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Paramount’s potential combination with Warner Bros. Discovery would give the merged company 57% reach across US internet households, putting it near Netflix, Amazon, Google, and Disney. Paramount’s latest quarter strengthens the case, with streaming revenue up 11%, Paramount+ revenue up…

YouTube’s Q1 ad revenue rose 11% to $9.9 billion, putting it near a $10 billion quarter as Alphabet reported 22% overall revenue growth and 350 million paid subscriptions. YouTube’s scale on TV screens, low-content-risk economics, and behavioral bundle across ads,…

Meta and Google were found liable by a California jury for designing engagement-driven products that contributed to a young user’s depression and anxiety, with $6 million awarded in damages. The verdict reframes core product mechanics like infinite scroll, autoplay, and…

YouTube generated an estimated $62B in 2025 revenue, surpassing Disney’s $60.9B media segment, according to MoffettNathanson. The milestone highlights a structural shift in media where distribution scale and the ability to aggregate global audience attention are becoming more powerful than…

Internal documents from Meta, Google, Snap, and TikTok reveal how early user acquisition was designed to shape long-term habits and lifetime value. The same logic is now influencing how some streaming platforms approach product design, using tactics like autoplay, feeds,…

Apple is licensing Google’s Gemini models not out of weakness but as a strategic move to maintain control over the user experience while sidestepping the unsustainable cost curve of frontier AI development. Rather than compete in the commoditized model layer,…

YouTube is beta testing Playables Builder, an AI-powered game creation tool developed with Google’s Gemini 3, aimed at helping creators easily develop and publish games within its Playables hub. This move positions YouTube as a direct competitor to platforms like…

Disney and YouTube TV have resolved a two-week carriage dispute, finalizing a multi-year deal that restores Disney’s channels and integrates ESPN Plus and the forthcoming ESPN Unlimited into YouTube TV. The agreement reflects a strategic pivot toward aggregation, positioning ESPN’s…

Alphabet hit a record $102.35 billion in Q3 2025 revenue, driven by a breakout quarter for YouTube, which delivered $10.26 billion in ad sales, its first double-digit growth since 2022. Shorts now generate more revenue per watch hour than long-form,…

YouTube TV is in a carriage standoff with NBCUniversal, threatening to drop NBCU networks if a new agreement isn’t reached by the end of September. At the heart of the dispute: YouTube TV wants lower carriage rates, arguing that NBCU’s…