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Spotify Kicks Off Summer With Virtual Concert Series
Spotify Kicks Off Summer With Virtual Concert Series
May 19, 2021  |  Social Commerce

After a year of canceled concerts, Spotify is serving up a series of virtual events that includes five prerecorded livestreams. The online shows will be...

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Facebook Wants To Add Pay-Per-View Sports
Facebook Wants To Add Pay-Per-View Sports
May 19, 2021  |  Social Commerce

The first pay-per-view sporting event happened more than 60 years ago, when boxing fans mailed $2 to the TelePrompTer company to watch Floyd Patterson retake...

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YouTube Introduces $100 Million Fund To Advance Short-Form Video 
YouTube Introduces $100 Million Fund To Advance Short-Form Video 
May 11, 2021  |  Investments

YouTube is introducing YouTube Shorts beta to help bring short-form video to YouTube users in the U.S. and India, according to a YouTube blog post...

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Verizon Selling Media Business To Apollo For $5 Billion
Verizon Selling Media Business To Apollo For $5 Billion
May 03, 2021  |  Acquiring

Verizon said on Monday (May 3) that it is selling off its media business, which includes Yahoo and AOL, to private equity firm Apollo Global...

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Spotify Tests Out ‘Smart Player’ For In-Car Use
Spotify Tests Out ‘Smart Player’ For In-Car Use
April 13, 2021  |  Commerce Connected

It’s hard to know how much the pandemic will cut into this summer’s road trips or curb Americans’ commutes. However it turns out, Spotify wants...

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Netflix Pilots Old-School Weekly Alternative To Binge-Watching
Netflix Pilots Old-School Weekly Alternative To Binge-Watching
March 24, 2021  |  Streaming

Netflix, the streaming service that started the concept of binge-watching, is planning to trial an old-fashioned way of viewing television shows — weekly episodes, according...

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Subscriptions In Prime Time: Amazon Scores NFL Deal
Subscriptions In Prime Time: Amazon Scores NFL Deal
March 22, 2021  |  Amazon Entertainment

Starting in 2023, Amazon will be handing over somewhere in the neighborhood of a cool billion a year to the NFL for the exclusive rights...

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Streaming Services Compete In A Crowded Subscription Race
Streaming Services Compete In A Crowded Subscription Race
March 15, 2021  |  Subscriptions

Remember the old joke about how cable offered the opportunity to have over 200 hundred channels of nothing to watch? As of today, that joke...

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Paris Hilton And iHeartMedia Debut Podcast And Social Commerce Platform
Paris Hilton And iHeartMedia Debut Podcast And Social Commerce Platform
February 07, 2021  |  Social Commerce

The original Hollywood influencer and the world’s largest podcast publisher have teamed up to introduce the fast-growing world of audio to quick, social media-style morsels...

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