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Quibi founder Jeffrey Katzenberg and CEO Meg Whitman took the stage Wednesday morning at the Consumer Electronics Show (CES) in Las Vegas at the Park MGM theater to give a look at the much-buzzed-about mobile streaming short-form platform. This was the first time that Quibi has shown their innovative platform to an…

The mobile short-form streaming platform Quibi has been the talk of the town since it was announced that founder Jeffrey Katzenberg and CEO Meg Whitman were launching it. The streaming platform is set to launch in April, has raised $1 billion in funding and been backed by major Hollywood studios including the Walt…

British supermodel Rosie Huntington-Whiteley is to host and executive produce a Quibi show in which she will spotlight icons of the beauty world. The show will be made by Alfred Street Industries, the production company founded by Project Runway producers Dan Cutforth and Jane Lipsitz after they left Magical Elves earl…

Quibi, the short-form mobile streaming service launching next April, said it has sold out its $150 million in advertising inventory for its first year. Advertisers getting in on the ground floor include Discover, General Mills, T-Mobile and Taco Bell, along with previously announced buyers Procter & Gamble, PepsiCo…

As Hollywood loves to prove over and over, everyone’s a great fit – until they’re not. Just short of a year after signing up with Jeffrey Katzenberg's short form and mobile-based Quibi video service, Janice Min has exited the building, so to speak “Janice Min will be leaving Quibi,” a spokesperson for the Meg…

Former Hulu executive Tim Connolly, who headed partnerships and distribution as one of the high-profile executives for Hollywood upstart Quibi, has left the company. A source at the company said Connolly left in good standing and Quibi thanked him for his leadership and contributions. His departure was first reported…

Quibi’s busy month continues as it pops the cork on another shortform series announcement. The Odd Couple and Reno 911! alum Thomas Lennon is set to create, write, executive produce and star in Winos, a workplace comedy for Jeffrey Katzenberg and Meg Whitman’s digital platform. The logline: After failing spectacularly…

Tyra Banks (America’s Next Top Model) is set to star in and executive produce Beauty, a new docuseries for Jeffrey Katzenberg and Meg Whitman’s short-form video platform Quibi. Per Quibi, Beauty will serve as a mirror for us to question societal standards that have defined us – going deep to tackle compelling topics…

Quibi Founder and Chairman Jeffrey Katzenberg and CEO Meg Whitman made a pit stop at the Produced By conference this afternoon to rally their new mobile platform service. Both discussed various stats, the content dollar spend and general financial breakdown of the video short service. “We’ve raised $1 billion…

There's a perfectly good reason why Jeffrey Katzenberg refuses to take no for an answer. "I didn't know this about myself growing up as a kid, but I'm dyslexic," says the former DreamWorks CEO. "And when I learned that about myself, it answered a question that I had wondered about a good deal of my life. For most…

Quibi founder Jeffrey Katzenberg and CEO Meg Whitman took the stage at SXSW to discuss their forthcoming short-form mobile streaming service. More accurately, they were defending it — and they unveiled new high-profile projects in the pipeline to sell it. The platform launches next April and Katzenberg said they are…

Diane Nelson, who steered DC Entertainment and also led interactive content and consumer products during a 20-year run at Warner Bros. that ended last summer, has resurfaced in a senior role at Quibi. She will run operations for the start-up led by Jeffrey Katzenberg and Meg Whitman. Quibi plan to launch its mobile…