Most people watch the NFL RedZone channel hosted by Scott Hanson, but DirecTV has run its own popular Sunday Ticket RedZone channel hosted by Andrew Siciliano for years now. That’s about to change: YouTube chief product officer Neal Mohan tells me that Hanson’s channel will be part of Sunday Ticket when it jumps to the streamer next year, and the DirecTV version is not part of the deal. Hanson: victorious.
The fake Nilay Twitter account created by Verge managing editor Alex Cranz — that was “verified” and recommended to many during Elon’s messy first attempt at a $7.99 Twitter Blue subscription — has met its end.
Despite only existing for a little more than a month, we’ll remember @recklesspatel for continuing on after the real Nilay Patel decided to take a break from posting to his real Twitter account (@reckless).
You can still find Nilay’s posts here, on TheVerge.com.
We dive into managing the relationships between designers, engineers, and PMs.
We joke about the byzantine nature of EU regulations on The Vergecast all the time, but Congress’ failure to pass tech antitrust reform really does mean that Europe will be in charge of the tech economy for years to come, as American big tech companies will have to spend much more time designing products for that market instead of ours.
the way people talk about it feels exactly like people describing their dreams: tedious and of no consequence, but you have to be nice and pretend to care since it was obviously important to them. I haven’t had Twitter on my phone for a few weeks now, but I only realized what that specific feeling is after Adi wrote this great piece about AI-generated art. This feeling needs a name!
Just a fun Wikipedia link I’m posting for no reason.
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TikTok’s influence on the music industry is seismic — there’s a reason songs just keep getting shorter and sounding like nursery rhymes — but here’s neat Billboard piece on how labels and streamers are turning to TikTok for the next generation of talent.
Within a year of posting as Mostley Music, Motley found himself suddenly able to break into the industry which felt impenetrable to him just months earlier. Atlantic and Interscope/ Darkroom offered him A&R consultant gigs and Spotify tapped him as co-host of their Spotify Live show Lorem Life.
