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Why Warner Media Is Investing in Incoming CEO Jason Kilar

Tim Mulligan

3 Apr 2020

d2c

hulu

Jason Kilar

On Wednesday AT&T announced that Jason Kilar will become the new CEO of Warner Media on May 1 st 2020. The choice of Kilar speaks volumes about how the US communications major is approaching the forthcoming challenge at the heart of its Warner Media subsidiary – the May domestic launch of HBO Max, its forthcoming direct-to-consumer (D2C) service.

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The UGC Backlash: Contextualising #YouTubeIsOverParty

Zach Fuller

2 Sep 2016

Creators

Google

online advertising

The #YouTubeIsOverParty trend may have puzzled many Twitter browsers, yet since the announcement of YouTube’s subscription service entitled YouTube Red last year, there have been vocal concerns by some of the platform’s most popular personalities about where the Online Video behemoth was heading in its quest to generate more revenue.

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