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"By today’s standards of interminable podcast discussions, a nearly three-hour recording isn’t even particularly notable. Increasingly, podcasters are pushing the outer limits of

Hollywood studios "used to develop most movies internally and cast filmmakers and stars. But they’ve largely stopped doing that on non-franchise projects. Instead,

For decades, actors were subjected to traditional press tours whenever they had a new movie to promote. Now, the studios are increasingly asking

This is a cool story about several sports talk radio hosts who launched their own podcast after their station got shut down by

There's a reason every major news outlet is launching a crossword puzzle and pumping out more product recommendations.

THIS IS INTERESTING: A new sports news site launched with a homepage that almost always links out to other sources. It's as if

The New York Times went extremely deep on the rise and fall of Bob Chapek as Disney's CEO. One of my biggest takeaways

Record labels regularly put pressure on Billboard and other data charting companies to change their rankings for music sales: "Chart position is irrelevant,

Many of the biggest YouTube stars are investing heavily in their paid streaming services as a way to diversify away from YouTube: “Our

This is a detailed breakdown of how the Evening Standard worked with a travel company to produce a branded podcast it ran in

The social media photo dump is coming back into fashion, this time on Instagram: "One precedent for the Instagram dump was the Facebook

Spotify really wants podcasters to start uploading their videos to its platform and is paying them to do so; these are non-exclusive deals,

Stripe facilitates upwards of $25 billion in payments within the Creator Economy every year, but it has to stay within the good graces

There's a whole crop of big TikTok stars who specialize in reviewing restaurant food while eating it in their cars. But the Washington

TV deals used to incentivize success by rewarding producers/writers when their show took off and became popular. These days, deals are structured so

A Business Insider reporter decided to test whether the Threads algorithm really was rewarding rage bait: "I made a handful of advice-seeking posts

Can you really give a comprehensive review of a restaurant if you're eating its food in your car?

Here's something I didn't know: Netflix co-CEO Ted Sarandos got his start as a clerk at a video rental store. He dropped out

The social media ecosystem is overflowing with travel recommendations that are often sponsored by the very companies being recommended. Now, consumers are increasingly

Striking actors and writers forced some significant concessions from the major studios, but some are wondering whether the effort was worth it given