Month: December 2020

YouTube released features to make its comments section less toxic and provided details on an upcoming voluntary survey that will help it determine which communities creators belong to and ensure that those creators and communities are being treated fairly by its systems. The Google-owned video site will test a new filter in YouTube Studio for…

Halo Infinite, the newest title from the long-running franchise, had been ordained as a return to relevance for the pioneering series. But the game is off to a rocky start. Originally slated for a release in December on the newly released Xbox consoles, Halo Infinite has been delayed until 2021 without a new release date…

Major players in connected TV, including Amazon and Vizio, are solidifying their positions as go-to ad platforms as the streaming grab ramps up. Vizio is altering licensing agreements with ad-tech companies using Inscape Data Services, its TV data company. According to multiple sources, Vizio is restructuring contracts with Inscape customers to limit retargeting and other…

The Atlantic is having a hectic, but momentous year. While the media company, known for its eponymous 163-year-old print magazine, saw cuts in its newsroom and events division this year, it also secured in impressive consumer revenue growth–in no small part due to its industry-leading coverage of politics and the Covid-19 pandemic. Building on its…

While some of the apparel industry’s most venerated names, including Neiman Marcus, J.Crew and Brooks Brothers have struggled mightily in 2020, venerable retailer Lands’ End doubled its net income in the last year, to $7.2 million. Both sales and profits boomed in the third quarter, with net revenue up 5.9% to $360 million. One of…

Business is good at Discord. The popular chat app that’s been styled “Slack for gamers” has seen its user base soar in recent years. But 2020 has led to a different magnitude of growth, doubling Discord’s valuation in less than six months. With the pandemic keeping many people indoors and searching for virtual ways to…

As BBC One’s and HBO’s His Dark Materials ramp up the inter-dimensional travel plot-lines in its new second season, the broadcaster’s in-house creative agency is turning to augmented reality to best represent the fantasy series’ complexities. BBC Creative launched a new Snapchat lens this week that allows users in the United Kingdom to open a…

Dramatically expanding its theatrical-to-streaming movie efforts, all of WarnerMedia’s intended theatrical movies for next year will also be released on its HBO Max on the same day they launch in
theaters.