Austin Butler made a special stop during a recent trip to Malibu.
25.07.2023 - 22:11 / deadline.com
Snap’s daily active users jumped 14% year-on-year for the second quarter, the platform said today, to 397 million even as revenue dipped in a tough ad market and with little visibility ahead.
“We are excited by the progress we have made delivering increased return on investment for our advertising partners, growing our community to 397 million daily active users, and reaching more than 4 million Snapchat+ subscribers,” said CEO Evan Spiegel. DAUs also increased sequentially in all regions.
Snapchat+, a subscription service that offers exclusive, experimental, and pre-release features, passsed 4 million paying subscribers in Q2, a year after launch.
Net losses of $377 million were narrowed, from $422 million on revenue of $1.07 million, down 4% from the prior year. “From a revenue perspective, our business remains in a period of rapid transition as we work to improve our advertising platform, while forward visibility of advertising demand remains limited,” the company said, guiding the Street $1.07-$1.13 billion in revenue for the current third quarter, adjusted EBITDA of between negative $50 million and negative $100 million.
Investors didn’t love the the numbers and pummeled the stock, which down nearly 16% in after-hours trade. Executives will host a call at 5:30 to discuss the numbers and outlook.
Also in the second-quarter, Snap was free cash flow negative to the tune of $119 million — vs a negative $147 million the year earlier.
Subscribers were a bright point, responding to a series of new features led by AR.
My AI, an AI-powered chatbot, has seen over 150 million people have sent over 10 billion messages, Snap said. The company expanded its Stories revenue share program to more creators, onboarded new media
Austin Butler made a special stop during a recent trip to Malibu.
Zack Sharf Digital News Director With the long “Elvis” awards season behind him, Austin Butler is gearing up for two major upcoming releases: Denis Villeneuve’s “Dune: Part 2” and the Apple TV+ miniseries “Masters of the Air.” The latter comes from executive producers Steven Spielberg and Tom Hanks and serves as the third installment in their long-running World War II saga that also includes the acclaimed “Band of Brothers” and “The Pacific.” In a recent interview with The Times of London, Butler revealed that he nabbed a starring role in “Masters of the Air” after Hanks grew concerned about his mental health on “Elvis.” According to Butler, Hanks told him: “You have immersed yourself so deeply in ‘Elvis’ that, for your mental health, it would be wise to go straight into something else. If you just jump off the train, you might have emotional whiplash… and, you know, I’ve got this thing I’m producing.'” Butler said “Elvis” forced him “to go to the very edge of what is possible, and not every experience will be like that.
Elvis co-star Tom Hanks to save him from “emotional whiplash”.The actor, who received an Oscar nomination for his performance as Elvis Presley in the biopic, said Hanks expressed concern after he was consumed “so deeply” by the role for two years.Hanks’ concern led him to offer Butler a part in upcoming Apple TV+ series Masters Of The Air, which he’s co-producing with Steven Spielberg, to help him detach from Elvis.Speaking to The Sunday Times, Butler said that Hanks told him: “[Hanks] said, ‘You have immersed yourself so deeply in Elvis that, for your mental health, it would be wise to go straight into something else. If you just jump off the train, you might have emotional whiplash…“And, you know,’ Hanks continued.
Austin Butler is opening up about the sage advice Tom Hanks gave to him.
Austin Butler is opening up about some valuable career advice he received from “Elvis” co-star Tom Hanks — and how it wound up landing him his next job.
Austin Butler has shared the key piece of advice he received from Tom Hanks, his co-star in last year’s hit biopic Elvis.
Cynthia Littleton Business Editor The Walt Disney Co. saw its streaming losses narrow in the second quarter amid an exodus of 12.5 million subscribers from its Disney+ Hotstar streaming platform in India. For the quarter, Disney exceeded Wall Street’s targets on earnings per share but missed on revenue.
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