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YouTube CEO Susan Wojcicki steps down, Neal Mohan takes top job
YouTube’s long-serving CEO Susan Wojcicki has become the latest high-profile media industry figure to leave…
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YouTube kids’ originals boss departs in Google lay-offs
Craig Hunter, global head of original content for kids & family for YouTube, is exiting…
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YouTube set to move into FAST as testing of ‘hub’ service begins
The booming free ad-supported (FAST) channel market may be about to get a lot more…
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Dubai-based Rise Studios hires Google & YouTube alum to drive digital growth
Rise Studios, the Dubai-based firm launched by former OSN execs Emad Morcos and Amel Farag…
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Disney hires Google veteran to lead streamer Disney+ Hotstar in India
Disney has raided Google for its new head of Indian streaming giant Disney+ Hotstar. Sajith…
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Exclusive: YouTube-owner Google looks to create diverse scripted ‘pathway’
YouTube owner Google is looking to bring more diverse voices into the scripted side of…
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YouTube TV launches 4K viewing & offline downloads
YouTube TV, the cord-cutting OTT service from Google’s video platform of the same name, has…
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Roku hits out at Google as YouTube TV dispute hots up
Roku has warned users that YouTube TV could disappear from their devices as its legal…
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YouTube reveals ‘$30bn payments to creatives’ in last three years
YouTube has paid more than $30bn to creators, media companies and artists over the past…
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Google plans $4.5bn investment in digital arm of India’s Reliance
Google is to invest $4.5bn in Indian media giant Reliance Industries, including acquiring a stake…
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YouTube TV’s cost rises 30% as ViacomCBS channels added to ‘skinny cable’ offer
Google is increasing the price of its channels service YouTube TV by 30%, as it…
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YouTube unveils $100m content fund ‘to amplify black voices’
YouTube has revealed the first project to emerge from a new $100m content fund designed…
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TBI Tech & Analysis: Painting Covid-19’s impact by numbers
Lockdown might be the new normal for large swathes of the world’s population but its…
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Disney hires Google, BBC Studios alum to head finance, strategy & ops at streaming division
Discovery has hired Google and former BBC Worldwide exec Neil Chugani as chief financial officer…
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YouTube pulls out of Premium race
YouTube has cancelled plans to build a slate of high-end drama and comedies as it…
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Hulu hires YouTube exec for acquisitions
Hulu has hired former YouTube TV exec Heather Moosnick to drive its content acquisition strategy…
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UK government targets digital giants with revenue tax
The UK government has called on digital platforms including Facebook and Amazon to “pay their…
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Netflix & OTT services drive record $748bn brand value for 2018
Entertainment brands such as Netflix have aided a 21% growth in brand value to $748…
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NBCU & Google partner for VR content
NBCUniversal has teamed up with Google to produce virtual reality (VR) content across networks and…
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BBC boss fears threat of digital giants
BBC director general Tony Hall is again attacking the threat of the US-based digital companies…
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Mattel names ex-Endemol & Maker Studios boss chair
Former Endemol, Maker Studios and Fox Kids Europe boss Ynon Kreiz has been named non-executive…
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ProSiebenSat.1 and Discovery hire Google exec to lead 7TV
ProSiebenSat.1 and Discovery Communications have named Google executive Alexandar Vassilev as CEO of their recently…
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Netflix and web giants protest as FCC votes to repeal net neutrality
Netflix and other web giants have lashed out after US legislators voted to repeal net…
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Disney resumes Fox takeover talks – report
The Walt Disney Company has reportedly reopened talks with Rupert Murdoch and 21st Century Fox…
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Google: YouTube should not be regulated like a broadcaster
Google’s European president Matt Brittin has said it is “appropriate” that YouTube is not subject…
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‘FAANG effect’ creating UK production shortages
Research by Creative Skillset (CS), the industry skills body for the screen-based creative industries in…
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Amazon ‘developing free VOD service’
Amazon could be getting in on the free VOD space in order to build out…
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GroupM: young will ‘erode TV viewing’ as they age
Growing older no longer increases television viewing time, according to GroupM’s ‘The State of Video’…
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Analysis: why would Fox sell to Disney?
Yesterday, it emerged 21st Century Fox had held talks to sell much of its business…
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Amazon & ITV team ‘but SVOD model ending’
A veteran British producer has warned cosy coproduction arrangements between American SVOD services and UK…