Short, vertical video is no longer just the domain of social apps. By building TikTok-style feeds directly into their ...
Jeffrey Katzenberg demonstrates Quibi’s Turnstyle technology at Sundance 2020 prior to the service’s launch. He agreed to transfer ownership of the technology to Eko to settle a patent dispute. Eko ...
Roku has positioned itself as one of the major gatekeepers in the streaming era, but its surprise deal on Friday to acquire 75-plus shows from the short-lived streaming service Quibi proves the tech ...
Quibi winked offline in December, most of its employees have been let go and Roku now owns Quibi’s content library. But Jeffrey Katzenberg and Meg Whitman’s ill-fated video streamer is still battling ...
Quibi is dead — long live Quibi! The Jeffrey Katzenberg-led mobile premium video service flamed out last year about six months after launching. But three of its pricey original series just picked up a ...
Quibi isn’t dead. It simply took a nice nap and needed a new streaming media deal to bring it to the masses. At least, this involves the content on Quibi that was trapped there when the streaming ...
The pandemic turned Quibi into a punchline in less time than it took to watch one of the service’s “quick bite” videos, but Roku saw value in Quibi’s entertainment content and has acquired the rights ...
Roku said Friday that its slate of original programming, which it acquired from Jeffrey Katzenberg’s shuttered startup Quibi, has led to “significant growth.” Roku didn’t break out specific numbers, ...
Quibi (short for “Quick Bites”), the short-lived experiment brought to you by Hollywood legend Jeffrey Katzenberg and former Hewlett Packard HPQ CEO Meg Whitman, has sold the rights to broadcast its ...
Months after troubled Hollywood startup Quibi shut down access to its shows, those programs, many with A-list stars, will get a second shot at gaining an audience when they shift to the Roku Channel ...
Earlier this year, Roku acquired the program catalog from Quibi, the short-form video app backed by Jeffrey Katzenberg that had failed to gain traction amid the pandemic, despite nearly $2 billion in ...
When Cody Heller created “Dummy,” it had the ingredients of a hit show. The comedy starred popular actress Anna Kendrick, and its story about a woman’s interactions with her boyfriend’s sex doll ...