- Disney Q4: Streaming Profit Gains, Domestic Ads Up 6%, Subscribers Slip
Television News Daily, Wayne Friedman - Wednesday, February 5, 2025
Disney streaming global subscribers dipped 1% to 124.6 million, with U.S./Canada subscribe ...
- Streaming Co-Viewing Strength: Sports, Premium Programs
Advanced TV Insider, Wayne Friedman - Wednesday, January 29, 2025
Streaming co-viewing for all on-demand OTT programming was higher than linear ...
- Streamers' Incremental Gains: Catering To The 'Casual' Viewer?
TV Watch, Wayne Friedman - Thursday, January 2, 2025
Early in December, Disney decided to place an ESPN "tile" on Disney ...
- The TV Streaming Veto: It Only Takes One
TV Watch, Wayne Friedman - Thursday, December 12, 2024
"What you really need in the household is one objector - somebo ...
- Amazon Prime Video, Netflix, Peacock, Disney+ See Highest Q3 Streamer Growth
Television News Daily, Wayne Friedman - Monday, December 9, 2024
For the 11 top premium streamers, 2024 revenue estimates for AVOD platfor ...
- Disney+ Places ESPN 'Tile' On Streaming Home Page - Joins Hulu Addition
Television News Daily, Wayne Friedman - Wednesday, December 4, 2024
Over the next 90 days, subscribers to the Disney+ bundle can acce ...
- Fox Corp. Jumps 16% In October Distributor Gauge, Roku Rises 12%
Television News Daily, Wayne Friedman - Monday, November 25, 2024
High viewing of NFL content - and Major League Baseball post-season acti ...
- 'Interior Chinatown' Is Difficult To Categorize, Easy To Love
TVBlog, Adam Buckman - Tuesday, November 19, 2024
The interior life of a young Chinatown restaurant waiter forms the bas ...
- Disney Posts Higher-Than-Expected D2C Quarter Profits, Stock Climbs
Television News Daily, Wayne Friedman - Thursday, November 14, 2024
Disney+ also overdelivered on subscribers, adding 4.4 million (up 4%) to n ...
- Disney+ Offering 'Top 10' List: More Ad, Promo Value?
TV Watch, Wayne Friedman - Friday, November 1, 2024
Disney+ is launching a top 10 list in a bid to boo ...
- Streamers' TV Ad Spend, Value Up 10% In Q3, Airings And Impressions Decline
Television News Daily, Wayne Friedman - Friday, October 4, 2024
Warner Bros. Discovery's Max was largely responsible for the decline in airin ...
- Streamers Now 'First Stop' For Consumers
Advanced TV Insider, Wayne Friedman - Wednesday, September 18, 2024
Nearly half of respondents say their "first stop" destination is one ...
- DirecTV, Disney End Blackout, Deal Includes Streamers
Television News Daily, Wayne Friedman - Sunday, September 15, 2024
The deal includes streaming services Disney+, ESPN+ and Hulu, as well ...
- Disney Celebrates 85 Years Of Marvel, 15 Years After Acquiring It
Marketing Daily, Danielle Oster - Wednesday, September 4, 2024
The spot combines archival interviews, film footage and classic comic book pa ...
- Disney Proposes Flexible 'Sports-Centric,' 'Entertainment-Based' Options To DirecTV
Television News Daily, Wayne Friedman - Wednesday, September 4, 2024
Last year Disney struck a deal with Charter's Spectrum service allowing t ...
- Bundle Trouble: New Streamers, Legacy TV Package Deals Not Working?
TV Watch, Wayne Friedman - Monday, July 22, 2024
Only an estimated one million out of 9.5 million subscribers of Charter ...
- Young Viewers Boost June Streaming To Record High As Broadcast, Cable Retreat
Television News Daily, Wayne Friedman - Tuesday, July 16, 2024
Streaming was up 6% from its May share level, with platforms getti ...
- Targeting Streaming 'Re-Subscribers': Key Bundling Combos
Advanced TV Insider, Wayne Friedman - Wednesday, July 10, 2024
A huge chunk of streaming subscribers are "re-subscribers," at 42% -- young ...
- Is YouTube's User-Generated Content A Threat - Or Help - To Big Media?
TV Watch, Wayne Friedman - Monday, July 1, 2024
YouTube is now much more than a user-generated content site. It n ...
- 5-Year Hit: Legacy Media Profits Halved, Linear Ads Share Decline
Television News Daily, Wayne Friedman - Friday, June 21, 2024
Profits among six large legacy media companies declined to $17.2 billion ...
- Perplexity Breaks First TV Spot, Considers Making It A Movie
MediaDailyNews, Laurie Sullivan - Thursday, June 6, 2024
AI "answer engine" Perplexity broke its first television spot Thursday night duri ...
- Premium Streamers' TV Marketing Spend, Value Drops 18%
Television News Daily, Wayne Friedman - Friday, May 31, 2024
Premium streaming platforms have slowed down their national TV marketing spending f ...
- Charter, Paramount Ink TV Carriage Deal - Including Paramount+
Television News Daily, Wayne Friedman - Friday, May 24, 2024
Following the groundbreaking TV network/streaming carriage deal with Walt Disney, Charter Communicatio ...
- When Will The Streaming Walled Gardens Get Some Peepholes?
TV Watch, Wayne Friedman - Tuesday, May 21, 2024
Do we get a clearer picture of what Prime Video is a ...
- Comcast Bundles Peacock, Netflix, Apple TV+ For Cable, Broadband, Mobile Subscribers
Television News Daily, Wayne Friedman - Tuesday, May 14, 2024
Comcast says it will bundle its NBCU-owned Peacock streaming service with Netfl ...
- Disney-WBD Launch Streaming Bundle Including Disney+, Hulu, Max
Television News Daily, Wayne Friedman - Wednesday, May 8, 2024
The bundle packages the Disney+ and Hulu platforms with WBD's Max streame ...
- ESPN's Many Streaming Variations: Any Way You Like It?
TV Watch, Wayne Friedman - Wednesday, May 8, 2024
We will soon have the existing ESPN+ service, which will have mode ...
- Streaming, CTV CPMs Under Pressure As New Ad Options Expand
Advanced TV Insider, Wayne Friedman - Thursday, April 25, 2024
As competitors ramp up their AVOD options for their streaming/digital platforms, growi ...
- Streaming Platforms' 'Linear TV' Additions Grow... And Become Complex
TV Watch, Wayne Friedman - Monday, April 22, 2024
Are linear TV networks on streaming platforms confusing to the modern consu ...
- Big Media Storms To Come: Paramount Global Moving Through Rough Seas
TV Watch, Wayne Friedman - Monday, April 8, 2024
A potentially eye-opening move by legacy TV network groups and legacy p ...