Variety reports: “Comcast matched Wall Street’s expectations for its third quarter revenue and beat on earnings per share despite tough year-over-year comparisons for NBCUniversal.”
Hollywood Reporter reports: “WME has signed Condé Nast Entertainment, The Hollywood Reporter has learned. The video network, which produces content based on IP from Condé Nast’s prestigious portfolio of publishing brands…”
TechCrunch reports: “Ahead of the launch of Apple TV+ on November 1, Apple’s Apple TV app has begun to roll out to other platforms beyond Apple’s own streaming media player, Mac computers, and iOS devices. Earlier this month, for example, the app arrived on Roku devices.”
Deadline reports: “Twitter said it reached 145 million of what the company calls “monetizable daily active users” in the third quarter, up 17% from the same period a year ago. But the company badly undershot Wall Street expectations due to technical glitches in its advertising technology.”
Hypebot reports: “Music data analytics platform Soundcharts today launched what it’s calling its biggest product update since going online in 2016. A new feature dubbed Mentions enables global media and web monitoring of two million artists with geotargeted data from tens of thousands of sources.”
The Verge reports: “On October 22nd, some of Silicon Valley’s biggest critics introduced a bill that’s meant to undercut social media monopolies. The Augmenting Compatibility and Competition by Enabling Service Switching (ACCESS) Act is designed to make “large communications platforms” loosen their hold on user data.”
Billboard reports: “Pandora is marking the five-year anniversary of its Artist Marketing Platform (AMP), celebrating with a few key moments in the service’s evolution — while reporting a hefty usage increase over the past year.”
Variety reports: “Nearly six months before Quibi is slated to hit the market, a cluster of large advertisers has committed millions in ad spending to the ambitious — and untested — premium mobile-video brainchild of Jeffrey Katzenberg.”
TechCrunch reports: “Nooruldeen Agha, has been thinking about what’s next for fashion retail for years. The serial entrepreneur behind the Dubai-based online fashion retailer, Elabelz and marketing studio Elephant Nation had always wanted to redesign the shopping experience for how customers actually shopped in stores and online.”
Hollywood Reporter reports: “The details are still murky, but CNN has recently created a new internal group called NewsCo that is developing a suite of digital products, a company spokesperson confirmed to The Hollywood Reporter on Wednesday.”
