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SiriusXM is eliminating about 160 jobs, a move to cut expenses that represents a layoff affecting just under 3% of the satellite radio and audio streamer’s workforce. Jennifer Witz, CEO of SiriusXM, announced the layoffs in a memo to staff Monday. The cutbacks come after SiriusXM in March 2023 announced it was laying off 475

Kansas City Chiefs beat the San Francisco 49ers at the Super Bowl on Sunday, securing the NFL’s first back-to-back Super Bowl wins in 20 years with a game that went into overtime for only the second time in Super Bowl history. In the end, Kansas City won 25-22. The 49ers took the lead early on

After seeing big viewership gains for “Thursday Night Football” on Prime Video this past NFL season, Amazon is getting its hand on an extra bit of pigskin for the next one. Amazon’s Prime Video will have exclusive U.S. rights to one NFL playoff game in the 2024-25 season, Variety confirmed. The news was first reported

Is politics a major buzzkill? Instagram execs seem to think so. In a blog post Friday, Instagram, the popular photo and video app owned by Meta, said it will no longer “proactively recommend” political content from accounts that users do not already follow. The same policy applies to Threads, the Twitter-copycat app launched last summer

Alyssa Sutherland was 15 years old when she was discovered by a modeling scout in her native Australia. As soon as the 5’11” strawberry blonde finished high school at the age of 17, she moved to New York and began traveling the world on high-end fashion assignments before settling in Los Angeles to focus on

Just days before the kickoff of this year’s Super Bowl, X, the social-media platform owned by billionaire Elon Musk previously called Twitter, launched a new partnership to display betting odds to users in the U.S. BetMGM on Friday announced an agreement with X to become the platform’s exclusive live-odds sports betting partner. Under the deal,

Piers Morgan has announced his “Uncensored” show is moving from TalkTV to YouTube, citing the “unnecessary straitjacket” of TV schedules. In an interview with The Times, Morgan said he will now focus on growing the “Uncensored” YouTube channel, which has over 2.3 million subscribers. “Uncensored” has aired in the 8 p.m. slot on TalkTV for

Joe Rogan‘s popular podcast is back on Apple Podcasts after a more than three-year hiatus. Last Friday, Spotify announced a multiyear deal renewal with Rogan that is worth as much as $250 million. Under the new pact, “The Joe Rogan Experience” will be widely distributed to third-party platforms including Apple Podcasts, YouTube and Amazon Music. In

Amid a wave of layoffs sweeping across the media industry, writers and editors at CBS News Digital have formed a union with WGA East for the purpose of collective bargaining. An “overwhelming” majority of CBS News Digital’s 46-member bargaining unit signed union cards on Monday, Feb. 5, according to WGA East — and they are

Disney is going to start trying to convert password-piggybackers into paid customers — following the lead of Netflix — starting this summer. Disney+ and Hulu over the past week have been notifying U.S. customers of changes to their subscriber terms, which now explicitly forbid users from sharing their log-in details with anyone who doesn’t live

“Taylor Swift: The Eras Tour (Taylor’s Version)” is coming exclusively to Disney+ — and the concert film will include five songs that were not available in the theatrical or digital versions. The newly expanded version of “The Eras Tour” will hit Disney+ worldwide on March 15, 2024. Among the bonus songs included on the streamer

Snap‘s revenue came in lighter than expected and its net loss was wider than anticipated — leading the Snapchat parent’s stock to drop more than 30% in after-hours trading Tuesday. Snap reported fourth-quarter 2023 revenue $1.361 billion, up 5% year-over-year, and a net loss of $248 million, or a loss of 15 cents per share.

Tucker Carlson thinks Americans don’t adequately understand Vladimir Putin — or why the Russian president invaded Ukraine — and the ex-Fox News host is willing to let Putin tell his side of the story. In a post Tuesday (Feb. 6) on X announcing the Putin interview, Carlson said “there are risks to conducting an interview

Employees at IGN, the popular video game and entertainment media site, have announced that they are unionizing with the NewsGuild-CWA labor union. The IGN Creators Guild consists of editorial and creative workers at IGN, which is owned by digital media parent company Ziff Davis. The guild is currently made of over 80 employees, with 87%

YouTube TV has piloted past a new milestone: The internet pay-TV service now has more than 8 million subscribers, according to the video giant. That means YouTube TV, available only in the U.S. starting at $72.99 per month, is far and away the biggest internet-streaming subscription TV service in the country. The next largest is

