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Lucas Shaw / Bloomberg:
Netflix reports Q4 revenue up 16% YoY to $10.2B and 301.6M global subs, adding 18.9M subs, more than doubling Wall Street estimates; NFLX jumps 13%+ after hours — - Netflix is raising subscription prices in its biggest market — Report marks the end of regular quarterly customer updates
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Nicole Sperling / New York Times:
Netflix raises prices in the US, Canada, Portugal, and Argentina; the standard US plan rises from $15.49 to $17.99, standard with ads jumps a dollar to $7.99 — The company said those results were buoyed by programming in recent months that exceeded internal expectations.
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Drew Lerner / Awful Announcing:
Nielsen: Netflix captured 8.5% of all US streaming viewership in December 2024, its highest share since July 2023, in part due to NFL games; YouTube had 11.1% — Netflix's Christmas Day NFL experiment seems to have paid off. — According to data released by Nielsen's “The Gauge” …
Ted Johnson / Deadline:
Nielsen: Trump's inauguration drew an average of 24.59M viewers on 15 networks from 10:30am ET to 7pm ET, down from 33.76M in 2021 and 30.64M in 2017 — According to Nielsen, the inauguration drew 24.59 million viewers, compared to 33.76 million for Biden's 2021 inauguration and 30.64 million for Trump's first in 2021.
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Alexandra S. Levine / Bloomberg:
MrBeast joins an investor group led by Employer.com founder Jesse Tinsley in an all-cash bid to acquire TikTok US operations; several groups have shown interest — - YouTube star is part of investor group run by Jesse Tinsley — TikTok has less than three months to sell or face a US ban
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Bloomberg:
Trump says he would be open to Elon Musk or Larry Ellison purchasing TikTok US as part of a joint venture that would give the US government 50% ownership — “I have the right to make a deal,” Trump said at an event alongside Ellison at the White House on Tuesday.
Lauren Feiner / The Verge:
ByteDance-owned video editing app CapCut is now working in the US, but is still not in app stores, after Trump signed an EO attempting to pause the TikTok ban
Bobby Allyn / NPR:
Donald Trump signs an EO pausing the TikTok ban for 75 days to give ByteDance more time to reach a deal and aims to protect TikTok's providers from liability
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Sara Fischer / Axios:
The Ankler launches Like & Subscribe, a trade publication on the creator economy, as a weekly Substack newsletter for $129/year with plans for podcasts and more — - Like & Subscribe will launch as a weekly newsletter, and will eventually be accompanied by a podcast, events, and subscriber engagement features.
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Jake Lahut / Columbia Journalism Review:
After years of the Biden press office keeping reporters away from the president, some White House reporters say they look forward to having more access to Trump — Plenty to worry about—but some are looking forward to the press having better access. — The return of Donald Trump …
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Victoria Kennedy / Eurogamer.net:
ITV's Hell's Kitchen game, based on the popular show and ITV's first-ever Roblox experience, reaches 20M+ visits and has 450k daily active users — Live and let fry. — Competitive ITV show Hell's Kitchen is now blowing up as an experience in Roblox, with a cartoony version of Gordon Ramsay at the fore.
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Lauren Feiner / The Verge:
Brendan Carr, author of Project 2025's FCC chapter, is now officially FCC chair; Olivia Trusty, a third GOP vote on the five-member agency, awaits Senate OK — Brendan Carr is now formally the chair of the Federal Communications Commission, giving him the power to set the agency's agenda …
Marta Balaga / Variety:
Omdia: by the end of 2024, TikTok generated ~$8B in ad revenue in the US and $63.3B globally, and surpassed 1.9B MAUs globally, including 145M MAUs in the US — By the end of 2024, TikTok has generated approximately $8 billion in ad revenue in the U.S.
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Bron Maher / Press Gazette:
Forbes executives detail how the outlet is drawing on a range of revenue streams, including events, online subscriptions, and direct-sold advertising — The senior leadership team at Forbes has explained how the business title is drawing on a range of revenue streams such as events, online subscriptions and direct-sold advertising.
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David Folkenflik / NPR:
Source: Rupert Murdoch's News Corp has made a settlement offer to Prince Harry to avoid a trial over alleged illegal activities and coverups at its tabloids — LONDON — Rupert Murdoch's British publishing arm has made a substantial settlement offer to Prince Harry and a senior lawmaker …
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