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• Eyeing Living Rooms, Quibi Reportedly In Talks To Create Roku, Amazon Fire TV Apps
• Quibi Predicted It Would Net 7 Million Year-One Subscribers. It’s On Track To Bring In Just 2 Million. (Report)

  Before Quibi’s April 6 launch, the company anticipated netting more than 7 million paying subscribers in its first year of operation. But according to a new report from The Wall Street Journal, it’s on track to net fewer than two million in that timeframe.

  
• Jeffrey Katzenberg, Meg Whitman Deny Quibi Is Considering Layoffs As Company Execs Take 10% Pay Cut

  Quibi founder Jeffrey Katzenberg and CEO Meg Whitman have refuted recent reports that the company is considering layoffs to mitigate the financial strain of its whimper-not-bang debut.

  
• Jeffrey Katzenberg On Quibi’s 1.3 Million Active Users: “It’s Not Close To What We Wanted”

  After launching more than a month ago, entertainment svengali Jeffrey Katzenberg is speaking out about the early travails of launching mobile video app Quibi in the midst of a global pandemic.

  
• Eko’s Tech Theft Lawsuit Against Quibi To Be Funded By New Investor Elliott Management Corp. (Report)
• Quibi Turns To YouTube For Audience Growth, Uploading Full Episodes Of Select Originals
• Quibi Denies Purposely Leaking Users’ Emails, But Has Retooled Its Sign-Up Process
• Insights: Grading Video Streaming Services Six Weeks Into The Pandemic
• Quibi Loses Fourth Exec In 6 Months—Head Of Marketing Megan Imbres
• Quibi Says It’ll Let Users Cast To TVs Next Month, Reveals Top 5 Most-Watched Originals To Date
• Quibi Sees 300,000 Day 1 Downloads—Just 7.5% Of Disney+’s Debut Audience (Report)
• Quibi Accused Of Stealing Technology, Trade Secrets From Interactive Video Company Eko