If you want a classic good cop / bad cop narrative this morning, read Spotify’s presentation at a hearing this week in Canada.
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Net’ me entertain you: Netflix creates pop-up for Robbie Williams documentary
Surely hoping for the same sort of impact as the recent Beckham documentary, another British male celebrity with deep connections to Manchester, who experienced a rapid rise of fame/infamy in the 1990s and who never quite managed to “break” America is also getting their own four-part documentary series on Netflix. Robbie Williams, and you might […]
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Hollywood screenwriters go on strike in streaming video row
The Writers Guild of America (WGA) – which represents screenwriters – has begun a strike spurred partly by the streaming economy.
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Netflix is adding subscribers again, as its founder steps down
The big news from Netflix’s financial results yesterday was that its co-founder Reed Hastings is stepping down from his co-CEO role.
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Report: SVOD services to slow growth in original content spend
Recent years have been boomtimes for TV production companies, thanks to the emergence of streaming video services and their enormous budgets.
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Viberate explores the Netflix effect for artist Sofia Carson
Analytics firm Viberate has been digging into the Netflix bump for artist and actor Sofia Carson, star of Purple Hearts.
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Unionisation afoot for YouTube and Netflix music workers
The topic of unionised workers within and around the music industry is growing in prominence, with two more stories to add to the trend.
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Netflix is growing again, adding 2.4m subscribers in Q3
Netflix has been spooking the investor horses – well, certainly giving them long faces – with its decline in subscribers in recent times.
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Report: Amazon will spend $15bn on video programming in 2022
Bloomberg Intelligence looks into how much money the biggest tech firms are spending on content for their video streaming services.
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Report: fewer than 1% of Netflix subs are playing its games
Netflix has been getting deeper into mobile gaming, launching a selection of titles for its service in recent times.
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Netflix lost 970k subs in Q2 (but that’s fewer than expected)
“Q2 was better-than-expected on membership growth,” is how Netflix’s shareholder letter for its quarterly financial results began.
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Kate Bush gets a boost running up that UK charts hill
‘Running Up That Hill’ is getting a monster boost from its recent Stranger Things sync and is likely to be the chart-topper this week.