Mobile
CES 2020: Whitman, Katzenberg Reveal Final Details on New Streaming Service Quibi (CNBC)
Meg Whitman and Jeffrey Katzenberg revealed the final details of their streaming service Quibi. The service will launch on April 6 for $4.99 per month with ads or $7.99 per month f... More
Apple’s App Store Had Gross Sales Around $50B Last Year, but Growth is Slowing (CNBC)
Apple announced that it has paid $155 billion to developers since 2008, up from $120 billion disclosed in January 2019. That means the company’s App Store had total sales maxing ... More
Netflix Expected to Bring Mobile-Only Plan to More Markets (THR)
India became the first country in the world where the streaming video giant launched such an offering, costing $2.99 per month, to take on local rivals and drive user growth in a p... More
Marvel Conquered Movies – Can it Do the Same With Audiobooks? (Wired)
Over the past decade, few institutions in the pop culture universe have dominated the conversation as much as Marvel. It wrapped things up in 2019 with Avengers: Endgame, which bec... More
CES 2020 Audio Predictions: Expect More Noise-Canceling Headphones, 3D Music (Digital Trends)
CES is always full of mystery. That’s what makes it so much fun — and so terribly difficult to prepare for. That said, while we’re always in for some surprises, it doesn’t ... More
Led by Apple, the Wearables Market Has Doubled Since Last Year (Axios)
The market for wearables — from smartwatches to souped-up headphones — is surging. Last quarter, sales rose 96% from a year earlier, per IDC.... More
Twenty Mobile Trends for 2020 (ZDNet)
A high-level summary of 15 trends on what we expect to happen and five trends of what will not happen.... More
Verizon Media, Serena Williams Launch Shoppable Video Series (MESA)
Verizon Media together with global sports icon Serena Williams announced an exclusive shoppable video series expanding S by Serena’s “Everybody, Every Body” content released ... More
Mobile Game Spending Hits Single-Day Record of $70M on Black Friday (THR)
User spending on mobile games in the U.S. hit an all-time single-day high of $69.7 million on Black Friday. Combined revenue across both Google Play and App Store was up 25 percent... More
Why Design Will Make or Break the 5G Revolution (Quartz)
We are on the cusp of a communication revolution that—depending on who you ask—should take the world by storm in the next few years. Telecom companies and hardware manufacturer... More
Dolby Launches Atmos Music Consumer Campaign
Dolby has launched its first consumer campaign around its multi-dimensional sound technology, Dolby Atmos, with the first campaign video debuting Nov. 24 at the 2019 American Music... More
Veritone Debuts AI-Enabled Ad Revenue Solutions for the Media Industry (MESA)
Veritone announced the full commercial launch of the company’s VeriAds network – a robust suite of revenue solutions that enables radio and television broadcasters, podcasters ... More
Google Teams With The Boxoffice Company on Enhanced Movie Ticketing System (Deadline)
Google and The Boxoffice Company, a collection of entertainment and tech businesses owned by French digital media giant Webedia, have teamed up to enhance the process of buying mov... More
NFL Nets 109% Annual Global Mobile Viewership Growth (SportsPro)
The number of people who watch National Football League content on a mobile device has more than doubled in the past year, according to new research. Data from the report indicates... More
Adobe Brings Fonts to iOS in Creative Cloud Mobile (Adobe Blog)
Creating rich typographic experiences across surfaces gets easier today with an update to Adobe’s Creative Cloud mobile app for iOS. For the first time, all fonts included with C... More
Jeffrey Katzenberg’s Quibi Picks T-Mobile as Wireless Launch Partner (Variety)
Quibi, the short-form mobile TV service founded by Jeffrey Katzenberg, announced a pact with T-Mobile to be the official telecommunications partner for its April 2020 launch. T-Mob... More
The Next Big Tech Battleground is Your Ears (The Verge)
One of the most interesting and fastest-moving areas of personal technology over the past few years hasn’t been smartphones, tablets, or even smartwatches. Rather, the action and... More
Verizon Media Expands Shortform Video Business (THR)
Verizon Media is expanding its shortform video business with the launch of the In the Know Network, which will offer up bite-sized updates on everything from the latest on positive... More
Quibi Makes a Deal With ESPN (NYT)
The sports network, part of the Walt Disney Company, has agreed to join the likes of NBC News in providing content for the soon-to-launch short-form video platform from Jeffrey Kat... More
‘Hey Siri’: You Can Now Ask to Play Music ‘With Spotify’ (Billboard)
iPhone and iPad users with Apple iOS 13 software can now ask Siri to play songs on Spotify, thanks to a new update to the app. After downloading the latest version of Spotify, user... More
