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Ten years after the original film, YouTube has ordered a sequel to “Life in a Day,” reuniting executive producer Ridley Scott and director Kevin Macdonald for a new documentary that will stitch together hundreds of user-submitted videos from across the globe on a single date. “Life in a Day 2020” is slated to premiere at

Amazon, looking to buff up Fire TV’s appeal among cord-cutters, is adding program listings for YouTube TV and Hulu + Live TV to the platform’s live TV discovery features. Live content from Google’s YouTube TV and Disney’s Hulu will be directly integrated into Fire TV’s Live Tab, On Now rows, and the multi-app Channel Guide,

Facebook simply has not done enough to fight problems including hate speech and voter suppression, according to a report culminating a two-year independent audit of the social giant’s practices and policies. That has included Facebook’s failure to take action against disinformation and inflammatory comments posted by President Donald Trump, the report said. “Unfortunately, in our

Here’s more corporate synergy in action: Pluto TV is gearing up to stream reruns of dozens of popular CBS shows and Comedy Central’s “South Park” — all housed under their common parent, ViacomCBS — on the free, ad-supported linear TV-style streaming service. Starting July 14, and continuing throughout the summer, Pluto TV’s new slate of

The next season of “Escape the Night” — the murder-mystery series hosted by Joey Graceffa — may or may not be happening, after YouTube declined to renew its longest-running original. But separately Graceffa, a popular YouTube creator, author and influencer, has now officially revealed a new project based on the franchise: “Escape the Night Game,”

The U.S. government is considering instituting a ban on TikTok and other Chinese smartphone apps over security concerns, Secretary of State Mike Pompeo said — fears that are unfounded, according to TikTok. The Trump administration is “looking at” prohibiting the use of social-media apps from China in the U.S., Pompeo said in an interview Monday

Amazon is now giving Prime Video customers worldwide the ability to create up to six viewer profiles on one account — a feature that rival services like Netflix and Hulu have offered for years. Starting Tuesday, July 7, Amazon is rolling out Prime Video profiles in the U.S. and other countries. That lets Prime members

Peacock will premiere nine new series among 20,000 hours of content when it launches July 15. Here’s a look at what’s coming. Brave New WorldThe long-gestating adaptation of the Aldous Huxley book stars Jessica Brown Findlay, Harry Lloyd, Alden Ehrenreich and Demi Moore. The CaptureThis BBC drama series, which originally aired in 2019, follows a

As Peacock launches, NBCUniversal will be trying to figure out a puzzle many of its rivals are also attempting to solve. More onetime couch potatoes have adopted video streaming, and they are growing accustomed to seeing fewer ads, and sometimes none. That means media companies need to devise an entirely new architecture for their blocks

Peacock is Comcast’s bid to articulate a streaming strategy to Wall Street. For some time, investors have been puzzling over how to value the company, which was built on the cable-systems business but has expanded significantly during the past decade with the acquisition of NBC­Universal in 2011 and U.K. satellite TV giant Sky in 2018.

Magic Leap, the augmented-reality startup that has yet to find a viable business model, hired a new CEO: Peggy Johnson, previously Microsoft’s head of business development. Johnson will start at Magic Leap effective Aug. 1, 2020, the company announced. She takes over for Magic Leap founder Rony Abovitz, who stepped down as CEO amid the

MONDAY, JULY 6 ‘The Outpost’ Scores Solid Opening Day Numbers  Military thriller “The Outpost,” starring Orlando Bloom and Scott Eastwood and released by Screen Media, was the top performer on iTunes on July 3, its opening day. “The Outpost” is based on Jake Tapper’s best-selling non-fiction book, “The Outpost: An Untold Story of American Valor.”

“Hamilton” delivered for Disney Plus — with the musical movie of Lin-Manuel Miranda’s reimagining of the founding father’s life spurring a spike in app downloads over its July 4th weekend debut. The movie premiered on the Disney Plus streaming service on Friday, July 3. From Friday through Sunday, the Disney Plus app was downloaded 513,323

Charlie Puth took to Twitter on Sunday (July 5) to make an impassioned plea to BTS fans to back off, what he calls, a “dangerous, toxic internet screaming match between ‘fandoms.’” The singer and songwriter Puth was responding to fans of the BTS ARMY, as the K-pop group’s legions of followers are known, who seemingly

For American consumers, Netflix’s value proposition has escalated during the coronavirus pandemic — and the question for the No. 1 subscription streamer is when, not if, it’s going to next raise prices. Even amid intensifying competition from Disney Plus, HBO Max, Apple TV Plus and others, Netflix has seen its pricing power grow over the

