Yahoo’s quarterly earnings, due out after the close of markets today in the US, come at a time of almost unprecedented scrutiny for its already much-scrutinized CEO, Marissa Mayer.
Bob Dylan’s songs often feature surreal and cryptic lyrics. Many academic papers and even entire college courses have been devoted to trying to interpret them.
2014 was a difficult year for Twitter. Disappointing user growth, instability among the executive team and above all else, a sinking stock price, all made its triumphant IPO in late 2013 seem like a distant memory. (Our friends at The Atlantic even wrote a eulogy for the service).
As you may have heard, the New England Patriots have been accused of deflating footballs in last Sunday’s blowout victory over the Indianapolis Colts, which earned them a trip to the Super Bowl in Arizona on Feb. 1.
In less than two weeks, the 49th edition of America’s SuperBowl, the National Football League’s highly extravagant annual championship game, will take place in Arizona, capturing the country’s attention like no other sporting event can.
Netflix’s quarterly shareholder letter, released overnight, contained lots of new information. But one section in particular stood out:
Amazon is on a roll in streaming video.
When Neil Young speaks (or sings), people tend to listen.
Here is some sobering news for anyone in the journalism industry:
If you’re in the US and happened to be watching the NFL last night and keeping an eye on social media, you might have noticed this exchange on Twitter.
Every January, hordes of people promise themselves they will lose pounds as part of New Year’s resolutions. This has done nothing to improve the investor psychology on one of the biggest names in the weight-loss industry.
Carlos Slim has increased his stake in the New York Times Company.
It might not be performing as poorly as bitcoin or crude oil, but stock in Elon Musk’s electric car company Tesla has started 2015 on shaky footing indeed.
Netflix is the king of streaming video in the US, and it’s not a huge surprise to see a gaping chasm between the web traffic it attracts and that generated by its rivals.
Millennials, Gen Ys, or whatever you want to call people born between the early 1980s and 2000, were the first generation to grow up with the internet. Which means they were also the first generation to naturally expect to be able to access to vast swathes of music, film and TV content without needing to pay for it.
We’ve said it before, we’ll say it again. Old-fashioned broadcast radio is a remarkably resilient medium.
Amazon just upped the ante in the streaming television wars.
Some fairly high profile investors have decided to tip money into Whistle Sports, a digitally native sports network that creates content designed for millennials.
Spotify’s impressive growth continues.
John Oliver’s Last Week Tonight was one of the great cultural success stories of 2014.
If you’ve been paying attention to the music business over the past year, you will be well aware of a few, hugely significant trends sweeping through that industry. For starters, streaming is booming, and that’s hurting digital downloads and ownership of music more broadly.
It isn’t too soon to see that 2015 will go down as the year when cutting the cable cord in the US, and not missing out on the best content, truly became possible. It just might not be as cheap to do as some of the hype suggests.
John Legere and T-Mobile finished 2014 on a strong note—which is good news, because 2015 is shaping up to be a critical year for the American wireless carrier and its highly entertaining CEO.
If further proof of the fundamental importance of sports to the US television industry were needed, then consider this: The two most watched programs in the history of cable TV aired last week. They were both college football playoff games.
