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What We Learned About TV During Its Biggest Week
Stocks were plunging and Covid cases were surging. Who’s ready to buy some ads? For the first time in three years, the upfronts — the showcases the media industry throws for advertisers to persuade them to pay for commercial time — took place in person in Manhattan. Over the past few days, thousands of ad […]
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Moonbug’s ‘CoComelon’ Leaves Nothing to Chance
Is that so terrible? Jordy Kaufman, who runs the Babylab research facility at Swinburne University of Technology in Melbourne, Australia, said the impact of screen time on malleable young minds is “a big question without clear answers.” There’s a tendency, Dr. Kaufman said, to assume that screens are bad for infants because humans didn’t evolve […]
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Netflix’s Stumble Could Be a Warning Sign for Streaming Industry
Many entertainment executives, tired of playing catch-up to a Silicon Valley interloper, have been waiting for the comeuppance of Netflix. But this may not have been the way they hoped it would happen. Netflix said this week that it lost more subscribers than it signed up in the first three months of the year, reversing […]
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As Other Arab States Falter, Saudi Arabia Seeks to Become a Cultural Hub
JEDDAH, Saudi Arabia — A pregnant Saudi woman, far from home, finds herself stalked by inner and outer demons. A wannabe Saudi vlogger and his friends, menaced by the internet’s insatiable appetite for content and more mysterious dangers, try to escape a dark forest. At a wedding, the mother of the bride panics when her […]
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