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Google gains 25M subscriptions in Q1, driven by YouTube and Google One
Google added 25M paid subscriptions in Q1, reaching 350M total, as YouTube and Google One grow.
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Google added 25M paid subscriptions in Q1, reaching 350M total, as YouTube and Google One grow.
Roku’s $2.99 streaming service Howdy has topped 1M subscribers, showing demand for cheaper, low-commitment alternatives to pricier streamers.
The more deals platforms make with media outlets, the less they pay. If enough agreements go through, that effective rate drops to 1.5%, which could generate between A$200 million and A$250 million back into Australian journalism.
YouTube is rolling out the new AI search feature to Premium subscribers in the U.S. on an opt-in basis.
Potential buyers of Letterboxd include Versant, the parent company of CNBC and MS NOW, and Hollywood media company The Ankler, according to Semafor.
Spotify is adding fitness as its next major category, launching workout videos, playlists, and Peloton classes inside the app for free and Premium users.
Amazon's podcasting business seems to have transformed over the past six months.
SusHi Tech Tokyo 2026 has four tightly defined technology domains, each backed by live demonstrations, dedicated exhibit floors, and sessions featuring the people actually building and funding these technologies globally.
Non-gaming apps, led by streaming and AI, are driving growth, even as India's spending per user lags global peers.
YouTube is expanding its AI likeness detection tool to celebrities, giving talent and their reps a way to find and remove deepfakes.
Netflix is going to launch a TikTok-like vertical video feed within its apps this month, and plans to use AI broadly for content creation and recommendations.
The studio's first project will be about Moses and star Academy Award-winner Ben Kingsley, to be released this spring on Prime Video.
Hastings helped to transform the video rental industry — first with physical, then digital, delivery.
If culture is shaped by TikTok's algorithmic feed, then it's time for us to decide where we draw the line between necessary marketing and inauthentic growth hacking.
Editor’s note: Today we hear from Perry Nightingale, SVP of Creative AI at WPP about the workflow that cuts training time for humanoid robots from days to minutes — plus access to the open-source code to do it yourself. Robots are pushing the boundaries of what content creators and directors can capture. These technologies have become critical in the film industry because they open up new possibil
As we gather in Las Vegas for NAB Show 2026 , the industry conversation has shifted. We are no longer asking if AI works; we’re now focused on how it scales. The era of AI experimentation is over — production-grade execution is here. At Google Cloud, we believe no studio or broadcaster should have to build this future in isolation. Our mission is to provide the agentic platform and AI and cloud to
Until now, the only way to avoid seeing ads was by paying for a YouTube Premium subscription.
Chicago-based music superfan Aadam Jacobs has been recording the concerts he goes to since the 1980s, amassing an archive of over 10,000 tapes.
X is cutting back on payments to accounts that are “flooding the timeline” with clickbait and rapid-fire news aggregation, according to its head of product Nikita Bier
Is this a smart way to build buzz, or just an odd attempt to recreate Quibi?
SusHi Tech 2026 is zeroing in on four technology domains reshaping society: AI, Robotics, Resilience, and Entertainment. Expect live demos of humanoid robots, sessions on autonomous driving's software revolution, deep dives into cyber defense and climate tech, and candid conversations about how AI is rewriting the global music and anime industries.
In freeskiing and snowboarding, traditional video replay shows you what happened during a complex aerial maneuver, but it fails to explain the physics of how it was possible. At the speed of the sport, it's incredibly difficult to translate high-speed motion into actionable data—joint angles, rotational velocities, body compression. This requires tracking and analyzing a full three-dimensional mod
The YouTube Premium individual plan is increasing from $13.99 to $15.99 per month, while the family plan is increasing from $22.99 to $26.99 per month.
The EFF follows the departure of various news organizations and others who no longer find X a viable source of traffic.
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The controls can be used to choose an audio-first experience on the app or a video-enhanced one, Spotify says.
Tubi becomes the first streaming service to offer an app integration within ChatGPT, the AI chatbot that millions of users turn to for answers.
YouTube's hiring across roles, partnerships, and a Bengaluru hub shows how it is building out its TV strategy.
The app uses iPhone Live Activities to alert you when scary scenes are about to happen, while also tracking what to watch and where to stream it.
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Netflix says the app gives children access to an "ever-growing" library of games for kids.
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TBPN, Silicon Valley's cult-favorite tech podcast, will operate independently, even as it's overseen by chief political operative Chris Lehane.
AWS Elemental Inference is a fully managed AI service that automatically transforms live and on-demand video broadcasts into vertical formats optimized for mobile and social platforms in real time, enabling broadcasters to reach audiences on TikTok, Instagram Reels, and YouTube Shorts without manual editing or AI expertise.