Byron “Reckful” Bernstein, a popular video game streamer on Twitch, has died, according to social media posts from his ex-girlfriends and brother. He was 31. According to Blue Madrigal, his ex-girlfriend and one of the people who initially confirmed his death on social media, Berstein died by suicide. Bernstein went by the name Reckful on

Refinery29’s Amy Emmerich is departing as global president and chief content officer of the Vice Media Group-owned women’s media brand, Variety has confirmed. Emmerich, who joined Refinery29 in 2015 before it was acquired last year by Vice, is leaving the company less than a month after R29 editor-in-chief and co-founder Christene Barberich stepped down as

Barstool Sports, just days after founder Dave Portnoy defiantly refused to apologize for racist language he used in the past, is taking the trolling of its critics to a new level. The company on Wednesday announced a new episode of its “2Biggs” podcast — hosted by Willie Colon and Brandon Newman, it’s described as “the

Facebook is mothballing Lasso, the free app it quietly launched two years ago as a competitor to popular short-form video service TikTok, after it failed to get traction and as Instagram is widening its rollout of a similar feature. A message sent to Lasso users Wednesday informed them that the app — which, similar to

Amazon’s Audible signed a multi-project development and first-look deal with James Patterson, and the bestselling author already has several audio-only exclusive projects already in the works. First on Patterson’s slate of Audible Originals is “The Coldest Case: A Black Book Drama,” performed by Aaron Paul (“Breaking Bad,” “Westworld”), Krysten Ritter (“Breaking Bad,” “Jessica Jones”) and

NBCUniversal told members of Bluprint in May that it was planning to wind down the subscription VOD service centered on crafts and hobbies “over the next few months.” Instead, the media company is selling the assets of Bluprint to TN Marketing, a Minneapolis-based online video subscription and streaming business. Terms of the deal weren’t disclosed.

Peacock, NBCUniversal’s new streaming service that launched nationwide in two weeks, has struck an agreement with ViacomCBS to license Paramount movies and TV shows. Coming to Peacock — on a nonexclusive basis — are series including “Ray Donovan” (starring Liev Schreiber, pictured above), “The Affair,” “Undercover Boss,” “The Game,” “Everybody Hates Chris” and “Real Husbands

Now there’s a new way to get Peloton fitness instructors to bark commands at you from the TV. Roku and Peloton inked a deal under which the Peloton App — with thousands of on-demand workouts, as well as live classes — will be available on the streaming-media platform starting this month. Peloton launches on Roku

Facebook announced that is banning a far-right antigovernment “boogaloo” group from its platform. The social-media giant, under fire from marketers and critics for not doing enough to stop hate and harassment, said it “is the latest step in our commitment to ban people who proclaim a violent mission from using our platform.” The company said

Netflix has tapped marketing veteran Bozoma Saint John, a former senior exec at Apple, Uber and most recently Endeavor, as its new CMO, the company announced. Saint John is Netflix’s third chief marketing officer in less than a year. She replaces Jackie Lee-Joe, the one-time CMO of BBC Studios, who had only been at Netflix

So-called internet skinny bundles aren’t skinny anymore — and they’re not really a bargain compared with traditional cable or satellite TV, either. YouTube announced that the price of YouTube TV has increased to $64.99 per month. That’s a jump of 30% from the previous $50 monthly fee and comes after YouTube TV last raised prices

CuriosityStream has hired Bill Goodwyn, a 30-year veteran of cable programmer Discovery, in a new role overseeing sales, distribution, marketing, strategy and business development. Goodwyn reports to CuriosityStream president/CEO Clint Stinchcomb, who’s also a Discovery alum. The non-fiction streaming content company was founded by John Hendricks, a pioneer in the cable TV world who in

YouTube has temporarily pulled advertising from Shane Dawson’s channels, coming just days after the creator apologized for past videos in which he appeared in blackface and used the N-word, as well as for videos joking about pedophilia. According to YouTube, the video platform has suspended monetization on Shane Dawson’s three YouTube channels: his primary Shane

Netflix said it will allocate 2% of its cash on hand — with an initial outlay of up to $100 million — to banks and other financial institutions that directly support Black communities in the U.S. The streamer announced the initiative Tuesday, saying banks led or owned by Black people represent a minuscule portion of

YouTube has kicked a half-dozen hate-mongering channels off the platform for good, including those operated by white supremacist Richard Spencer, ex-Ku Klux Klan leader David Duke and far-right provocateur Stefan Molyneaux. “We have strict policies prohibiting hate speech on YouTube, and terminate any channel that repeatedly or egregiously violates those policies,” a YouTube representative said