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Damming the Stream: Global Governments Try to Set Boundaries for Streaming...
Variety reports: "In little more than a decade, streamers have shaken the TV industry to its core, laid waste to cinema sector windows, blurred...
Disney+ and Netflix’s Next Challenge: Shaking Off Slower Streaming Growth
The Hollywood Reporter reports: "A funny thing happened in the first half of 2021: The insatiable appetite of consumers for streaming video content began...
Music Discovery Is Entering New Age, With Streaming at the Helm
Billboard reports: "MusicWatch's latest project on music discovery surveyed 1000 music listeners in the US, covering their music listening habits and topics around the...
What Can Music Learn From the Rise and Rise of the...
Music Business Worldwide reports: "The following MBW op/ed comes from Kim Bayley (pictured inset), CEO of the UK’s Entertainment Retailers Association, whose members include...
Michael Huppe of SoundExchange: ‘All players in the industry, creators or...
Hypebot reports: "SoundExchange CEO Michael Huppe weighs in on what a post-pandemic music industry is shaping up to look like, and why creators and...
Sony Pictures Poised to Benefit as Independent Studio in Streaming Era,...
Variety reports: "Sony Pictures Entertainment intends to play the film and TV industry’s new era as an independent studio, committed to theatrical releasing, and...
Comcast CFO: “We Like the Hand We Have Without M&A”
The Hollywood Reporter reports: "NBCUniversal owner Comcast is happy with its collection of businesses, including NBCUniversal and European pay TV arm Sky, at a...
As WarnerMedia-Discovery Plan Merger, Who Will Be Next?
The Hollywood Reporter reports: "Will more media dominos start falling in a new media M&A merry-go-round? That is a question Wall Street is asking...
Facebook will spend $5 million paying reporters to join its local...
The Verge reports: "Facebook says it will spend $5 million paying local journalists on a new publishing platform. Reuters reported the news on Thursday,...
Hollywood Studios Don’t Have Enough Scale to Survive the Upcoming Streaming...
Variety reports: "In a dystopian view of the coming media wars, financial analyst and investor Richard Greenfield says Hollywood studios don’t have the heft...
