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WarnerMedia has named Richard Tom as its chief technology officer, reuniting the onetime Hulu CTO and Vessel co-founder with former colleague Jason Kilar, who is now CEO of WarnerMedia. Jeremy Legg, who oversaw last week’s launch of streaming service HBO Max in addition to several other major initiatives as CTO, has…

EXCLUSIVE: Jason Kilar, newly minted CEO of WarnerMedia, sent a company-wide memo Saturday to convey his reaction to protests in the wake of the death of George Floyd, and indicated how the company will start to respond. The death of Floyd while in police custody in Minneapolis on Memorial Day, punctuated by a…

WarnerMedia parent AT&T is raising €3 billion (about $3.28 billion) in a note sale and will use the cash for general corporate purposes, which may include debt repayments. It announced the sale of three tranches of notes (or bonds) for €1.75 billion, €750 million and €500 million, respectively, in an SEC filing. AT&T…

Incoming WarnerMedia CEO Jason Kilar said Wednesday that expanding HBO Max internationally and getting the technology right are two takeaways from his time growing Hulu and subsequent launch of a smaller VOD service called Vessel. WarnerMedia parent AT&T revealed earlier today that Kilar will take the top job starting…

Hulu’s founding CEO Jason Kilar has been named CEO of WarnerMedia, effective May 1, putting an end to longstanding speculation over who would fill the post and just ahead of the launch of streaming service HBO Max. He will report to John Stankey, the chief operating officer of WarnerMedia’s parent AT&T who has held…

Vessel.com has officially launched after three months of beta operations limited to video creators and a select group of initial users. And to celebrate, the much-ballyhooed and heavily financed online-video site is giving away one-year subscriptions to people signing up in the site’s first 72 hours of full…

Weeks after it came out of stealth mode and allowed online-video creators in to kick the tires, the heavily financed startup Vessel.com has opened to the public, offering all-you-can-eat subscriptions for exclusive early access to content from an array of prominent media companies and online stars. The site has…

The long-gestating Vessel, a subscription-based online-video site backed with big bucks and aggressively recruiting YouTube stars with fat contracts, came out of stealth mode today. In a blog post by CEO Jason Kilar, the company said it is launching a “creator preview” so online video talent can set up a presence on…

Even in the hyperventilating world of online media, 1 billion views is A Very Big Number. So accordingly, the enthusiastically geeky guys behind the three Vsauce YouTube channels were in a mood to celebrate after passing that major milestone. The three producer/hosts — Michael Stevens, Kevin Lieber and Jake Roper…

Current CEO Jason Kilar who is leaving at the end of the month revealed the news today on Hulu‘s website. “You know Andy well”, Kilar said, “he's been a critical senior executive and has been here from the start of this great adventure. As the company's SVP Content, Forssell helped build Hulu grow from a startup in…

Kilar just posted the news on the Hulu blog. He says that he is “currently working with the Board to ensure there is ample runway to manage this transition.” Although Kilar turned Hulu into one of the Web’s most popular video destinations, he has been widely expected to leave. He has had several run-ins with its…

CEO Jason Kilar took to the company blog today to announce Hulu's results for 2012. He said the streaming service would close the year with about $695 million in revenue, up 65% over a year ago. Kilar also said that there are now over 3 million paying subscribers for the Hulu Plus Service. That is a subscriber rise of…