Nathan McAlone

Critics are completely trashing Netflix’s new Marvel show, “Iron Fist,” and it is currently sitting at an insane 0% on reviews aggregator Rotten Tomatoes.

YouTube star Claudia Sulewski wants to diversify her career without disappointing her loyal YouTube audience.

Facebook announced that it has reached a deal with Major League Baseball to broadcast 20 games this season, part of the tech giant’s push into premium video.

On Thursday, LinkedIn released its annual list of the companies people want to work at in the US, and it’s absolutely dominated by tech giants.

Netflix has canceled six shows, not including “Bloodline,” which concluded after season three.

Netflix has canceled shows including ‘Love,’ ‘Haters Back Off,’ ‘Sense8,’ ‘Girlboss,’ ‘The Get Down,’ and ‘Chelsea.’

When the serial entrepreneur Gary Vaynerchuk bought PureWow early last year, the plan was to use the women’s lifestyle media company to launch a suite of brands under the leadership of its CEO, Ryan Harwood.After about 16 months tinkering under the hood, Gallery Media Group is finally having its coming-out party with the introduction of a new men’s brand called One37pm (stylized ONE37pm), which will focus on pop-culture topics like style, music, and sports through “the lens of entrepreneurship.”…

20th Century Fox’s upcoming Queen biopic, titled “Bohemian Rhapsody,” will be rated PG-13 for “thematic elements, suggestive material, drug content and language,” according to Exhibitor Relations.

It’s judgment day in TV land.In the past 24 hours, shockwave after shockwave has rocked the media ecosystem, and the news business in particular.Though each exit has its own reasons, they will certainly not be the last shake-ups at three media companies going through seismic changes.Shell’s bombshell exit took many insiders by surprise, Insider’s Claire Atkinson reported on Sunday.“People are shocked,” one NBCU exec told her.Comcast named its president, Michael Cavanagh, to step in temporarily f…

If you hate watching ads, expect to start paying more and more for your favorite streaming services.Now that Netflix has shed its aversion to ads, all the top streamers are pursuing essentially the same strategy when it comes to their offerings: they have a low-priced tier with ads, a higher one that’s ad free, and sometimes an even higher one that gets you more bells and whistles like ultra-HD video and high-quality sound.You might think that these streamers make about the same amount of money…

Amazon’s Prime Video service is prepping an ad tier — and it could mean you end up paying more money if you want to keep your viewing ad-free, The Wall Street Journal’s Jessica Toonkel reported Wednesday.Amazon is “planning to launch an advertising-supported tier of its Prime Video streaming service as it looks to further build its ad business and generate more revenue from entertainment,” Toonkel wrote, citing “people familiar with the situation.“Amazon declined to comment to Insider.“In recent…

TikTok wants to “more than quadruple” the size of its ecommerce business to as much as $20 billion in sales this year, Bloomberg reported Thursday, citing people familiar with the matter.That would be a huge increase from the $4.4 billion in sales TikTok Shop did last year, and the bulk of the growth would come from markets in Southeast Asia like Indonesia, where livestream shopping is very popular, according to Bloomberg.TikTok Shop is available in seven regions in Asia. It launched in the UK i…

Instagram’s Twitter rival, Threads, has surged to over 100 million users in less than a week, an eye-popping figure that shows the sheer size of the hype wave it’s riding. But the app has a fatal flaw that will ultimately doom it to mediocrity: It’s going to be boring.You can tell how boring Threads is going to be by the way Instagram parent Meta describes its vision: “To take what Instagram does best and expand that to text, creating a positive and creative space to express your ideas.“Here’s a…

“Streamflation” is a term that has haunted the entertainment world in recent weeks.Everyone is raising prices! The Financial Times declared that the streaming TV “basket” is now more expensive than cable, pegging the price of a top US bundle at $87 per month this fall compared to an $83 average for a cable package.I’m not quibbling with the idea that streamers like Netflix and Disney+ are raising prices and will likely continue to do so. I wrote in May about why a wave of price hikes for ad-free…

The OnlyFans ecosystem is still growing and minting major profits, according to new financials released by its UK-based parent company, Fenix International.In the filing, which reported the group’s financial results for its fiscal year that ended on November 30, 2022, the paywalled platform which is popular with adult creators saw gains across all its key metrics. Gross payments made through OnlyFans increased about 17%, from $4.8 billion in 2021 to $5.6 billion in 2022. This represents the amou…

FTC chair Lina Khan made some recent comments that should trouble anyone in the TV and movie business.In particular, when speaking on a recent podcast from The Ankler, Khan seemed to take the position that Hollywood was already being hurt by unfair market conditions caused by consolidation. She also suggested that her agency would look unfavorably on further concentration of power in the sector.This, I believe, is a fundamental misinterpretation of the problems that Hollywood is facing — and fai…

Just how broken is cable TV?So broken that Charter, the second-biggest cable company in the US with nearly 15 million subscribers, says it’s willing to walk away from the business entirely.Charter is currently locked in an ugly dispute with Disney over what are called carriage fees, or how much it pays to give its subscribers access to channels like ESPN. That’s led to a blackout of Disney-owned channels that’s taken the US Open, among other programming, off the air.Fights like this have been co…

Netflix flexed its muscles on Tuesday by releasing a massive data set showing its top shows and movies by viewing hours from January to June of this year.It was a classic Hollywood power move.First off, Netflix got to showcase the size of its audience and how deep the engagement has been on certain titles. The report covered almost 100 billion viewing hours and the top title, “The Night Agent: Season 1,” scored over 800 million viewing hours. Good luck to any of Netflix’s smaller rivals — and th…

Disney, Fox, and Warner Bros. Discovery are preparing to launch an “all-in-one premier” sports streaming service that will bring practically all of cable TV’s marquee sports to a direct-to-consumer offering.Each company would own one-third of the new joint venture, which they plan to launch later this year.Per a press release, by subscribing, “fans would have access to the linear sports networks including ESPN, ESPN2, ESPNU, SECN, ACCN, ESPNEWS, ABC, FOX, FS1, FS2, BTN, TNT, TBS, truTV, as well…

I flew to Austin on Friday for the premiere of Business Insider’s documentary on the rise and fall (and rise again) of MoviePass, the movie-ticket subscription service that became a cultural phenomenon in 2017 before descending into bankruptcy and securities fraud charges for some of its executives.It will air on HBO and stream on Max later this year (check out the reviews from The Hollywood Reporter and Slash Film).While there, I got to witness South by Southwest’s opening weekend, which was do…