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Streaming Star Tyler “Ninja” Blevins Signs Multi-Year Broadcasting Deal with Twitch
The deal marks Ninja’s return to Twitch after defecting for Microsoft’s streaming service Mixer, which shut down in June
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Issa Rae, Porsha Williams Among Contributors to More Sauce, Stitcher’s New Black-Focused Podcast Network
More Sauce launches Thursday
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Gamestop E-Commerce Sales Up 800% This Quarter as Net Losses Continue to Climb
GameStop’s net loss totaled $113 million as most of its stores remain closed during the pandemic
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Microsoft Sets Xbox Series X Price, Release Date
The next-generation console will go on sale for pre-order Sept. 22
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Charlamagne Tha God, iHeartMedia Launch Black Effect Podcast Network
“Blackness has an immediate, culture-shifting effect on everything,” Charlamagne says
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Oprah Winfrey and Apple Create Oprah’s Book Club Podcast
The first installment is an eight-part series on Isabel Wilkerson’s “Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents”
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Why the ‘Pandemic-Proof’ Podcast Ad Industry Still Has Room to Grow
“Any other media company would kill for a 15% increase in revenue this year,” Cumulus Media chief analyst Pierre Bouvard tells TheWrap
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Murder Charges Dropped Against Curtis Flowers, Subject of True Crime Podcast ‘In the Dark’
Flowers was tried six times, over more than 10 years, for a quadruple murder in 1996
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NPR Dominates Podtrac’s August Top 20 Podcast Rankings
The media organization published six of the top 15 podcasts in August
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How Activision and YouTube Attracted Record Viewers to the First Virtual Call of Duty League Championship
“Bringing the league to YouTube and seeing its positive momentum in viewership and subscribers throughout the season has been a massive win,” YouTube global head of gaming Ryan Wyatt says
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Patreon Valued at $1.2 Billion After Raising $90 Million
Patreon says it has over 200,000 creators on the platform paid by about 6 million registered subscribers
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CollegeHumor Links With Rooster Teeth’s The Roost to Expand Podcast Ad Network (Exclusive)
“There is no one more qualified to help shepherd CollegeHumor to the next phase of growth” than Rooster Teeth, CH Media CEO Sam Reich says
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Podcast Studio Parcast Unionizes With WGA East
Parcast is the third Spotify-owned podcast network to join WGA, following Gimlet and The Ringer
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Inside Enthusiast’s Quest to Control Gaming and Esports Fandoms
“We want to own the ways in which the fans interact,” Enthusiast Gaming CEO Adrian Montgomery tells TheWrap
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Twitch to Host First Virtual Rolling Loud Music Festival
The first virtual Rolling Loud events will take place Sept. 12-13
