- Many People Claim To Be Storytellers, But The CW Really Is One
TVBlog, Adam Buckman - Monday, June 14, 2021
Somehow, for reasons unknown, the smallish ViacomCBS-owned TV network known as The CW has an uncanny knack for storytelling. ...
- Bakish: ViacomCBS Targets $7B In Streaming Revenue By 2024
Digital News Daily, Karlene Lukovitz - Wednesday, May 26, 2021
The forecast includes targeting 65 to 75 million paid subscribers and 100 million to 120 million average monthly active users (MAUs) for free, ad-supported Pluto TV, CEO Bob Bakish sa ...
- Analyst Floats ViacomCBS As Possible Takeover Target
Digital News Daily, Karlene Lukovitz - Friday, May 21, 2021
ViacomCBS's "relatively sub-scale player" status and content assets might make it attractive to Comcast or one of the tech giants looking to grow in streaming, says Merrill Lynch's Jessica Re ...
- ViacomCBS Upfront: More Ad Dollars Shift To Streaming
Television News Daily, Wayne Friedman - Wednesday, May 19, 2021
The decline in live, linear TV ratings is steepening, but there is sharply rising viewing in streaming ad-supported TV platforms. ...
- Paramount+ Sets August Launch for Australia
Digital News Daily, Karlene Lukovitz - Monday, May 10, 2021
ViacomCBS, which acquired Australian linear Channel Ten in 2017, will rebrand Ten's existing streaming offering, 10 All Access, to Paramount+. ...
- ViacomCBS Adds 6M Streaming Subs In Q1, Streaming Ad Revenue Up 62% YoY
Digital News Daily, Karlene Lukovitz - Thursday, May 6, 2021
In addition to paid subs, number of monthly active users for free, ad-supported Pluto TV rose 15% versus Q4 2020, to 49.5 million. ...
- ViacomCBS Adds Comscore For Linear National Currency
Digital News Daily, Karlene Lukovitz - Tuesday, April 27, 2021
That option is now available in addition to the Nielsen national TV currency that ViacomCBS has exclusively used for many years. ...
- CBS Merges News, TV Stations, Names Khemlani, McMahon As Co-Presidents
Digital News Daily, Karlene Lukovitz - Friday, April 16, 2021
Susan Zirinsky, the five-decade CBS News veteran who was president for two years, will stay on until the new co-heads start in early May. Neeraj Khemlani was deputy group he ...
- ViacomCBS, Discovery Stock Prices Drift Lower, Streamers Present Growth Issues
Television News Daily, Wayne Friedman - Tuesday, March 23, 2021
The news was a turnaround for media companies moving into the streaming space. ...
- ViacomCBS Selling $3B In Stock For Streaming Investments
Digital News Daily, Karlene Lukovitz - Tuesday, March 23, 2021
The company, which just launched Paramount+, spent about $15 billion on content and sports rights in 2020, and plans to spend another $5 billion by 2024. ...
- Survey Finds 46% Awareness Of Paramount+, 65% Say There Are Too Many Streaming Services
Digital News Daily, Karlene Lukovitz - Friday, March 19, 2021
Paramount+'s challenge will be to conquer HBO Max-like brand and recognition issues, while building on a smaller starting number of rolled-over subscriptions, concludes Cordcutting.com, based on recent survey of U. ...
- Oprah's Harry And Meghan Interview Pulls 17.1M Viewers
Digital News Daily, Karlene Lukovitz - Monday, March 8, 2021
The headline-making interview drew the largest prime-time audience for any entertainment special since February 2020's Academy Awards. ...
- TV Gets Plus-Sized As Paramount+ Launches Next Week
TVBlog, Adam Buckman - Friday, February 26, 2021
Revivals of shows are a big part of Paramount+. The one making the most headlines is a new "Frasier" with Kelsey Grammer. ...
- Upfront Redux: Networks To Go Virtual, Again
Television News Daily, Wayne Friedman - Thursday, February 11, 2021
For the first time, Disney will include Hulu. In the past, Hulu had its upfront presentation during the NewFronts series of meetings. ...
- CBS All Access, Showtime Bundle Exits Apple TV+ As Paramount+ Launch Approaches
Digital News Daily, Karlene Lukovitz - Thursday, February 11, 2021
WarnerMedia also removed HBO access through Apple Channels, when it launched HBO Max. ...
- CBS All Access Glitch Hits Just Ahead Of Super Bowl
Digital News Daily, Karlene Lukovitz - Monday, February 8, 2021
Roku and desktop users were among those briefly affected just as the game was starting. ...
- ViacomCBS Q3: U.S. Streaming Revenue +56%, Driven By 78% Sub Revenue Growth
Digital News Daily, Karlene Lukovitz - Friday, November 6, 2020
Pluto TV saw ad revenue doubled in the period, according to the company, although it did not provide dollar numbers for the AVOD. ...
- Bryon Rubin Promoted to COO, CBS Entertainment Group
Television News Daily, Karlene Lukovitz - Thursday, October 29, 2020
Rubin will also continue to serve as the Entertainment Group's CFO, overseeing all financial and business operations across the group's divisions and collaborating on strategy with the group's CEO, Geor ...
- ViacomCBS Forms Kids' Content Division Led By Nickelodeon's Hahn
Digital News Daily, Karlene Lukovitz - Tuesday, October 27, 2020
ViacomCBS International Studios, led by Nina Hahn, is designed to expand the studio's global pipeline of kids' content and broaden its offerings to include short- and long-form content to ...
- ViacomCBS Unveils Global Streaming Structure, Headed By Pluto TV's Ryan
Video Insider, Karlene Lukovitz - Tuesday, October 20, 2020
Marc DeBevoise, ViacomCBS chief digital officer and ViacomCBS Digital president/CEO, will leave the company after serving as an advisor for a transitional period ending at year's end. ...
- ViacomCBS Poised To Sell CNET To Red Ventures: Report
Digital News Daily, Karlene Lukovitz - Monday, September 14, 2020
The approximately $500 million deal could be announced today, unless talks fall apart, reports "WSJ." ...
- Disney, Viacom, Others Will Limit Data Collection To Settle Children's Privacy Battle
Digital News Daily, Wendy Davis - Monday, August 10, 2020
"Children will be protected from advertising based on any past online activities or any previously collected data in the subject app or anywhere else on the internet," lawyers for paren ...
