Kate Radway

@abouelatta_ali Great thread and example of good friction. There is always a bias to removing friction in product but sometimes it's necessary and valuable!

Also: WE’RE HIRING!!!! Slide into my DMs

This is one of the 🤯🤯🤯 experiments we ran on the Duolingo Retention team :

@Lucas_Shaw The Hulu buyout is on the horizon. Curious how that played into this decision? Did they not trust Chapek to make the right call on that?

What questions does everyone have about the return of Bob Iger?

How’s this for a Sunday night shocker?

@kevinbeatty @RobertIger @WaltDisneyCo Bonkers. But also exciting? Not many leaders better than Iger.

I’m floored by this news about @RobertIger returning as CEO of @WaltDisneyCo.

@loudmouthjulia Yes

@RalstonReports Does that mean there is another Washoe batch coming?

That's about half the Washoe batch, so she will need Clark to put her over the top. And a few thousand left in rurals to help him. Still close right now.

Sorry, all, read it wrong. Smaller batch than I thought. And she didn't do as well. Picked up only 1,100 votes. Laxalt leads by 800 still.

@Hinesight It would have to have been sane.

If someone bought a blue check and pretended to be Trump how absolutely INSANE would the tweet have to be before it made you even suspect that it might not be him

@kimmasters The numbers for white college educated women are shocking to me. I just don't get it.

Or maybe not.

Every one of them knows better.

@jsnell Here’s to hoping it’s an AB test that they decide not to roll out 🤞🏻

@jsnell Of course. I’m generally just a student of media/tech and enjoy discussing it. In your view is the TV app just a utility to getting back to what you’ve watched on the various platforms or could/should it also be a place to discover content?

@jsnell It’s a bit like putting milk in the far corner of any grocery store. I can understand the frustration with the extra clicks though.

@jsnell As a person who works in this space I can make an educated guess that moving Up Next down a few positions helps increase discovery of new shows for users. Which of course means more value to the user and likely less churn.

@amalt Have you tried Bluey yet?

@YouGotSnowd OMG. I need these.

@loudmouthjulia reading this story from @WIRED on Shudder has me wondering if AMC would be an acquisition target in the streaming wars? I see a lot of value in content that falls under the AMC umbrella.

@karaswisher I'd be curious in your & @profgalloway's prediction of whether this spurs the creation of a new platform to challenge Twitter. Do either of you have reservations about staying on the platform? Will people leave only after discourse devolves post moderation and safety changes?

@NeetaSreekanth @AhmadNassarBiz Congrats @NeetaSreekanth!

Excited to join @AhmadNassarBiz on this adventure and work closely with athletes and our partners throughout the industry to scale and modernize group licensing. I’m enormously thankful for the opportunity of a lifetime to work on behalf of athletes.

I've been keeping an 👀 out for this episode!

@amalt Honestly never really thought about it, but now that you mention it is kind of strange. Mothers who work outside the house are still Moms 100% of the time they are not at home. Is the idea that full-time mom is less offensive than stay-at-home mom?

@Great_Katzby Kids content is the biggest churn reducer in the business IMHO. It also gives a streamer regular, sustained usage and the ability to showcase other content to spur discovery.

I'm not a finance guy at all, but I'd much rather have Paramount Global for ~$25B than MGM for $8.45B. The collection of kids programming, news (CBS would need to be spunoff in any Comcast/NBCU merger), sports, growing SVOD/FAST sub base and film library is enticing.