Velocity is stepping on the gas this spring with the premiere of new original series Speed Is the New Black, Wednesday, May 24 at 9p. Following young prodigy Noah Alexander and his team at elite automotive shop Classic Car Studio in St. Louis, series will feature the intricate builds including redesigns of classic cars from […]
Looks like Alphabet has fared pretty well through that whole YouTube advertiser boycott. The Google parent reported $24.75 billion in Q1 revenue – a 22% year-over-year increase – and earnings-per-share of $7.73. That beat Wall Street’s projections of $24.22 billion in revenue and earnings-per-share of $7.39. The biggest driver of Google’s revenue growth was mobile […]
According to the latest Internet Advertising Revenue Report from the Interactive Advertising Bureau (IAB), digital video ad revenues amounted to $9.1 billion in 2016. The semi-annual report was conducted by PwC US. That $9.1 billion figure represents a major increase from 2015, when digital video ad revenues added up to $5.9 billion. All told, the […]
ESPN and MLB Network are set to launch a new content collaboration initaitive, with ESPN2 set to add MLB Network’s Intentional Talk to its afternoon lineup starting May 1. The weekday show will air Monday through Friday on the network from 4-5p during the season, and as a 30-minute telecast in the offseason. Intentional Talk […]
Wednesday night’s Bulls/Celtics telecast extended TNT’s winning streak to nine games, as the network once again took the evening, and ranking tops among P18-34, M18-34, M18-49 & M25-54, according to Nielsen. The contest averaged 4.3 million viewers for the network, up 17% vs. last year’s comparable coverage. Meanwhile, with NBA TV’s five originally produced first-round […]
Mindy Kaling optioned the rights to Who Thought This Was a Good Idea?: And Other Questions You Should Have Answers to When You Work in the White House, the bestselling memoir by former Alyssa Mastromonaco, Barack Obama White House deputy chief of staff for operations. The book will be adapted as a TV series with […]
Hilary Swank is headed to the small screen. The Oscar-winning actress will star as Gail Getty, John Paul Getty III’s determined and resourceful mother, in FX’s Trust.
Twitter announced that it generated $548 million in Q1 revenue. That’s down 8 percent year-over-year, marking the first time since Twitter’s 2013 IPO that the company’s revenue has fallen. Nonetheless, the numbers surpassed Wall Street’s prediction of $512 million. Twitter’s Q1 revenue includes $474 million in ad revenue, down 11% year-over-year (even though ad impressions […]
Instagram announced that it has surpassed 700 million monthly active users. The Facebook-owned photo- and video-sharing app hit the 600 million user milestone a mere four months ago. By comparison, it took Instagram 6 months to leap from 500 million users to 600 million, and 9 months to move from 400 million to 500 million. […]
An anticipated brutal day was worse than expected as ESPN dropped the axe on around 100 staffers on Wednesday, more than the projected 50-70 cited previously in various publications. Among the on-air casualties were Trent Dilfer, Len Elmore, Danny Kanell, Jay Crawford, Pierre LeBrun, Jane McManus, Brendan Fitzgerald, Mike Goodman, Jim Bowden and Mark Saxon. […]