First, some news about us! I am thrilled to share that we’ve hired Karl Wells—who has been running the subscription b...
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I have so many thoughts today, I am not sure where to begin. First, I continue to be amused by all the CEOs publicly ...
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Elon loses round one. On Tuesday, the billionaire was swiftly defeated in a tussle over the timing of a trial that wi...
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Seems like another founder is reading The Information! Last week, we wrote about companies slashing their internal va...
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Having trouble reaching someone in the advertising or marketing worlds this week? They’re most likely living it up in...
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In 2019, when comedian Mike Myers was pitching a new comedy series to Netflix, program executives at the company were...
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China’s love affair with influencers is starting to cool. For years, the country’s internet users have been under the...
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Early last year, it looked like DAZN might finally be turning a corner. The streaming company—bankrolled by Ukraine-b...
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Over the course of one week in April, Molly White’s internet crime blotter Web3 Is Going Just Great documented 15 cry...
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Disney is discussing launching a cheaper, ad-supported tier of its Disney+ streaming service in the U.S., according t...
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Industrial Media, the production company behind ABC’s “American Idol” and TLC’s “90 Day Fiancé,” is exploring a sale ...
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The Federal Trade Commission is gearing up for a potential antitrust lawsuit challenging Amazon’s $8.5 billion takeov...
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Lately, there’s been a lot of hand-wringing about how Apple’s mobile privacy changes—which recently blew a hole in th...
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Last summer, executives at Eurosport—a London-based live sports TV network owned by U.S. media company Discovery—coul...
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A new year is a cause for reflection—and for resuming this column, which I intend to write regularly, but not every w...
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Two years ago, Joe Baratta couldn’t figure out what Blackstone, the private equity giant he worked for, should do for...
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When BuzzFeed unveiled its planned deal to go public last June, its pitch to investors centered around the high growt...
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Earlier this fall, Peter Rice, a top Walt Disney Co. executive responsible for creating television shows for the ente...
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Amazon’s leaders are known for obsessively monitoring data about almost every aspect of its business. Public relation...
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Fantasy and sports betting providers, FanDuel and DraftKings, are among a number of companies that have submitted bid...
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First it was Google that took a swipe at Roku, threatening to take YouTube, the most popular video-streaming service ...
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In 2019, David Limp, head of Amazon’s devices business, saw an opening. For years, Roku—Amazon’s chief rival in the m...
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Paul Kotas may be the most important person in internet advertising that almost nobody in advertising has ever heard ...
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If at first you don’t succeed, try, try again. That appears to be the motto of The Athletic in its efforts to sell it...
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RedBird Capital Partners, an investment firm specializing in sports media, is in advanced talks to buy a minority sta...
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When Apple launched its Apple TV+ service nearly two years ago, executives throughout Hollywood and Silicon Valley sn...
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I interrupt this regular Briefing—which will once again be brought to you by Martin Peers next week when he returns f...
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Last week, Federal Trade Commission lawyers made clumsy arguments when they refiled their antitrust case against Face...
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Mike Hopkins had barely gotten his Amazon employee badge when Prime Video, the streaming service he oversaw for the i...
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Vice Media’s plan to go public by merging with a special purpose acquisition company has stalled as the company strug...
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Media and tech executives gather at Allen & Co.’s conference in Sun Valley, Idaho, next week, for the first time sinc...
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Why did Amazon fail to protect an employee who disclosed labor violations at a Foxconn factory that makes Amazon devi...
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Europeans who watch streaming services from Netflix, Walt Disney, Amazon and others have shown an almost insatiable a...
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BuzzFeed is in discussions to raise about $200 million in convertible bonds to supplement cash it will raise by mergi...
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Shortly after Jason Kilar took over WarnerMedia a year ago, he met with executives at Bleacher Report to discuss the ...
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Fast deliveries by Amazon and other online retailers have brought tremendous convenience for consumers, but the e-com...
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German media conglomerate Axel Springer is in talks to acquire Axios, according to people familiar with the matter, c...
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Netflix is looking to hire an executive to oversee an expansion into videogames, a sign it is stepping up its efforts...
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AT&T is effectively throwing in the towel on entertainment. The telecom giant is in talksto sell WarnerMedia to Disco...
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