The significant uptick in advertiser investment in the medium is evident across classic, transport and digital OOH formats and represents the best start to a year for the sector for some years.
Last year, Netflix made a particularly risky bet by pushing users who share passwords to create their own accounts — but it’s paid off. Netflix, the dominant player in streaming, added more than 9 million subscribers in the first three months of the year, hitting a record high of 269.6 million subscribers. “It added more subscribers than many analysts, myself included, expected,” said eMarketer senior analyst Ross Benes. “This signals that password sharing was even more common than...
The cost of the “extra members” on Max’s platform will be cheaper than $9.99, according to Bloomberg.
Netflix's password-sharing crackdown appears to be paying off as the company added another 9 million subscribers in the first quarter of this year, bringing the total to almost 270 million paid accounts.
Microsoft has announced its third quarter earnings for the period ending March 31, 2024, noting a 62% revenue increase in Xbox content and services.As part of the More Personal Computing sector, Microsoft said the increase was driven by 61 points of net impact from the Activision acquisition. Thanks to the latter, revenue for the sector was up 17% to $15.6 billion year-over-year (yoy). However, taking Activision Blizzard King out of the equation, revenue for Xbox content and services was only...
Local relationship bank Handelsbanken has appointed Kevin Hulse as its first Corporate Manager – Business Development for Edinburgh. Born and bred in the capital, the 43-year-old steps into the newly-created position after two years with the bank as a Corporate Manager based at its Edinburgh East branch at Waterloo Place. The strategic appointment sees Hulse take on responsibility for driving the bank’s growth right across the city, his remit also covering the Edinburgh West End branch at...
The government has announced 43 measures it says will reduce youth and gang crime.
Netflix’s Baby Reindeer is full of turbulence. Series creator and comedian Richard Gadd lifts from his real-life experience with a stalker to write seven jaw-dropping episodes that are tough to digest. They’re emotionally devastating and cause physical discomfort but deliver a profoundly human story that’s impossible to shake off long after the final credits roll. It’s no wonder Baby Reindeer has become a word-of-mouth phenomenon since its relatively quiet April 11 debut, jumping to the global...
Geneva, Apr 23 (Prensa Latina) The WHO Global Malaria Program published on Tuesday a new operational strategy outlining priorities and activities to help change trends in this deadly disease. The post WHO: New strategy to boost stalled crackdown on malaria first appeared on Prensa Latina.
Qualcomm signed a deal with Meta Platforms to run its Llama 3 Large Language Model (LLM) on devices including VR headsets, smartphones and vehicles powered by the next Snapdragon chipsets,
Block, owner of Cash App and Square, is also a huge owner of bitcoin. This, as the company’s latest first quarter 2024 earnings results revealed that the company’s $200 million investment in bitcoin grew by around 160% and stood at $573 million at the quarter’s end. “We believe the world needs an open protocol for money, one that’s not owned or […]
During the ID@Xbox presentation, we got a creepy but intriguing look at Centum, an upcoming point-and-click adventure game scheduled to launch sometime this summer. The game is set to release for Xbox Series X|S and PC. Centum sees you trying to escape a strange cell, but the announcement trailer hints that there may be more to the story. The environment of your prison shifts and changes, and the Steam page for the game says that you're at the mercy of an unreliable narrator. Though the art...