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Jennifer Maas / Variety:
Filing: Netflix co-CEO Ted Sarandos received $53.9M in 2025 compensation, down from $62M in 2024; co-CEO Greg Peters received $53.2M, down from $60M in 2024 — Netflix co-CEOs Ted Sarandos and Greg Peters saw their compensation come in just above $53 million in 2025, which actually marked …
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Isabella Simonetti / Wall Street Journal:
Netflix chairman and co-founder Reed Hastings will step down from the company's board after his term expires in June to focus on philanthropy and other pursuits
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Bill Bradley / Adweek:
Netflix says it continues to expect its ad revenue to reach ~$3B in 2026, doubling from 2025, and it now works with 4,000+ advertising clients, up 70% YoY
Netflix says it continues to expect its ad revenue to reach ~$3B in 2026, doubling from 2025, and it now works with 4,000+ advertising clients, up 70% YoY
Lucas Shaw / Bloomberg:
Netflix reports Q1 revenue up 16% YoY to $12.25B, vs. $12.2B est., net income up 83% YoY to $5.28B, and forecasts Q2 EPS and revenue below est.; NFLX drops 10%+
Netflix reports Q1 revenue up 16% YoY to $12.25B, vs. $12.2B est., net income up 83% YoY to $5.28B, and forecasts Q2 EPS and revenue below est.; NFLX drops 10%+
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Reshmi Basu / Bloomberg:
QVC Group, owner of TV shopping channels QVC and HSN, files for bankruptcy as part of a plan to cut more than $5B in debt; shares closed down 69% on Thursday — Television shopping network QVC Group filed for bankruptcy Thursday as part of a plan to cut more than $5 billion of debt …
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Corbin Bolies / The Wrap:
Profile of Jacqui Heinrich, Fox News' senior WH correspondent and incoming WHCA president, who prefers private negotiations with the White House to public feuds — The incoming White House Correspondents' Association president tells TheWrap why she thinks Donald Trump is attending …
Janko Roettgers / The Verge:
A look at the continued success of Korean content on Netflix, where subscribers watched 51B+ hours of Korean movies and TV shows between 2023 and 2025 — Korean TV shows outperform other sources of entertainment on the service — and we're not just talking Squid Game.
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Ronan Shields / Digiday:
Bauer Media Group announced company-wide restructuring this week, citing traffic loss to AI Overviews; sources: 20%-30% of its publishing division will be cut — Bauer Media Group, the entity behind titles such as Closer, Empire, Grazia and Heat, announced a company-wide restructuring this week …
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Nilay Patel / The Verge:
Q&A: Ronan Farrow on his Sam Altman profile in The New Yorker, sorting through rumors amid well-funded industry opposition research targeting Altman, and more — Today on Decoder, I'm talking with Ronan Farrow, one of the biggest stars of investigative reporting working today.
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Krystal Scanlon / Digiday:
Ad buyers say ad rates for ChatGPT are falling from $60 CPM to as low as $25 and the minimum spend to advertise is down to $50K from $250K at launch — Advertising in ChatGPT is already getting cheaper. The rate advertisers pay to reach every thousand users has fallen from $60 …
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Rebecca Bellan / TechCrunch:
AI video startup Luma launches Innovative Dreams, a production company, in partnership with Wonder Project, a religious film and TV streamer on Amazon Prime — AI video generation startup Luma has launched Innovative Dreams, a production company built in partnership with Wonder Project …
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Katie Robertson / New York Times:
Notus will rename itself The Star and relaunch in early June as it adds local news and sports coverage; source: Robert Allbritton will add ~$30M to its funding — The Washington publication is rebranding as it expands its local news and sports coverage in the wake of substantial layoffs at The Washington Post.
Caitlin Huston / The Hollywood Reporter:
Hulu adds four video podcasts after launching its first one in February as part of a licensing deal with podcast network Headgum — The titles include comedy podcast ‘Handsome’ along with rewatch pods for ‘New Girl’, ‘Prison Break’ and ‘This Is Us.’ — Hulu is bringing four more podcasts …
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Financial Times:
Sources: OnlyFans is in advanced talks to sell a below 20% stake at a $3B+ valuation; previous reports said it wants to sell a ~60% stake at a ~$5.5B valuation — Discussions with Architect Capital come less than a month after Leonid Radvinsky died — OnlyFans, the UK-based streaming platform used …
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Brian Steinberg / Variety:
Sources: Disney told advertisers it's seeking $10M for a 30-second Super Bowl LXI ad, but the price has some marketers holding back — The company has told advertisers it believes they should pay $10 million for a 30-second ad in the company's 2027 telecast of Super Bowl LXI …
Ryan Glasspiegel / Front Office Sports:
Sources: the NFL and YouTube are in advanced talks for a five-game package; deal price and duration were not immediately known — The NFL and YouTube have entered a long-form contract review for a five-game package, Front Office Sports has learned. — While a deal has not been finalized …
