The Verge

SEPTEMBER 15, 2021

Eko, an interactive video company, and Quibi's successor QBI Holdings announced today that they’d reached a settlement in the legal battle over Quibi’s perspective-shifting Turnstyle feature, which Eko alleged the streaming service had swiped from its own proprietary video technology. If only anyone had actually used it.

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Gizmodo

OCTOBER 9, 2020

Quibi, Quibi, Quibi. Whatever will happen to you? No viewers want to pay you for your service, and now it seems not even Apple, a company very keen to jump-start its own streaming TV empire , is interested. Read more.

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Gizmodo

OCTOBER 22, 2020

A former boss of mine, someone who worked at a legacy cable TV channel that starts with F and ends with “-ox News,” first told me about Quibi last February. Read more.

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The Verge

OCTOBER 20, 2020

Quibi, the troubled streaming service focused on “quick bites” of mobile-first content, has just launched apps for Apple TV, Android TV and Fire TV. These apps follow Quibi’s ongoing attempts to get more eyes on its content after launching as a mobile-only app. It may be too late for Quibi.

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Gizmodo

JULY 9, 2020

Quibi, the video streaming service that no one asked for, has apparently only covered about 8% of early users into paying subscribers, according to a report from mobile analytics firm Sensor Tower via the Verge. That means of the supposed 910,000 people who downloaded Quibi in the app’s early days, only about 72,000… Read more.

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TechSpot

MAY 27, 2020

If you’re unfamiliar with Quibi, it’s a $4.99 per month subscription-based streaming platform packed with scripted and unscripted content that runs from around seven to ten minutes. It managed to attract plenty of big-name stars for its launch slate, including Jennifer Lopez, Kevin Hart, Chrissy Teigen, Anna Kendrick, Will Arnett,

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The Verge

AUGUST 5, 2020

Quibi is beginning to offer a completely free tier to subscribers in Australia and New Zealand as the struggling streaming company tries to build its subscriber base. It’s unclear if Quibi has plans to launch a free, ad-supported tier in other countries, but The Verge has reached out for more information. “No Quibi charges $4.99

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Gizmodo

OCTOBER 23, 2020

Quibi’s leadership has finally plugged the plug on a streaming service for which failure has for months seemed like an inevitability. But if Quibi’s founders believed the company’s legal troubles would vanish along with the service itself, Eko would like to inform Quibi otherwise. Read more.

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Gizmodo

SEPTEMBER 21, 2020

Executives at Quibi, the spectacular disaster that no one asked for and evidently no one wants ‚ may be looking to bail from their own failed experience. Read more.

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Venture Beast

OCTOBER 22, 2020

Streaming service Quibi said it intends to wind down its operations and start a process to sell its assets, just six months after its launch. Read More.

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TechSpot

OCTOBER 21, 2020

Quibi, the short-form video streaming platform launched by Jeffrey Katzenberg and Meg Whitman back in April, may already be reaching the end of its rope.

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TechSpot

JANUARY 8, 2021

The streaming media specialist on Friday said it is working to add more than 75 shows and hundreds of hours of programming from Quibi to The Roku Channel later this year. Content mentioned by name included Punk’d, Reno 911!, Survive, Die Hart, Dummy and Flipped, among others.

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The Verge

APRIL 21, 2021

Quite a few of these original new shows will come from the Quibi library of content Roku got in a fire sale in January 2021. Earlier this year, Protocol spied a job listing that suggested Roku would be investing in original content beyond the Quibi stuff it now owns. What will be interesting is how the Quibi content airs.

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The Verge

OCTOBER 29, 2020

Remember Quibi, short-lived media company and purveyor of bizarre shows like Murder House Flip and a horror anthology featuring a golden arm? It seems pieces of Quibi might live on — whether you watched it or not. The attempts that followed to sell off Quibi’s unreleased content all but confirmed the streamer’s fate.

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Gizmodo

MAY 27, 2020

Since the beginning, Quibi has been adamant that its streaming video service is a mobile-first endeavor. However, after launching right as The Pandemic was gaining steam—which made the idea of watching short videos on a phone or tablet during your daily commute seem like quaint nostalgia from a before time—today Quibi… Read more.

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Gizmodo

JUNE 16, 2020

I must confess, my first thought about Quibi was, “Quibi is a really stupid f **g name.” What does Quibi even mean? How do you even pronounce it? Is it like, kwih-bee, kwee-bye, kwi-bee? I still don’t know the answer to most of these questions, but thanks to a Wall Street Journal report , I now know that the name… Read more.

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Gizmodo

JULY 14, 2020

Shortly before its rocky launch back in April, Quibi was accused of stealing the gimmicky technology at the heart of its struggling mobile-first streaming service in a high-stakes lawsuit brought by video company Eko—a legal battle that’s stretched on as Quibi battles myriad other public and private crises. Read more.

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The Verge

MAY 26, 2020

Short-form mobile video service Quibi now supports Apple’s AirPlay protocol, which means you’ll be able to stream content from Quibi on your phone to AirPlay-enabled TVs and devices. Quibi is also “working hard” to have support for Chromecast available in June, according to Tom Conrad , chief product officer at Quibi.

