Xbox President Sarah Bond, long thought to be Phil Spencer's heir, is leaving; Xbox Game Studios head Matt Booty is promoted to Chief Content Officer
Spencer's run with Xbox ends just months shy of the brand's 25th anniversary. — Microsoft Gaming CEO Phil Spencer …
Xbox President Sarah Bond, long thought to be Phil Spencer's heir, is leaving; Xbox Game Studios head Matt Booty is promoted to Chief Content Officer
Spencer's run with Xbox ends just months shy of the brand's 25th anniversary. — Microsoft Gaming CEO Phil Spencer …
An interview with Netflix Chief Content Officer Bela Bajaria, who presides over the company's $17B content budget, on catering to different tastes and more
She presides over a $17bn budget and is looking for local hits with global potential — Bela Bajaria, Netflix's chief hitmaker …
Spotify plans to lay off ~6% of its workforce, or ~600 jobs, says content and ad head Dawn Ostroff is leaving, and reorganizes its engineering and product units
read the memo CEO Daniel Ek sent to staff Bob Cronin / Newser : Spotify Plans Layoffs, After Boss Concedes Miscalculation Rachyl Jones / Observer : Spotify Will Lay Off 600 Employees, or 6% of its Wor...
What went wrong at Netflix: sources say VP of content Cindy Holland's departure in 2020 let chief content officer Ted Sarandos prioritize quantity over quality
As rivals toggle between schadenfreude and fear, top creators and insiders are increasingly becoming vocal about what's gone wrong with the streaming giant's culture.
Profile of Dawn Ostroff, Spotify's chief content officer, as the company invests heavily in podcasts to gain an edge over rivals
Wendy Lee / Los Angeles Times :
Spotify hires Dawn Ostroff as chief content officer, to join in August; Ostroff had been president of Condé Nast Entertainment, the publisher's video studio
Ben Sisario / New York Times : Tweets: @nytimesmusic See also Mediagazer Tweets: New York / @nytimesmusic : Spotify has hired Dawn Ostroff, a veteran television and video executive, as its new chief ...
Hulu announces a major business reorganization; Chief Content Officer Joel Stillerman and two VPs are leaving, and Dan Phillips, formerly of TiVo, joins as CTO
Sarah Perez / TechCrunch :
Netflix Chief Content Officer Ted Sarandos says ~85% of new spending to go toward original content, plans to have about 1,000 originals total by the end of 2018
Netflix is sharply steering its new content spending toward original projects, with around 85% of new spending going toward original TV shows …