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YouTube confirms it’s testing a games offering called ‘Playables’

September 6, 2023
YouTube is letting a select number of users play online games as part of a new experiment. The games will live in a new “Playables” section on YouTube’s home feed, and can be accessed on both desktop and mobile. This confirms a previous report by the Wall Street Journal, which wrote that Playables would feature […]

Tubi sees impressive growth, with over 74M monthly active users

September 6, 2023
Tubi, the Fox-owned free ad-supported TV streaming (FAST) service, announced today that it surpassed 74 million monthly active users, up from 64 million in February. The FAST service also reported nearly four billion streaming hours for the first half of this year. According to Nielsen’s July Gauge report, Tubi reached 1.4% of total TV viewing […]

The Polestar 4 will launch in China with its own smartphone

September 6, 2023
Polestar, the Swedish EV maker owned by China’s Geely Holdings, plans to launch a smartphone alongside its upcoming SUV the Polestar 4. CEO Thomas Ingenlath shared the company’s smartphone plans with CNBC during the IAA Mobility event in Germany. Polestar confirmed the news with TechCrunch, noting that this is part of the joint venture announced […]