2022-08-16
“Amazon, which said 80 million households have Prime Video, has told advertisers it projects an average audience of 12.6 million viewers a game for its 15 games this season, according to media buyers.” https://www.wsj.com/...
Wall Street Journal
Nielsen strikes a deal with Amazon to measure Thursday Night Football, the first time a streaming service will be included in Nielsen's weekly TV viewing report
Three-year deal marks first time ratings firm will include viewership of a streaming service's programming in traditional TV report
2022-03-23
“The company also routinely hated on its competition rather than reflecting on why those products were working. “Spotify is the devil to SiriusXM,” says one former employee. The enemy offered a rallying point for the team...” $SIRI $SPOT https://www.theverge.com/...
The Verge
A look at the confusion, culture clash, and shifting goals in SiriusXM's Stitcher deal, as many shows and over 25% of Stitcher's staff left post-acquisition
SiriusXM leapt into podcasts with a $325 million deal — insiders say it's off to a messy start — Illustrations by Vincent Kilbride for The Verge Tweets: @jake_k , @francoolivera ...
2022-03-21
“...Chapek's No. 1 priority — setting up Disney for a digital world where streaming dominates and legacy distribution models fade away — is exactly what Iger believed in. That adds an element of sorrow to the men's failed relationship. Their end goals are the same.” https://twitter.com/...
CNBC
A look at the fallout between Bob Chapek and Bob Iger as Disney restructures for a world where streaming dominates and legacy distribution models fade away
and how tricky if is for a currently dominant company to keep pace with anticipated economic shifts https://www.cnbc.com/... Tommy Hawkins / @tommyhawkins : There is a huge story h...
2021-12-01
“But Twitter under Dorsey has suffered from a comparable lack of focus...People who worked with him directly, when I would ask recently how engaged Dorsey was with the core product, would tell me that they didn't know.” $TWTR https://twitter.com/...
New York Times
Jack Dorsey joins other tech leaders who seem to have grown tired of managing their platforms, amid increasing political controversy and hard-to-fix problems
Jack Dorsey, who is stepping down after six years as Twitter's chief executive, is one of the tech leaders who seem to have grown tired of managing their empires.
2021-05-21
“It is Spotify's goal to be the singular platform for all audio: music, podcasts, live conversations, and now via this partnership, audiobooks,” https://newsroom.spotify.com/ ...
TechCrunch
Spotify partners with Audible rival Storytel, allowing the latter's subscribers to listen to books on Spotify; Storytel has 500K titles and 1.6M subscribers
Sarah Perez / TechCrunch :
2020-11-11
@TSOH_Investing @bizalmanac “According to Spotify, the acquisition of Megaphone will allow the companies to make dynamic streaming ad insertion available to third-party podcast publishers for the first time. ”
CNBC