YouTube crowned new media monarch
Threatens Hollywood's old guard
MoffettNathanson has dubbed YouTube the “New King of All Media,” a title once reserved for broadcast giants and film studios.
E3 to be replaced with management speak
This is what happens when you let managers and marketers take over a gaming expo
One of the most famous gaming expos, E3, which was shuttered in 2023, is being replaced by something packed with so much toxic management speak that it should contain a warning on the box.
Disney goes for a head shot to create a Mickey Mouse universe
Building skills, one ramp at a time
Mickey Mouse outfit Disney is splashing out €1.3 billion for a stake in Epic Games, the makers of Fortnite and Unreal Engine, as part of a wider deal to create a new Disney gaming world.
Musk pins hopes on SMEs
Please give me all your money
After losing key advertisers like Apple, IBM and Disney with his superior management skills, Elon [look at me] Musk is trying to interest small to medium-sized businesses to advertise in his social notworking business X.
Social media will allow fake news during the elections
Not even worth trying
Big Tech is rolling back all the censorship and policies to curb misinformation ahead of the 2024 election cycle.
Metaverse is already contracting
Was not the big bang everyone hoped for
As we have predicted, Mark Zuckerberg’s hopes that the “metaverse” will be a big thing are being dashed.
Cop admits using Disney’s copyright trolls
To stop people videoing him
A US cop in Santa Ana, California came up with a wizard wheeze to stop people videoing him and putting up his arrests on YouTube – he played Disney songs on his squad car to make sure that the Enchanted Kingdom’s briefs would issue take down notices.
Big Tech’s fake climate shame
Apple, Amazon, Microsoft and Disney back groups opposed to climate change
While their customers believe that they are as green as Greta Thunberg, Apple, Amazon, Microsoft and Disney, are backing business groups that are fighting climate legislation.
Disney looks to blockchain to defeat pirates
Chains didn't do the British much good against the Dutch navy
Disney added a new anti-piracy patent to its arsenal: a blockchain-based distribution system that aims to make it harder for pirates to intercept films being distributed to movie theatres.
Nestle and Disney pull YouTube adverts
Kiddy porn crisis
Walt Disney and Nestle have pulled advertising spending from YouTube after a blogger detailed how comments on Google’s video site were being used to facilitate a “soft-core paedophilia ring”.