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Vevo Publishes Its First-Ever Print Magazine to Promote Slate of Emerging...
Vevo is relying on an unlikely promotional vehicle for its newest slate of up-and-coming artists: The major label-owned music video platform published its first-ever print magazine this week to...
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One in Four Americans Watch Vevo Videos Every Month
Music video streaming service Vevo has a huge audience, and now has some third-party data to prove it: Videos from the major-label owned streaming service were watched by 97 million Americans, or 25...
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Vevo to Postpone Subscription Launch, Focus on International Expansion
Music video service Vevo is putting the brakes on its planned subscription service, and will instead focus on its international expansion as well as original content production in the months to come,...
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Former Hulu, Fullscreen Exec Kevin McGurn Becomes Vevo’s Chief Sales Officer
Music video service Vevo has hired industry veteran Kevin McGurn as its new Chief Sales Officer. McGurn joins Vevo from Fullscreen, where he was in charge of ad sales, and also sold ad inventory for...
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Vevo Is Launching Watch Party as a Way to Watch Music Videos With Your Friends
Vevo is giving its viewers a new way to watch music videos with friends: The video service launched a new feature dubbed Watch Party as part of its web version Thursday that essentially plays the same...
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Vevo Relaunches Apple TV App With Video Previews, Curation
Music video service Vevo is set to roll out a revamped Apple TV app to 4th generation Apple TVs this coming Friday. The new app adds video previews and a bigger focus on personalization and curation...
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Vevo Launches Live Talk Show Across YouTube, Facebook, Twitter (EXCLUSIVE)
Music video service Vevo is doubling down on live video with a new talk show format dubbed Vevo Live that combines artist interviews in front of a studio audience and interaction with viewers watching...
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Vevo Hackers Leak — Then Delete — Huge Trove of Internal Videos, Documents
A notorious hacker group broke into the servers of music-streaming service Vevo, releasing more than 3 terabytes of internal documents and video content online — before removing them later Friday...
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Vevo CEO Erik Huggers Is Stepping Down
Updated. Erik Huggers is stepping down as the president and CEO of the major-label-owned music video platform Vevo, the company announced Friday. CFO Alan Price will be stepping in as interim CEO while...
View ArticleHow Roku Morphed From a Quirky Hardware Startup to a TV Streaming Powerhouse
Roku founder and CEO Anthony Wood doesn’t fit the image of your typical tech mogul. In person, he comes across as quiet and introverted. He keeps a low profile in public and eschews the Silicon Valley...
View ArticleVevo Head of Product Leaves Month After CEO Departure (EXCLUSIVE)
Vevo head of product Mark Hall has left the company a mere month after the abrupt departure of Vevo’s former CEO Erik Huggers, Variety has learned. Hall’s exit raises further doubts about the future of...
View ArticleYouTube Will Merge Vevo Channel Subscribers Into Unified ‘Official’ Music...
Music is hugely popular on YouTube, and artists with Vevo-branded channels are among the most-followed channels on the platform. Now, YouTube is about to consolidate the millions of subscribers to...
View ArticleHackers Target ‘Despacito,’ Other Vevo Videos on YouTube With Pro-Palestine...
Hackers were able to deface Vevo’s presence on YouTube late Monday night, replacing several video thumbnails and adding pro-Palestine messages to video titles and descriptions. One of the videos...
View ArticleVevo Hit by CTO Exit, Product and Engineering Team Layoffs (EXCLUSIVE)
Music video platform Vevo has had significant layoffs, and lost another key executive, roughly four months after the departure of its CEO: CTO Alex Nunes left the company in recent weeks, which...
View ArticleVevo Is Killing Off Its Mobile Apps, Website to Refocus on YouTube
Major-label owned Vevo is giving up on plans to build its own music video platform outside of YouTube’s control: Vevo is shutting down its mobile apps and consumer-facing website, the company announced...
View ArticleTwo French Teens Arrested in Connection With Vevo Hack That Defaced...
Two 18-year-old French citizens have been arrested in Paris and charged with crimes related to the hack of Vevo’s YouTube accounts last month that resulted in pro-Palestine messages being posted on...
View ArticleSpotify Names Tom Connaughton U.K. Managing Director
Spotify has named former Vevo executive Tom Connaughton as the managing director of its U.K. operation, a rep for the company confirmed to Variety. The news was first reported by Music Business...
View ArticleVevo Names Alan Price Permanent CEO
Alan Price is the new CEO of Vevo, the music video platform announced Wednesday morning. Price previously worked as the company’s CFO, and took on the role of interim CEO in addition to his existing...
View ArticleHow Vevo Is Boosting Views by Optimizing Video Thumbnails (EXCLUSIVE)
Apparently, people really do judge a book by its cover. Or at least they do it with music videos, according to new data that Vevo exclusively shared with Variety this month. The major label-owned music...
View ArticleTaylor Swift’s ‘Me!’ Breaks Vevo Record for Fastest Trip to 100 Million Views
Taylor Swift’s fantastical music video for “ME!” is the fastest video to reach 100 million views on Vevo, achieving the feat in just 79 hours. The video also broke the record for most views in 24...
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