For today’s young viewers, it’s Saturday morning all day, every day. As kid-targeted content - and the platforms offering it - proliferate, the creators and executives listed here have figured out how to capture children’s precious attention and better reflect their worlds.
Top creators and executives, gathering at the Hot Pod Summit, mulled over monetization and new formats as the market matures: "This industry has changed every year for the last 10 years, so if we're only going to cater to the now, then where are we?"
The podcast staffers behind 'Pod Save America' and 'Lovett It or Leave It,' among others, will join Gimlet, Parcast and Pineapple Street Studios in unionizing with the guild.
While he may be waving away any deal talk, the incoming CEO built the company with a slew of splashy buys - Pixar, Marvel, Lucasfilm, 21st Century Fox - and could have another big idea up his sleeve.
As the iPhone maker updates its App Store rules to collect more fees, longtime antagonist Spotify is gaining an ally in Meta in airing grievances against the tech giant.
With an episode focusing on abortion, the 'Call Her Daddy' star says she thinks her audience is ready to go on a deeper journey with her: "I know they trust me, and I wouldn’t give them something I don’t think they are ready for."
Disney is poised to buy out Comcast's remaining 33 percent stake in Hulu as early as Jan. 2024 as top execs haggle over the worth of the U.S.-only streaming service amid a slowing subscriber market.
The audio giant, which is offering 300,000 audiobooks for purchase at launch, is positioning its books service as separate from its Premium subscription for music and podcasts.
The biweekly show, which will also feature a weekly Twitter Spaces conversation, will feature interviews with major players and take on a "looser" style, the tech journalist tells THR.
As much as studios have begun paying more attention to digital talent, creators are wary about losing creative control on projects and say they still have to explain “what it is that influencers do" to executives.
Tech reviewer Marques Brownlee, also known as MKBHD, first posted videos to YouTube as a teen in 2009. He now has 15.8 million subscribers and is expanding his business to new ventures, including launching a Discord subscription.
The subscription platform, now powered by Amazon, is bolstering stars’ production shingles and boasts a greater degree of creative freedom: “Audio is much cheaper, [so] we can take much more risk and say, ‘Let’s try that and let’s see.’”
HitRecord's traditional productions across film and TV will still continue, though the production arm is winding down its collaborative projects with the HitRecord community.
While subscription-based leader Netflix stumbles, ad-based platforms like Paramount’s Pluto TV, Fox’s Tubi, Amazon’s Freevee and the Roku Channel are making moves to escape their second-tier status.
Disney, Warner Bros. Discovery, Paramount and Roku all dropped between 5 to 8 percent at market close amid new streaming worries as Netflix dropped 35 percent after disclosing a subscriber loss.
An IAB report finds that digital audio -- defined as podcasts and streaming for music and radio -- had the largest year-over-year growth rate compared to streaming video and social media advertising.
As it looks for ways to boost revenue, the streaming platform is experimenting with adding a fee for account sharing outside households - a tack its rivals could take as well.
Paramount+ reached 32.8 million subscribers to end 2021 as company executives tell investors that they plan to bolster the nascent streaming service with theatrical films, spinoff series and remakes.
Agents are navigating an increasingly crowded market of A-listers and big tech platforms, as more clients debate whether to ink an exclusive deal with Spotify or Amazon/Wondery, or brave the open advertising market.
Spotify CEO Daniel Ek says he “strongly” condemns Joe Rogan’s use of the n-word and other derogatory comments toward Black people but remains firm in his decision to keep the podcaster on the platform in order to “[elevate] all types of creators.”
Content advisory labels may be beside the point for the streaming giant's flagship podcast series, and other creators may be wary of taking a stand on the issue.
The deal adds brands like Entertainment Weekly, InStyle and Chip and Joanna Gaines' Magnolia Journal to Dotdash, the company acquired by Barry Diller's IAC in 2012.
Spotify has reached a multiyear audio content deal with WWE that will see The Ringer, a Spotify studio, and the wrestling company launch an exclusive audio network and develop original content for the streamer, the companies said on Wednesday.
Bob Chapek isn't ready to ditch the Disney streaming bundle of Disney+, Hulu and ESPN+ in favor of an all-in-one offering, but the Disney CEO isn't taking the option off the table, either. "So far, it's worked really, really well," Chapek told analysts on Thursday about the Disney bundle.