Peter Kafka in Media on October 10, 2013 at 1:15 pm PT
One of the the first “funded” channels gets new backers.
Peter Kafka in D11 on May 29, 2013 at 7:01 pm PT
Manager Scooter Braun tells all!
Tricia Duryee in Commerce on October 29, 2012 at 11:30 pm PT
Guess who brought a jet to a gunfight? Downey did!
Peter Kafka in Media on October 7, 2012 at 8:00 pm PT
YouTube pours more money into the experiment it launched a year ago, by inking deals with another 60-plus Web programmers, many of them in Europe. Some of them you’ve heard of.
Peter Kafka in Media on December 14, 2011 at 11:14 am PT
The world’s biggest music label signs one of the biggest stars in the world, for a song. But the Madonna/Univeral deal still makes sense for both sides.
Peter Kafka in Media on October 28, 2011 at 6:00 pm PT
Google announces deals with “Modern Family” star Sofia Vergara and a bunch of other famous people to make stuff for the site. Next up: Signing on advertisers.
Peter Kafka in Media on May 29, 2011 at 9:17 pm PT
Because it’s fun, because it’s a long weekend, and because the people of Grand Rapids, Michigan, have an axe to grind.
Peter Kafka in Media on May 27, 2011 at 12:51 pm PT
Amazon’s melted servers still sold lots of 99-cent “Born This Way” albums this week–and iTunes sold a lot of full-priced ones, too. Also, weird but true: People are still buying compact discs!
Peter Kafka in Media on February 14, 2011 at 4:27 am PT
The Grammys generated a flurry of online interest last night, but the music industry’s biggest event of the year is AWOL this morning. Opportunity wasted.