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Gizmodo

AUGUST 9, 2021

Roku announced on Monday that it plans to add 23 new Quibi titles to its lineup of The Roku Channel “originals,” including four all-new premieres. Read more.

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The Verge

MAY 11, 2020

To say that Quibi is off to a disastrous start would be an understatement. But Katzenberg is hopeful that rolling out new features will help, including giving subscribers the ability to share content from Quibi shows on social media. Now, Katzenberg and the team are working on ways to ensure Quibi is “less walled off from the internet.”

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Gizmodo

MAY 12, 2020

After reversing its stubborn insistence on making Quibi a mobile-exclusive streaming service, the company will finally begin rolling out casting support to its, uh, relatively small group of subscribers. Read more.

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The Verge

JULY 23, 2020

One of the biggest complaints Quibi received upon its initial launch was subscribers being unable to screenshot what they were watching and share it with the world. Now, Quibi has introduced screenshot capabilities, but it’s not as easy as holding down the right buttons on your iPhone. Is this going to be a game-changer for Quibi?

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The Verge

JUNE 9, 2020

Streaming service Quibi has updated its iOS app to support streaming to a television using Google Chromecast. The update, released Tuesday, arrives a couple of weeks after Quibi added AirPlay support, which at the time marked the first way to stream its shows and other short-form videos beyond a mobile screen.

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Gizmodo

APRIL 21, 2021

Quibi content acquired by Roku earlier this year will henceforth be known as Roku Originals, a move that should mercifully allow all of us to move on from the memory of Quibi’s spectacular implosion. Read more.

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Gizmodo

AUGUST 5, 2020

Quibi, the beleaguered mobile-first streaming service teeming with talent but struggling to find a solid subscriber footing, has introduced a free, ad-supported tier to its Australian market—something the company arguably should have been doing all along. Read more.

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Gizmodo

MAY 13, 2021

Last month, Roku announced it was officially rebranding its Quibi content collection as Roku Originals. Buckle up, because those series are officially set to hit the platform next week. Read more.

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Gizmodo

JUNE 10, 2020

After adding screencasting support with Apple AirPlay last month, short-form streaming service Quibi says users can now cast its bite-sized shows to Chromecast devices as well. Read more.

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TechSpot

JUNE 15, 2020

But these aren’t the only concerns that have threatened to derail Quibi since its founding in 2018. Sources familiar with the matter recently told The Wall Street Journal that near the beginning of their working relationship, CEO Meg Whitman threatened to quit due to issues involving founder Jeffrey Katzenberg.

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Gizmodo

JUNE 4, 2020

After a lukewarm launch and less-than-encouraging revelations about the company’s subscription figures, Quibi’s senior executives will take pay cuts as the short-form streaming service looks to cut costs. Read more.

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AUGUST 13, 2020

Quibi launched a mobile video platform for users on the go just as people were suddenly going nowhere. An Adobe streaming report reveals the impact. Read More.

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The Verge

JANUARY 8, 2021

Despite Quibi’s failure, its content was star-studded. Roku’s announcement says the Quibi content it has licensed will feature stars including “Idris Elba, Kevin Hart, Liam?Hemsworth, link] — Quibi (@Quibi) January 8, 2021. Quibi content could also be streamed to compatible TVs via AirPlay and Chromecast.

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The Verge

JULY 13, 2021

Quibi wasn’t long for this world, but its spirit refuses to let us move on from its chaotic memory. Pete Devon in Bonding (Netflix) Kevin Hart in Die Hart (Quibi) John Travolta in Die Hart (Quibi) John Lutz in Mapleworth Murders (Quibi) J.B. Smoove in Mapleworth Murders (Quibi).

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Gizmodo

JANUARY 4, 2021

Quibi’s spectacular flameout in 2020 drags on into the new year. Now the video vultures are circling over Quibi’s substantial catalog of content , and Roku is… Read more. After raising a $1.75 billion war chest to launch the next big thing in on-the-go video, the streaming network only managed to keep the lights on for six months.

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Gizmodo

JUNE 21, 2021

Then he worked with Apple TV and whatever the hell Quibi was. He caused a little drama a few years ago for his purported belief that movies made for Netflix that get theatrical award season runs shouldn’t qualify for Oscars. Now, the lauded filmmaker has… Read more.

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The Verge

JUNE 29, 2021

The first of a dozen-plus Roku Originals to premiere on the Roku Channel will kick off July 30th with The Demi Lovato Show , a series that had originally been slated for a debut on Quibi. While originally intended for Quibi, the show will be brand new to audiences when it arrives on the Roku Channel this week. We regret the error.

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Gizmodo

FEBRUARY 16, 2021

After snapping up much of Quibi’s content, it looks like Roku may be exploring the development of its own originals—kind of like every other streaming service around. Read more.

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Gizmodo

JULY 28, 2020

Quibi—a new streaming service that reportedly lost 92% of its users after their free trial ended, only garnered around 300,000 downloads on launch day, and only added Apple AirPlay and Chromecast compatibility after people kept complaining about only being able to watch shows on their phones—has been nominated for ten… Read more.

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