When you’ve basically got as many subscribers as you can currently, you need your competitors (linear TV, YouTube, TikTok, the great outdoors, etc.) to do worse. So yes, of course, Hastings wants linear TV to kick the bucket. - The Verge
In number of subscribers, Vox is fourth, behind the BBC, ABC News, and CNN. But in average number of views per video, Vox racks up more than 2 million, four times the tally of the runner-up, The Economist (and more than 14 times that of Fox News). - Press Gazette (UK)
Last week, when Panahi went to Tehran's Evin Prison to inquire about a colleague who'd just been arrested, he was taken into custody himself and ordered to serve a six-year sentence for "propaganda against the system" that he had received following the mass protests after the disputed 2009 election. - BBC
Even though the tally, 970,000, is the largest such loss in the company's history, executives and analysts had expected the number to be more than twice as high. - Variety
Among the issues surrounding the film, titled Sebaya: a key scene doesn't show the rescue it purports to show, whether the women onscreen legitimately consented to appear, and an issue the film avoids entirely: rescued women being separated from the children sired by their ISIS enslavers. - The New York Times
"The danger, when you’re dealing with a bigger budget, is that in polishing it up, you might sand down all the things that made it wonderful." - Los Angeles Times
No, this isn't a return of an early meme. This is an action film, by the brothers who made Marvel zillions of dollars with the Avengers, that is Netflix's attempt to start an action franchise. - The New York Times
"When we think about the virtual plane of existence where the impossible is possible, it's likely that many of us are going to want to use that to enrich our connection to the stories and characters we love most." - MSN (Los Angeles Times)
YouTube isn't protecting its smaller artists (or any artists) from false claims. Says one producer, "A lot of the legal practices are going towards stifling artists, which is interesting when the main idea of is to be protecting them." - NPR
Only Maggie Gyllenhaal has worked well with her in the past few years, in Lost Daughter. Dare we even address the travesty of the new Persuasion? - Washington Post
Those ads will come from a partnership with Microsoft. "It’s very early days and we have much to work through, ... but our long-term goal is clear." - The Guardian (UK)
Rather jaw-dropping, really. "The BBC has declared a record income of £5.33 billion ($6.4 billion) for the 2021/2022 period, up from £5.06 billion last year, and a surplus of £206 billion." - Variety
Perhaps, as some in Japan say, because America has such a black-and-white, good-versus-evil mindset. Perhaps because Hollywood thinks animation is for kids and therefore must be simple. It could be an epic snafu with the English script. Or it could be, as Neil Gaiman says, "Harvey Weinstein being petty." - BBC
