Bald eagles and Lynyrd Skynyrd: is Budweiser’s all-American Super Bowl ad serious? Featuring an unlikely animal friendship, the commercial boasts enough patriotic iconography to verge on self-parody
Hollywood money fuelled record £2.8bn spend on UK film production last year Growth could slow as Netflix pulls back projects to US to secure $80bn takeover of Warner Bros Discovery
Mass layoffs fuel fears of ‘death spiral’ at Washington Post On Wednesday, storied newspaper axed nearly one-third of company after earlier unpopular moves by owner Jeff Bezos
‘It’s an absolute bloodbath’: Washington Post lays off hundreds of workers Former Post executive editor blasts owner Jeff Bezos’s ‘sickening efforts to curry favor’ with Trump
Netflix co-CEO grilled by US senators over Warner Bros Discovery merger While most focused on competition issues, Josh Hawley accused Netflix of promoting trans content to children
Disney names parks and cruises boss Josh D’Amaro as next CEO D’Amaro will take over next month from Bob Iger, who returned to lead the media company after a bungled succession
Washington Post owner Jeff Bezos stays silent as employees brace for cuts Bezos has not publicly responded to several letters sent by Post staffers urging him to curb potential layoffs
Elon Musk merges SpaceX with xAI at $1.25tn valuation Aerospace business and artificial intelligence firm to unite for IPO as world’s most valuable private company
As most TV viewers tune in via broadband, will 2034 signal the death of Freeview? The aerial-accessed service has a fast-dwindling audience but when exactly to switch the platform off is proving highly divisive
UK media groups should be allowed to opt out of Google AI Overviews, CMA says News organisations hope proposals will increase leverage to get paid if content is used in AI summaries
Coinbase adverts banned in UK for suggesting crypto could ease cost of living crisis Advertising Standards Authority says firm advised by George Osborne ‘trivialised risks of cryptocurrency’
‘No one knows anything’: Washington Post staffers fear major cuts Members of foreign staff send letter to billionaire owner Jeff Bezos urging him to change course
Prosecutors barred from reviewing material seized from Washington Post reporter Judge issues temporary order after paper had sought return of Hannah Natanson’s devices taken in ‘outrageous seizure’
Netflix sweetens Warner Bros bid with all-cash offer to block Paramount Streaming company says proposal speeds up completion and allows WBD investors to vote as soon as April
Nandy intends to refer Daily Mail’s Telegraph takeover to regulators Culture secretary ‘minded to’ intervene and ask Ofcom and CMA whether the £500m deal harms media plurality