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Google has removed dozens of AI videos from YouTube that depicted Disney characters, after Disney sent a cease-and-desist letter flagging the links (variety.com)
2 days ago Google AI YouTube

Disney sends Google a cease-and-desist, accusing Google of copyright infringement on a “massive scale” and using AI to “exploit and distribute” the content (variety.com)
3 days ago Google AI

TikTok launches a podcast series called TikTok in the Mix, featuring four 30-minute episodes streamed live on TikTok; the first episode stars Demi Lovato (variety.com)
4 days ago

YouTube TV plans to launch over 10 genre-specific, cheaper YouTube TV Plans in early 2026, including a Sports Plan featuring ESPN Unlimited and Fox Sports 1 (variety.com)
4 days ago YouTube

Letterboxd plans to launch its Video Store film rental platform on December 10, offering curated indie titles in 23 countries, including the US, UK, and France (variety.com)
6 days ago France

Spotify unveils 2025's top 50 most popular US podcasts, led by The Joe Rogan Experience for the fifth consecutive year; 24 of the top 50 now offer video content (variety.com)
11 days ago Spotify

Amazon launches a Video Recaps feature on Prime Video that uses AI to summarize a show's key plot points with snippets and music, available in beta for US users (variety.com)
25 days ago Amazon AI

Matthew McConaughey and Michael Caine partner with ElevenLabs to create AI versions of their voices for its Iconic Voice Marketplace; McConaughey also invests (variety.com)
2025-11-12 AI

ESPN plans to make its College Gameday telecast available on host Pat McAfee's X account, as Disney and YouTube TV continue to spar over a new carriage deal (variety.com)
2025-11-2 YouTube

Roku beats expectations with Q3 net income of $24.8M, vs. a net loss of $35.8M a year ago, and revenue of $1.21B, up 14% YoY; total streaming hours rose 12% YoY (variety.com)
2025-10-31

Microsoft reports Q1 gaming revenue down 2% YoY to $5.51B, Xbox hardware revenue down 29%, and Xbox content and services revenue up 1% (variety.com)
2025-10-30 Microsoft Xbox

Alphabet reports YouTube's Q3 ad revenue rose 15% YoY to $10.26B, vs. $10.01B est., and Google's advertising revenue reached $74.18B, up from $65.85B a year ago (variety.com)
2025-10-30 Google YouTube Alphabet

EA reports Q2 net bookings down 13% YoY to $1.82B, vs. $1.88B est., and says it will no longer issue forward-looking financial guidance due to its $55B sale (variety.com)
2025-10-29

EA strikes a partnership with Stability AI to build game developer tools that serve as “smarter paintbrushes” (variety.com)
2025-10-24 AI

HBO Max raises prices across all plans: Basic With Ads increases by $1/month to $10.99, Standard by $1.50/month to $18.49, and Premium by $2/month to $22.99 (variety.com)
2025-10-22

Spotify partners with Sony Music Group, WMG, UMG, Merlin, and Believe to develop “responsible” AI products and is building a generative AI research lab (variety.com)
2025-10-16 AI Sony Spotify

TiVo confirms that it exited the hardware business on October 1 when it stopped selling DVRs, but says it will continue to offer support for the products (variety.com)
2025-10-14

Amazon unveils updates to Luna, including adding AAA games like Hogwarts Legacy and new GameNight original party games, available to Prime subscribers (variety.com)
2025-10-1 Amazon

Spotify and Amazon Ads announce a global partnership to give advertisers using Amazon DSP programmatic access to Spotify's streaming audio and video inventory (variety.com)
2025-10-1 Amazon Spotify

Nintendo of America President Doug Bowser will retire on December 31 after more than a decade with the company; Nintendo exec Devon Pritchard will succeed him (variety.com)
2025-9-26 U.S. Nintendo

Amazon and Netflix partner to let advertisers buy Netflix ad inventory via Amazon's demand-side platform, after Amazon signed a similar deal with Disney in June (variety.com)
2025-9-11 Amazon Netflix

Apple raises the iPhone Pro starting price by $100 to $1,099; the iPhone 17 Pro Max starts at $1,199, Air at $999, and 17 at $799, all available on September 19 (variety.com)
2025-9-10 iPhone Apple

YouTube says its first exclusive NFL broadcast on September 5 averaged more than 17.3M global viewers, including 1.1M average minute audiences outside of the US (variety.com)
2025-9-9 YouTube

Netflix plans to open its first Netflix House locations, 100K-sq-ft entertainment and shopping venues, in Philadelphia on November 12 and Dallas on December 11 (variety.com)
2025-8-25 Netflix

Apple raises the price of Apple TV+ in the US and some markets globally after previously raising the price in 2023; in the US, the price will rise $3 to $12.99 (variety.com)
2025-8-22 Apple

Louisiana AG Liz Murrill sues Roblox, alleging among other things that it continues to facilitate CSAM distribution and the sexual exploitation of children (variety.com)
2025-8-15

Take-Two reports Q1 net bookings up 17% YoY to $1.42B, net revenue up 12% YoY to $1.5B, vs. $1.32B est., and raises its FY 2026 net bookings projection (variety.com)
2025-8-8

Disney says it is “fully integrating” Hulu into Disney+, plans to launch a “unified” Disney+ and Hulu app in 2026 and migrate Hulu's live TV subscribers to Fubo (variety.com)
2025-8-7

Trump Media reports Q2 net sales up 5.5% YoY to $883.3K and a net loss of $20M, and says it accumulated ~$2B in bitcoin and bitcoin-related securities in July (variety.com)
2025-8-2 Trump Bitcoin

Roku reports Q2 revenue up 15% YoY to $1.11B, vs. $1.07B est., a net profit of $10.5M, and Platform segment sales up 18% to $976M (variety.com)
2025-8-1

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