Every day, Joey DeFrancesco hears from fellow musicians who see actors and screenwriters on strike, and wish they were on a picket line too. I get messages all the time asking ‘Why aren’t we on strike?’ ” said DeFrancesco, guitarist for the rock band Downtown Boys and co-founder of the activist nonprofit group United Musicians and Allied Workers. David Lowery, …
Fewer people paid for a television subscription last year, according to national research published by NMO on Wednesday. The increased popularity of streaming services has some Dutch members of parliament again calling for a law to force the services to invest in programming for the Dutch market. MPs want streaming services to invest in Dutch productions Members of the Tweede …
Something about Novaruu looked like dollar signs from the moment she landed on Twitch. Blonde and with a radiant smile, Novaruu, then 19, had been gaming and hanging out with her growing fanbase for only a few weeks when she began receiving messages from entrepreneurial viewers offering to get her “deals”—vague promises to connect her with a capital-b Brand. After …
