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Though Paramount+ has yet to reach the subscriber numbers of Netflix, Disney+ and HBO Max, top executives at ViacomCBS are forging ahead with the company’s streaming revolution by relying on more revivals and reboots of nostalgic, fan-favorite IP and sequels of popular projects to draw in viewer interest. Source: Paramount Goes All-In On Competing With Streaming Giants In Read More …
The CEOs of Telefónica, Deutsche Telekom, Vodafone and Orange have called on the European Commission in an open letter to make large content providers contribute to the infrastructural investments. The telecom heavyweights stressed that they had had to make massive investments to upgrade the capacity of their networks during the COVID pandemic because internet traffic Read More …
The potential for a YouTube NFT marketplace is massive, based on the scale of the platform, and a lack of competition in video-specific marketplaces. OpenSea has captured 97% of all NFT sales and has proven to be the dominant platform at the moment. However, pictures and GIFs are the vast majority of content being sold on OpenSea Read More …
Amazon and Spotify are considering rival takeover approaches for Audioboom, the London-listed podcasting group which has seen revenues and its share price surge during the pandemic. Sky News has learnt that the two digital behemoths have been exploring bids for Audioboom in recent weeks, and could decide whether to make formal offers as soon as this Read More …
Hollywood has long been governed by outsized institutions; from the Golden Age studios to today’s streaming giants, they’ve acted as the gatekeepers to Tinseltown. But in the last few years, cryptocurrency, blockchain, and other decentralized technologies have promised to break up the power of monolithic, centralized middlemen. Hollywood is no exception. Source: How DAOs, NFTs and Read More …