Nearly a year after Mike Aragon left Twitch to become the CEO of Lululemon’s interactive Mirror product, his replacement has been named. Laura Lee, whose former roles include gigs at YouTube, NBCUniversal, and MTV, is taking over as Twitch’s Chief Content Officer.
Lee will report to Twitch President Dan Clancy. In a statement shared by Variety, Clancy said that Lee will “define our content strategy” in order to help streamers “build vibrant communities on our service.”
Lately, community has become one of Twitch’s major themes. The platform is likely responding to pressure from YouTube, which has poached several top stars from its Amazon-owned competitor. YouTube has signed streamers who typically collaborate with one another — when multiple members of those communities make the switch, the stragglers feel pressure to move on as well.
Lee is intimately familiar with the inner workings of YouTube’s partnerships team. She spent...
Lee will report to Twitch President Dan Clancy. In a statement shared by Variety, Clancy said that Lee will “define our content strategy” in order to help streamers “build vibrant communities on our service.”
Lately, community has become one of Twitch’s major themes. The platform is likely responding to pressure from YouTube, which has poached several top stars from its Amazon-owned competitor. YouTube has signed streamers who typically collaborate with one another — when multiple members of those communities make the switch, the stragglers feel pressure to move on as well.
Lee is intimately familiar with the inner workings of YouTube’s partnerships team. She spent...
- 11/3/2022
- by Sam Gutelle
- Tubefilter.com
Twitch wants a bigger cut of popular streamers’ revenue.
The platform says the “vast majority” of streamers earn 50 of revenue from channel subscriptions, which start at 4.99 per month and give subscribers access to things like special emotes and chat modes. Twitch takes the other 50 for itself.
But not all streamers are subject to that revenue share.
“[F]or some time we did offer standard agreements with premium subscription terms to select streamers as they grew larger,” Twitch president Dan Clancy said in a Sept. 21 blog post. “This isn’t something we’ve talked about publicly, but such deals are common knowledge within the streamer community.”
The “premium subscription terms” gave signing streamers 70 of subscription revenue, with Twitch taking a 30 cut.
Twitch stopped offering these terms to new streamers over a year ago, Clancy says.
And now it wants to make changes to previous agreements.
“For these streamers still on these premium deals,...
The platform says the “vast majority” of streamers earn 50 of revenue from channel subscriptions, which start at 4.99 per month and give subscribers access to things like special emotes and chat modes. Twitch takes the other 50 for itself.
But not all streamers are subject to that revenue share.
“[F]or some time we did offer standard agreements with premium subscription terms to select streamers as they grew larger,” Twitch president Dan Clancy said in a Sept. 21 blog post. “This isn’t something we’ve talked about publicly, but such deals are common knowledge within the streamer community.”
The “premium subscription terms” gave signing streamers 70 of subscription revenue, with Twitch taking a 30 cut.
Twitch stopped offering these terms to new streamers over a year ago, Clancy says.
And now it wants to make changes to previous agreements.
“For these streamers still on these premium deals,...
- 9/21/2022
- by James Hale
- Tubefilter.com
In adapting Philip Roth’s Pulitzer Prize-winning “American Pastoral” for his directorial debut, Ewan McGregor focused on the combustible father-daughter story. It’s a metaphor for the social and political upheaval of the ’60s, but crafted with intimacy and tragedy. He shatters The American Dream and turns Jewish assimilation into a nightmare.
And the production design by Daniel B. Clancy (inspired by painter Edward Hopper) reflects that with reds, greens and muted golds that turn darker when the futility of good intentions overtakes the story.
High school football star turned glove maker “The Swede” (McGregor) has it all — a prosperous Newark factory, devoted shiksa wife (Jennifer Connelly) who runs a bucolic farm — until his teenage daughter Merry (Dakota Fanning) rebels and becomes an anarchist, bent on violent revolution. And his obsession to find her when she goes into hiding leads to self-destruction.
Crucially, Pittsburgh doubles for New Jersey. “The first...
And the production design by Daniel B. Clancy (inspired by painter Edward Hopper) reflects that with reds, greens and muted golds that turn darker when the futility of good intentions overtakes the story.
High school football star turned glove maker “The Swede” (McGregor) has it all — a prosperous Newark factory, devoted shiksa wife (Jennifer Connelly) who runs a bucolic farm — until his teenage daughter Merry (Dakota Fanning) rebels and becomes an anarchist, bent on violent revolution. And his obsession to find her when she goes into hiding leads to self-destruction.
Crucially, Pittsburgh doubles for New Jersey. “The first...
