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12:05 PM ET, January 21, 2026

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Caitlin Huston / The Hollywood Reporter:
Greg Peters says Netflix plans to include new types of content, like video podcasts, in its vertical video feed, and will roll out a new mobile UI later in 2026  —  The streamer plans to add video podcasts into its mobile feed and upgrade its mobile user interface.
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Lucas Shaw / Bloomberg:
Netflix reports Q4 revenue up 18% YoY to $12.05B, vs. $11.97B est., 325M subscribers, 2025 revenue up 16% to $45.2B, and will spend 10% more on content in 2026  —  Netflix Inc. delivered fourth-quarter results that largely beat Wall Street estimates but issued a cautious forecast for the months ahead …
Dade Hayes / Deadline:
Netflix says ad revenue hit $1.5B in 2025, up by over 2.5x vs. 2024, and that viewing hours grew 2% YoY in H2 2025, driven by viewing of branded originals up 9%
Jay Peters / The Verge:
YouTube CEO Neal Mohan says creators will be able to generate Shorts using their own AI likenesses starting in 2026  —  The capability is launching sometime in 2026, though YouTube isn't sharing details about how it will work. … Your YouTube Shorts feed might soon be filled with a lot …
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Alex Weprin / The Hollywood Reporter:
YouTube CEO Neal Mohan publishes his annual letter, saying YouTube aims to reduce “AI slop” and has strengthened parental controls, and teases Shorts updates
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Sources: OpenAI begins offering its chatbot ads to dozens of advertisers, initially charging per ad view, not per ad click, and asks them for <$1M commitments  —  OpenAI has started offering its new chatbot ads to dozens of advertisers, according to two people familiar with the matter.
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Alex Heath / Sources:
Demis Hassabis says there aren't “any plans” to put ads in Gemini and, in response to OpenAI testing ads, says “maybe they feel they need to make more revenue”  —  During our convo in Davos, Demis Hassabis and I chatted about ads in AI, Google's new deal with Apple, humanoids, and Gemini 4.
Michael M. Grynbaum / New York Times:
Mediaite launches One Sheet, a daily media newsletter curated by reporter Colby Hall that aggregates media news from other media newsletters, for $8 a month  —  A new daily email from Mediaite intends to cut through the cacophony of online media news.  —  The media news site Mediaite …
Alex Weprin / The Hollywood Reporter:
NYT launches Crossplay, its first two-player competitive word game, as a standalone iOS and Android app, as it seeks a bigger share of the mobile gaming market  —  The game will be familiar to Scrabble or Words with Friends players, but the Times is adding a few twists of its own.
Ellise Shafer / Variety:
Prince Harry testified at London's High Court in his privacy case against Associated Newspapers, saying many articles made him “paranoid beyond belief”  —  Prince Harry took the stand at London's High Court on Wednesday in his privacy case against the publisher of U.K. tabloid Daily Mail …
Bill Bradley / Adweek:
Paramount launches guaranteed programmatic ad placements for live sports, debuting with Paramount+'s UFC debut on January 24  —  The company takes a big swing with guaranteed placements in live moments  —  Paramount is taking a big advertising swing by bringing guaranteed programmatic placement to live sports.
Discussion: Variety
 
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Charlotte Tobitt / Press Gazette:
WAN-IFRA: news publications globally had an estimated combined revenue of $125.7B in 2025, down 0.01% YoY; print still accounted for 65% of total revenue
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Sources: banks including Wells Fargo, BNP Paribas, and HSBC began selling an extra $8.2B of short-term loans to help Netflix fund its WBD purchase
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Rick Porter / The Hollywood Reporter:
Nielsen: Christmas Day 2025 set a record for US streaming usage with 55.1B minutes, or 54% of all TV viewing for the day, beating Christmas 2024 by 3.9B minutes
 

 
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Sources: Apple is developing an AirTag-sized AI wearable pin with cameras, a speaker, microphones, and wireless charging that could be released as early as 2027

Mark Gurman / Bloomberg:
Sources: Apple plans to revamp Siri this fall in iOS 27 and macOS 27 by turning it into the company's first AI chatbot, replacing the current Siri interface

Beatrice Nolan / Fortune:
Anthropic overhauls Claude's “constitution” to enable the AI model to generalize and apply broad principles rather than mechanically follow specific rules
 
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