Spotify pulled in more than new listeners than it expected for the fourth quarter, as the streamer narrowed its net loss and took a charge related to mass layoffs at the end of 2023 to cut expenses. For the fourth quarter of 2023, the company reported revenue of €3.67 billion, up 16% and in-line with

Taylor Swift is expected to alight at the Super Bowl next Sunday — and gambling sites are ready for it. Swift made Grammys history Sunday after “Midnights” won album of the year — her record-setting fourth win in the category. She also announced her next studio album, “The Tortured Poets Department.” Now, attention turns to the Super

More Snap workers are vanishing from the Snapchat parent’s employee roster. On Monday (Feb. 5), Snap announced plans to lay off 10% of its global full-time employees. “In order to best position our business to execute on our highest priorities, and to ensure we have the capacity to invest incrementally to support our growth over

Joe Rogan, multimillionaire king of podcasting, is bringing his fans into the pre-show party. On Friday, Spotify announced a multiyear deal renewal with Rogan, who hosts the industry’s No. 1 podcast. Under the new agreement, worth as much as $250 million, “The Joe Rogan Experience” will end its three-year exclusive run on Spotify, which instead

Spotify inked a new multiyear partnership deal for controversial podcast “The Joe Rogan Experience,” which is said to be worth up to $250 million. Under the new pact, Rogan’s popular show — which has been exclusively available on Spotify for three years — will now be available on other audio platforms. In addition to continued

The Messenger got shot. In the wake of its spectacular flameout this week, the ill-fated digital news startup is the target of a lawsuit seeking class-action status on behalf of its 300 ex-employees — who were terminated without notice — which says the company is on the hook for severance payments and benefits. The lawsuit,

Apple turned in another record quarter in its services business, as strong iPhone 15 sales boosted total revenue 2% in the last three months of 2023 — rebounding after four quarters of year-over-year top-line declines. Apple’s services business grew 11% in the quarter, to $23.1 billion. That was slightly less than analyst predictions of services

Amazon reported its fourth-quarter 2023 earnings Thursday, revealing results for its October Prime Day event and the holiday shopping season. Wall Street projected Amazon would post $24.2 billion for its Amazon Web Services (AWS) division and hit $14.2 billion in ad sales for the quarter ended Dec. 31, per StreetAccount. Amazon reported $14.7 billion in ad sales,

Meta cruised past Wall Street forecasts for the fourth quarter of 2023, turning in a record $40.1 billion in top-line revenue as net income tripled. The strong results reflect a healthy rebound in digital advertising after a downturn in 2022 that led Meta to cut back its workforce. The social media giant, already staggeringly large,

YouTube Music and YouTube Premium have surpassed 100 million subscribers across more than 100 countries and regions. The 100 million figure includes uses who are on free trials, according to YouTube. The company didn’t break down how many are on YouTube Music versus YouTube Premium, the subscription service for ad-free viewing, background listening, offline video

Look what you made me do: TikTok as of Feb. 1 started to remove all music from Universal Music Group from the short-form video platform, including song catalogs of artists ranging from Taylor Swift to Bob Dylan. The removal of UMG’s content from TikTok comes after the two companies failed to renew a licensing pact

Disney‘s Hulu has joined the ranks of streamers prohibiting subscribers from sharing their accounts with people outside their household. The Disney-controlled streamer on Jan. 31 notified customers of a key change in its subscriber agreement that — for the first time — officially forbids users from sharing their Hulu log-in details with anyone who doesn’t

Look what you made me do: TikTok as of Feb. 1 started to remove all music from Universal Music Group from the short-form video platform, including song catalogs of artists ranging from Taylor Swift to Bob Dylan. The removal of UMG’s content from TikTok comes after the two companies failed to renew a licensing pact

Netflix is set to make 2024 its biggest year in gaming so far. On Thursday, the streamer unveiled a slate of titles set to debut over the next 11 months, including the previously announced “Squid Game,” “Virgin River” and “Rebel Moon” games based on Netflix-owned IP. No release dates were set, but the lineup confirms

The Messenger is shutting its doors eight months after the digital news site launched, with the startup having burned through $50 million in funding. It was a very hard and sudden crash. The New York Times broke the news Wednesday of The Messenger’s shutdown, initially citing anonymous sources. The report caught staffers of the news