Spotify Reserves Concert Tickets for Its Most Dedicated Fans
Spotify will reserve concert tix for music superfans: It will use streams, shares and other activity to “identify an artist’s most dedicated fans and hold two tour tickets for them" in a partnership with Live Nation https://t.co/Vvtx4leFqd via @variety
Spotify, Universal License Fan Covers with Responsible AI
Spotify and Universal Music Announce Licensing Agreements for Fan-Made Covers and Remixes, Using ‘Responsible’ Generative AI Technology https://t.co/COc4aR3qLn via @variety
Spotify Leverages AI to Transform Into Interactive Multi‑Player Platform
Morning from @Spotify Investor Day 1 Big Thing so far: AI is tailwind to our business of *taste* 🤑Company says it'll get more profitable as it shifts from a passive, single media player to an interactive, multi-player platform 🤖It won't focus on building...
SpaceX Reports $100M Q1 Ad Revenue Dip
From the SpaceX S-1: X saw a $100MM decrease in advertising revenue in Q1, due to an "overhaul of the Company's advertising platform which impacted ad sales for a short period of time during the rebuild." https://t.co/emjCmlkAMG
YouTube Shorts Racks 2 B Hours on TV Monthly
YouTube revealed that viewers now watch over 2 billion hours of YouTube Shorts on TV screens each month. 📺 The TV screen has been a major growth area for YouTube and long-form content, but this highlights how short-form viewing is expanding...
Nexstar Says Injunction Protects Big Tech, Harms Local News
Nexstar has filed its argument against States and Directv in 9th Circuit regarding deal w Tegna. Here is their statement: The plaintiffs’ claims reflect a fundamental misunderstanding of the modern media landscape in which companies like Nexstar and TEGNA are...
S&P to Further Downgrade Paramount's Junk Rating After Warner Merger
Paramount’s Junk-Status Credit Rating to Be Downgraded Further Following Warner Bros. Merger to Reflect ‘Major Ongoing Uncertainties,’ S&P Global Says https://t.co/AgyXCgh4MD via @variety
Xbox Adds Analyst Matthew Ball, Names New CTO
Xbox hires game industry analyst Matthew Ball to lead strategy. Xbox also has a new CTO as part of a second round of major leadership changes this month. Full details 👇https://t.co/i7vgBUElIv
FCC Chair Carr Opposes State Attempts to Block Warner‑Paramount Merger
FCC Chairman Brendan Carr says he doesn't think state governments should try to block the Warner-Paramount deal.
Facebook Adds Bulk Upload for Reels, Streamlining Creator Workflow
Facebook launched a Reels bulk upload feature that allows creators to upload and schedule multiple Reels at once. Facebook has been trying to get creators to share more Reels content through programs like Creator Fast Track, and this tool makes...
AI Actors Spark Unprecedented Trademark Lawsuit Over Synthetic Characters
A look at SAG-AFTRA’s “synthetic” deal And the most 2026 lawsuit you’ll read all year: a French talent agency for brainrot characters, a Roblox megahit, and a legal theory that tries to make trademark law do what copyright won’t. https://puck.news/sag-aftras-ai-deal-opens-door-to-synthetic-actors/
25K Sales Enable Indie Pace and Publisher Funding
NEW: Why is Titanium Court selling 25k copies great? - For its developer, he can likely "make my next game at my own pace" - For its publisher, it “should be profitable enough for us over time to fund another 2-3 bets...
Walmart Boosts Ad Relevance by Prioritizing Semantics over Clicks
How Walmart improved sponsored search by prioritizing semantic relevance over engagement Candidate retrieval in ad / RecSys systems often uses a user's historical engagement data as a proxy for relevance. But researchers at Walmart argue that this approach is incomplete in...
Disney Deepens Hulu‑Disney+ Integration, Denies App Shutdown
Disney Pulls Hulu Even Tighter Into Disney+ but Company Says ‘No Current Plans’ to Phase Out Hulu App https://t.co/dxJsEKNJcT via @variety
YouTube Reaches 3 Billion Users, 37% of Humanity
Sundar Pichai at I/O says that YouTube is one of five Google products with more than three billion users, or about 37% of the global population.