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Spotify Shutters Live Audio App
Spotify is shutting down its standalone live audio app, Spotify Live, at the end of this month as the audio giant turns away from live programming, a company spokesperson told The Hollywood Reporter on Monday. As user interest in the live audio app Clubhouse gained momentum during the earlier months of the pandemic, Spotify sought […]
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Jennifer Lawrence’s Personal Assistant Branches Out to Build Staffing Agency
Meghan Grimm might be Hollywood’s best matchmaker. In addition to being Jennifer Lawrence’s executive personal assistant, Grimm is the founder and CEO of Clyde Staffing, a first-of-its-kind staffing agency led by a seasoned personal assistant that is dedicated to vetting and matching prospective assistants with top talent. But unlike other agencies, where the extent of […]
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Twitter’s Verification Purge Set to Begin
Leave it to Elon Musk to choose April Fool’s Day to begin Twitter’s version of the Purge. Beginning on Saturday, users with legacy verification badges — notable accounts who were verified under Twitter’s previous leadership — are expected to lose their blue check, as the social media company has been hinting at for months but […]
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Audiochuck Taps Imperative Entertainment’s Jason Hoch to Launch Podcast Network
Audiochuck, the media company behind Ashley Flowers’ hit podcast Crime Junkie, has brought on Jason Hoch to lead a newly formed podcast network focused on premium audio programming across multiple genres. Hoch was most recently the president of podcasts for Imperative Entertainment (Triangle of Sadness, Killers of the Flower Moon), where he launched 23 original […]
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Tastemade Strikes Multiyear Content Deal With Constellation Brands’ Wine and Spirits Portfolio
Tastemade has struck a multiyear deal with Constellation Brands — the wine and spirits company behind Robert Mondavi Winery, Lingua Franca, The Prisoner Wine Company and High West Whiskey, among others — to create a slate of original programming. The multimillion-dollar deal will include the creation and sale of original series to outside streamers, as […]
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Tonya Mosley’s ‘Truth Be Told’ Podcast Joins APM Studios
Tonya Mosley’s Truth Be Told podcast, which explores Black liberation through multiple lenses, has struck a deal with APM Studios that will include the production of a new limited series with Mosley debuting in 2024. The podcast was originally produced and distributed by KQED before Mosley, an Emmy-winning broadcast journalist and regular interviewer on NPR’s […]
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‘How Long Gone’ Podcast Inks Ad Sales, Marketing Deal With Talkhouse
How Long Gone, the pandemic-born interview and culture podcast from co-hosts Chris Black and Jason Stewart, is joining the Talkhouse Podcast Network. Talkhouse will handle distribution, ad sales, marketing and other podcast-related partnerships for the show. How Long Gone will continue to remain available on all major podcast platforms. In a joint statement, Black and […]
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Snap Hires Top Ad Executive From Microsoft
Snap has hired a top advertising executive from Microsoft to oversee its ad sales across the U.S., Canada and Latin America. Rob Wilk was most recently the corporate vp for Microsoft Advertising, where he oversaw a team of nearly 2,000 employees and a division where annual revenue crossed $10 billion. Prior to his eight-year career […]
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‘Arrested Development’: Netflix Gains Exclusive Streaming Rights to All Seasons
Netflix will be the exclusive streaming home to all five seasons of Arrested Development in the U.S. later this year, The Hollywood Reporter confirmed on Friday. Though the final two seasons of the sitcom were created as a co-production between Netflix, 20th Century Fox Television and Imagine Entertainment, Netflix was previously expected to lose all […]
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Hollywood’s AI Anxiety Is Showing
If artificial intelligence evangelists’ predictions pan out, generative AI systems like ChatGPT and DALL-E are set to transform Hollywood by developing and writing scripts for the next hit TV show, “diversifying” casts with AI-generated actors and generating imagery across multiple mediums, practically instantly, for a fraction of the cost of a real, human artist. But […]
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‘A Matter of Degrees’ Co-Host: Hollywood Needs More Climate Stories
This story is part of The Hollywood Reporter’s 2023 Sustainability Issue (click here to read more). Give up your climate guilt. That’s the title of the first episode, and one of the principal themes, of A Matter of Degrees, a podcast for the climate curious from policy experts and advocates Leah Stokes and Katharine Wilkinson. The […]
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YouTube TV Raises Price for Monthly Subscribers
YouTube TV is increasing its monthly subscription price from $64.99 to $72.99, the company informed subscribers Thursday. YouTube last increased the price of its live TV streaming service from $49.99 to $64.99 in 2020 after launching in 2017 with a monthly subscription price of $35. Current subscribers will see the price changes starting April 18, […]
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