Media & Marketing

Police raided the headquarters of French media company Vivendi, controlled by business tycoon Vincent Bolloré, in an investigation into the French firm’s purchase of a stake in Italian rival Mediaset.

Verizon Communications said its top media executive, Marni Walden, is leaving in February and her responsibilities will be split among existing executives at the telecom giant.

AT&T; Chief Executive Randall Stephenson said the telecommunications giant isn’t looking to bring a “telephone company culture” to Time Warne and “really screw it up” after it closes its pending $85 billion acquisition of the media company.

At a party celebrating the unionization of Vice Media's video employees in Brooklyn last week, casually dressed workers were enthusiastically discussing the prospects of higher pay and benefits.

Betting on sports isn’t legal in most of the U.S., but that isn’t stopping entrepreneurs from building a new digital media platform that will be solely dedicated to the practice.

A knack for asking questions—and listening to the answers—led Daniel Yankelovich to what he called his “accidental profession” of market research. As a pollster and author, he cultivated his status as a “public intellectual.”

Netflix has committed to spend several hundred million dollars to create a stand-alone studio in Canada that will produce and distribute content.

Shares of cable providers and entertainment companies in the U.S. are suffering their worst stretch in nearly two years, as traditional players struggle to adapt to a shift toward streaming services.