3+ hour, 11+ min ago  (1112+ words) You Tube will now automatically hold back advertisements during livestreams when its systems detect that chat engagement has peaked, a change that prioritises collective viewer experience over ad impressions in real time. The platform announced the feature on Monday alongside…...

2+ week, 1+ hour ago  (585+ words) Byte Dance adds watermarking and IP guardrails to Seedance 2. 0 as it begins cautious global rollout'The Next Web Six weeks ago, a video of Tom Cruise fighting Brad Pitt on a rooftop went viral. It was, of course, not real. It…...

5+ day, 8+ hour ago  (963+ words) In short: Three You Tube content creators, specifically the company behind H3 H3 Productions, a solo golf presenter, and a golf channel, have filed a proposed class action lawsuit in Seattle alleging that Amazon bypassed You Tube's technical protections using virtual machines…...

1+ week, 1+ day ago  (1014+ words) In short: Netflix has launched Netflix Playground, a dedicated standalone gaming app for children aged eight and under, bundled into existing memberships with no ads or in-app purchases and full offline support, positioning it squarely against Apple Arcade in the…...

1+ week, 2+ day ago  (322+ words) In short: The Court of Rome has ruled that Netflix's repeated price increases between 2017 and 2024 violated Italian consumer law and EU Directive 93/13/EEC on unfair contract terms. The ruling voids the relevant contract clauses, orders current prices rolled back to…...

1+ week, 6+ day ago  (1129+ words) The metaverse was supposed to be its own destination. You would put on a headset, enter a virtual world, and never need to think about the platform that brought you there. That was the pitch, anyway. Decentraland, one of the…...

3+ week, 6+ day ago  (659+ words) The New York digital comics platform is combining its 300, 000-title library with INKR's AI localisation engine, and bringing in new leadership to execute the expansion. The problem with getting manga into the hands of readers outside Japan is not demand....

1+ mon, 5+ hour ago  (522+ words) The feature, announced at SXSW by co-CEO Gustav S'derstr'm, lets Premium listeners see and shape the data model powering their recommendations, starting with a beta rollout in New Zealand For a decade, Spotify's recommendation engine has worked largely in silence....

1+ mon, 1+ week ago  (1134+ words) Inter Positive, a stealth company Affleck founded in 2022 and never publicly acknowledged, builds post-production AI tools trained on real footage rather than text prompts. Netflix is acquiring it just as Hollywood unions sit down for a new round of contract…...

1+ mon, 3+ week ago  (361+ words) A private premiere screening of "Holiguards Saga " The Portal of Force," the pilot installment of the planned Holiguards Saga franchise, was held on February 16 at ASTOR Film Lounge Berlin. The event took place in a closed format with invited industry…...