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Netflix Hires Arnold Schwarzenegger as Chief Action Officer
Netflix has hired Terminator, Predator, and Jingle All the Way star Arnold Schwarzenegger as its chief action officer. Announced in a promotional video on Netflix's YouTube, Schwarzenegger can be seen arriving at the streaming giant's headquarters in a tank. "No one loves action as much as I do," he said in the video. "That's why I've accepted the big new job as Netflix's chief action officer."
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Netflix Launches Paid Sharing in U.S., Will Start Blocking Users With Unauthorized Passwords
If you’re sharing your Netflix password with someone who doesn’t live with you, get ready to pay up — it will cost $7.99 per month extra to add another user to your account. On Tuesday, Netflix said it is launching its crackdown on illicit password sharing to its biggest market, the U.S., angling to squeeze a bigger chunk of change from customers who share their logins with friends and family outside their household.
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Hulu's National Streaming Day Deal Knocks 74% Off Subscription Cost for 3 Months
With National Streaming Day taking place tomorrow, May 20, one of the most popular streaming services is celebrating with a steep discount. Hulu is offering three months of streaming access for just $2 per month, a savings of 74% versus the usual monthly price. The discount applies to its ad-supported tier and is available to new and eligible returning subscribers.
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'I got a check the other day for $8': TV and film writers share why they're on strike
Entertainment writers are striking coast to coast. The clever signs they’re holding up on the picket lines (“Don’t pay us peanuts to write ‘Billions’”) are often as creative as their work. Every three years, the Writers Guild of America, the TV and film writers’ union, negotiates a contract with the Alliance of Motion Picture and Television Producers. It’s intended to cover issues such as minimum pay for various projects, health insurance and workplace safety.
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Amazon Starts Licensing Originals: Netflix, Your Move
As streamers prioritize revenue over subscriptions, old-fashioned licensing suddenly looks sexy.
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Data: Which TV and Streaming Companies Are Most Vulnerable in a Writers Strike?
The writers strike of 2023 is on. Now that the die has been cast, there’s one question on everyone’s lips: Who can ride out the storm? VIP+ has conducted an analysis of the leading U.S. TV and streaming entertainment companies to assess how reliant they are on scripted content, which is most vulnerable to being disrupted by a strike. We examined the volume of scripted comedy and drama the companies program versus more secure unscripted genres, including documentaries, true crime, reality, pop culture and lifestyle.
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‘Sweet Tooth’ Renewed for Third and Final Season at Netflix
Production on the last season of the Warner Bros. TV series based on the DC Comics title has already been completed.
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Netflix reveals new timeline for its password-sharing crackdown
Netflix said a crackdown on password-sharing among U.S. subscribers is coming by the end of June, modestly delaying a plan that has caused consternation among many subscribers of the streaming service. In its quarterly earnings report this week, Netflix said it would launch a paid password-sharing program globally in the second quarter of the year, including in the U.S. The company had earlier said it planned to introduce it by the end of March.
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Netflix Will End Its DVD Service After 25 Years
Call up your Luddite loved ones and your nostalgic friends who still cherish physical media. After 25 years, Netflix is ending its DVD-by-mail business. Before it was upending the entertainment industry and ushering in the streaming era, Netflix was a company whose business model revolved around sending DVDs through the mail in easily recognizable red-and-white envelopes.
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Americans Spend $48 per Month on Video Streaming Services — and Half of Those Surveyed Say That’s Too Much
“Subscription fatigue” among consumers is only getting worse, making it even more challenging for direct-to-streaming video providers to retain customers, according to Deloitte’s latest Digital Media Trends survey. As streaming video competition continues to intensify, subscription growth rates across the industry have slowed — and churn rates have increased, according to the Deloitte’s 17th annual Digital Media Trends report. On average, U.S. consumers pay $48 per month for subscription-video services...
