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Spotify Q1 Revenue Rises 8%, Premium Subscribers Inch Up to 293 Million Amid U.S. Price Hikes
Spotify reported results for the first quarter of 2026 that were in line or slightly ahead of expectations across all key metrics —…
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Sony Pictures Revenue Drops 12%, Overall Company Operating Income Jumps Up 22% in December Quarter
Sony Group raised its outlook for the current fiscal year ending in March, as the Tokyo-based tech and entertainment company beat…
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Sony Pictures Revenue Drops 12%, Music Posts Strong Results as Overall Company Operating Income Jumps Up 22% in December Quarter
Sony Group raised its outlook for the current fiscal year ending in March, as the Tokyo-based tech and entertainment company beat…
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YouTube Ad Revenue Hits Record $11.38 Billion in Q4, but Falls Short of Expectations
YouTube continues to vacuum up digital advertising dollars, mostly at the expense of traditional TV ad budgets, notching its biggest-ever…
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Netflix Tops 325 Million Subscribers, Plans to Boost Content Spending 10% to $20 Billion in 2026
Netflix said it had more than 325 million subscribers worldwide as of the end of 2025 — up from 301.2 million a year prior — as it looks…
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AMC Networks’ U.S. Ad Sales Drop 17% in Q3, Streaming Subscribers Rise 2% to 10.4 Million
AMC Networks reported its third-quarter 2025 earnings Friday, revealing a 17% decline in U.S. ad sales for the TV media company. During…
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Warner Bros. Discovery Swings to Q3 Loss, With ‘Superman’ Box Office Offset by Ad Declines
Warner Bros. Discovery has been telling investors it wants to split the company in two — and just produced some evidence that such a deal…
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Spotify Tops 700 Million Monthly Users in Q3, Revenue Climbs 13%: ‘It All Comes Back to User Fundamentals,’ Says Outgoing CEO Daniel Ek
Spotify saw double-digit growth on its free and paid-subscription tiers for the third quarter of 2025, as the audio streaming delivered…
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TelevisaUnivision Sees Q3 Profit Dip Due in Part to Advertising Shortfall
Spanish-language giant TelevisaUnivision said third-quarter profit declined as the company continued its efforts to streamline operations…
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Starz Sees Q2 Revenue Drop 8%, Streaming Subs Decline After Lionsgate Split
Starz saw an 8% drop in revenue for its April 1-June 30 earnings, the now-standalone media company reported Thursday. Additionally, Starz…
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Warner Bros. Discovery Swings to Q2 Profit, Boosted by HBO Max Expansion, ‘Minecraft’
The story of Warner Bros. Discovery is quickly becoming a tale of two companies — and that’s a narrative executives would really like Wall…
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Hulu Sale Boosts Comcast Q2 Despite Cord Cutting, Ad Sales Downturn
Comcast said its second quarter profit was boosted by the sale of its remaining stake in the Hulu streaming service to Disney and…
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YouTube Pumps Up Ad Revenue 13% in Q2 to Reach $9.8 Billion
YouTube, the world’s biggest video platform, keeps eating a bigger portion of the ad-spending pie. For the second quarter of 2025,…
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AMC Networks Streaming Subscribers Dip to 10.2 Million in Q1 as Company Moves to Only Count Direct, Paid Sign-Ups
AMC Networks reported its first-quarter 2025 earnings Friday, revealing a new system for counting its total subscribers across AMC+,…
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CW Loss Increases by ‘Mid-Teen Millions’ in Q1 as Nexstar Continues to Project 2026 Profitability Goal
Nexstar reported its first-quarter 2025 earnings Thursday, revealing broadcaster the CW had taken a hit on its long journey to…
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Apple Services Revenue Rises 11.6% to Hit New Record, Tech Giant Posts $24.8 Billion Profit
Apple‘s services revenue continued to climb in the first three months of 2025 to hit a new record, although at a slower pace than past…
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YouTube Ad Revenue Bulks Up 10.3% to $8.9 Billion as Alphabet Q1 Net Profit Jumps 46%
YouTube continues to rake in money from advertisers worldwide, with the video giant’s ad revenue reaching $8.93 billion in the first…
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Comcast Sees Q1 Profit Dip On Cable, Ad Revenue
Comcast said first-quarter net income fell 12.5% as revenue from its bedrock cable business dipped and ad revenue from its NBCUniversal…
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‘GTA 6’ on Course for Fall 2025, Take-Two CEO Says
Take-Two Interactive reported its quarterly earnings results for October to December 2024 on Thursday, which once again did not include a…
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YouTube Q4 Ad Sales Hit Record $10.5 Billion, Parent Alphabet Projects $75 Billion in 2025 Capex Spending Amid AI Arms Race
YouTube, the internet’s biggest streaming video platform, delivered a healthy 13.8% increase in global ad revenue for the year-end 2024…