Geoff Weiss

• YouTube Piloting Cheaper ‘Premium Lite’ Option In Europe For Ad-Free Viewing
• Reese Witherspoon’s Hello Sunshine Bought By Blackstone-Backed Media Firm For $900 Million

  A soon-to-be-established media startup backed by the investment firm Blackstone Group -- which will be led by former Disney execs Kevin Mayer and Tom Staggs -- has acquired Reese Witherspoon’s female-focused media conglomerate Hello Sunshine.

  
• Reddit Hires Instagram Vet Timo Pelz As Its First Head Of Business Marketing

  After eight years at Instagram and parent company Facebook, Timo Pelz has onboarded at Reddit as its first-ever head of business marketing, effective immediately.

  
• Prince Harry And Meghan Markle’s ‘Archewell’ Names Disney+ Exec Chanel Pysnik Head Of Unscripted

  Archewell Productions, the entertainment studio founded last year by Prince Harry and Meghan Markle, has hired former Disney+ exec Chanel Pysnik as its head of unscripted content.

  
• Hulu’s ‘The D’Amelio Show’ To Premiere On September 3
• Rick Astley’s “Never Gonna Give You Up” Rickrolls Its Way Past 1 Billion YouTube Views
• Instagram Doubles Maximum Length Of TikTok Clone ‘Reels’ To 60 Seconds
• Portal A Pacts With Ben Affleck And Matt Damon’s Pearl Street Films On Alien Invasion Series
• TikTok Fetes One-Year Anniversary Of Ad Platform By Asking Creators To ‘Re:Make’ Iconic Commercials
• Logan Paul Signs With WME, Leaving Previous Representation At CAA
• Twitch Names Instagram, YouTube Veteran Constance Knight VP Of Global Creators
• Marques Brownlee Opens Second YouTube Hub ‘The Studio’ For Behind-The-Scenes, Vlogs