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Vice Pacts With Tubi for 8 Original Documentaries
Fox’s Tubi has signed an exclusive content deal with Vice Media Group for eight new Tubi Original documentaries. The first, The Cult of Elon, about Tesla founder and controversial Twitter owner Elon Musk, will debut on the free, ad-supported streaming platform on April 24. The second documentary, Vigilante Inc., a look at the rise of […]
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Tubi Joins Nielsen Platform Rankings, Overtakes Pluto TV
The Fox-owned streaming platform Tubi made its debut in Nielsen’s monthly platform rankings, becoming the second FAST service to break into the rankings. Tubi captured 1 percent of all TV use in February, moving ahead Paramount Global’s Pluto TV (0.7 percent) in Nielsen’s Gauge snapshot. Pluto was the first FAST offering to make the rankings, […]
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Tubi Fakes Out Viewers With 2023 Super Bowl Ad: “Poised to Be the Troublemaker”
The streaming service Tubi had everyone questioning where their TV remotes were when its 2023 Super Bowl ad aired Sunday. In the 15-second spot, it appeared that the Super Bowl LVII broadcast returned from a commercial break with Fox Sports announcers, Kevin Burkhardt and Greg Olsen. But suddenly, it seemed like the screen had been […]
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Roku, Tubi Sign Licensing Deals for Warner Bros. Discovery Shows Including ‘Westworld’
Warner Bros. Discovery has signed content deals with Roku and Tubi for a selection of its free, ad-supported channels. The Fox-owned Tubi will add more than 225 advertising video-on-demand titles from WBD and 14 WB-branded FAST channels, including the launch of three brand-specific channels, WB TV Watchlist, WB TV Keeping It Real and WB TV […]
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TIFF: Tubi Nabs ‘Amityville Curse’ Novel Adaptation, ‘Marry F*** Kill’ Genre Pics
Fox’s Tubi is adding to its horror library after picking up two Canadian genre pics — Dennis Heaton’s adaptation of Hans Holzer’s The Amityville Curse novel and Marry F*** Kill from writers Ian Carpenter and Aaron Martin — at the Toronto Film Festival. Indie production banner Incendo will shoot both productions later this year for […]
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What Snap’s Revenue Warning May Mean for Media Companies and Advertising
With Snap surprising Wall Street with a second-quarter revenue warning on Monday, noting that “the macroeconomic environment has deteriorated further and faster than anticipated” since its last earnings update, some media analysts are assessing the potential advertising impact on other sector players. Wells Fargo’s Steven Cahall in a Tuesday report offered up “helpful quick data […]
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Fox Is Happy to Stay Out of the Streaming Wars “Bloodbath,” Says CEO Lachlan Murdoch
Fox is more than happy to be outside of the streaming wars and focused instead on its advertising-based video-on-demand platform and its live offerings. “We’ve been very happily on the sidelines watching this sort of bloodbath, which is going on in the SVOD market,” Fox CEO Lachlan Murdoch said Wednesday. “And what that’s meant is […]
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Streaming TV’s Next Battlefront: Free Services Seize Their Moment
Could Netflix’s pain be someone else’s gain? A number of entertainment companies are counting on exactly that. As consumers grapple with higher subscription costs, and with more subscription video offerings than ever, those companies in the free, ad-supported streaming space (usually referred to as FAST, in industry jargon) think their time is now. In fact, […]
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Fox’s Tubi Snags ‘Freak Brothers’ Animated Series
Fox’s ad-supported streaming platform Tubi has snagged its first adult animated series: Freak Brothers, based on the classic underground comic The Fabulous Furry Freak Brothers. Woody Harrelson, John Goodman, Tiffany Haddish and Pete Davidson lead the cast for the series, which will premiere Nov. 14 with two episodes and then have weekly debuts on Sundays. […]
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Tubi Adds 10 Live Streaming Sports Channels Featuring NFL, MLB Programming
Tubi, the ad-supported streaming service owned by Fox, is adding 10 live streaming sports channels in partnership with Fox Sports that will feature NFL, MLB, NASCAR and Real Madrid programming, the company said on Tuesday. Collegiate sports from the Pac-12 and ACC conferences will also be available to stream. The NFL channel, which comes a […]
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Tubi to Release TikTok “Nostalgia” Special With ’90s, ’00s TV Stars
Nostalgia is having a moment. Tubi is teaming up with TikTok to release a special next Wednesday that will feature ’90s and ’00s TV stars like Paris Hilton, Joey Lawrence, Marlon Wayans, Fran Drescher and Lacey Chabert. The hourlong live event will be hosted by TikTok personality Brittany Broski and include trivia and other challenges […]
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