For the first time, a BuzzFeed production is coming to linear TV. Oxygen has greenlit What Happened to…Jessica Chambers, a true crime series based on BuzzFeed reports. The show will discuss the death of its titular subject, a 19-year-old who was set on fire in 2014. NBCUniversal, a major BuzzFeed investor, collaborated on the series. […]
Sometimes job listings can tell you a lot about a company’s plans. A new posting from Amazon Studios calls for a “Mixed Reality Producer” who can build “customer facing VR and AR applications across multiple platforms.” (Mixed reality – sometimes used interchangeably with augmented reality but technically not quite the same thing – refers to […]
Facebook wants to make it harder for low-quality publishers to monetize their sites. The social media giant says it will use artificial intelligence to find websites that have an excessive number of ads, or feature ad experiences that are malicious or disruptive. For instance, a page with too many ads and not enough original images […]
Mashable kept it short and sweet at its NewFront presentation, held yesterday in midtown Manhattan. Mashable has pushed heavily into video over the last couple of years, and the company boasted that, for the first time ever, its video content is now being visited more often than its print content. (The slew of print journalists […]
Hulu has named Joel Stillerman as its new Chief Content Officer. The hire comes as Hulu continues to ramp up its original programming ambitions with shows like The Handmaid’s Tale and Harlots. Stillerman, a long-time programming exec, formerly headed up original programming and development for AMC Networks’ AMC and Sundance channels. It was Stillerman who […]
Maybe this is just what happens when Facebook mercilessly clones your most popular features in an all-out assault on your user growth. Snap Inc. issued its first earnings report since becoming a public company, and Wall Street was less than impressed. The Snapchat parent reported $149.65 million in revenue for Q1 of this year. That’s […]
Snapchat just launched a ton of new features. Perhaps most significantly, the ephemeral messaging app now allows for “limitless” snaps. Photo snaps can now last on screen for an infinite amount of time, and 10-second videos can repeat on an infinite loop until a user closes the snap. (At that point, the snap will still […]
One face that was missing at AwesomenessTV’s NewFront presentation last week was that of Brian Robbins, the digital media company’s founder. That’s because Robbins stepped down as the company’s CEO in February; now he has a replacement. The CEO role will now go to TV veteran Jordan Levin. Levin’s past roles include positions at The […]
Can Snap Inc. afford to de-prioritize the developing world? As detailed in a new article from the Wall Street Journal, it’s a pressing question that the Snapchat parent is largely answering in the affirmative, at least for the time being. While the likes of Facebook and Twitter work hard to push into regions like Africa […]
Facebook’s Instagram certainly isn’t taking Snapchat’s approach. The company just gave its mobile site a major update, adding many of the same features that are available on its main app. Those include photo-sharing and a version of its Explore tab. Still missing on the mobile website are filters, Stories, Direct Messaging, and video uploads. And […]
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