Three years of business, entertainment, and culture, distilled into the five newsletters that drew the most public engagement on futureparty.com.
The Kansas City Chiefs go Hollywood, Barnes & Noble is the place to be, and X wants to be a bank.
The Chiefs launched Foolish Club Studios — a scripted and unscripted production house, a first for a major sports franchise. The issue also unpacks Barnes & Noble's #BookTok-fueled comeback and Elon Musk's plan to turn X into a payments and banking platform.
BuzzFeed serves up First We Feast, teens are online too much, and Love Is Blind contestants have rights.
BuzzFeed offloaded First We Feast — the studio behind Hot Ones — for $82.5M to a group that includes founder Chris Schonberger and host Sean Evans. The issue also covers a Pew study on always-online teens and the NLRB ruling that Love Is Blind contestants are employees.
An insurance agency protects against getting canceled, Graze lets users make custom feeds, and Jelly Roll now lives at American Idol.
British agency Samphire Risk launched Preempt — a policy that shields celebrities and executives from cancellation, complete with crisis comms, a 24/7 hotline, social monitoring, and deepfake protection. Also inside: Graze's monetizable Bluesky feeds and Jelly Roll's Artist-in-Residence role on American Idol.
Silicon Valley runs out of perks, Hollywood comes for Fortnite, and SpaceX could make a city.
Google, Salesforce, Netflix, and Meta are quietly retiring the cushy perks that defined Silicon Valley — free food, retreats, baristas, generous parental leave — as a productivity-first culture sets in. Also: New Regency and Snoop Dogg's Death Row Games are turning film IP into native Fortnite experiences, and SpaceX wants Starbase incorporated as its own city.
Line standing becomes a job, international films get an AI translation, and Meta enters its robot era.
Professional line-standing is now a real industry — TaskRabbit listings are up 18% and operators like Skip The Line are scaling fast. Also: international filmmakers are leaning on Flawless AI for dubbing and lip-sync, and Meta wants to be the operating system for humanoid robots.
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