RYOT’s Head of Immersive Jake Sally on the Challenges of Storytelling in Virtual Reality
5 Questions: “The idea of free choice in VR is particularly tricky, because it’s never really your choice is it?,” Sally says
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Amy Schumer, John Mulaney Support Boycott of Jerry Media Over Lifted Jokes and Memes
Popular Instagram account F—Jerry has lost 300,000 followers as critics blast it for posting content without consent
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Snapchat Snaps Back: Is Fresh Content the Key to Snap’s Longterm Success?
Pictures-and-messaging app has stopped losing users; now it needs its shows to drive more downloads in 2019
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Spotify Bets Big on Podcasts With Gimlet and Anchor Deals, Pegs Another $500 Million for Acquisitions
CEO Daniel Ek says he expects podcasts to make up 20 percent of listening on Spotify in the near future
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‘Knock Down the House’ Director Recalls Filming Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez’s Victory (Video)
Sundance 2019: Rachel Lears discusses the highs and lows of following four women who run for Congress
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How VidCon Puts the Audience Front and Center (All Things Video Podcast)
VidCon GM Jim Louderback discusses the early days of online video and the industry’s dramatic evolution over the past decade
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FX Boss Is Super Happy to Be Tethered to Disney During the Streaming Wars
TCA 2019: But no way FX is part of Disney+, John Landgraf tells TheWrap
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How PodcastOne CEO Norm Pattiz Is Preparing for the Second Podcast Boom
Pattiz addresses the 2016 incident with Heather McDonald, plus the difference between radio and podcast success
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7 Things We Learned in Tech World This Week, From Apple’s Blunder to Elon Musk’s Pivot to Boring
Apple’s FaceTime blunder shows it has its own privacy concerns, while Facebook’s year of bad press did nothing to scare users away
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Sundance’s Haves and Have Nots: Can Traditional Indie Distributors Still Compete?
Sundance 2019: There isn’t math behind these sales that make any particular sense — but the tech giants don’t have to
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CBS Interactive CEO Jim Lanzone Teases More Digital Spinoffs Like All Those ‘Star Trek’ Series
5 Questions: “These tentpoles are one part of a great original content strategy for us,” Lanzone says
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Why Former CNN White House Correspondent Jessica Yellin Chose Instagram Over Another Broadcast Job
“During my career, I was constantly on camera having conversations that I thought left the audience out,” Yellin said
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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
