A reimagined Wizard of Oz draws 4,000 to 5,000 fans two or three times per day to the Las Vegas Sphere; a source says the 1939 film may gross $1B in its new run
if not a billion — before all is said and done. https://www.bloomberg.com/... Dan Diamond / @ddiamond : newsy nugget in @Lucas_Shaw's newsletter: there have been discussions about bringing the HARRY P...
Netflix reports Q1 revenue up 12.5% YoY to $10.54B, vs. $10.51B est., net income of $2.89B, and stops reporting subscriber numbers on a quarterly basis
April 17, 2025 Fellow shareholders, ● We are off to a good start in 2025. Annika Masrani / TipRanks Financial : Netflix Stock (NFLX) Pops as Earnings Beat but Tariffs Threaten Growth Dan Gallagher / W...
Netflix reports Q4 revenue up 12.5% YoY to $8.83B, vs. $8.71B est., paid users up 12.8% to 260.3M, vs. 256M est., $938M net income, up from $55M; NFLX jumps 8%+
there. Janko Roettgers / @jank0@sfba.social : TIL that Netflix has a “Bridgerton wedding dress collection.” Janko Roettgers / @jank0@sfba.social : Netflix is “not interested in acquiring linear — as...
Despite nine years of music industry growth thanks to streaming, companies like Spotify and UMG are tightening payouts or laying off employees
Market Cap Tops $53 Billion Stuart Dredge / Music Ally : UMG confirms that it will be laying off some staff in 2024 X: Lucas Shaw / @lucas_shaw : Media & technology companies have cut more than 70,000...
Amazon Q4: revenue up 9% YoY to $149.2B, net income down 98% YoY to $278M, AWS revenue up 20% YoY to $21.4B, and employees down 4% to 1.54M; stock is down 5%+
Up 28% from 2021 Paul Thurrott / Thurrott : Amazon Revenues Up 9 Percent to $149.2 Billion in Q4 Alex Weprin / The Hollywood Reporter : Amazon reports content spending up 28% YoY to $16.6B in 2022, of...
Analysis: Amazon is projected to spend ~$15B on programming including sports in 2022, ahead of Netflix's $13.6B, Disney+'s $9.5B, and Apple's $6B
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Sources: Netflix may launch its ad-supported tier in 2022 in 6+ markets, and plans to charge $7 to $9 per month in the US, selling ~4 minutes of ads per hour
and it's bad news Muhammad Zuhair / Appuals.com : Netflix's Ad-Supported Tier is Set to Cost Between $7 to $9 Alap Naik Desai / Neowin : Netflix ad-supported subscription could cost around $8/month wi...
Netflix, Amazon, Warner Bros., and others are cutting costs and scrapping TV shows at record rates; 559 scripted shows were released in 2021, up by 200+ on 2013
The sudden decline in Netflix's share price and the growing fear of a recession have forced Hollywood into a new period of fiscal austerity. Tweets: @ampressman , @trengriffin , @lucas_shaw , @carnage...
Verizon, AT&T, and T-Mobile have spent $118.4B on 5G airwaves and network upgrades, compared to $61.8B spent on 4G, but have little to no revenue to show for it
When Verizon, AT&T, and T-Mobile introduced the first 5G mobile services in the U.S. three years ago … Tweets: @baxiabhishek , @adrianweckler , @gregorytaylor1 , @aallan , @dan_rowinski , @karlbode , ...
With Spotify on pace to cross $1B in ad sales this year, a look at its growing ambitions in advertising and its plans to become the YouTube of podcasting
Millions of people watch videos of Joe Rogan's podcast. They used to do that on YouTube, where Rogan posted full episodes. Tweets: @lucas_shaw and @lucas_shaw See also Mediagazer Tweets: Lucas Shaw /...