Jet2 has gone viral on TikTok as the British travel company’s financials boom
In contrast with last year’s chart-busting roster of hits, the sound of summer 2025 for millions hasn’t come from an emerging artist or a music legend, nor is it even really a song . Over the past few...
ESPN and WWE step into the ring with reported $1.6 billion, five-year streaming deal
ESPN is not content with being the worldwide leader in sports, and also wants to be among the most electrifying names in sports entertainment. The -owned sports network is teaming up with WWE in a rep...
In the world of podcasts, YouTube is now the elephant in the room — just like in TV
Earlier this week, announced it would be restructuring its Wondery podcast business as the landscape increasingly shifts toward host-centric, video-integrated shows. About 110 staff will be cut from ...
Snap’s ad revenue isn’t growing as fast as its peers
stock plunged after narrowly missing earnings expectations yesterday . One reason investors are disappointed: ad revenue growth was a lot slower than the company’s tech and social media peers — even t...
Disney slips despite Q3 earnings beat and boost to full-year outlook
shares ticked slightly lower in premarket trading after the media giant topped Q3 estimates and hiked its full-year outlook. Adjusted earnings per share came in at $1.61, coming in well above the $1.4...
Snap dives after narrowly missing earnings expectations
slightly missed expectations, posting a loss per share of $0.16 and $1.34 billion in sales in its second-quarter earnings report. FactSet’s analyst consensus had an estimated loss of $0.15 per share a...
Spotify hikes premium subscription (again) to try and cue up more profits
jumped 6% after the music streaming giant announced another round of subscription price hikes . The streamer said it plans to raise premium subscription rates over the next month across several regio...
Investors give Reddit a big upvote after its latest earnings report
shares surged over 12% in after-hours trading after the internet’s Thunderdome reported its second-quarter earnings on Thursday. The social media company posted earnings of $0.45 per share, below expe...
Meta crushed earnings
is up more than 9% after-hours after the social media and AI behemoth beat second-quarter analyst expectations by a long shot. After market close Wednesday, it posted: Earnings per share of $7.14, ver...
Roblox slips after getting a rare downgrade — but the game isn’t over yet
shares slipped nearly 5% Wednesday afternoon after Raymond James issued a rare downgrade on the stock, tapping the brakes following a massive rally in recent months. To be fair, the firm only lowered ...
The long, slow death of the late-night talk show
The shifting sands of entertainment just swallowed one of America’s most successful shows — and with it, sounded the alarm on an iconic entertainment format: the late-night talk show. The first to pul...
Companies are hiring “Professional Redditors” to plug their brand on the social media platform
We all love a personal recommendation. Don’t buy this car, do try this toothpaste, invest in this stock, and give this recipe a go while you’re at it. For many, social media platform has become a go-...
Airbnb wants to be so much more than just short-term home rentals
Uber and Airbnb were poster children of Web 2.0 — app-first solutions to get us somewhere and ensure we had a place to stay when we got there. Both run marketplaces, with drivers and hosts supplying t...
Substack.com got more traffic than The Wall Street Journal and CBS News in June
For creators looking to reach their audience directly whenever they like, and maybe even make millions in the process , Substack has been one of the places to be since its launch in 2017. Now, it’s be...
Linda Yaccarino steps down as CEO of X
Linda Yaccarino had one of the toughest jobs in tech. She was brought over from by Elon Musk to offer some stable leadership after his chaotic acquisition of Twitter, and to convince fleeing advertis...
Over half of Netflix subscribers now watch anime
Anime has officially gone mainstream on the world’s biggest streaming service. According to Netflix , over 50% of its global members now watch anime on the platform, with viewership tripling over the ...
Backlash to Duolingo’s AI memo will hit Q2 numbers: Morgan Stanley
Live by social media buzz, die by social media backlash. In the last hour of trading, was on its way to a 3% loss for the day, after Morgan Stanley analysts trimmed Q2 estimates for the online langua...
Trump Media, which has never turned a profit, will buy back shares
The parent company of President Trump’s social media outlet, Truth Social, announced a plan to opportunistically repurchase and retire some $400 million in stock and warrants, sending the shares up ea...
Trump to extend TikTok sale deadline another 90 days
TikTok is getting another lifeline. President Trump is set to sign an executive order that would push the divest-or-ban deadline for the popular social media app back by another 90 days. On Wednesday,...
Morgan Stanley: Meta’s WhatsApp ads could be worth $3 billion to $5 billion in revenue
Yesterday announced it would be introducing ads to messaging platform WhatsApp for the first time. Today, Morgan Stanley says that move, which will let companies advertise within the Updates tab, coul...