Category: Media
Netflix fishes for new subscribers in U.S. with free stream of ‘To All the Boys I’ve Loved Before’
Netflix is looking to get young adults hooked on its service by making its popular teenage rom-com, “To All the Boys I’ve Loved Before,” available to stream for free to everyone in the U.S., including non-subscribers. This isn’t the first time Netflix has offered free streaming — it teased Brits…
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Extra Crunch Anniversary: 9 lessons from building a media subscription product
Last year we embarked on a mission to democratize information for startups, and today we are celebrating the one-year anniversary of our membership program, Extra Crunch. Since launching Extra Crunch, we’ve published more than 1,000 articles, onboarded a few new hires, overhauled our technical infrastructure, expanded into five new European…
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Facebook will pay Reuters to fact-check Deepfakes and more
Eye-witness photos and videos distributed by news wire Reuters already go through an exhaustive media verification process. Now the publisher will bring that expertise to the fight against misinformation on Facebook. Today it launches the new Reuters Fact Check business unit and blog, announcing that it will become one of…
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Daily Crunch: SiriusXM backs SoundCloud
The Daily Crunch is TechCrunch’s roundup of our biggest and most important stories. If you’d like to get this delivered to your inbox every day at around 9am Pacific, you can subscribe here. 1. Music streaming pioneer SoundCloud raises $75M from Pandora owner SiriusXM The deal with SiriusXM is a…
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Free streaming service Tubi claims 25M monthly users as of December
Free streaming service Tubi is growing. The company announced today it reached 25 million monthly active users as of December, up from the 20 million it reported in mid-2019. In addition, it claims users watched 163 million hours in December, up 160% year-over-year. The company says markets outside the U.S.…
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Streaming accounts for nearly one-fifth of total U.S. TV watching, according to Nielsen
Streaming eats up a big chunk of viewers’ time, though it’s still outweighed by traditional linear TV. That’s according to the latest Total Audience Report from Nielsen — its first Total Audience Report to use smart TV data from Gracenote, and one that’s particularly focused on “the flash point of…
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