With actors joining the ongoing writers' strike, production shutdowns on most movies and scripted TV shows could continue for several more months, or even to the end of the year. Read the full story by Karlene Lukovitz
After more than a decade of "Peak TV," the disruption of original scripted series due to Hollywood talent strikes could leave viewers feeling piqued. Read the full story by Wayne Friedman
Even as the TV writers' strike draws out, Fox Tuesday provided the first look at the start of the new fall prime-time season. Read the full story by Wayne Friedman
A MediaPost analysis of 26-months of releases from Fox's publicity department reveals its NFT/blockchain hype peaked in late 2021/early 2022. Read the full story by Joe Mandese
The nominees are so numerous that one begins to suspect that the Emmys are becoming like kids' sports teams, in which every player gets a trophy. Read the full story by Adam Buckman
In today's rush to fill the content pipeline, networks and streamers turn to the news stories and personalities of decades past for a growing stockpile of pop-history documentaries. Read the full story by Adam Buckman
As part of its next stage of commerce development, Roku has struck a deal with ecommerce site Shopify, enabling viewers to make direct purchases via their Roku remote control devices. Read the full story by Wayne Friedman
I was reminded of our industry's cookie-bombing past when I read the Adalytics work reported in 'The Wall Street Journal' several weeks ago. Read the full story by Dave Morgan
Iger told CNBC that the networks, which include the likes of ABC, ESPN and Disney Channel, "may not be core to Disney," adding, "clearly it's a business that is going … Read the full story by Wayne Friedman
"Google has been secretly stealing everything ever created and shared on the internet by hundreds of millions of Americans," eight people allege in a class-action complaint brought Tuesday. Read the full story by Wendy Davis
Research from the Geena Davis Institute on Gender in Media shows the company has finally achieved equality, with females accounting for 49.9% of on-screen characters. Read the full story by Sarah Mahoney
I generally get about 100 PR pitches a week. Here, I go deeper into one pitch -- and remember why I don't trust AI in the hands of for-profit corporations. Read the full story by Gord Hotchkiss
On the eve of Amazon Prime Day, Target and Walmart are unleashing back-to-school campaigns. All three have the ABCs on big deals. Read the full story by Sarah Mahoney
It stands for AI-generated democracy and it's what happens when machine synthesized information and content moves faster than people can think, feel and vote. It's also an oxymoron. Read the full story by Joe Mandese
The "nosearch" feature is intended to prevent Bing Search from looking for answers on the internet, which is expected to quicken the time required to reply to a query made … Read the full story by Laurie Sullivan
This just in... SMS inventors Friedhelm Hillebrand and Bernard Ghillebaert are suing Twitter over its "copycat" app. Well, not really, but if Twitter can sue Meta over for copying microblogging, … Read the full story by Joe Mandese
Instagram accounts pushing misinformation and hate speech have now simply been extended to Threads, point out Free Press, Accountable Tech, Media Matters for America and others. Read the full story by Colin Kirkland
Show's Twitter Views -- which count anyone who is logged in and views a tweet -- down from 120 million for first show on June 6 to 8.8 million for … Read the full story by Karlene Lukovitz
Former Fox News host Tucker Carlson and former White House adviser Neil Patel are working to raise "hundreds of millions of dollars" to create content for a new media company … Read the full story by Laurie Sullivan
The Emmy's have recognized TV commercials in the category annually since 1997. The winner will be announced in September. Read the full story by Adam Buckman