Facebook Drops App That Paid Teens $20 for Full Access to Their Phones
The “Research App” gave the social media empire access to private messages and web search history
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Tubi Reports 180 Percent Growth in Revenue in 2018 as Viewership Quadruples
After a strong 2018, Tubi plans to double down in content and technology, CEO Farhad Massoudi says
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Justin Baldoni’s Wayfarer Entertainment Sets Up $25 Million Social Impact Content Fund
4S Bay acquired media company in $10 million valuation
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AT&T Posts Record DirecTV Now Losses, Misses Q4 Revenue Estimates Despite WarnerMedia’s Strength
DirecTV Now lost 267,000 subscribers during Q4 and finished 2018 with less customers than it began the year with
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iPhone Q1 Sales Drop 15 Percent, Apple’s Stock Still Jumps 5 Percent on Record Services Revenue
“We don’t measure our success in 90 day increments,” CEO Tim Cook says after lagging sales of its trademark device
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Alia Shawkat, Bert & Bertie and More on Sundance’s ‘Great Moment’ for ‘Female Storytellers’ (Video)
Sundance 2019: “It’s interesting how things change before you are even aware of it,” actress Alia Shawkat says
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Is Streaming Still the Mortal Enemy of Traditional Film Distribution? Sundance Panelists Say No
“I like the idea that there is a variety there for filmmakers,” says Darren Dean, executive producer on “The Florida Project”
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Snap Names Lara Sweet as Interim Chief Financial Officer
Sweet’s appointment comes a week ahead of a critical Q4 earnings report from the Snapchat parent company
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Netflix to Finance ‘Hillbilly Elegy’ With Director Ron Howard
Vanessa Taylor wrote the screenplay based on J.D. Vance’s book
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How Stitcher’s Jenny Mast Uses ‘Wolverine’ Podcast to Distract You
5 Questions: “Most people are listening to podcasts by themselves, in the car, or on a pair of headphones,” executive producer for Stitcher Originals says
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Danny Gabai Promoted to Head of Vice Studios
This is the first time the studio will have a head executive
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Verizon Media Group Lays Off 800 Employees
Recently-rebranded Oath cuts 7 percent of its workforce to focus on mobile and video
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Whistle Acquires Ron Howard and Brian Grazer-Backed New Form
Howard and Grazer, along with Discovery and New Form’s other stakeholders, will now gain a piece of Whistle
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Hulu Increases Live TV Price $5, Drops Ad-Supported Subscription $2 Per Month
Streamer’s standard ad-supported plan will now run $5.99 per month
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Sundance Market Preview: Will Netflix and New Streamers Apple and Disney+ Go on Buying Sprees?
Sundance 2019: Netflix and Amazon had a weak presence at the festival last year, but smaller streamers are ready to rumble this year
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YouTube TV Expands Nationwide Ahead of Super Bowl
YouTube’s $40 per month live TV service adds 95 new markets on Wednesday
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Netflix’s US Subscriber Dominance in 1 Graph
Streaming giant has more domestic subscribers than HBO Now, Amazon Prime Video and Hulu combined
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‘Black Mirror’ Creator Explains Why There Are So Many ‘White Bear’ References in ‘Bandersnatch’
It was both a “happy accident” and “fate,” Charlie Brooker tells TheWrap
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Dreamscape, Steven Spielberg-Backed VR Company, Dreams of Big Expansion After Strong Start in LA
For $20, users can hang out in an alien zoo, in the ocean or on an “Indiana Jones”-style adventure
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Netflix Posts Record Subscriber Growth, Strong Q4 Earnings
Streaming giant adds 8.8 million new customers to close 2018
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How AT&T, Verizon and T-Mobile Are Fighting for Dominance in the OTT Revolution
From SVODs to vMVPDs, telcos want to do more than provide internet connection for video
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Facebook Removes 500 Pages for ‘Coordinated Inauthentic Behavior’ Linked to Russian Trolls
Social media giant pulls accounts believed to peddle fake news in Ukraine and eastern and central Europe with more than 1 million followers
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Snap’s Stock Plummets 14 Percent After CFO Resigns
Tim Stone exits the Snapchat parent company less than a year after joining
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Sinclair Launches Streaming Service With Local TV Offering
The new service will launch with 20 national networks
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Steve Carell, ‘Office’ Creator Reunite for Netflix Workplace Comedy ‘Space Force’ – Right, That Space Force (Video)
Carell, who co-created with Greg Daniels, will star on and executive produce the series
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Jason Katims Will Leave Universal TV for New Deal With Apple
He’ll still remain involved with “Away” and “Sisters” for Universal
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Mic Quietly Comes Back to Life With New Writers, Fresh Content
Relaunch is an “appalling but not surprising move,” NewsGuild of New York tells TheWrap
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YouTube Bans ‘Dangerous Challenges and Pranks’ After ‘Bird Box Challenge’
Company says videos “that can cause death and/or have caused death in some instances” will be purged
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Funny or Die Mashes Up ‘Ghostbusters’ With Jake Gyllenhaal’s ‘Velvet Buzzsaw’ (Video)
Netflix movie from Dan Gilroy is available Feb. 1
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5 Questions: Ustwo’s Head of Entertainment Lee Simpson on the Power of Interactivity
“I don’t think it’s enough to just have great content anymore”
