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”
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Grindr Lays Off Entire Editorial Staff at LGBT News Site in ‘Shift to Video’
“This was a difficult decision and one that we do not take lightly,” Grindr says in a statement
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Roku Pulls Alex Jones’ InfoWars Channel After Just 1 Day
Company says that it made the decision to pull channel after hearing from “concerned parties”
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Facebook Pledges $300 Million to Support Local News Outlets
Facebook users “want more local news,” says Campbell Brown, the social network’s head of news partnerships
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Snap CFO Tim Stone to Resign After 8 Months
Snap’s stock price drops 8 percent following the company’s filing with the SEC
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How YouTube TV and Other vMVPDs Are Fighting for Profitability
vMVPDs are coming to a fork in the road: raise prices, lose money or offer smaller packages
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‘Bohemian Rhapsody’ Star Rami Malek on the Most Fun Scene to Shoot – And No, It Wasn’t Live Aid (Video)
Malek and producer Graham King attended TheWrap’s Screening Series in Los Angeles last week
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Netflix Earnings Preview: Wall Street Looks for Record Subscriber Growth (Again)
Streaming giant looks for momentum outside the U.S. to push it towards 150 million total subscribers
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SXSW 2019: Olivia Wilde, A$AP Rocky and Jeffrey Katzenberg Among Featured and Keynote Speakers
Wilde is also attending with her directorial debut, “Booksmart”
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Netflix Raises Subscription Prices Nearly 20 Percent, Company Stock Jumps 6 Percent
Streaming giant’s Standard plan goes from $10.99 to $12.99 per month
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Facebook Beats Out YouTube as Video News Source for Millennials and Gen Z, Study Says
Facebook is used the most for news coverage, while YouTube is used for career development and entertainment purposes, according to new study
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Mark Lazarus, Jeff Shell and Bonnie Hammer Get New Roles at NBCU as Company Preps Streaming Service
Hammer will oversee the company’s streaming operations, with Lazarus and Shell getting expanded duties
