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04/24/2023

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Previously invincible Google has long had a stranglehold on things like digital news and advanced advertising, but Microsoft's ChatGPT advances threaten that hegemony

01/20/2023

Netflix added nearly 7.7 million paid members in Q4.

After predicting a huge drop-off in Q4 customer additions, Netflix blew the doors off by adding nearly 7.7 million paid members

01/18/2023

Will Netflix have its weakest Q4 subscriber growth since 2014?

But investors are actually bullish on Netflix as it gets ready to report end-of-2022 earnings on Thursday

01/13/2023

Comcast adds Apple AirPlay support to Xfinity Stream.

Why-didn't-they-do-this-before feature lets Comcast subscribers use their smart phones to watch their pay TV subscription on any AirPlay-connected screen

01/13/2023

HBO Max subs will have to pay more for less.

Warner Bros. Discovery says the bump will 'allow us to continue to invest in providing even more culture-defining programming and improving our customer experience for all users'

01/12/2023

What's behind DIRECTV Stream's huge 174% usage surge in the fourth quarter?

According to MoffettNathanson, the vMVPD saw the biggest increase in minutes-viewed in all of U.S. streaming

01/09/2023

fuboTV is upping monthly prices by as much as $19.

With $5 monthly fee increase and addition of Bally Sports channels, some subscribers will pay as much as $108 a month for the virtual MVPD

01/05/2023

Roku unveils its own smart TVs, ranging in price from $119-$999.

Ranging in price from $119 - $999 and available starting this spring, Roku says making its own smart TVs will allow it to better 'strategically invest in new features'

01/04/2023

Warner Bros. Discovery removes 256 Looney Tunes shorts from HBO Max.

Forget about 'rabbit season' and 'duck season,' it's 'HBO Max season' for the Shark Week guys

12/24/2022

Only 9% of new Netflix signups are for the new "Basic with Ads" tier, according to new data from Antenna.

It's still early days, but first-month uptake for Netflix's new ad-subsidized tier was only about half of what HBO Max's was last year when it launched its commercial-inclusive iteration

12/22/2022

Bally Sports' carriage deal with FuboTV does little to clarify the RSNs' future.

Bally Sports’ league partners now expect a big tech company to swoop in and take over Sinclair’s cash-strapped RSNs following a bankruptcy

12/22/2022

Is Google in advanced talks for the rights to 'NFL Sunday Ticket'?

Google could pay as much as $2.5 billion for the out-of-market games package after bidding favorite Apple steps aside

12/16/2022

Verizon is goosing +play.

Verizon mobile and FWA customers will get a year free of the $19.99-a-month top-of-the-line Netflix tier when they sign up for another streaming service through +play

12/15/2022

VIZIO says only 7% of viewership on its smart TVs comes from third-party streaming devices.

Smart TV maker is the latest to declare that 'the dongle is dead'

12/13/2022

Why did HBO Max return to Amazon Channels?

HBO’s return to channels shows that what made sense just 30 months ago in go-go 2020 doesn’t anymore in the suddenly cash-strapped streaming biz

12/09/2022

Netflix will some day offer additional ad-supported tier options, says Co-CEO Ted Sarandos.

Currently, Netflix offers budget-conscious users only a $6.99-a-month, 720p, single-user tier

12/09/2022

Disney+ launches ad-supported tier without Roku support.

Insiders say Disney is still trying to carve out a 'fair' revenue sharing deal with the No. 1 U.S. connected TV platform

12/08/2022

NBCUniversal moving its RSNs to Peacock could turn its streaming game around.

What this means in practical terms is that Peacock will likely pick up a lot of subscribers in the areas where it has rights to NBCU’s RSNs

12/07/2022

HBO Max returns to Amazon Prime Video Channels.

The move for app independence caused a tech war with Amazon that significantly stunted HBO Max's growth. And to think it was all for nothing

12/05/2022

Has Warner Bros. Discovery settled on a name for its new SVOD rollup?

The preferred name of the combined HBO Max and Discovery Plus still isn't official. But if WBD goes with it, it'll have to pry the domain from Max International, a provider of Glutathione, 'the body's master antioxidant!'

12/01/2022

Can sports leagues help Sinclair's Bally Sports stay afloat?

Sports leagues, who 'have no way out,' are pondering ways to help heavily indebted Sinclair keep its regional sports networks afloat

11/30/2022

Remakes and reboots rule SVOD.

Nearly 50% of Apple TV Plus shows are adaptations, Ampere Analysis data shows

11/28/2022

Is this the end of Disney's streaming-first strategy? The latest from David Bloom.

Will Iger pull back on the promises to Wall Street both he and Bob Chapek made of reaching break-even on streaming spending by 2024?

11/23/2022

Is sports the key to the growth of ad-supported AVOD?

Why SVOD is the place to reach mass audiences and hard-to-reach, young, upscale, ad-resistant viewers at the same time

11/17/2022

Paramount+ claims its biggest signup day ever but won't says how big.

How big was it, you ask? Paramount won't say

11/17/2022

WBD chief David Zaslav zings Jason Kilar again on HBO Max losses.

The standalone HBO spent $2.5 billion on content in 2019 and made a $2.5 billion profit, he said. Last year, the expanded HBO Max spent $7 billion and lost $3 billion

11/11/2022

Is Comcast finally giving up on pay TV?

Maybe ... if you believe there is a sizable number of viewers who subscribe to Peacock Premium Plus

11/11/2022

Netflix's renewal of "Monster" draws criticism.

By expanding limited series with season 2 and 3 orders, is Netflix Marvel-izing evildoers?

11/05/2022

Warner Bros. Discovery moves up its rollup of HBO Max and Discovery Plus to spring.

But heavily indebted media company misses revenue target in Q3 with $9.82 billion in sales ... and the stock drops again

10/31/2022

Why is David Zaslav betting on the past?

A 1.0 demo rating just won Broadcast premiere week. Cord cutting's gone next level. And the box office is half of Its pre-pandemic size. Why the Warner Bros. Discovery CEO is going to have to squeeze real hard to make his strategy work

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