- 10/22/2016
- by Bill Desowitz
- Indiewire
Promised Land is the new contemporary drama directed by Gus Van Sant (Good Will Hunting, Milk). Matt Damon plays Steve Butler, an ace corporate salesman who is sent along with his partner, Sue Thomason (Frances McDormand), to close a key rural town in his company’s expansion plans. With the town having been hit hard by the economic decline of recent years, the two outsiders see the local citizens as likely to accept their company’s offer, for drilling rights to their properties, as much-needed relief. What seems like an easy job for the duo becomes complicated by the objection of a respected schoolteacher (Hal Holbrook) with support from a grassroots campaign led by another man (John Krasinski), as well as the interest of a local woman (Rosemarie DeWitt). Promised Land explores America at the crossroads where big business and the strength of small-town community converge. The film will be...
- 12/26/2012
- by Movie Geeks
- WeAreMovieGeeks.com
Focus Features has announced that production has officially started on Promised Land . Arriving from two-time Academy Award nominee director Gus Van Sant, the film is a contemporary drama from an original screenplay written by John Krasinski and Matt Damon, based on a story by Dave Eggers. In addition to Damon and Krasinski, the cast of Promised Land includes Rosemarie DeWitt ( Rachel Getting Married ), Academy Award nominee Hal Holbrook ( Into the Wild ), Scoot McNairy ( Monsters ), Titus Welliver ( The Town ), and, in her fourth film for Focus, Academy Award winner Frances McDormand. The movie.s crew includes Linus Sandgren ( Shelter ) as cinematographer, Dan Clancy ( The Dilemma ) as production designer, and Juliet Polcsa ( The Sopranos ) as costume designer. Damon plays...
- 4/24/2012
- Comingsoon.net
Chicago — Kelsey Grammer makes it clear from the start: He's not playing Mayor Richard M. Daley in the new dramatic series "Boss" that debuts Friday night.
Sure, his mayor of Chicago talks about being in charge for 22 years – the exact time Daley spent in office. For both men the job is also the family business, with Grammer's Tom Kane following his father-in-law and Daley his father. And if Grammer's character really wanted a disguise that nobody would have recognized, he would have put on a Cubs hat and not one bearing the logo of Daley's beloved White Sox.
"We were writing a show that is a derivative of Shakespeare (and) he's got 400 years on the Daleys," Grammer said this summer during filming in Chicago for the Starz drama (10 p.m. Edt).
Grammer told Daley as much, when the two met and he "tried to reassure him that we had absolutely...
Sure, his mayor of Chicago talks about being in charge for 22 years – the exact time Daley spent in office. For both men the job is also the family business, with Grammer's Tom Kane following his father-in-law and Daley his father. And if Grammer's character really wanted a disguise that nobody would have recognized, he would have put on a Cubs hat and not one bearing the logo of Daley's beloved White Sox.
"We were writing a show that is a derivative of Shakespeare (and) he's got 400 years on the Daleys," Grammer said this summer during filming in Chicago for the Starz drama (10 p.m. Edt).
Grammer told Daley as much, when the two met and he "tried to reassure him that we had absolutely...
- 10/20/2011
- by AP
- Huffington Post
Advances in digital bookselling have usually pushed independent bookstores further and further out of the literary game. But Google's new store is dealing them back in. Here’s how.
If you stroll on over to your corner bookstore this week and ask the person behind the counter about Google's new ebookstore, which launches today, you probably won’t be greeted with the kind of teeth-gnashing that has accompanied other digital developments, like Amazon's online bookstore or the advent of proprietary e-readers. Instead, you might actually be greeted with some excitement and delight. That’s because Google is taking a different approach to selling e-books than Amazon or Barnes & Noble. Rather than create a closed system that leaves others out in the cold, Google is actually partnering with independent bookstores to sell its wares--and share the profits.
Google's e-books program will act as much as a distribution system as a retail outlet.
If you stroll on over to your corner bookstore this week and ask the person behind the counter about Google's new ebookstore, which launches today, you probably won’t be greeted with the kind of teeth-gnashing that has accompanied other digital developments, like Amazon's online bookstore or the advent of proprietary e-readers. Instead, you might actually be greeted with some excitement and delight. That’s because Google is taking a different approach to selling e-books than Amazon or Barnes & Noble. Rather than create a closed system that leaves others out in the cold, Google is actually partnering with independent bookstores to sell its wares--and share the profits.
Google's e-books program will act as much as a distribution system as a retail outlet.
- 12/7/2010
- by E.B. Boyd
- Fast Company
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