Andy Jassy says Prime Video has "a revenue run rate in the tens of billions of dollars and is now profitable in its own right" (Julie Bort/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2026/10/29/andy-jassy-says-prime-video-is-on-…
RedBird and music industry talent manager Guy Oseary's Sound Ventures sign a $1B deal to invest in companies "at the convergence" of tech, media, and culture (Alex Weprin/The Hollywood Reporter)
https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/busin…
ProdPro: New York state's film and TV production spending rose 87% to $1.61B in Q3, after a 54% jump in Q2, behind only California's $1.76B; NYC makes up ~80% (Jill Goldsmith/Deadline)
https://deadline.com/2026/10/nyc-production-movies-tv-surge-1237207080/
Sources: Reese Witherspoon's Hello Sunshine lays off about 30 employees, roughly 50% of its staff, as it focuses on film and TV projects and its book club brand (Selome Hailu/Variety)
https://variety.com/2026/tv/news/reese-witherspoon-hello-sunshine-l…
The closure of Novaya Gazeta "is not just our own story; it is the story of a country and a society that are being systematically crushed", said its EIC (Shaun Walker/The Guardian)
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2026/oct/30/novay…
OpenAI, Google, Microsoft, and Anthropic say they will adopt a new standard that publishers can use to opt out of being scraped by AI across multiple crawlers (Emma Roth/The Verge)
https://www.theverge.com/tech/1023763/openai-google-microsoft-ai-scr…
Starz reports Q3 revenue of $322.4M, vs. $319.5M est., a net loss of $34.8M, down from $52.6M in Q3 2025, and linear TV revenue of $95.8M, vs. $98.1M in Q3 2025 (Etan Vlessing/The Hollywood Reporter)
https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/business/busin…
Google's search revenue rose 12% YoY to $63.25B in Q3 2026, down from 14.5% in Q3 2025, with Google attributing the slowdown to "lower monetization" in AI Mode (Simon Sharwood/The Register)
https://www.theregister.com/ai-and-ml/2026
Memo: People Inc. is laying off 195 employees, or ~6% of its headcount, mostly in print and legacy web, and says it has added 320 employees so far in 2026 (Mark Stenberg/Adweek)
https://www.adweek.com/media/people-inc-lays-off-195-employees-around-6-of-h…