(Preview) Why Netflix Will Keep Raising Prices, The Spotify Model in Hollywood, Twitter’s Inexplicable Rebrand and WeChat Dreams

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Netflix Earnings, Netflix’s Coming Price Increases, Netflix and the Strike — Stratechery Update

Streaming Residuals and Spotify, Llama 2 Open-Sourced, Llama’s License — Stratechery Update

Twitter is being rebranded as X — The Verge

Netflix Removes “Basic” Ad-Free Plan in U.S. and U.K. — The Hollywood Reporter

Why Netflix Should Sell Ads — Stratechery

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