More consolidation in Hollywood - but this time it’s talent agency CAA buying rival ICM. Puck’s Dylan Byers sits down with Recode’s Peter Kafka to explain why the streaming boom has created another merger. Then, podcaster and game streaming expert Bijan Stephen joins for an update on Twitch and its new “hate raid” problem - and what the platform and the community are doing to fight back against trolls.

Featuring: Dylan Byers (@DylanByers), Senior Correspondent at Puck News

Bijan Stephen (@bijanstephen), Host & Executive Producer of Eclipsed for Campside Media

Host: Peter Kafka (@pkafka), Senior Editor at Recode

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Streamers shrink Hollywood, again + What’s a “Hate Raid”?