It’s difficult to fully predict how the planned sports joint venture of Disney, Fox, and Warner Bros. Discovery will shift the already tumultuous sands that surround sports rights. Not only might the Department of Justice ultimately block or erect draconian guardrails around the deal, but rival virtual MVPD Fubo – whose sports-centric strategy seems eerily …
When it comes to media consumption, sports are one of the main driving forces behind audience engagement. In the past year we have seen the battle for the sports media rights explode in competition as RSNs teeter on the brink of collapse and streaming behemoths like Prime Video, Netflix, Peacock, and Paramount+ snap up lucrative …
“The stage is now set for significant growth and success.” – Disney CEO Bob Iger When it comes to Disney’s fiscal Q1 2024 earnings report, it’s hard to know where to begin. CEO Bob Iger, who has been under immense pressure to shore up streaming losses, solidify a succession plan, and fully articulate Disney’s overall …
The seemingly simple and drama-free renewal of Paramount Global’s carriage deal with Comcast has raised some doubts that the landmark Charter-Disney deal in September really changed everything. Perhaps Charter’s tough approach was more the exception than the rule. After all, this is the first major deal signed since Charter and Disney slugged it out during …
Share on facebook Facebook Share on twitter Twitter Share on linkedin LinkedIn We have predicted for years that the bundle would reassemble itself within the streaming universe, and that has certainly been coming true as of late. Warner Bros. Discovery CEO David Zaslav even urged the industry to work together to co-market and bundle competitive …
As summer nears its end and holiday content gears up to sleigh its way into every nook, cranny, and chimney of your streaming platform’s homepage, it seems like a good time to hunker down, put on our analyst caps, and dive into the state of AVOD advertising for the first half of 2023. Between January …
“I’m pleased with how much we’ve gotten done in such a short period of time, but I also know we have a lot more to do.” – Disney CEO Bob Iger It’s increasingly clear that Disney CEO Bob Iger is in transformation mode. And the calmer, gentler Bob is giving way to the new Bob …
The idea that HBO would license out high-profile, prestige originals to a competitor like Netflix would have been laughable only three years ago. Today, the idea makes some sense considering Warner Bros. Discovery’s mission to monetize as much library content as possible to shed merger debt and find at least $4.5 billion in synergies. This …
With fewer industry gatherings these days, we tend to pack as much discussion and debate into the ones that remain – and the StreamTV Show in Denver this week was no exception. Nearly 1,000 streaming execs, entrepreneurs, and business gurus converged on the Westin Westminster to try to derive order from an industry that seems …
It’s hard to know where to start when it comes to Disney’s fiscal Q2 earnings call, which revealed plans to combine Hulu and Disney+ into a “one-app experience” in the U.S. and Canada by year-end, as well as strip enough content from its streaming services to incur $1.5 billion-$1.8 billion in impairment charges this quarter. …