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Blockbuster ‘laughed us out of the room,’ recalls Netflix cofounder on trying to sell company now worth over $150 billion for $50 million
Marc Randolph, who cofounded Netflix with Reed Hastings in 1997, sees a lesson in a key moment from the company's history.
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Hollywood writers vote on strike: ‘At stake is the viability of TV as a career’
Hollywood writers have until Monday to authorize their union to call a strike amid contentious contract negotiations with major studios. The authorization, based on a vote by guild members, would grant the leadership of the Writers Guild of America (WGA) the ability to call a strike if it can’t reach a contract with Alliance of Motion Picture and Television Producers (AMPTP) by 1 May.
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Report: Only 37% Of Viewers Finished Amazon’s Lord Of The Rings TV Show, The Most Expensive In History
Last year’s massively expensive Lord of the Rings show on Amazon, Rings of Power, had a lot of hype going into it. Yet after Amazon spent over $450 million on the lavish production, a report claims that fewer than half of the viewers who watched the first episode finished the entire series.
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AV1 Live Streaming Is Finally Coming To YouTube
In a recent video, YouTuber EposVox reports that YouTube is finally rolling out AV1 live-streaming support to the platform, with the tech currently in a beta. AV1 will provide YouTube live streams with a substantial increase in video quality, and allow users to stream at up to 4K 60FPS with Twitch-limited bitrates. EposVox was able to get early access to a development build of OBS 29.1 to check out YouTube's live streaming AV1 capabilities.
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iOS 16.5 code indicates quad-box Picture-in-Picture feature in development for Apple TV sports streams
Picture-in-Picture has been a feature on Apple’s platforms for a few years, allowing a single video to pop out into a floating window while the user browses the rest of the OS. Apple appears to be working on upgrading that capability, at least for live sports matches in the Apple TV app. Code references first spotted by Steve Moser in the iOS 16.5 betas describe a new “Multiview” experience for the Apple TV app, supporting up to four simultaneous streams at once.
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Take a Break from Netflix in April But Keep These Streaming Services
Heading into April, watching sports is probably a priority with NCAA tournaments and the upcoming NBA playoff season. Some of you may be paying for a live TV streaming service in addition to mainstays like Netflix or Disney Plus to catch all of it. It can get expensive. But there are a few TV shows and movies worth streaming this month, even if that means holding on to a subscription longer like than you want to.
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Frequent TV Series Cancellations Altering Viewer Behavior, Survey Shows
Frequent TV show cancellations are starting to change how U.S. viewers decide what to watch. In fact, whether or not the show has concluded has a significant impact on whether people sample it, according to a survey from YouGov.
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Joe Exotic Says 'Tiger King' Ruined His Life In Exclusive Jailhouse Interview
Joe Exotic says the hit Netflix series surrounding his life is the worst thing that's happened to him, because it made the public believe he tried to kill Carole Baskin -- and yet, he's forgiven everyone, including Carole, as he faces the possibility of dying in prison.
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Warner Bros. Discovery Worried That ‘HBO’ Name Turns Off New Subscribers
Warner Bros. Discovery is pushing forward with a plan to drop “HBO” from the name of its flagship streaming service HBO Max. That decision for the long-planned rebranding of the combined HBO Max and Discovery+ services was partially informed by the company’s belief that “the HBO name turns off many potential subscribers,” Bloomberg reported on Thursday and TheWrap independently confirmed.
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Arnold Schwarzenegger Is Back in Action, and His First TV Series, in Netflix’s ‘Fubar’ Trailer
Arnold Schwarzenegger is back. Netflix has released the first teaser trailer for the “Terminator” star’s upcoming action-comedy series, titled “Fubar.” “Everywhere I go, people ask me when I’m going to do another big action comedy like ‘True Lies.’ Well, here it is,” Schwarzenegger said in a statement. “‘Fubar’ will kick your ass and make you laugh — and not just for two hours. You get a whole season.”
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