video Publishers Think Roku Beats Amazon’s Fire TV Despite Growth in Active Users
“Amazon is surprisingly green when it comes to selling or swapping OTT promotional opportunities,” one executive says
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Crackle Plus Names Philippe Guelton President, Appoints 3 Sony Execs to Leadership Team
Guelton will report to the chief operating officer of CSS Entertainment Elana Sofko
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First Media Renews Content Partnership With China-Based Streamer iQiyi
iQiyi will stream new episodes from over 10 original series from First Media’s “Baby First” vertical
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‘Punk’d’ and ‘Singled Out’ Remakes Greenlit at Jeffrey Katzenberg’s Quibi
Both shows will launch with 20 new episodes of under 10 minutes long
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Discovery, WWE Lead $47 Million in New Funding for FloSports Video Streamer
The sports-focused streamer has raised $75 million to date
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How Bleacher Report Focuses on ‘Authenticity and Speed’ to Super-Serve Young Sports Fans
5 Questions: “Audiences expect to participate in the conversation,” says chief content officer Sam Toles says
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Overtime Partners With Reach TV to Distribute Content Across US Airports
Reach TV will initially add two of Overtime’s shows to its programming rotation
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NBC Takes ‘American Ninja Warrior’ Vertical With Snapchat Series (Exclusive)
The winners will have a chance to compete in the broadcast television series
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Video Publishers Sour on Facebook Watch: New Content ‘Mathematically Is Not Justifiable’
The video platform continues to be a hit or miss for publishers looking to drive revenue
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Pocket.watch CEO Chris Williams on Key Trends Shaping the Future of Media (All Things Video Podcast)
“I look at Netflix as basic cable for the world,” Williams explains. “They are literally basic cable, so everybody is going to have Netflix, and then it’s about what else”
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Chrissy Teigen to Star in ‘Judge Judy’-Like Series for Jeffrey Katzenberg’s Quibi
All rise for the Honorable Chrissy Teigen
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Ryan Kavanaugh Unveils $100 Million Investment in Crypto-Based Proxicoin to Fund Film Projects (Exclusive)
The Central Wealth Group of Hong Kong and Step Ventures will help finance new securities token built on Ethereum platform
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NBC News Taps Former CNN Exec Chris Berend as Head of Digital
He replaces Nick Ascheim who will lead digital and product for NBCU and NBC News Group broadly
