ABC’s Scandal just went a little bit digital. The series, which makes its season 6 premiere January 26, has dropped a new web show. Called Scandal: Gladiator Wanted, the series centers on the employees of protagonist Olivia Pope (Kerry Washington) as they search for an intern for Olivia Pope & Associates. The series consists of […]
If you can’t beat ‘em, buy ‘em. Google has acquired Fabric, Twitter’s mobile developer platform. Widely used by app developers, Fabric offers analytics, provides monetization tools, and helps to diagnose why developers’ apps are crashing. A number of high-profile companies use the platform, including BuzzFeed, Spotify and Uber. According to a series of tweets from […]
If your film is playing at the Sundance Film Festival, then Amazon may have $100,000 dollars for you. The company is offering the six-figure paycheck – and enhanced royalty rates – for any U.S. films and premieres that are official selections at the 2017 fest, which runs today through January 29 in Park City, Utah. […]
Sony’s Crackle just lost its oldest original show – and its biggest star. As first reported by Variety, Jerry Seinfeld’s ‘Comedians in Cars Getting Coffee’ is moving to Netflix starting in late 2017. Its most recent – and, as it turns out, final – season on Crackle debuted earlier this month. The show’s next season […]
Twitter’s Vine has officially ceased to exist, at least as we knew it. But the service’s six seconds of fame haven’t quite come to an end: As previously announced, Twitter has replaced Vine’s Android and iOS apps with a pared-down app called Vine Camera. Vine Camera still allows users to create short looping videos, but […]
By all accounts, Snapchat parent Snap Inc. is headed for an IPO, perhaps as early as March. But according to a new Wall Street Journal report, company co-founders Evan Spiegel and Bobby Murphy (Snap’s, CEO and CTO, respectively) are out to retain more control of the company than is usual. According to the Journal’s sources, […]
Let this be a lesson: A couple of Wall Street analysts can move markets. Last week, Deutsche Banks’s Bryan Kraft upgraded his rating of Netflix from “Sell” to “Hold.” And like Kraft, Cowen & Co.’s John Blackledge upped his estimates for the streaming giant’s 2017 subscriber growth, both overseas and in the U.S. The company’s […]
How can a music service better compete with Spotify? Apple’s proposed solution, according to a new Wall Street Journal report: Add a dash of Netflix. The Journal reports that Apple is planning to bring original scripted series and movies to the $10-per-month Apple Music service. The tech giant has already reportedly spoken with Hollywood […]
Amazon-owned live-streaming platform Twitch just landed a new exec. Matt McCloskey will serve as Twitch’s VP of Commerce. He’ll be tasked with growing economic activity across Twitch’s platform, supporting the site’s streamers. Twitch is the most popular game-streaming site in the world, and appropriately enough, McCloskey is a gaming veteran. He previously served as Chief […]
Instagram’s Stories, the Snapchat-like short video feature that the Facebook-owned app launched launched last year, is moving toward monetization. Instagram is introducing interstitial full-screen video and photo ads that will appear in-between Stories. Running a max of 15 seconds, users can swipe through the ads to skip them. Over 30 advertisers are on-board for the […]
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