Quibi says it will shut down “on or about” December 1 and does not know if its original content will be made available elsewhere after it shuts down
with no obvious notice that the service will soon be going dark https://variety.com/... Steve Kovach / @stevekovach : Quibi is officially shutting down. Katzenberg and Whitman will be on CNBC tomorrow...
Sources: Jeffrey Katzenberg tried to sell Quibi's catalog to NBCUniversal and Facebook, but both passed; Katzenberg told others he may shut down the company
Jeffrey Katzenberg may be nearing the end of the road with his mobile video streaming service Quibi.
Sources: Katzenberg pitched Apple, WarnerMedia, and Facebook about buying Quibi, but so far had no takers; Quibi has between 400K and 500K subscribers now
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Inside Quibi's implosion, aided by the divisive management styles of Katzenberg and Whitman, compounded by a failure to understand its digital-native audience
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Jeffrey Katzenberg blames COVID-19 for Quibi's paltry downloads as execs lower projections from 7M users and $250M subscriber revenue estimated for first year
Downloads of the $1.8 billion short-form streaming app, meant for phones, are paltry. “I attribute everything that has gone wrong to coronavirus,” Mr. Katzenberg said.
Quibi app review: works reliably, auto-flips between landscape and portrait, but no tablet-optimized mode, no family member profiles, and lacks a TV experience
Online video streaming service … Henry T. Casey / Tom's Guide : Quibi vs TikTok: Which short-form video app is best? Anthony Ha / Yahoo Finance : Quibi had a launch day outage Shawn Knight / TechSpot ...
Upcoming short-form video streaming service Quibi details new features including Turnstyle, which lets videos play well in both portrait and landscape modes
after raising $1.4 billion before launch TechCrunch : Quibi's Jeffrey Katzenberg and Meg Whitman offer a deeper look at the new streaming service Fortune : I'm a Millennial, and I Don't Understand Wha...
Glow, a platform for podcast creators to set up payment options for fans to fund their shows, raises $2.3M seed from Katzenberg's WndrCo, Greycroft, and others
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