entertainment

Entertainment is a form of activity that holds the attention and interest of an audience or gives pleasure and delight. It can be an idea or a task, but is more likely to be one of the activities or events that have developed over thousands of years specifically for the purpose of keeping an audience's attention.

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Streaming Providers Eye Commerce to Win and Keep Subscribers in 2022
Streaming Providers Eye Commerce to Win and Keep Subscribers in 2022
February 02, 2022  |  Subscriptions

If you have a sneaking suspicion that free TV fragmented into manifold paid services just to veer back and reconstitute around older network models, you’re...

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Coachella, Crypto Exchange FTX Team to Offer NFT Passes
Coachella, Crypto Exchange FTX Team to Offer NFT Passes
February 01, 2022  |  NFTs

The music festival Coachella has teamed with crypto exchange FTX to offer ten lifetime festival passes in the form of non-fungible tokens (NFTs), Yahoo reported...

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Sports Betting Firm Entain to Build London Innovation Hub for Metaverse, NFT Tech
Sports Betting Firm Entain to Build London Innovation Hub for Metaverse, NFT Tech
February 01, 2022  |  Metaverse

Sports betting and gaming group Entain is spending £40 million ($54 million) to create an innovation hub in London to build and trial entertainment tech,...

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“Free Money” Draws 1.1M New Yorkers to Sports Betting
“Free Money” Draws 1.1M New Yorkers to Sports Betting
January 31, 2022  |  Social Commerce

On Jan. 8, the state of New York legalized sports betting. By Tuesday (Jan. 25), five of the country’s largest betting apps — BetRivers, Caesars,...

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Comcast Cranks Cash Into Peacock Streaming Service
Comcast Cranks Cash Into Peacock Streaming Service
January 27, 2022  |  Streaming

Comcast Corp. plans to inject more money into its Peacock streaming service in the hopes of competing with Netflix, Hulu and some of the other...

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UK Watchdog: Microsoft to Change Auto-Renewal Practices
UK Watchdog: Microsoft to Change Auto-Renewal Practices
January 27, 2022  |  Subscription Commerce

The U.K.’s Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) says it has “secured improvements” for players on Microsoft’s Xbox online platform, following concerns about the tech giant’s...

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Pershing Square Fund Acquires 3.1 Million Shares of Netflix
Pershing Square Fund Acquires 3.1 Million Shares of Netflix
January 27, 2022  |  Investments

William Ackman, a billionaire investor, has said his hedge fund Pershing Square has acquired 3.1 million shares of Netflix stock, The Wall Street Journal reports....

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Live Entertainment Startup Fever Raises $227M
Live Entertainment Startup Fever Raises $227M
January 26, 2022  |  Investments

Calling it the largest funding round ever for a business of its type, live-entertainment platform Fever said it has raised $227 million. Announced Wednesday (Jan....

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New Marketplace MusicArt to Allow for NFTs of Popular Music Art
New Marketplace MusicArt to Allow for NFTs of Popular Music Art
January 25, 2022  |  NFTs

A new non-fungible token (NFT) platform, MusicArt, is combining blockchain, NFT technology and digital art trading for music artwork fans, the company announced Tuesday (Jan....

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