TechCrunch reports: “Over the past year or two, Squarespace has been expanding beyond website-building with new products like email marketing and its first acquisition (of an online scheduling tool).”
VentureBeat reports: “Big Run Studios CEO Andrew Bell announced that his company will make new mobile games exclusively built for Skillz, the mobile esports platform.”
Billboard reports: “Hong Kong-based virtual reality startup Sandbox VR has closed an $11 million funding round, bringing the company’s reported total to $83 million in 2019 following a Series A round earlier this year.”
Variety reports: “Banijay Group is on the verge of sealing a deal for production and distribution powerhouse Endemol Shine, sources tell Variety. Vivendi-backed Banijay and Endemol Shine’s joint owners, Disney and Apollo, are understood to have scheduled a meeting for Thursday after talks accelerated in recent days, with Banijay now on the brink of finally closing a deal for a big asset it has been chasing.”
Hollywood Reporter reports: “Marvel has inked a deal with SiriusXM to create exclusive podcasts for the subscription radio platform and its Pandora music streaming subsidiary. The exclusive multiyear agreement includes both scripted and unscripted shows and live events and will kick off in 2020.”
Hollywood Reporter reports: “Streaming media firm Roku said Tuesday that it has agreed to acquire Boston-based dataxu, a video advertising platform that enables marketers to plan and buy campaigns, for $150 million in cash and stock.”
Hypebot reports: “Last week the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals told a lower federal court to reconsider Pandora’s bid to negate a class-action lawsuit over the streaming of pre-1972 recordings.”
Variety reports: “After two years of measuring Netflix viewing, Nielsen has now added Amazon Prime Video to the mix of subscription-streaming services it tracks — and with the same set of limitations.”
Hollywood Reporter reports: “With less than a month until Disney+ makes its eagerly anticipated debut, those behind the streaming service are raising the curtain on what to expect — at least on the nonfiction side.”
TechCrunch reports: “AT&T’s streaming service is again raising prices. AT&T’s TV Now, the service previously known as DirecTV Now, is bumping up its prices yet again — by as much as 30%, Bloomberg reported and AT&T confirmed.”
